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North South Foundation Review 2006 2 Org. 3 PAID US Postage US N on Profit on N Permit # 148 # Permit 4 IL Stream, Carol 7 Inside NSF 2006 Review 9 12 12 Celebrating 17th year of Encouraging....13 2 What is North South Foundation 3 Highlights during 200514 4 Volunteerism at North South Foundatiion15 7 Celebrating Seventeenth Year of Individual Donors List: Dec 2004 - Nov 200518 8 How are Candidates selected for Scholarships in India20 9 A primer for spelling & Vocabulary Bee in India 10 Encouraging Excellence in Education Fundraising Events21 12 DAS - Fundraising Campaign by kids for kids22 14 NSF Scholarship Recipients In India (photos)24 16 Corporate Donors25 17 Recipients of NSF Scholarships in India –Current 18 English Workshop in India26 21 Contribution Form27 22 DAS Pledge Sheet27 23 Fiftieth Birthday Gift28 24 2005 Scholarship Sponsors for NSF-USA Champions 25 Scholarship Awards for Essay Writing30 25 Rural Math Talent Search (RMTS) in Orissa32 26 17 NSF Centers In India* Financial Highlights33 28 2005 National Winners34 29 60 NSF Chapters in USA & Canada* 2005 National Champions - Educational Contests 30 2005 Winner Bees35 33 2005 Educationals Contests - Centers36 38 Profound Thanks to all 2005 National host Committee37 39 2005 Contest Coordination Teams38 40 2005 National Finals Teams 40 NSF Patrons, Donors and Volunteers! Directory - North South Foundation-India39 41 Directory - North South Foundation-USA40 43 North South Foundation 41 41 g 2 Marissa Court, Burr Ridge, IL 60527-6864 41 Ph: 630-323 -1966 41 42 Non-Profit Organization Tax ID 36-3659998 - 501(c)(3) 43 44 * Please visit www.northsouth.org for details 45 46 47 http://www.northsouth.or 2 Marissa Court, Burr Ridge, IL 60527 Ridge, Burr Court, 2 Marissa North South Foundation South North Celebrating 17th year of Encouraging Excellence in Education North South Foundation, USA When North South Foundation (NSF) was established in 1989, our vision was to Ratnam Chitturi, Pres Naresh Goel Charan Surapaneni eliminate monetary barriers for meritorious children with potential to excel. Raghavendra Paturi, Dir Sandeepa Goel Teja Vangala Samit Bhattacharya, Sec Srinivasa Rao Mogallapu Consistent with this vision, the Foundation began providing scholarships in India Ramdev Jagarlamudi, Treas Sarat Puthenpura Web Development for the academically brilliant, but economically poor students in order to fund their Radhakrishna M, Co-Treas Jaya Suresh college education. The Foundation began encouraging academic excellence among Geography Core Team Nabanita Chakraborty the children of Indian-American community in the US through educational contests Home Office Sumana Sur Varsha Gajjar Ratnam Chitturi Vasantha Nagareddi Anjali Deshpande such as the spelling bee, since 1993. Over the years new contests have been 2 Marissa Ct Bharati Pastapur added, which now include vocabulary, math, geography, essay writing and brain Burr Ridge, IL 60527 Janakiram Puppala DAS Coordination Team bee. The Foundation has come a long way in the last 17 years. The following table 630-323-1966 Bharati Pastapur provides some statistics: 630-455-9008 (fax) Essay Writing Core Team Madhavi Nathan [email protected] Silali Banerjee 1994 1999 2004 2005 Sandhya Gopalan Public Relations Team India National Coordination Rama Govind Venkat Gade Committee Raja Karanam Raji Lukkoor Chapters 3 5 10 17 Raghavendra Paturi Vasavi Levendel Scholarships* 110 154 300 350 (860) 434-9381 Ramesh Rajagopalan Fund Raising Team Cumulative Scholarships 310 1,040 2,400 2,750 Ramanand Achanta Sakthi Angappamudali * - includes renewals (919) 932-1738 Workshop Team Venakt Gade Samit Bhattacharya Mirle Shivashankar Madhavi Nathan US/Canada (860) 446-1445 Madhavi Nathan Shankar Rachakonda Contests 2 2 9 14 Venkat Gade Shalini Srinivasan Chapters 16 18 46 60 (203) 254-3181 Editorial / Newsletter/ Children Participating 800 800 3,200 5,380 Madhavi Nathan IT Tech Team BeeBook/Review (978) 486-0686 Swamy Achanta Srirama Krishna Dronamraju Cumulative Participation 1,600 5,600 13,160 18,540 Kasi Paturi (847) 202-0573 Lokraj Adhikari Visweswara Rao Durga Scholarships for Champions 6 7 24 27 Pavan Petluru Mahi Akkina Pavan Kumar Petluru Cumulative Scholarships 12 43 101 128 (210) 408-0549 Venkat Ambati Subbarao M. Sumana Sur (408) 746-0702 Kishore Chavali Krishna Sandepudi Prasad Devarapalli Srinivas Karuturi It is gratifying to know that the NSF has been able to serve thousands of talented Spelling/Vocabulary Team Nandini Ganapathi Raji Lukkoor children both in India and North America. A major share of the credit goes to the Kesav Tadipatri Kamala Gopalan Swapna Jayakumar Samit Bhattacharya Sanjay Gulati Suman Mudamala thousands of dedicated volunteers, donors, and parents. We are grateful to all of Anita Gavini Sunil Idnany them. The Foundation plans to introduce public speaking as another contest in G. Krishna Rao Kodali Satya Jawahar Accounts 2006 to further improve the communication skills of Indian American children. We Mirle Shivashankar Prakash Kailasa Ramdev Jagarlamudi are getting queries to start educational contests in India. We had embarked on a Anuradha Karimikonda Radhakrishna Marreddy Math Core Team Bhargav Kondapalli Sridevi Akkina pilot spelling bee contest in Orissa for the last two years. There was also a pilot Krishniah Revuluri Muralidhar Kothapalli Radhe Puranmalka spelling bee workshop in Andhra Pradesh this year. We are looking for volunteers Dinesh Bansal Mirza Murtaza to administer contests in India. If you are or someone you know is interested, Venkat Batchu Auditor please send an e-mail to [email protected]. We see this as a great Fullerton Tax & Planning opportunity to improve the educational skills of children in India. In closing we wish to thank all stakeholders including donors, volunteers, well wishers, and Visit www.northsouth.org for list of more volunteers beneficiaries. National Team, North South Foundation Photo Credits Front Cover: Placid waters of Merced Lake Yosemite Wilderness, California Dr. S. K. Dronamraju, Overland Park, Kansas 2 43 [email protected] Mau Chapter, UP former C.E., KEB What is North South Foundation Katihar Chapter, Bihar Mr S K Pandey Mr B N Krishna Murthy, Mr Rajeev Kumar Lalita Sadan, Nr Jeevan former Dir.Tech.Ed. Non-Profit Organization Tax ID#36-3659998 - 501(c)(3) c/o Shri Surendra P Verma Rekha Hosp Prof P S Veerabhadrappa, Officer’s Col, Mirchaibari Bye-Pass Rd, Sahadatpura Bangalore Univ 2 Marissa Court, Burr Ridge, IL 60527-6864, Ph: 630-323-1966 Katihar, Bihar 854 105 PO Mau, UP 275 101 North South Foundation is a non-profit Phone: 0645-222-9529 Phone: 0547-222-3424 Bhubaneswar Sel Comm helping the poor who excel at academics [email protected] [email protected] Mr Trilochan Dash organization established in Illinois in attend college. Donors can sponsor Mr S C Choudhury 1989. It received tax-exempt status under designated college scholarships or Liaison: Ravi Verma North East States Chapter Dr Swadhyn Patnaik the IRS Section 501(c)(3). sponsor awards in their alumni high 916-705-3261 Mr R P Handa Mr R C Tripathy [email protected] Retd. District & Sessions Mr Manaswi Sadhu school. Judge Mr Shyama Prasad Ghosh Our Mission is to promote excellence Kochi Chapter Bishnu Nagar, Ward #2 in human endeavor, to develop human Educational contests in the US are Mr K G Jagadish Sibsagar, Assam 785 640 Hyderabad Sel Committee resources, to help people achieve designed to encourage academic Saranya, Chittoor Rd Phone: 03772-223-958 Prof L V A Seshasai success regardless of religion, gender, Kochi, Kerala 682 018 [email protected] Mr. D Seetharamaiah excellence among Indo-American Phone: 0484-236-5755 Mr Ch Hanumantha Rao caste, geographic origin by giving hope children. The NSF spelling, vocabulary, [email protected] Pune Chapter Mr. C Madhusudhanrao to those who may have none. math, essay writing, public speaking and North South Foundation geography bees are conducted annually Liaison: Swapna Jayakumar c/o Office #12, Prime Jodhpur Sel Committee in two steps. Children initially participate 847-955-9788 Centre Mr Damodar Das Moondra, The Foundation is all-volunteer driven. [email protected] Bahirat Patil Chowk, Retd.C.E While organizing events, we strive to in regional contests. There are more than ( N Om Super Mkt), Model Dr N K Maheshwari, Dir, get discounts from our vendors and 60 centers in the US and Canada. Please Kolkata Chapter Colony, MSS sponsorships for our awards. These contact us if there is no regional contest Capt G S Prakash Pune, Maharashtra 411 016 Dr Nagendra Sharma, Neuro in your area. Gutta Engineers Surgeon measures keep our expenses down and 53/1 Garcha Rd, Ballygunge Maj Gen (Retd) S C N Jatar Mr A P Gaur, Staff Writer, channel donated funds more towards Kolkata, WB 700 019 Phone/Fax: 020-2447-5366 Hindustan Times helping the needy. Our overhead is five Winners of these contests are invited for Phone: 033-247-6568 (O) 942-201-6474 (C) the national finals. National top rankers 033-2422-1868 (R) [email protected] Kolkata Sel Committee percent or less. [email protected] Mr Anil Kumar Ghosh are awarded scholarships ranging from Air. Cdre (Retd) K V Rao Mr Abhijit Majumder $1,000 to $250, redeemable in the winners’ Mr Anil Kumar Ghosh Phone: 020-2586-1737 (R) Mr Kamal Kumar Mitra The Scholarship program in India is freshman year of college. 1050/1 Survey Park [email protected] Dr Apurba K Roychowdhury designed to encourage excellence Udita, Flat 07-405 Capt G S Prakash among the poor. It is targeted at Kolkata, WB 700 075 Mr. B H K Prasad Children can enter into most of the Phone: 033-2418-8768 (R) Phone: 020-2589-9333 Pune Selection Committee qualified, needy students entering contests starting from grade 1. Some anil_ghosh53 hotmail.com [email protected] Maj. Gen (Retd) S C N Jatar, college. Over 2,500 scholarships have contests are open for up to 12th grade.