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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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