Hindu American Seva Charities
Three Projects for 2010-2011
1. Project #1: Help establish at least four (4) Seva Centers in the first year:
a) Document concepts of Seva Centers: what services to provide? who will be the beneficiaries? what resources are needed? what staffing/volunteers?
b) Document best practices from the experiences of various organizations who already provide some of the services
c) Identify candidate organizations who could start a Seva center, discuss all aspects with the leaders of the organization, tailor the services to their community needs and resources
d) Plan specific events at central level by HASC and inform, educate, coordinate the activities of Seva centers.
e) Benefits maximization: researching, finding out and communicating to our network what help and support (resources, funding) is available from various government agencies and private foundations for Seva centers (community centers, senior centers) operations.
f) Seva Centers will be open to ALL irrespective of race, religion, nationality
g) Support/facilitate/coordinate communications, e.g., develop a monthly newsletter, quarterly/ annual report, etc; send periodic communication to all (or targeted contacts) in the database.
2. Project #2: Help settle Bhutanese refugees and low income Asian American/Dharmic communities:
a) Identify refugee communities where they need help -- and we have some resources
b) Identify their needs and skills -- and skill gaps, where they need help to get jobs
c) Devise/facilitate training (eg EASL, driving) for unemployed/underemployed refugees
d) Identify and facilitate attending vocational schools to learn new skills (or brush up on skills they already have, but apply in US environment ; eg car repair, bicycle repair, lawn mower repair, …)
e) Identify opportunities for farming, small biz (cooking/catering food for small parties)
f) Co-ordinate job placement with Asian American chamber of commerce, Hotel owners association, etc.
g) Involve/engage them with Hindu American community/temples in the area so they can develop their own networks
h) Make sure/facilitate children attend local schools at age/skill appropriate level (arrange for ESL in the schools, as necessary, with community volunteers)
3. Project #3: Advancing Interfaith and Community Service on College and University. The President promoted interfaith service as one of the Administration’s goals in his speech in
sector for important social movements. Campuses and Technical services infra-structure::
a) Work with student bodies of Dharmic faiths
b) For targeted campuses identify service capacity of Hindu student associations
c) Develop relationship with students/associations to develop seva centers
d) Develop educational material to help students understand faith and interfaith and how to do community service, etc
e) Create/maintain/update out website continually, as needed.
f) Enable website to collect online contributions, names, address, …, send receipts, …
g) Create a detailed database of all Seva organizations) in USA so HASC can track all the Seva activities they perform by type of services, people benefitted, dollars expended, … (There are several hundred temples/organizations in USA that provide Seva/services to local communities) HASC wants to track that. Maintain/update database continually, as needed.
h) Develop criteria to evaluate/assess performance/efficacy of Seva activities of Seva centers and other organizations in the database > to develop best practices.
i) Support/facilitate/coordinate communications, e.g., develop a monthly newsletter, quarterly/ annual report, etc. and send periodic communication to all (or targeted contacts) in the database.
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