FSA Spend

Guidelines to finish your project.

• Form a Friends of IndiaTEAM in the place where you want to do the project.
• Check with the IndiaTEAM Treasurer about your FSA balance.
• If it is less for your project deposit more MONEY and claim tax.
• Send your own MONEY to Friends of IndiaTEAM Coordinator for later reimbursement
• Once Friends of IndiaTEAM coordinator receives MONEY, he/she has to do the following with the guidance of you.
• Arrange and coordinate a meeting among all the Friends of IndiaTEAM members.
• Discuss a plan to identify and start a project.
• Select a well deserved project that solves some kind of basics of needy people.
• Consider the following to select such a deserved project.
• It doesn't have basics of what you are envisioning to build in the long.
• It should be run by the government OR
• Run by a trust which is exempted from tax and gives free service.
• You can create your own project that is administered by Friends of IndiaTEAM regularly.
• Finally, make sure that the people getting benefited is very well deserved.
• Once such a project is identified, Friends of IndiaTEAM coordinator has to do the following:
• Arrange and coordinate a meeting among Friends of IndiaTEAM members to plan the project.
• Meet the authorized people who are connected with that project.
• Find out what are the basic things are lacking for that project.
• Get the list of basic things need to be delivered to meet those basics.
• Once the list is ready, decide what can be done within your FSA balance.
• Buy those items from the local stores for a good deal..
• Arrange a small function in that place and deliver them.
• Write "Donated by IndiaTEAM - http://www.IndiaTEAM.org" on the items you deliver.
• Collect the bills and receipts addressed to "IndiaTEAM" when buying things.
• For labor wages, get the signature from the concerned person.
• Never handover money directly and deliver only items as per their basic need.
• Once project is over, IndiaTEAM member has to do the following:
• Call or Write thank letter to all the Friends of IndiaTEAM members.
• Collect the details of SCHOOL to get it reimbursed.
• As soon as it is reimbursed, it will be updated in our web.