The Asha-28 conference, named for the 28th year of Asha for Education’s existence, was held on the weekend of June 22-23, 2019, in Chicago with attendance of 60+ volunteers from 20+ chapters across the US and Canada
AGENDA
Saturday – June 22nd | ||
| Time | Topic | By |
| 8:00 AM – 8:30 AM | Breakfast and Socialize | |
| 8.30 AM – 8:45 AM | Welcome by Asha Chicago | Revathi Kadari |
| 8:45 AM – 10:30 AM | Asha’s journey: Our ups and downs | Melli Annamalai, Snetu Karania, Shankar Sadasivam |
| 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM | Asha India grassroots update and vision for the future – ppt1 && ppt2 | Rajaraman Krishnan, Nandlal Master |
| 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM | Lunch break | Picnic at Maggie Daley park |
| 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM | Fundraising, Donor engagement, Publicity: Roadmap for the future | Vidhya Govindaraju, Anish Mukherjee |
| 4:00 PM – 7:30 PM | Focus group: Drafting Asha’s blueprint for the next decade – Part 1 Fixing Asha’s execution bandwidth. How can AfE deliver on goals effectively? | Everyone |
| 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM | Dinner | |
Sunday – June 23rd | ||
| Time | Topic | By |
| 8:00 AM – 8:30 AM | Breakfast and Socialize | |
| 8:30 AM – 09:15 AM | Day 1 Recap + How can Asha be relevant and thriving in the decade ahead? | Binay Pathak |
| 09:15 AM – 10:00 AM | Volunteer Recruitment, Engagement, and Retention at the Grassroots Level | Aparna Pardeshi (Founder of Friends of Children) |
| 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM | Asha-wide Projects Team Update | Anuradha Bulusu |
| 10:45 AM – 12:30 AM | Government Schools: How They Work and Why They Fail | Melli Annamalai, Rajaraman Krishnan, Subashree Rajagopal |
| 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM | Lunch break | |
| 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM | Gaps in Asha technologies and infrastructure | Akshay Bhole, Prema Grandhi |
| 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Chapter Take aways | Snetu Karania, Binay Pathak |
| 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM | Focus group: Drafting Asha’s blueprint for the next decade – Part 2 Grassroots vision: What should be AfE’s goals to maximize our impact in India? | Everyone |
| 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM | Closing remarks | Binay Pathak, Revathi Kadari |
Watch out this space for a recap of the 2 days of the conference! Coming soon!
If you have any questions, please write to conference@ashanet.org