TRUST

[Purushothaman]

Hi Guys,

Its nice to see that group email communications started working nicely. Very interesting (HOT) discussions and keep continuing.

I think this is the time we should initiate and start a meaningful dialogue on formation of a TRUST or SOCIETY or whatever the name we call.  I would like to hear views from all you. The purpose of this TRUST should be on diversified fields to provide assistance in Education, Medical and Health, Marriage and Socio-Economic status, etc.

To begin with we ourselves can form  into groups to carry out various activities. For example, we can have a Legal group to take care of formation and registration of TRUST. Hope our Law and Order experts like Suresh, Maghiz, Mahendran, etc can help in this regard. Similarly, a group to maintain and generate funds,  to identify and scrutinise deserving individuals, awareness creation, etc.

In the long run, this TRUST should have a own place to function and carry out the activities like free tuition centres, yoga centre, personality development centre, etc. I think this should be possible if we all stay together and focus. We all can work towards providing opportunities to the deserving individual who do not otherwise have access in this competitive world.  Our focus should be more on the rural society.


Lets START and DISCUSS on this issue so that we will have some progress before we all meet next time.

Cheers!!!

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A.Purushothaman
Chennai - India
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[srivatchan rajaraman]

I think this is a fair point to think about if as a collective group we are going to make some positive impact;  In this case we could keep it as simple and small as we can but meaningfull
 
it could begin with our "StAnns school" itself or a student there if that is a beginning
 
Regards
Sri
 

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Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:16:32 +0000
To: ann...@googlegroups.com
Subject: TRUST
From: purusho...@rediffmail.com

[S.Ravikumar]

Great Guys
It gives me happiness that a nice and innovtive subject being discussed , especially Puru great da , over the years you have matured enough that could be witnessed by your mail.can anyone draft
with bullet points how to start and execute the noble idea. after who ever is interested and have time can take the responsibility by departmentalising.
Thanks,
Ravikumar.s

On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 04:29:45 +0530 wrote
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[Purushothaman]

Hi,

I will be in USA(Florida) next week and glad to receive response from
Ravi and Vatchan. I would like to hear from others particularly from
Prabhu, Suresh, Anbu, etc.

Regards

Purushoth


On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 10:11:47 +0530 wrote

[edwardb suresh]

Dear Purushoth ,   Good Idea Given by you , If we take it in Right Track , we can Offer Service who are in Real need and desirable .   We have to make the Source, Object , Cause .On the Priority Grounds we can render the Service. I will un-conditional  Support for the Efforts taken in this Regard and I will do my Best.   Think and do Good.   With Love,   N.E.B.Suresh --- On Sat, 23/4/11, Purushothaman <purusho...@rediffmail.com> wrote:

[edwardb suresh]

Dear Friends,   I  Have attached the Contact Info of our Friends,   Kindly Update the Details of Yours and our Friends who Don"t have e-mail I.D . This will be useful to Know the Details of our Friends, Like Place of Working , D.O.B, D.O.M , e.t.c .   Pl.Do.it.   With Love N.E.B.Suresh --- On Mon, 25/4/11, edwardb suresh <nebs...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

[* Anbu]

Sweet Friends,

Greetings of Peace & Love. Hope you all have enjoyed the Long Weekend :)

It is a Nice Feeling to work or planing to work on Social Causes. It is great to see every one offering un-conditional support to these intiatives. We need intiate actions on these.

We need to Register a Charitable Trust to start with, before getting to that....we need answers for few of these questions

1. Who all should be the members of this Trust? All 35 who were in the get-together ?? If so is practically possible to manage having a trust of so many members to start with? I need every ones inputs on these, based in which we can decide.     Note: My suggestion is to start with 5-10members who can actively contribute their time & energy, which should help in managing things better.
2. What should be name of this trust ? Please do write your suggestions.     My Suggestion is: "Tindivanam Next Generation Welfare Trust" or simple "Next Generation Welfare Trust"
3. What is the model for Funding ? Is that going to be initial contributions from all, is it going to be regular contributions from all, is it going to through donations, is it going to combinations of these ? Any other models ??
4. What are the objectives & priorities ?  My choice would be Educational Assistance, especially informal education like "Spoken English", "Job Oriented Software Course", "Mobile Phone Servicing" etc., most of these courses are short term, and if done sincerely can create good opportunity for decent jobs. I welcome every ones thoughts on these.
5. Our classmate Leela Ram is Mentally Ill, he is in to some kind of deep depression, we all may sponsor and arrange for good treatment for him. We can even have this as our priority.

As an action towards forming the trust I have attached the draft for the trust deed, further actions after all your inputs

Love & Regards,

*Anbu

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Anbu

[Purushothaman]

Dear Anbu,

Nice to see your email. My priority is also to help first our Leela Ram. I will be happy to sponsor and we will create a fund to help him in whatever possible manner we can. In the meantime, can we all know what is the present condition of him and what sort of treatment and medical assistance he requires. This will help us to plan for the funds accordingly. 

I will get back to you with my answers for your questions.

Regards

Purushoth

 

On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:50:56 , "* Anbu" <bka...@gmail.com> wrote

[Purushothaman]

Dear Suresh,

Glad to receive you email and coming forward in this regard. We will keep continue this dialog so that we will make it possible.

Regards

Purushoth

On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:46:12 , edwardb suresh <nebs...@yahoo.co.in> wrote

[* Anbu]

Dear Purshoath,

He avoids talking or meeting any of us. Myself, Mani, Bun, Francis all tried. One of us have to establish some connection with him and take him to a psycatrist for an preliminary examination. We met his Father, he was also expressing his concern. 

When I was discussing this with Arvind, he was expressing interest to take him for treatment. I will talk to him and if he is willing we will designate him for the same. 

Regards,

*Anbu

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Anbu

[Sathya]

Hi Friends,

Sorry for not responding to this topic earlier as i was on a temple spree down south and had limited access to my computer. We touched upon this subject during our get together and it is time for action now.

Here is my take on this topic.

1. One of the key objectives should be that it should have an impact on a fairly large group of people that just a few individuals.

For Ex: If there is a student who has scored good marks but could not get an engineering seat because of not being able to get financial support to enter into a college, while it would be nice to offer financial support for this person, but then we might end up only impacting a handful of people or a small group, if we get into these kind of activities. Rather i would prefer if our activities has a positive impact on a group of people.

2. To start with let us focus on a few select key things and that too centered around the St. Anns School students, so that we can really make a good first impression / positive impact on that group. Otherwise i feel that we might get lost with too many things in our hand before we can actually establish. Here i know i am differing from what Purushoth had mentioned regarding diversifying into various fields but i feel we might really lose focus if we diversify into too many things before we really establish this. I might be wrong.

3. There could be two sets of people coming out of the school. One would be a majority group, who would be going to the colleges for some sort of Bachelors or Diploma courses. The other group would be students who could be from the lesser background who might want to start earning for their family by doing some sort of work. I think we need to keep these two broad classifications in mind and devise our plans accordingly as the first group might not want to say attend a job oriented software course and vice versa. While offering financial assistance to the 2nd group of people would really help how many people can we really help. My choice would also be Educational Assistance, especially informal education like "Spoken English" for the 1st group and for the 2nd group it would be some job oriented courses like Anbu had suggested.

4. I also feel that we should really get some inputs from our staffs like (especially Nagarajan, Baskaran, Jonas) on what they think as they see and understand the problems of the students on a daily basis. While these would just be a process where we gather inputs and then we can always debate the advantages and disadvantages and take our own decision.

These are my personal opinions and i am sure only through sharing our opinions we can come to some sort of conclusion.

My answers to Anbu's questions are

1. I also agree that we should have a compact group of members in the same range as 5-10
2. Name of the Trust: Next Generation Welfare Trust is something that looks fine. I feel we should try and avoid specific references to school names or town names as these could prove to be a limitation tomorrow. Anyhow if everyone agrees that our vision is clearly focusing on Tindivanam, then we can certainly have it as part of the name. Let us gather thoughts and decide on this
3. Probably we should talk to a couple of Trusts to get an idea of how things work and what are the options available not only from the funding part of it but also from the operation part of it. Ideally we shoud talk to the owners of a trust and auditors of trusts so that we can get some idea. If you think this effort is not worthwhile then we can decide on the options
4. I have touched upon this point in my views above
5. Sure let us keep the treatment for Leela ram as the top priority and as Anbu said, if Arvind can take a lead on this we can support in whatever way possible

 

Cheers,

Sathi

[srivatchan rajaraman]

If all agree
 
Name: NextGen Welfare trust
Scope: St Anns School Students
Type of service: Educational Assistance
Eligible Recepient groups: a) one that gets to Graduate and Diploma - scoped for "Spoken English" b) less fortunate bread winners scoped for Job oriented one - we have to start with set tresholds depending on our ability to gain funding
 
Next steps:
Take feed back from Teachers (Nagarajan, Baskaran and others) /add them as part of group if we can as council
I too believe we have to reach out to similar Trusts and gain insights into both Financial management and Operations
We can start with minimum members and once stabilized allowing more select members with set contributions so the Trust can take care of running itself eventually ?
 
--Sri
 
 

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Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:43:20 +0530
Subject: Re: TRUST
From: aksa...@gmail.com
To: ann...@googlegroups.com
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