Guidelines to finish your project.
- Form a Friends of TEAM in the place where you want to do the project.
- Check with the TEAM 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 TEAM Coordinator for later reimbursement.
- Once Friends of TEAM 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 TEAM 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 TEAM regularly.
• Finally, make sure that the people getting benefited is very well deserved. - Once such a project is identified, Friends of TEAM coordinator has to do the following.
• Arrange and coordinate a meeting among Friends of TEAM 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 TEAM – /old” on the items you deliver.
• Collect the bills and receipts addressed to “TEAM” 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, TEAM member has to do the following.
• Call or Write thank letter to all the Friends of TEAM members.
• Collect the details of projects to get it reimbursed. - As soon as it is reimbursed, it will be updated in our web.
