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Cerdas Has Acquired 501(c)3 Status!

January 10th, 2009

Today we received a letter, nay, the letter, from IRS informing us that our application for the 501(c)3 status for non-profit organization has been APPROVED!  This is certainly a great news for all of us, who had been working hard to complete the application and all the supporting documents since early last year, and have been waiting impatiently for the last several months for this news.  Special thanks go to our own Adang Solihin for leading our 501(c)3 application committee.  Great job!

Notes

Happy New Year!

January 4th, 2009

We at Cerdas would like to (belatedly) wish everyone a Happy Holiday, and a Happy New Year!  We are moving along nicely with our Fundraising Dinner planning and preparations, and we have set the date for the event on March 7, 2009.  So mark your calendars, and we’ll hope to see you all there!

Events, Notes

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 Foundation Program

April 1st, 2008

CERDAS Foundation as a non profit organization works with the mission to provide financial aid for education to underprivileged children and to offer relief assistance for any natural disaster in Indonesia. Our work based on principles of independence, non-partisanship, transparency, professionalism and spirit of volunteerism.

To undertake the mission there are two kinds of category that will be entitled to get help in our program, the first is under “Children Education Scholarship Program” and the other one is under “Generic Education Assistance Program”.

The following information are described who those to be eligible for a scholarship or financial aid and how the procedure has to be met.

A. Children Education Scholarship Program

Criteria for those that can be nominated to receive child education fund:

- From needy family
- Want to go to school
- May drop out from school if not helped.
- Not currently receiving similar fund from other sources.

Procedures and requirements to request child education fund:

1. Request can be submitted by individual or a person of behalf of organization. The submitter will become a “Fund Coordinator” who manage the fund and become the liaison between CERDAS Foundation and the children receiving the fund. Number children can submit for at least 5 children to a maximum of 15.

2. Submit a proposal (template available from CERDAS Foundation)

3. Complete Form A (statement form) and Form B (prospective children information).

4. Complete Form C (implementation and evaluation) upon receiving and distributing the fund. Periodic update using the same form (e.g. every semester) is required during the funding.

5. All forms can be submitted by email, fax, or mail

6. Funding are to be used solely for humanitarian purpose, NOT for political or mission of a particular group.

7. Funding will be given annually and can be extended based on the condition and accomplishment of the child as well as the family situation (i.e. based on the periodic submittal of Form C)

8. Addition of children under funding may be done by submittal of Form A. A “Fund Coordinator” can not have more than 15 children under his/her care at any one time.

9. All requests will be evaluated by CERDAS Foundation. CERDAS Foundation reserves the right to approve or reject any request.

B. Generic Education Assistance Program

Programs that may be considered under this category include:

- Procurement of items in support of school program (e.g. books, instructional material, etc)
- Aid for study group and other non formal school program.
- School recovery program following a disaster.
- Other program supporting the advancement of children education in Indonesia.

Procedures and requirements for non children education program:

1. Request can be submitted by individual or any person of behalf of organization. The submitter will be accountable for the execution of the program.

2. Submit a proposal (template available from CERDAS Foundation)

3. Complete Form NA (statement from) and Form NB (information about the individual that will receive the fund).

4. Complete Form NC (Progress Report) upon receiving and distributing the fund. Periodic update using the same form (e.g. every semester) is required for a program that last for an extended period. Other progress report format may be used as necessary and appropriate.

5. All forms can be submitted by email, fax, or mail

6. Funding are to be used solely for humanitarian purpose, NOT for political or mission of a particular group.

7. Each proposal is eligible for a one time only funding that will be given upon the approval of the proposal.

8. All requests will be evaluated by CERDAS Foundation. CERDAS Foundation reserves the right to approve or reject any request.

Note that:
For Forms A, B, C, NA, NB and NC and also proposal guidelines are available in Indonesian Language. Please contact us to get all those and attach it to your email.

Notes

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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