On behalf of the 2008 Spring Masters Charity Tennis Tournament, I am writing to invite you for participation as an Event Sponsor. The tournament serves as a platform for players to compete with fellow tennis enthusiasts and all the proceeds of the tournament will be directed to us – Anand Charity. The event is going to be held in the San Francisco Bay Area with most players from the South Bay. The organizers of this tournament, OneClickTennis.com now have more than 2400 registered and active members in the Bay Area. The tournament, which is scheduled to take place between April 14^th and May 25^th, 2008 has been a raving success in the past drawing more than 200 competitors in each of the 4 tournaments held in 2007. We are going to conduct a post-tournament picnic in Sunnyvale on June 1st to celebrate the success of the tournament. Sponsors will have the opportunity to showcase their company’s presence even during the picnic.

We are certain that the event will provide a multitude of benefits including the opportunity to enhance your company’s presence within the South Bay Community. Please contact us for the sponsorship packages offered by Anand Charity.

We look forward to your participation in the Spring Masters Charity Tennis Tournament. If you have any additional questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact us via e-mail

Sincerely,

Anil Goteti

President

Anand Charity

We kick started our fund raising last week - on February 14th. In the last four days, we have received an overwhelming response from our donors, friends and family. A lot of you have contributed and we cannot express enough thanks to you. We still have a long way to go and would like you to continue to spread the word about Anand Charity.

We would also like to welcome our two new volunteers - Vijay from the Bay area and Kapil from San Diego. Our thanks to both for volunteering with Anand Charity. This organization functions because of the generous time we get from our volunteers. For those who would like to help us, please contact us at volunteer@anandcharity.org or visit our Volunteer page.

We have a tie-up with Groundspring.org for our donations. Groundspring.org provides an easy interface for our donors to automatically make donations every month. This is a convenient way to make regular contributions to our efforts without having to remember each month to donate.

Anand Charity relies on donors like you for our projects and we encourage all donors to setup monthly donations. Here’s our donation link.

If you are a Facebook user, you can find us here. Once you enter our page on Facebook, you will be able to share our cause with your friends and recruit members. This is a great way for you to contribute to our publicity effort. All it takes is a click and a personal message to people in your network to join our cause. The top recruiters for the cause will receive a special mention on the Facebook page.

Anand Charity’s first project is going to be the funding of a vocational-cum-work training center at Umang, an organization in Jaipur which rehabilitates mentally and physically disabled people. Umang has been operational for several years and we are proud to be one of their donors. With Anand Charity’s funds, Umang is going to help change the lives of several individuals who at present are perceived to be a burden on their families.

One of our volunteers, Shankar, even had an opportunity to visit the organization in Jaipur and he was extremely touched by the warmth shown by the people at Umang. To see some photographs from his site visit or for more information about the project, please visit our Umang project page.

We have an exciting new design for our website - thanks in large to the efforts of our volunteers, Anuj and Varun. For the new layout, we have adopted an open-source template from the web. We hope that you will enjoy the new design.

The new layout also allows us to post our blog messages easily on the website and the most up-to-date messages will be displayed.

Thank you, Anuj & Varun!

Keeping up with the blogmania and the ease of communicating with our donors, we have started our very own “Anand Charity” Blog!

Through this blog, we will be communicating with our donors about our fund raising events, grants and charity activities in India. We also would like to post messages about individuals seeking help after verifying the credibility of such posts.

We will be transferring all our old posts in our “News” Section to this blog.

Anand Charity wishes everyone a very happy new year! Anand Charity is entering a crucial stage this year and we are looking forward to an exciting year ahead doing extensive fund raising and grant making.

Answering the grant application is a long and tedious process. We have reviewed a couple of grant applications from organizations in India. We are waiting for the organizations to get back to us on our queries regarding the grant application and projects.

We will share details about the organizations once we are sure that we are going to support the organization.

Anand Charity has been selected for Youtube’s nonprofit program. We can post our own videos and they will be published on Youtube’s nonprofit channel along with the videos of other nonprofits.

If you have the creative talent to make a video and if you are interested in helping out Anand Charity, please contact us.