Where we are now News Feed (ala Facebook)

I was counting the e-mail addresses in my e-mail to our team, and I was quite amazed how many of us are now part of the $10 Initiative.

Allow me to give you all an update of what's happening to each team and to everyone, and feel free to exchange thoughts or suggestions here on our blog!

Here goes the News Feed (ala Facebook :-))...

Jo-Ann and Mon just finished writing the Primer for our local partners.

The Groundwork Team just had a call conference meeting last weekend to discuss plans and strategies before launch.

Seng is planning to open up a contact with a school in Kenya. She also just finished preparing a check list for our spotcheckers and evaluators.

Mae is working on partnering with Caritas, Senegal.

Vida Gabe just joined the Groundwork Team! She just finished compiling a list of potential partners and an internal directory for our foundation.

Mon is traveling to the Philippines this summer and will meet with local non-profit partners, and our design and strategy team!

Camille gave Richie (Jericho) our 3-year financial projection for the $10 Initiative Foundation!

Richie just met with Jay Rittberg, AIG corporate lawyer who's expressed willingness to provide help with the organization's legal founding requirements.

Richie just spoke with Mubuso Zamchiya, founder of School Ventures, who's expressed interest in helping our organization establish contacts in Africa. Richie will go to D.C. on August 1 to meet Mubuso.

Richie and Nicole met with Dennis Whittle, CEO of GlobalGiving, and Matt Flannery, CEO of Kiva. See Nicole's blog below for their parting words for us. It was Dennis who suggested us to contact Mubuso.

Vicky Garchitorena, President of Ayala Foundation checked in to say hello and see how we're doing. She invited Richie to stop by the AF NY Chapter meeting to share with them the details about our foundation. The AF staff are quite interested to know more about us.

Anna, Mon, Nicole and Paolo have all finished their calendar of planned objectives to prepare us to launch at end of October!

Anna is scheduling a brainstorming session with Greg and Richie this weekend.

Anna and Ria are doing research which grants we should target and what we will need to submit our proposals.

Flem is finalizing the logo of our foundation.

Grethel is busy designing our website. Jared is busy implementing Grethel's designs. Ainee is getting ready to write the copy on our website. George, our strat planner from McCann Erickson is busy crafting our strategy which Ainee will use to guide her copy, and Nicole to guide branding and marketing plans.

Paolo is busy building our website.

Paolo is holding a Tech team meeting tomorrow (July 12) with Paul, Jared, and Will.

Oliver Hurst-Hiller, CTO of Donorschoose.org, has responded to Paolo's e-mail to set up a meeting. Richie would like to stop by and say hi to Charles Best.

That's all the news feed I've got. If any of the information above interests, intrigues you or piques your curiosity, feel free to ask the person about it, or get involved in any specific team project.

If I missed anything please feel free to add yours! Have a fantastic weekend everyone!!!