ISSUE 2
2009
Make a Difference
MADLY
MAD is partnering withzoho.com as our major donorfor this year. Zoho.com will be
MAD’s Patron
for this aca-demic year. As a Patron, theyare supporting us by funding
50% of our National budget
. The national budget goes to-wards three costs:
developing the syllabus, developmentcost of web application and administrative cost of nationaloffice.This is great because
it covers a significant part of our na-tional budget. Being associated with a corporate establish-ment give us credibility and Other Corporates will be moreconfident about funding us. Check out the detailshere.
Campaign was kicked off for the IndiyaShine Awards in October. After a slowstart, MAD ended up winning in the Me-dium Non-Profits Category.http://bit.ly/xhgZr The thought of a possible UNconference hasbeen buzzing for a while and if rumors are tobe believed, it will take place in Mangaloretowards the end of January followed by aMADATHON and the Make A Difference Con-cert featuring the best bands in India. Volun-teers from all over India will be coming to-gether for the first time in Mangalore. TheMAD Conference is for the core teams to dis-cuss the administration, but the UNconfer-ence is for all the maddies! Thisis going to be real fun with nopresentations, talks etc., morelike and extended OBT. TheMADathon and the concert arefundraising events :)
We have completed camps for 3centers, we have 7 to go. Two RYLAsorganized by Rotary Club of GreaterCochin are happening on December 5and 12. Please Contact Niki for furtherdetailsMAD was picked up as a Nobel Laureatefor theKaramveer Puraskarorganized byiCongo. Previous winner of the award in-clude actress Kajol. Jithin was in Delhi on26th November to receive the award.Pics from the event to be put up on thefanpage soon.
MASHABLE Open Web Awards
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We started off slow,gained speed and dropped down again. Theaward campaigns like these need a lot of sup-port from you all. We finished at 9
th
Place in theBest Non-Profit Use of Social Media Category.Next year, we have to win this :)
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