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Hello and Welcome to All,
On behalf of the new ZAGBA Board, I would like to thank the ZAGBA family for
having given us your trust by nominating us to the ZAGBA Board. I wanted to take
this opportunity to bring you up to speed on what the new board has been doing,
on what is planned and how you can help ZAGBA be exactly what you want it to be.
As you may be aware, the previous board did an outstanding job in terms of
raising funds. Because of their efforts and including monies raised by the
previous boards and ZAGBA members, ZAGBA currently has approximately $47,000 in
a savings account. ZAGBA will be forming a funds/investments committee to manage
(including invest) this money. The board will liaison between the finance
committee and the larger ZAGBA community. The funds/investment committee is
currently comprised of Adi Guzdar and Jamshed Kapadia, along with representation
from the board. If any paid ZAGBA member is interested in being on the finance
committee, please send an email to
zagba@hotmail.com.
The board would like to welcome any member of the community to attend our ZAGBA
board meetings. These meetings are typically held on the same day as the ZAGBA
children's class, and run from 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM. Upcoming board meetings are
scheduled for: June 13, July 2, August 6, Sept 12, October 17, November 14,
December 12, January 9, February 6 and March 13. Please do let us know via
zagba@hotmail.com if you plan on attending. Since
meeting locations might change, please contact us a few days before the meeting
and we will provide you with the exact location and time.
For our college bound youth, there are a few scholarships that you can apply
for. Some of these have their application deadlines coming up soon. So, please
apply as soon as possible. You can find more information under the "Resources"
section of the ZAGBA website, at
http://www.zagba.org/scholarships.htm.
The new ZAGBA board has also made a change to ZAGBA's privacy policy.
Previously, ZAGBA did not publish any photos taken at ZAGBA events on its
website out of concerns about privacy. Going forward, ZAGBA members will have to
request if they do not want their event related photos published on the ZAGBA
website. Unless a member opts out, all ZAGBA events will be considered public
gatherings and photos taken at these events will be published for general access
on the ZAGBA website. Any member can opt out of having their photo published by
sending an email to
zagba@hotmail.com. Please send us an email by June 15,
2010 if you want to opt out.
ZAGBA is what you want it to be. The board will try its best to make that
happen. But we need your help. We need you to participate in the events, we need
you to volunteer some of your time, and we need your suggestions. If there is
something that you would like to see ZAGBA do, please let us know. Please take
the ZAGBA Pulse Survey on the ZAGBA website so that we can get your comments. We
will be publishing the results from the survey on the ZAGBA website (all results
will be posted anonymously). The board as always is very grateful to those who
volunteer their time but do not get due credit. To all the teachers at the
children's classes (Kaizad Patel, Farhad Panthaki, Yezad and Armin Nalladaru,
Hufrish Sirohi, and Rashna Karani), and to the members of the extended board
(Perinaaz Wadia), we say a big thank you.
Sincerely,
Aspi Engineer
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