1. Joining IndiaTEAM is not for just donating, it is for doing! That is why, IndiaTEAM asks, Are you interested in *doing* something for the nation? It gives every individual an opportunity to coordinate a project.
2. IndiaTEAM collects & gives the same money back to you to execute and coordinate a project in your native place. Not only that your own native school gets benefited, you know where and how your money is spent.
3. Since you do your project with help of your parents, they are happy and they also care for that school in that future. So doing one project in your native place will bring you, your family, your kids, your parents and in fact, whole of the people around your native place closer to that school. So IndiaTEAM directly touches the heart of the people you know of. This is a positive proof that we as a IndiaTEAM can influence the society in our own little way.
4. The ultimate benefit of any charity is to get changed ourselves for some good cause. This happens easily in IndiaTEAM since you are one doing the project in your native place. Since you are known to your local community, the local community tries to get involved in one way or other with your school project.
5. Your project in your native place will inspire lots of people in your native place to do something to the school in their own small way. In order to do something in a small way, we need a change in mind set. So, your project changes the mind of many people. So we as a IndiaTEAM touch the society.
6. The benefits to yourself and IndiaTEAM because of your donation!
- Most of the companies do $ - $ match.
- Check with your HR about this gift match programs.
- Already Sun, HP, Cisco, Netscape, Intuit are matching the gift already.
- That means, if you donate 500.0$, the company will donate 500.0$.
- Basically, if you help a school, your employer will help another school
and you can do the project of your employer also.
- Your donation is 100% tax exempted.
- So your 500.0$ donation will get 150.0 dollar back to you as a exemption while filing the tax.
- So effectively you pay just 350.0$ after filing tax, But we will generate total of 1000.0 $ as 500 $ before tax from you and 500 $from employer.
- So totally your effective 350 $ generates 1000.0 donation for your school.
- THIS MONEY GOES TO OUR MOTHERLAND.
- That money is spent by you. Not by any one else.
- You are the deciding authority that where your money is spent.
- Government schemes like "Namakku Namey" can be utilized properly.
7. Other benefits to you because of the outside donation!
- Lots of individuals and corporate people donate to IndiaTEAM.
- Those money also will be spent by you only.
8. Above all, we get the satisfaction that we have helped our native place kids in one way!
1. Is it taking too long to identify a school?
- Input from parents, friends and relatives will help.
2. Identifying school needs.
- Get input from IndiaTEAM members who executed SCHOOL before.
3. To decide on the things to buy.
- Talk to the school headmaster/teacher(s). Ask them
- What are the essential things that are missing in the school?
- What would be nice to have or very helpful to students?
- Visit IndiaTEAM website and take a look at the SCHOOL that are executed so far,
4. Execute the project during your visit to India.
- Project execution will be faster.
- Will understand the importance of the project being done.
- Will get a chance to speak with the teachers and students in the school and can get a feedback from them
The coordinator is the person who brings 10 of his friends to IndiaTEAM to help 10 more schools in our society.
- Reply from a coordinator for the above qeustion after he had formed his group.
I was introduced to IndiaTEAM by one of my friend some time back and started to donate $ 10 to IndiaTEAM for building better schools in Tamilnadu/India. By donating 10.0$ per month, I have a chance of helping only one school. But India and Indian society is so huge and almost every government school is in need of help. I just started to think that helping one school will have very minimum/negligble impact on our huge society though it has a huge impact on a school. Not only me, lot of other people in the IndiaTEAM thought in the same way. So we started to discuss how to help more schools? HOW TO LIFT THE HUGE SOCIETY BY LIFTING EDUCATION? After very long detailed discussion, we came to the conclusion that, in order to lift the society as a whole by lifting education, our IndiaTEAM itself should be a big society. That means, IndiaTEAM should become a big movement. 1000 member IndiaTEAM organization should be transformed into a "STRONG, SOCIAL AND INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT". So we started to work towards that. We have to do it! Doing is the solution to all the problems around us. So we have decided to identify and promote more coordinators to form their 10 member group as I formed my group. If more and more coordinator come, more and more member will come and in turn, IndiaTEAM grows towards becoming a strong social movement to LIFT SOCIETY BY UPLIFTING EDUCATION! Now we are in the process of identifying coordinators for 2004. As you know, Doing is the solution to everything!
Not only that, if we just donate, we can help only one school. If we bring our friends, it is like helping more schools. That means, by spending money, we can help only one school. But by spending our little time, we can help more schools. So spending time has more impact on the society compared to the money we spend.
Join us to LIFT SOCIETY BY UPLIFTING EDUCATION!
Join us to transform our IndiaTEAM TO STRONG SOCIAL MOVEMENT!
Please let me know your interest and I will forward some more details.
"Together We Can Make It happen" by just start DOING!
SOME STATISTICAL FACTS IF YOU BECOME THE COORDINATOR:
1. Poor school has minimum 100 students.
2. One member will do project in one school.
3. That means he/she helps 100 poor students per year.
4. Min Life time of our project = 10 years.
5. So Total kids got benefited = 100 * 10 = 1000 Kids!
6. If you bring one member, that is, you are helping 1000 Kids.
7. So… Number of Poor Kids you helped = 1000 * Number of members you brought.
IndiaTEAM is organized as IndiaTEAM chapters and top level IndiaTEAM.
- Every chapters day to day activity is coordinated by the president.
- The president is selected by their chapter coordinators.
- All the things which are common to all the chapters like web site maintenance, IndiaTEAMSoft development, Dream School project, Community Center SCHOOL and IndiaTEAM data center are managed by top level IndiaTEAM.
- Top level IndiaTEAM has board of directors and they select the chairman.
- All the chapter presidents are coordinated by the chairman.
- In turn, the chapter president coordinates the secretary and treasurer.
IndiaTEAM have an online option of paying by paypal.
- This facility can be accessed from Details @ Click Here
- As it is charging $ 5 for $120 per year distribution, members need to pay $5 more, that is, $ 125 per year to cover the paypal transaction fee.
- So this is not the recommended way to pay for time being as it is costly.
- Right now IndiaTEAM is exploring the possibilities of having credit card facility for members to pay their yearly subscriptions.
- Till that happens, please send your contribution to your cord by cheque.
- Thanks a lot for understanding and sorry for the inconvenience.
You can do the project in your native for your employees matching fund also
You can do the project in your native for your employees matching fund also
You can do the project in your native for your employees matching fund also