Hello All,

My name is Kejal Kothari. I am working with Prabhaben Mohnot and other members of JAINA in order to create brochures to raise awareness about Jainism. We would like your feedback on the first draft of the brochure we created on JAINA (please see attachment). My team would like to make sure we aren't missing any important information before the president of JAINA views this brochure.

At this moment, we are simply looking for feedback on the content. We are working with a graphic designer to make this brochure aesthetically appealing.

Please comment below to give us your responses by 12:00 PM on Monday, January 17, 2011. If we don't hear from you then we'll assume you approve this brochure.

We really appreciate your help.

Thank you,
Kejal

 OLD Project notes 

JainLink Store: (*Paulomi Gudka - paulomi99@yahoo.com; )
- Add Mangalam
- Add JainFood book
- Add "Walk With Me" book images
- Add CD / Audio

Project Donation and Fund Raising: (*Paulomi Gudka - paulomi99@yahoo.com; need volunteers)
- Add request for general JAINA funds on donation site
- Get donors to donate on a monthly basis
- Send them updates on the donation

News and Events:  (naina.153@gmail.com; need volunteers)
- Add JAINA News and photos from the convention and comments
- Post Jain news and events and associated photos

YJA: (Sumeet.bhandari@yja.org and ami.doshi@gmail.com)
- Send newsletter
- Send message to YJA to sign-on

Integrate Facebook with JainLink: (Need leader and volunteer)
- Explore Jain-Link to Facebook

Membership / Directory Sign-up: (*Chandrakant Vora - chandra.vora@gmail.com; need volunteers)
- Get Jain centers to subscribe
- Get individuals to subscribe
- Get a mailer campaign going

Content: (need project leader and volunteer)
- Make a Page for Gary Francione - add some info. on his bio, some photos
- Add Gary Francione keynote at JAINA  YouTube and link to Jainlink  (will need to get the video from JCSC - Nitin Shah, crop it, and put it on YouTube)

Education Content (*Monica Jain - mjain @bu.edu)
- Add additional contents from Jain Pathshala
- Link to purchase books from Education committee

Pathshala Integration: (*Sanjay Jain - sanjayjain67@yahoo.com need volunteers)
(goal is to put up content of major Jain Pathshala and share with other Pathshalas)
 - Boston - add pathshala registration; add class content
-  Boston - get students and teachers to update / add content
- Southern Calif Pathshala (JCSC) - work with Narendra Jain - narendra.jain@jaincenter.net and Sailes Jain - sailesjain@aol.com -  and get them to add their curriculum and content

JAINA Support: (*Dilip Punatar,  Ashvin, need volunteers)
- Work with Ashwin Mehta - JAINA office manager
- Add name of Donors in Donation site
- Add names of JAINA Executive and their Background, constitution, etc.
- List of regional VP's and their region/states
- Add Directors corner
- Add Committee progress corner
- Help get all JAINA directors (about 109 active on JainLink)
- Add confidential group / content where finances are located

JAINA Convention 2009: (Need a project leader and volunteer)
- Add  photos of JAINA convention 2009 (need to contact JAINA organizer and get content from them)
- Add presentation content of convention 2009

Rubin Museum - Jain exhibition staring on Sept. 18th in NYC: (*Manoj Jain - mkjain@aol.com; need volunteers)
- Add promotion material for this
- Create a brochure to be handed out
- Update temple plates for them
- Get JWOL books to them (3 boxes x 24/box)

Jain Campus Outreach: (*Ashok Domadia adomadia@cisco.com, need volunteers)
- add new groups starting in Sept.
- add additional content as needed
- send out specific requests to all Jain college going kids

JainLink Newsletter: (*Yogendra Jain - yokjain@yahoo.com; need volunteers)
- July newsletter: need content from Lil Jains, from Amit Jain on Ecology, from Gary Francione on animal rights
- Start a Youth section
- Develop August newsletter
- Develop Li'l Jain Corner (*Khushali)

Jain Digest:  (Need a volunteer to work with Dilip Punatar - JAINA Secretary - punatar@hotmail.com)
- Send out Jain Digest to all Jains
- Send out mini-version of Jain Digest for August
- Send out mini-version of Jain Digest for September
- Send out mini-version of Jain Digest for October

Support JAINA Website:  (Prem Jain - premjain@hotmail.com)
- Update current information as to JAINA Exec committee and images from Convention
- Review current state of www.jaina.org and the current vendor that is working on it
- Define and update requirements
- Work with JAINA to put a team together

JAINA Committees Support: (Need Leader/volunteers)
- Contact all committee members and get them to update on-line (see JAINA link on home page of JainLink and list of committee)
- Get each committee 2 year plan to be on-line
- Get each committee to actively use JainLink (first focus on 10 committee)

JainLink - LongRange Finances:  (Need a project leader; contact  chintan.shah@yja.org)
- Work with JAINA treasurer on accounting for the various projects
- Manage the shopping card finances and donation finances and re-concile with JAINA accounts

Plan Next Kellogg Conference:  (Manoj Jain - mkjain@aol.com; need volunteers)
- Work with JAINA executives and Committee Chairs and Directors

Plan Multi-City Jain Leadership Conferences:  (Need leader/volunteers)
- Plan with Long Range Planning team

Jain Center Best Practices:  (Manish Mehta, Pooja Jain, Need volunteers)
- Best practices for Jain Center - self assessment
- Documenting unique aspects of each Jain Center
- Temple maintenance activity

Jain Diaspora:  (Dilip Shah, Manish Mehta, Pooja Jain, Need volunteers)
- Document Jain Diaspora 2009 conference
- Add content that was presented at the conference
- Organize database of current Diaspora leaders

ISSJS - International Summer School - Jain Studies:  (Sulekh Jain, Jonna Manatad, need volunteers)
- Add photos of the 2009 conference
- Add additional literature
- Send email to the scholars to update the profile

  Refine the strategy and repeat Phase 2 and 3.



List of Projects for volunteers and project leaders (great experience to strengthen your expertise and strengthen your resume and serve Jain community):


Jain Way of Life Projects





The following projects need to be executed to meet our vision of Live and Promote a Jain Way of Life.  If you would like to volunteer your expertise and in return get great experience, please contact the appropriate person below:

Leader and Volunteer Minimum Requirements: Leaders and volunteers MUST have  strong expertise and interest in email, writing, using web applications (such as gmail, Facebook, etc.).  Miniumum of 2 hours of work is required for volunteers and 3 hours for project leaders),  You will work closely with JAINA and committee and other leaders of local centers as required. You can add this to your 
* = Project Leader below

The goal is to update and port JNF
- Minimal management - admin. needs to add photo.  Some fields are static and admin fields
- Need to send reminders - and quarterly newsletters to be sent out
- Need better marketing and promotion - especially with other
- When a new person joins they contact other people and that is what gets people visiting
- There are some profiles in US and India
- Would like to continue charging some fee - it focuses on getting serious candidate
- Site is now dated - developed in 2001 and has been working great since then - but with JainLink an opportunity exists

Issues Regarding in Porting:
- Define custom fields and mapping of these fields

Opportunities:
- Add new and more relevant fields
- Need some new faces to move the project forward - new volunteers

Action Items:
- review other sites and propose new/updated fields
- map existing fields into new fields (defined as
- get database of 10 people on JNF
- port to JNF-JainLink and add custom fields and enhancement
- add content
- send email to all current JNF members to update

JAINA EC requests Committee information for its upcoming Directors’ meeting on October 1-3, 2009. Please fill out and submit to Ashwin Mehta at JAINA HQ, jainahq@jaina.org by September 15, 2009).

Committee Name: ___________________________________________

Why Committee was created (state it’s Mission)?

Founding Chair Person: ___________________________________ Year Founded: _____________

Current Chair Person’s Name _________________________________Year Appointed ____________

Contact details for Committee Key Officers/Members:

NAME	POSITION	PHONE	E-MAIL
	Chair Person

Projects/Activities Undertaken in Past 5 years – Please provide project Description, Deliverable & Duration (year begun-year completed):

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• New Project Plans for Year 2009 and 2010 (List Specific Deliverable or Objective):

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What Resources Are Requested from JAINA? Please list specifics below for consideration by the JAINA EC:

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Committee’sActivity Report (Circle the answers or enter your comments below each)

How active isyour committee? very active/active/dormant/not neededanymore

How often does the committee meet? Monthly/Quarterly/Semi-annually/Annually

How does the Committee meet? In person at common location/teleconference/Both

Committee member responsible for email/web content is _________________________

How active are your current Committee members? very active/active/not active

How many committee members under 40 years age are active in your committee? ____

Committee Succession Plan:
What is your Committee's Chair Person and Committee member succession plan?

Would you like new (younger) Committee volunteers referred to your Committee? Yes / No

Type and Frequency of Outreach/PublicAwareness by Committee:

Please state how often and by what means doyou reach out to:

Jains___________________________________

non-Jains________________________________

Do you contribute articles regularly to Jain Digest? ____________________________

Committee Budget:

Avg. Yearly Expense Budget: $ _____________

Avg. Yearly Revenues from Sales: $__________

Avg. Yearly Donations Received: $__________

Support Requested from JAINA:

Please list the support you need from JAINA/other Committees – Try and be as specific as possible and indicate the time horizon for each of your need(s).

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Task List