Final Session!? Sat 29 Dec 2012 Vote about our Donation/Happy New Year!

Hello Good People

Since there were only 4 of us at the last Session on 16 Dec, we decided to postpone the vote regarding where to spend our 10,000 NT donation. Hope you can come on the 29th of Dec! It might not only be the last session of 2012, but also ever...I'm moving to 金門 on 15 Jan 2013! So please come so I can see you before I leave Taipei...

:) Lynn

Please note that the venue depends on the weather!

Date:  Sat 29 Dec 2012
Time: 13:30-16:30
Topic: Vote on where to Donate our 10,000NT / Happy New Year!
Place:
Nice Weather Option 
If the weather isn't too cold or wet: Dihua St. Meet at Xiahai City God Temple (霞海城隍廟) and
then after a quick prayer if you want (!), proceed to a cafe to enjoy the atmosphere.
Cold/Wet Weather Option
Christine's place, a 3-min walk from 六張犁 MRT station (Thanks, Christine!)

If you're not sure where we're meeting, just call me (Lynn) on 0931-146-481. I'll turn my phone on Sat at 12 noon.

For planning purposes, PLEASE REGISTER for this session by FRIDAY 28 Dec, 12 noon
by replying to this email. If you
Thanks, hope to see you there! :)

Optional Preparation
Read through these proposals for our donation:

1. Alliance for Urban Renewal Group

On printing out the in-house magazine, which costs NT 70 to print one issue. The Alliance estimates that in order to get the messages about urban renewal issues across effectively, they’d like to make 2,000 copies for the next issue.
Apart from that, they’d like to hire an assitance at the rate of NT 8,000 (same as a graduate student) to handle all the administrative issues (which is handled by each and every one of us at our spare time outside our work, school, and work for the Alliance).


2. Design for Change
    We plan to spend the money on the transportation for interviewing children and collecting stories. After the interview, we will publish the stories collected, like the I CAN BOOK. We do not have a budget for it at the moment for we used to pay the fee on our own.... So that would be a great relief to us if we get the fund from TIiA.

3. From Hal:
I propose donate to 台灣導盲犬協會（http://www.guidedog.org.tw/）and 財團法人惠光導盲犬教育基金會(http://www.guidedog.tw/)

I am not sure if it's a NPO, but the 1st one is a registed social organization, and the 2nd one is a foundation.

4. From Christine:
An NGO that trains volunteers to read books for the blind. The money would go towards paying some trainers of volunteers.