Newsletter Archive - February 2012

Monthly Newsletter – February 2012

Namaste

Happy Leap Day!! The shortest month of the year (slightly longer this year) has been a busy one for us at Rukmini Foundation. We hope that it has been a successful one for you as well. Let’s recap some of the things we were able to do, and discuss some of the things that are coming up in the weeks and months ahead.

Rukmini Foundation spreads happiness in Nepal and Pittsburgh

As promised in our last update, the foundation wanted to give the girls something to smile about by screening a documentary titled “Happy.” The screening was a great success despite power outage and difficulty with the English for some of our participants. Everybody was very happy to have been a part of this. Read more about this event in Nepal and how the team in Pittsburgh also took part.

Foundation making friends in Pittsburgh:

As mentioned in our last newsletter, Bibhuti Aryal of Rukmini Foundation was invited to speak at Entrepreneurial Thursdays. The event allowed us to meet people who were not only growing businesses, but were helping to build a stronger community in Pittsburgh. We were honored to be a part of this great event, where we made new friends and enjoyed the beautiful voice of Ms. Jessica Lee and the powerful music of talented local jazz musicians. The foundation seeks to strengthen alliances with local organizations and participating in events like this will allow us to not only promote the good works we plan to do, but to take part in the improvement of the communities we are a part of.

Our good friend Stormy’s series of posts about our challenges:

Our great friend Stormy has completed a series of posts discussing the challenges of building a nonprofit. See the 4 part series on her site:

Part 1 – Organiztion Challenges
Part 2 – Infrastructure Challenges
Part 3 – Social Challenges
Part 4 – Business Challenges

Many thanks to Stormy for providing this wonderful platform for us.

First “Funraiser” Event Scheudled for March 4th

We are excited to announce that we have organized a bowling outing for friends of the foundation. This will be a fun event which will help to spread the message of our foundation, raise some much needed funds for our girls and bring our team and community closer together. It promises to be a fun event. If you are in or around the Pittsburgh area this coming weekend (March 4 3pm – 5pm), you should consider making a trip to AMF Bowling in Mt. Lebanon. You can RSVP for this event through Facebook as well. We hope this will be the start of many more such events for our friends and supporters.

All in all, a pretty successful February and we have so much more to look forward to in the coming weeks and months. We are planning to hold an awards ceremony soon to officially welcome the first class of Rukmini Scholars so stay tuned for pictures and updates. Also in the next installment, we will tell you about the parents/teacher meeting we had with the girls, their parents, school staff and foundation leadership in Nepal.

Thank you for your continued support. You can also follow us on the following Social Media outlets. Till next time … Namaste.