4th Annual Bollywood Meets Borscht Belt 2016 and Wine and Cheese Affair with Hindu Charities For America

4th Annual Bollywood Meets Borscht Belt 2016 and Wine and Cheese Affair with Hindu Charities For America

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4th Annual Bollywood Meets Borscht Belt 2016 is coming soon and there are some sponsorship opportunities.

Bollywood Meets Borscht Belt (BMBB) is designed to help spread the gift of wisdom. The net proceeds from BMBB will be used to purchase School Supplies for Austin area homeless students. You will be helping us in education for deserving but financially deprived little kids of our area.

Hindu Charities For America (HC4A) is asking for support on this event with sponsorship:

General Sponsorship: $200
Benefits:

  • Mingle and Mix with over 400 South Asian, Jewish and other communities
  • You will be helping to provide school supplies to Homeless children in Austin area to start the 2016-2017 School Year
  • Your sponsorship will be listed in the program listing
  • Email marketing for event where Sponsors will be listed with website link – Minimum of two email blasts, each to about 3,500 South Asians and other communities in Austin area
  • Facebook listing of sponsorship – at least few thousand shares!
  • Two free Reserved tickets to the event (total value $60) if attending, RSVP by May 15th
  • Opportunity to be on TV Asia, who plans to cover the event!

Details of 4th Annual BMBB: 
General Admission:           

Adults over 18yrs $30

Children between 6yrs and 18yrs $10

Table of 10 Sponsorship:                $500
Venue:                                           Dell Jewish Community Campus, 7300 Hart Lane, Austin TX 78731
Date and Time:                              Sunday June 5th, 4:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Dress Code:                                    Ethnic festive dress encouraged

Visit www.HC4A.org for more information  or call for more information to  (512) 994-4638
The organization will also host another event with the purpose of the Wine and Cheese Affair Friday May 20th 6 pm to 8 pm is to introduce Hindu Charities For America (HC4A) to community volunteers who potentially may be interested in getting involved, specifically as HC4A Foundation member.  HC4A’s mission is to Bridge Income Disparity Through Education. Toward this goal, HC4A, founded in 2010, has been working with Jewish community to raise funds for annual donation of school supplies for homeless children in Austin metro area. Last year over $18k was raised and this year, the plan is $20k+  .  HC4A also donates vocational training scholarships to those students who fall below federally defined poverty measure. This year, we plan to donate over $43k through Austin Community College, Capital Idea and Manor ISD. At present the organization who has 5 Foundation members and looking to expand to 11.
Specifically, the Foundation Members play the following role:
  • Foundation board members each contributes towards charity $2500 or more a year.
  • Members help expand the charity via their influence and contacts
  • They solicit community leaders to make monetary contribution towards the cause
  • Members are expected to spend a minimum of 10 Hours per year towards charitable cause
  • Chairman presents the State of Affairs quarterly to the Foundation Board and is assisted by the Executive Board President
 Please contact Harish Kotecha at (512) 773.7815 to attend the Wine & Cheese Affair so that you can learn more about the efforts. The general location is near Mansfield Dam on 620.
Hindu Charity for America

Meet Harish Kotecha, Founder of Hindu Charities for America

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Harish Kotecha was born in Uganda, studied Electrical engineering in UK and settled in the U.S. when Dictator Idi Amin ousted most of the foreigners out of Uganda.  He retired early from IBM where he worked in hardware development, contributing in the areas of semiconductor, system board, software and later in the area of quality improvement. He has almost two dozen US patents.  Kotecha is a co-founder of an instant yogurt product, Yokit.  Since retirement, Harish spends most of his time in volunteer work – he actively volunteers in religious, civic, cultural, service, and social organizations in the Austin area Indian community holding leadership or Advisory positions.  Harish Kotecha has been recognized by the 2014 President’s Volunteer Service Award for addressing the most pressing needs in the community and country.

Since 2009, Harish has been helping with the resettlement of Bhutanese refugees in Austin working across resettlement agencies, temples, and other organizations that are assisting in the resettlement process. He is on the Advisory Board of Refugee Services of Texas and is on the panel of the Refugee Round Table. In recognition of his services, Harish was awarded 2009 Samaj Seva(community service) by the India Community Center.

Harish founded Hindu Charities for America (HC4A), a non-denominational charity, with the vision of Indians helping with Education of Homeless Children in the U.S.. Since 2010, HC4A successfully donated school supplies to most school districts in Austin area as a joint project with Greater Austin Area Jewish Federation. Since 2013, Jewish and Indian communities have joined hands and raised funds together with a fundraiser – Bollywood Meets Borscht Belt.

To help with income disparity in Austin area, an initiative to provide vocational training to economically disadvantaged children was launched in 2013. This resulted in 2014 awards of $20,000 in scholarships to Capital Idea, Manor ISD and ACC. This year $25,000 is slated to be awarded to ACC, Capital Idea, Manor, and Austin  ISDs.  Current efforts are to make HC4A a mainstream charity with involvement of all communities. Efforts are underway to establish an Executive Board, each Board member contributing annually $2,500 toward scholarships.

Recently the third annual ‘Bollywood Meets Borscht Belt’ fundraising event, organized by Hindu Charities for America and the Jewish Federation of Greater Austin, brought together the Indian and Jewish communities once again to help over a thousand homeless children with school supplies for the upcoming school year in Austin, Del Valle and Manor. The event was covered in an article in the India-West, the largest and most prestigious among weekly Indian newspapers on the West Coast of U.S. established in 1975.

Harish is married to Shobhna, has a daughter Sonia who is activist and works at CASA, and son Savan who is a very successful international songwriter to over songs 100M sold.  Harish and his wife Shobhna often act as a resource to Indian residents who are newly settled in Austin. They have also helped overseas University of Texas Austin students by providing accommodations, transportation and settle in the area. Harish helps to do outreach for many organizations as well as those seeking to make connections with temples and cultural organizations.

Photo via India West
Photo via India West

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