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Cool. Can’t wait to see the new design. Hopefully this comes with the performance to challenge the other leaders.
So the inaugural GP Masters was won by “Our Noige”… Mansell beats Fittipaldi and Patrese for first GP Master honours. The report is on Pitstop.com.my.
Bro,
The Members listing is gone!…..sob! sob!…please give it back..done. the members listing module was disabled on the migration.
For the tech heads amongst us.. I just upgraded the content management system (CMS) engine from Drupal 4.5.5 to 4.6.3 thru a separate distribution (distro) bundle called Civicspace. The Civicspace equivalent of Drupal 4.6.3 is Civicspace 0.8.1.3.
One thing that does not work and not intended to work for now is the weblinks module. So you will not be able to access the links directory for now. Apologies for the inconvenience.
Guys. Sorry about the clash, but we shall still continue with the my-KART enduro. But for 2006 – I need to know when are the local racing event dates up front (and match against school holidays and long weekends) to plan our my-KART calendar.
I shall explain what I have in mind in relation to this umbrella children’s charity.
challenges for charity homes
The main challenge, I believe, for small geographically specific charity homes is the ability to reach out for contributions from the society. Usually, many of these charity homes are run by volunteers who spend most of their time tending to the children. Many a times, these charity homes may not be located in an area where it can tap into the contributions from the local residents etc.
Even if they are located in areas where they can tap contributions, the collections may not be consistent over a year.
In terms of awareness, many of these charity homes are not well known, further impacting the ability to reach out for contributions.
In short, these charities are significantly disadvantaged compared to the likes of the international children’s charities.
the umbrella children’s charity
I believe there is a need to have a single umbrella children’s charity (endorsed by the Kementerian Pembangunan Wanita, Keluarga dan Masyarakat through the Jabatan Kebajikan), that can bridge the gap for these local charity homes.
The role of this umbrella charity is to collect donations on a nationwide basis, and re-distribute them to the local registered children’s charities. Eligible charities could either be registered with this umbrella charity or simply taken from the list with the Ministry.
But the benefit of having this umbrella charity for the likes of my-KART is having an organisation which is specifically setup to collect and administer & distribute the donations on a nationwide basis. This organisation may tie in with a national bank (say Maybank or BSN) who would be happy to collaborate given the “good cause” and possible mileage gained. This organisation would also have a significant national reach and ability to even collaborate with national sporting events like the F1, M-League, Asian Games and my-KART etc.
Imagine one ringgit of your F1 ticket goes to the charity – that means around RM100k can be collected per event. Certainly, this organisation will be able to generate much more public awareness than any local charity will be able to do.
Of course, this organisation must have the responsibility to be transparent about its use of funds collected. Naturally some percentage will go towards administration, advertising and the likes. But the benefits to the individual charities far outweigh these administrative concerns. This organisation could even have the likes of PwC auditted the donations and publish a report every quarter as an example (in terms of how much of the funds is use internally, and how much is distributed to the respective charities).
The member charities and this organisation shall review the funding distribution on a regular basis using a matrix to determine the criteria for distribution. As an example, the more needy charities will be eligible for more.
Thanks Angeline. This is a useful start. Perhaps we need to evaluate a few and decide how we should work together. Preferably I’d like to keep it general as opposed to a specific ethnic / religious group. my-KART respects diversity so its own charity linkages should be diverse in nature.
Immediately, I would like to know whether there is an overarching children’s charity that would like to work together with my-KART in the administration and collection of contributions. The donations to the charity must provide tax breaks and the distribution of funds must be transparent. Preferably the charity covers all children’s causes including the homeless, the orphans, the poor, the sick etc.
[quote=razmyn]yupp..good idea…
but 1300gmt is 9pm local time KL…they will definitely be racing till after midnite…aiyooooo!!![/quote]
please, not on a Sunday night… aiyooo.
Patrick – This is a great initiative bro!
To be honest, I’ve not done any insurance hunting on this subject so cannot help you on any leads here. But why don’t each of us do a bit of asking around and see what we can do to contribute to Patrick’s research. This could be very useful for my-KART.
The series Firefly now reaches the silverscreen in the name of the film “Serenity” which is the name of the firefly class freighter. I hope we get to see it on the big screen here in KL.
