Updates from OVBI team

[Overseas VBI]

Dear Friends,

This is the fourth week since OVBI USA has come into existence. Lot of positive developments are happening. The campaign team is busy writing for articles on many issues, developing content for website, press releases, blogs, creating videos, facebook posts and many more. The team needs lot of help from everyone in completing some work that has been started. This can be done sitting on computer, doing some research on internet or writing some article for a blog. Similarly fund raising team has started the efforts to build a plan for celebrity events all across USA to raise funds for OVBI. We need lot of research and planning to come up with such a plan.This is a massive work and all of us need to come together to plan on this and execute. 

Please reach out to following leads:

• Fund raising team: Nitin Khosla  nitin...@gmail.com and cc overs...@gmail.com
• Content development: Abhishek Ratna abhish...@gmail.com and cc overs...@gmail.com
• Video development: Ashutosh Gupta ashutosh...@gmail.com and cc overs...@gmail.com
• Facebook updates/ research material: Anvesh Kalia anves...@gmail.com and cc overs...@gmail.com

 

Also please share the blogs updates on website/ facebook page updates on your facebook profile. 

More detailed status updates

a) Membership drive is our prime focus now. Goal is to reach 5000 by end of May. 

b) Issues: We are focusing on two issues: Women Safety Issue (highlighting projects taken by Mahesh Bhaiya team in New Delhi) and Jal Jagruti Abhiyan (work done by Darshak ji/ Bala in Maharashtra).

c) Fund raising: Team headed by Nitin Khosla is making contacts with many celebrities to come up with a plan to host multiple city celebrity event. We are hoping to finalize in another 2 weeks.

d) Awareness campaign: We are planning to do various awareness campaign on Women Safety and Farmers issue (Jal Jagruti Abhiyan). 30-40 volunteers will come on streets in heavy density Indian population areas and will do outreach/ collect donation. One of first one is planned in Jersey City on May 11. Here is facebook page event: https://www.facebook.com/events/492928814113335/?notif_t=plan_edited 

e) Google hangout: we are planning to have a google hangout with Balasaheb Darade in May. We will focus on marketing this on big scale. (Date: TBD)

f) Website( http://ovfabi.org/ ) lead by Abhishek/ Sai team is up and running. More improvements are being planned and will add more information on projects/ VBI social leaders.

g) Facebook page ( https://www.facebook.com/OverseasVBI?fref=ts ) lead by Anvesh Kalia has 340 likes. Goal is to reach 2000 by end of May.

h) Videos: Ashutosh/ Ram team has created OVBI introduction video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut_jEHmW32g 

Ashutosh is creating another video on women issues and we will release it soon. 

i) Marketing content team lead by Abhishek Ratna is working on creating flyers/ banners/ logo redesign etc.

Jai Hind!!

OVBI Team

[Shobha Mittal]

Dear All

I am based in the UK and the time difference makes it awkward for me to participate in the meetings. The mail below and the progress update overall looks very impressive. 

My skills are IT based and I have a flair for writing. Any help you need in terms of doing a blog or writing articles or software development  (Microsoft .Net or SQL ), please throw it in my direction. Abhishek feel free to get in touch.

Also I would appreciate if the meeting timings can take into account the time difference as per GMT. If not all, it would be useful if at least few meetings in a month are scheduled to suit both continents.

I am hoping that I can learn from this wonderful team and ignite the spark of enthusiasm for OVBI in the UK as well.

Thanks

Shobha

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