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Show to America we care!!

Passion to do something

Spread the word on your Facebook, twitter, linked in friends and families. Every small action counts!!

We simply want to bring all people of Indian origin who migrated to US together for one common cause. Let us see how much money we can raise and donate it to various charities in US. Many of us individually donate money to charities including temples & mosques and there seem to be no direction in giving. Instead if we give fixed amount of money (one dollar a day per an earning member of family since we came to US) then we can distribute this systematically based on the needs at a particular time. As we all know our priorities for work change every year. Some years we have more natural disaster relief work than others. Based on the needs of time, we will allocate and distribute the money gathered to top grade charities. We determine top grade charities based on two important elements. We depend on data published by American Institute of Philanthropy, Guide Star and many other institutions involved in rating charities. We also depend on donor surveys carried out from time to time. Every time we distribute the funds to charities, we write a letter that this is a gift from people of Indian origin to America.

Deal with local issues where our children are growing

Stop exploiting America and do something for others

Do something for America

Everyone of us need to work together. Every Reddy, Shah, Khan, Rao, Patel, Kumar, Joshi, Banerjee, Ahmed, Srivastava!!

We all know that life America is not all that rosy like what we thought before boarding a plane to US for the first time. It involved struggle. Sometime we lost our jobs, our businesses. We continued our journey cursing America and admiring India. Years passed. We never realized when we got green card, duel citizenship, first home, college graduation for kids, rental properties. We did it. We all did it. And it is time to do something for this great country which gave us a chance.

There are so many issues we are facing in America today. We have issues which affect our own neighborhood, our own communities like unemployment, drugs, rising crimes, healthcare etc. We have issues which affect the whole nation like natural disasters. Don’t you think we need to do something for this country?

Work as a team

If you don’t like something or someone, let us not criticize. Just don’t talk about it and never spread the rumors.

There is common perception that individually we are excellent performers. But if we come together, we fall apart. It is all because of our egos. If we just keep our ego aside, respect each others viewpoints and work for a common purpose, then possibly we can create even bigger charity than even Bill Gates. Even if we have achieved so much in life, many times just because our luck supported us, we conveniently forgot to take care of issues around us. We never mixed freely with other communities. That is why we remained alienated from mainstream social life. We always found faults with American system but never really appreciated positive aspects of American culture like volunteering, giving something back to society. We are highest paid class in America but how many of us have charity deduction on their income tax return? Let us do something together. If we are able to raise enough money, it will be great achievement and our contribution to improve health of society around us.

Let us work together. Don’t we all say “I need to do something different in my life”….here is your CHANCE.

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Why Think of Others?

Think of Others represents the resources we can raise as a group of people of Indian origin who got a chance to come to US and make a better living. In order to improve image of our community and express our gratitude to the opportunity given to us, we will contribute something to the common pool from where we can disburse money to various charities in US and India based on the needs at a particular time. It is important that charities here understand what we give it to them is from people of Indian origin. This will give us some direction in our giving and streamlined approach in working for common social issues affecting us today.

Better society, better life

People of Indian origin are highest paid immigrant communities in US. We send our children to good schools, make them cultured citizens. This is not just enough if environment around us is not safe. We simply cannot relinquish our responsibility by only taking care of our kids and our retirement. We need to create healthy communities across America and everyone has role to play. Let us start with a small contribution which will go a long way in making America a better place.

Thought to ponder

Many people will just leave this site after reading, we all know that. Bur just think about what to answer if your children ever ask you what is your real contribution to society? Most of us will say I worked hard for an American company, successfully started a business and employed so many people, or saved so many lives in the hospital, gave best possible life to all my family. Not many of us will say, I made a difference in someone’s life by doing some specific thing. We get only one life and it goes so fast. Let us think about it and act on it. When you donate you will get a chance to publish information about yourself or a person if you make donation in memory or in honor of someone. Who knows two generations down someone will look at your information and appreciate it.

Why it is so difficult to convince a Desi to donate?

Since migrating to America we have become misers. Even if we have fully paid house, cars, good retirement savings, rental properties, we still do not give anything to charity. Why we have become so self-centered? It makes lot of sense to take care of environment around us. Let us do something to improve lives of other people around us.

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