Mata Annapurna Ashram

 

 

 
Agents to Solicit Donations

 

 Working with
Major Contributors

 

What we are doing here is no small task. It will require hugh sums of money continuously for years. To raise this kind of money requires unusual imagination and efforts. This kind of money cannot be raised by common fund raising methods.

 
We have appointed agents in some cities to solicit and accept donations for Mata Annapurna Ashram. We are appointing more agents worldwide. We are paying them 10% commission.

 
We are operating worldwide. We cannot reach everyone everywhere. The agents provide a very vital service of contacting people, talking to them about our work, getting their support, staying in regular contact with them, keeping them informed and involving them in our work. The agents fully deserve the 10% commission they are paid. The donors also appreciate their role.

 

 Working with
Major Contributors

 

Building a new school might cost a million or two million pounds or dollars. One donor may provide all the funds or a large portion of it. Working with this class of donors and making this happen is not possible for everyone. Only a special class of people will be able to do it.

 
There are not many of those, may be one in a million, and I am saying this literally. I would describe these people like this: They are gifted with a unique combination of intellect, ability and spirituality. They will be able to see that they can make big money doing this. Raising two million dollars for a school will earn them two hundred thousand in personal income. After the split with team mates, the team leader will still make a hundred thousand. Plus, when the school opens, lot of publicity, expense paid travel, ceremonies and funfare. All that is very good. But there is something much bigger than that and they will see that too. They will see the spiritual benefit. They will see that in this work they will be instrumental in building schools that will feed and educate thousands of poor children for years to come. We get the spiritual benefit of such karma life after life. That is the real benefit. We can make money doing anything but it is only material, there is no spiritual benefit. Material things stay behind. Only our karma comes with us when we go. Here we have both, the material and the spiritual.

 
I am looking for only these people, not anyone else. (Ofcourse we will mentor men and women who have potential to become like us.) My vision is "No child will sleep hungry in India. No child will grow up without proper education".

 
If you are the kind of person I have described here, if you see yourself playing a major part in the work ahead, please introduce yourself. Please also send your recent photo or introduce yourself in video. I would like to know you.

 
Our immediate focus is on this:

 
We are building six hundred and forty five charity kitchens in villages and small towns in India, one in every district. Preparations are in full motion. We are in the market to buy land. We will build temporary structures and start the kitchens immediately. Kitchens will be for children only. Then we will build schools there.

 
We will create a separate non-profit organization to build and run each school. So there will be six hundred and forty five separate and independent organizations, not branches or subsidiaries of one organization.  Each organization will have its own Trustees and Board of Directors. They will run the organization independently.

 
We will dedicate the school to the donor who provides funds to purchase the land or to the donor who donates land. We will name the school after the donor or donor's family. This donor will also become a Trustee or a Director.

 
The senior volunteer or the agent who will find the donor and procure this donation will be paid 10% commission on the amount of this donation and will become a Director on the first Board of Directors.

 
We will raise funds separately for construction of school buildings and other facilities. Donors who contribute 5% or more of the total cost will become the first Directors. They will also receive high honor in the school's "Donors Gallery". We will build a very elegant "Donors Gallery" in every school.

 

Charity Begins at Home

 
To be successful in this work, first you must give your own donation. "Charity begins at home". It is not just a catchy phrase. It has deep spiritual significance. What it means is, charity work becomes possible only if it begins in one's own heart. If you have the compassion you will want to do something on your own before you ask anyone to join you. If you don't have that in your heart charity work is not possible. Here, if your heart doesn't make you give the first donation and you ask others to give, it won't work.

 
So, look within and see how you feel. If you feel happy and excited about this, introduce yourself and send in your first donation. If you don't feel happy and excited don't get involved. You are not ready for charity work. Wait till it begins in your heart.

 
Send your introduction and photo to:
introduce-yourself@mata-annapurna-ashram.org

Send your donation through PayPal to:
building-schools@mata-annapurna-ashram.org

or mail your check to 

MATA ANNAPURNA ASHRAM
Post Office Box 6918
Buena Park, CA 90622-9998
USA

 
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