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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
--Margaret Mead

We are all volunteers. No money, no stock options, no hidden agendas. Just spirit of service.

Technology:

• Archana: A dedicated volunteer with many skills who has kept her ngo team motivated and helped in every possible way to ensure the NGO's stores go online....she's also at Harvard!
• Paras: A long time volunteer of Charityfocus capable of whipping up a website in seconds....

NGO Advocates:

• George: By day he is a research scientist with lots of patience! He's been a steadfast volunteer who responds to many NGO requests!
• Sudheer: A diligent and committed volunteer of Charityfocus who has been supporting the projects and new NGOs in an effort to help each one come online!
• Neeta: A volunteer with multiple interests, who started off in outreach, but is now trying to re-energize the cshops team and provide overall direction and coordination of NGOs and volunteers.

Logistics:

• Neeta: A volunteer with multiple interests, who started off in outreach, but is now trying to re-energize the cshops team and provide overall direction and coordination of NGOs and volunteers.

Past Volunteers

Logistics:

• Guri: master volunteer coordinator! Her day job is to inspire everyday folks to mentor disadvantaged youth (what a job?!?); with cShops, she helps coordinate logistics.
• Aanand: aka doubla-a! When he's not weaving his PhD brain at HP, he's helping with logistics.
• Shuba: the official voice of CharityFocus (she responds to CF emails) is also lending time and energy for customs research.
• Harinder: if there's anyone who'se got the dirt on how the US post office works, it would her! But don't talk to her about FedEx. :)
• Vijay: can anyone ever understand the fine print? He can. Not only that, he has 30 years of experience with accounting!

Manav Sadhna:

• Rish: the man! An Indicorps fellow that has made this project possible. Without him, there would be no cShops.
• Ami: woman whose smile can fill up any room! A volunteer for Manav Sadhna who will be the primary contact for orders in Phase 1.
• Rajeev: a teacher at an all-girls high school, a student of Gandhi, and a volunteer for fulfilling Manav Sadhna orders (w/his mom).

ReachOut:

• Vimi: known for the color of her SUV, she can be seen crankin' out reachout strategies for cShops.
• Churni: She drives a fast car and implements even faster marketing strategies for cShops! She's been leading the marketing/out-reach team!
• Gautam: coordinator extra-ordinaire! Previously, he integrated strategy for $240M product line. He oversees outreach, operations and overall direction of cSshops. Currently, Gautam is preparing to climb Mount Everest.
• Matt: a well travelled compassion worker, Matt does whatever he puts his mind to. He has even meditated for 30 straight days before!
• Tania: a lawyer working at a nonprofit, who loves cookbooks. When she returns from Thialand, she's helping us get on Oprah. :)
• Bhupen: connected in very many places, he is helping cShops make strategic alliances with organization like Share-n-Care and AIF.
• Yoo-mi: having travelled over 50 countries in her life, she will use her wisdom to help us reachout to nonprofits.

Technology:

• Sujatha: crackin' the whip! During the day, she's a VP at a software company; by night, she oversees technology, operations and overall direction of cShops.
• Nipun: the non-employed person of the group! CharityFocus founder, ready to plug in wherever requested.
• Girish: the legend behind CharityFocus. The visionary architect that can design anything par excellence ...
• Garett: he is one of two people on this team with a degree in Computer Science and Philosophy (not to mention his PhD from Wharton).
• Neil: if you want to anything about PayPal, this Berkeley senior can you how.

Writers:

• Katy: pen is definitely mightier than the sword with Katy around. She plans to help write content for inserts.
• Jen: ultimate editor, she can find mistakes only your English teacher knows of! She'll oversee site content.
• Mark: a prodigous lawyer, we have roped him in to do all the dirty work. :)