Agency Details:

Asha for Education, Seattle Chapter

Asha for Education is a non-profit voluntary organization dedicated to socio-economic change in India mainly using the medium of education. We address other development and human concerns on gender, health-care, disability and such related issues.

Description:
Some facts about Asha:

• Asha is a “Zero overhead” organization, completely driven by volunteers (including the administrative expenses) ensuring 100% of your donations are sent to our partner groups in India. To know more about Asha’s core values, visit http://www.ashanet.org/index.php?page=about-asha-corevalues
  
  
• Asha received a 4-star rating from Charity navigator (an independent charity evaluation agency) for organizational efficiency and organizational capacity (receiving a total score of 69.79 out of 70)
  
  
• Asha is rated #1 (by the same agency) in the field of International Relief and Development (http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm/bay/topten.detail/listid/23.htm)
  
  
• Asha maintains high level of Accountability and Transparency for all the information. All Information regarding project support, site visit reports, annual updates and finance statements are online for anyone to view.
  
  
• Asha forms close partnerships with groups in India and attempt to maintain regular contact to form a stable long-term relationship.
  
  
• Asha is a secular organization welcoming volunteers irrespective of religion, race, gender or caste. Asha had no religious or political affiliation.
  
  

Volunteering with Asha is one of the best ways anyone can help. There are many volunteering opportunities with Asha:

• Work with our partner groups to learn and get involved in the work they are doing.
  
  
• Learn and help spread awareness on various issues pertaining to development, health, education, gender and many more.
  
  
• Help with administrative work like website maintenance, event organization, finance, newsletter editing, flyers and other publicity material creation etc.
  
  
• Attend out meetings and take part in day to day functioning of the chapter. Our meeting schedule is online at: http://www.ashanet.org/seattle/meetings
  
  

For more volunteering opportunities, please visit: http://www.ashanet.org/seattle/join

History:
Asha was started in 1991 in Berkeley. The Seattle Chapter was formed in December 1994 by a diverse group of students and professionals from the Seattle area. Currently we have more than 35 active volunteers at any point of time and supporting more than 40 projects all across India.

Contact people:

Srijan Chakraborty, Treasurer, (phone), (email) Binay Pathak, Chapter Coordinator, (phone), (email)

Address:

PO Box. 2407 Redmond, WA 98073

Web Site: http://www.ashanet.org/seattle

Miscellaneous Information

Liability
	No
Does your organization welcome court-ordered community service volunteers?
	No
Does your organization have volunteer positions for youth 12-18?
	Yes

Last updated on September 24, 2009