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New Look For Our Anniversary

December 8th, 2008

Just a little over a year ago, we founded our Cerdas Foundation with nothing more than good intention and a little nerve.  And now, a year later, we got a brand new website courtesy to our own very talented Jessica Na.  You rock, Jessica!

And even though we’ve been quiet for some time (well aside from this excellent new website design to show for), we’ve been working hard preparing our next fundraising event in March 2009, so stay tuned.

We have also completed disbursement of our scholarship funds for the 2008-2009 academic year.  We’ll have a complete report of that shortly.

Field Reports, Notes

CERDAS Gathering A Huge Success

July 30th, 2008

What a blast! Thanks for everyone who came and made our CERDAS gathering a breakout success! We raised almost $4,000 for our scholarship fund, thanks to your generous donations.
If you weren’t there, man oh man, you missed quite some fun there. But no worries, here are some photos to cheer you up.


First, there is no gathering with no tents. So there’s some magic we need to do.


And voila! Just take a look at that.


Our top chefs started getting busy.

As Kevin Costner said, if you build it, they will come.


Hmmm… let’s see if we can charge people some money for all this…


Our committee chairman, Pak Patriawan, and Pak Gautama Indrajaya from IPTN North America opened the event with encouraging remarks.

OK, enough with all the formalities. Let the fun begin!

And what fun it was! We had all sorts of fun things to do and see. There were singing and dancing.

The band’s a-strumming.

Move over, Jet Li. Da Master is in da house.

The food was really really good.

So good in fact, it was all gone before you know it.

Looks like everybody enjoyed it, and we got these happy faces to prove it.

Well, almost everybody. No biggie, we’ll make this guy smile next year…

And our deepest gratitude to our tireless volunteers (yes, even the unruly ones who can’t stop jumping up and down at the back)!


We hope you had fun, because we sure did. Let’s make it even more fun next year!

Events, Field Reports

New Slogan for CERDAS

March 20th, 2008

After much discussion and deliberation, we have come up with a new slogan for CERDAS

Education for a Brighter Future

We feel it conveys our purpose and hopes well. And we hope you like it as much as we do.

Field Reports

Success!

February 19th, 2008

Our fundraising dinner on Saturday 2/16 was an overwhelming success. We had a huge turnout, we sold almost 200 tickets and raised a little over $10,000. We can’t say thank you enough for your support and generous donations.

Above all, we hope everyone had a great time at the dinner. We certainly had a blast.

The dining room was full.

Mochammad Azhar, our organizing chairman, gave a warm welcome.

Ismail Budhiarso, our foundation president, gave an engaging speech.

Indonesian Consulate General, Mr. Yudhistiranto Sungadi, graced us with his presence and encouragement.

The Tumpeng cutting was beautifully done.

Dinner was delicious and plentiful.

We had great entertainment too. We had Balinese dances…

and traditional songs.

But a dinner is not a dinner without some great live music.

And when the night was up, everybody was happy.

The girls went home with flowers.

The ladies’ hard work was much appreciated.

The future is ready in waiting.

Aaaand we have a wrap!

Thanks everyone, for such a splendid night.

Events, Field Reports

Fundraising Dinner Update

February 5th, 2008

Our Fundraising Dinner preparation is going smoothly so far. We thank all of our friends in Seattle and elsewhere for the overwhelming support we have been receiving.
We have sold over 100 tickets so far, and we have received various forms of donation as well, both for the dinner itself and direct cash donation for our projects.
Again, THANK YOU, and we’ll see you at the dinner in on 2/16/08.

Events, Field Reports

CERDAS Foundation

January 17th, 2008

We have setup a blog for us to more easily create entries related to our events and activities. We will update this space frequently, so please check back as often as you like.
If you happen to come across this blog outside our main website and would like to find out more about us, please check out our main site at http://cerdasfoundation.net.

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