Guys, since we have been collecting money for a couple of months now, I think it's time we have an action plan. Here is my 2 cents.. Please edit the same post with a different color and put your initials under each bullet if you have any comments/corrections.

• Our monthly contributions sum up to approximately $350.
• We will put Dec, Jan and Feb funds in our emergency fund.
• Come March 1st, we will have about a grand in our Emergency fund.
• We will start our chaity services from March'11.
• To start with, we will use $275 for charity and rest (??) will go towards emergency fund.
• AB to talk to uncle and let us know about our options - what are our choices and what we can do with $275.

Account Log

While we are waiting to create our Expense log, I quickly created an excel sheet to keep track of the money. Row 1 has our Initials and Column 1 has Months. Column 3 is to tell to which person's a/c money was transferred. The way I read it is, SP contributed $100 in Dec and transferred the money to UM's a/c. Until we figure out a better way, please copy paste the table below into paint, edit the amount or/and the intials of the person you are transferring to and paste it back, when there is a change.

Funds



UM	$400
AB	$60
SP
BA
TA
Total	$460

Welcome and Thank you!

As you guys have stated in your posts, what a great way to start the new year. I am so happy and thankful for having like-minded friends, so good to see the excitement in coming forward and joining hands to help the needy. I wish us all good luck!

Looking forward to see some great work this year and in years to come.

Mission-Vision-Values

My 2 cents..

· Mission

o “Our-Share” is a non-profit group aiming to serve the children in need for basic schooling and fees for higher education schooling (and housing?), elders with finances to address their medical needs.

o Volunteers will be used to serve the purpose and run the organization on ground level to reach out to the people in need.

o We aim to improve the quality of life for the young and elderly who are most vulnerable at their respective phases in their lifes.

· Vision

o To create an environment in local communities all over INDIA and around the world where every child gets the basic education they need and all individuals irrespective of their social & economic status can get the medical attention/services they need

· Values

o Our purpose is to improve the quality of the children’s life who will shape the future for the betterment and also not to forget the generous past that put us on the map and need our help.

o We all are committed with a purpose and promise to serve our goals with passion and empathy.

These don’t have to be the headers of the page but need to be listed somewhere on blog to refer when we need them ( I will work on the location)

Also, lets add/edit anything specific we need in the MISSION section. That will be our guiding light to refer back on to track when we start sway away due to external influences..

Welcome!!

Awesome.. looks great. Welcome aboard everyone...and a Happy New Year.

What a great way to start this year with a good thought of extending our support as much as we can. I am all excited on our new venture. I wish all of us a very good luck and wish success in our endeavor. I truly hope by this time next year "Our Share" will abide by its mission to contribute as much as possible to help the needy.

Best wishes all.

Welcome to OUR-SHARE

Happy New Year Everyone..

Hope you guys are settling back at work. I personally am very excited about this mini venture we all took up on starting this new year. I would like to thank UDM for the initiation and the rest of you to successfully support this endeavor.

I am in process of setting the blog to make sure it is more in-tune to what we want to do and how we all want get things to be done.Please login in to your accounts (separate email invite sent out to personal address) and check for any connectivity issues.

This is an collective effort and we all would certainly gain from each others perspective to align our goals and focus more on the mission.

tons of work to do.. all and any ideas are welcome.. we want this to be a good sounding board and capture all and any ideas that come like a flash in the pan for a minute or so before we start to forget them..

i am positive you all are excited or even more than i am ..

My favorite line of the day
"Attitude is Important; So a pick a good one!!"