Hello Villagers,
Thank you for your support as we develop East Villagers to best meet your needs as passionate volunteers and nonprofits. We've undergone a lot of exciting news and updates. In this September issue, you'll find all the updates and news happening in the village. We hope you'll sign online, earn more points, and get ready to donate them to your favorite nonprofit organizations the week of November 19th. Top 15 organizations will be announced on Thanksgiving (Nov. 26th).
Connecting thru Service,
EV Team
- East Villagers Community News -
1. Root International Peace Corps and Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation exceeded fundraising goal of $100,000 in support of Taiwan Typhoon Morakot Relief efforts and sets new goal of $150,000. We encourage individuals, communities, and associations to donate and support Typhoon Relief to help us meet our new goal of raising $150,000 by September 28, 2009 deadline. Read more...
2. Root International Peace Corps receives a total of $250,000 donation from Hewlett-Packard Company Foundation and HP employees in support of Taiwan Typhoon Morakot Relief Efforts. Read more...
3. Birdie for ALL, Grace Chen, 8-year-old junior world championship golfer, fundraised $3000 for Leukemia research. Matching funds of $1500 by Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation. Read more...
4. Asian Liver Center at Stanford University's 1st Annual TeamHBV Collegiate Conference, sponsored by the Chao Foundation, will be on November 13-15, 2009. Conference is open to the public by invitation only. Watch the conference live streamed on East Villagers. EV/TeamHBV will be hosting many fun contests with lots of prizes. Please email groopman@stanford.edu to register. Read more...
5. Project Little Red Scarf performed successful surgeries for 86 children with congenital heart disease. Surgery cost per child is around $4000 or more. $30 USD can provide needed nutrition for one child for a month following heart surgery. Read more...
- East Villagers Beta v.3.0 Updates -
1. New EV Store with many neat items you can purchase with your points. Be the first 25 to get the EV Tshirt for 1/2 off. (1500 pts) If your nonprofit has an item you'd like to sell, EV can add it to the store for 0% transaction fee. All proceeds will support your organization.
2. Twitter is now fully integrated with East Villagers. EastVillagers is now added to every tweet made from East Villagers. You can connect your NGO's twitter and update your twitter right from your organization page. You can also connect your twitter to your personal profile and update your twitter from EV, which will update your EV status.
3. New Video Tool which allows video from all providers (Youtube, Vimeo, Youku, Tudou, etc...), and it also allows you to directly upload your video onto EV.
4. Brand new Linking Interface for all linking on EV (Blogs, Projects, Organizations, and Opportunities). Easy to add button to link your NGO website to NGO EV page.
5. EV Forum to facilitate discussion among EV members about projects, ideas, issues, questions/feedback. Check it out!
6. EV Ticketing and Registration - If you have an event, let EV take care of your ticketing for free.
Login now to see all the updates! www.eastvillagers.org
Congratulations to September's Thanksgiving Point Leaders
Nancy Nguyen
Alena Groopman
Teddy Shih
Elisabeth Sum
Ping Chao
Irene Byun
Jean Yu
Brian Cheng
Peter Nguyen
Meredith Bergin
