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Catholic Charities Denver

You can call it by different names but a fundraiser gala has an elegant ring to it, doesn’t it?

But in essence you can hold a fundraiser gala for just about any cause or purpose you believe in. It just takes a little more planning than a typical fundraising dinner. Just calling it a gala gives people the expectation that they are attending a special event.

When you think of a fundraiser gala, you might think of this, which was in Sun Herald on March 5, 2006:

Tickets are now available for Walter Anderson Museum of Art’s Gala XVI spring fundraiser on April 7 at the museum in Ocean Springs. The annual event will celebrate the resilience of the community, the artists and the museum, which opened in spring 1991 and is beginning its 15th year of operation.

Or you might imagine this published in the Denver Post on March 16, 2006:

For its biggest fundraiser of the year, Catholic Charities of Colorado Springs holds a gala on the feast of St. Patrick. There’s never much need to discuss the menu. St. Patrick’s Day without corned beef and cabbage is like Thanksgiving without turkey.

The point is that when you add the word gala to the word fundraiser people expect to attend a very special event that is supporting a wonderful cause. So, before planning your next fundraising event take stock of your organization and why it is raising money. Is it a cause many people relate to? Are there people well known in your community that share a passion for your cause? Can you get them to attend your event as celebrity guests? Can you put together an informative yet entertaining program about your fundraising cause?

If you can answer yes to those questions you may be the right kind of group to hold a fundraiser gala. It just takes a little imagination to turn a fundraising dinner that will generate some decent fundraising proceeds into a large scale fundraiser gala that can raise much, much more money for your group. You decide which way to go.

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Question: Rental Tips???

I have just put in an offer to purchase a house in downtown Winnipeg Manitoba, walking distance from a university and a large hospital. It is a 4 bedroom fixer upper, 1400sq ft, full unfinished basement and built in 1882. I purchased it for 32000$ and it needs about 10000$ work. Taxes are low, about 290$ a year. The tax assessment for the house is assessed at 35000$ for the house and 15000$ for the land. So it’s assessed at 50000$ and I’m paying 32000$. I think I could rent it out for about 650 to 700$ a month plus utilities because it’s so close to the school and 4 bedrooms. House is fairly solid but needs some cosmetic work. Floors, new doors, a couple windows and an addition that needs new everything. This is my first purchase and I intend to rent it out. I plan to eventually own several rental properties. Can anyone give me tips on anything to do with rentals, tenants and fix up work? Did I get a good deal? ANYTHING would be really appreciated!

Answer: Be sure to ask for references for any contractor you hire for the work. You don't want to get a bum contractor. Make sure they are licensed (if they do that in Canada) and insured. Read their warranty carefully so that they have to fix anything they screw up.

Be sure to get every little detail in your lease. Deposit and last month's rent upfront. Do a comprehensive walk through (before and after) and be a nazi about it when they move out. One lease that all four sign rather than a separate lease for each tenant (or you will get stuck finding a new tenant and be out the money).

Give your tenants a rent due date and stick to it. Get EVERYTHING IN WRITING.

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Ashok Mahindru, Chairman, Advance Group of Companies
age 56, is a successful technocrat and entrepreneur with diversified business interests in India and abroad. As Chairman & Managing Director of the Advance Group, with its core business activity of Manufacturing of Surfactants & consulting in Environment Management, Ashok Mahindru enjoys an extremely good reputation. Advance Group is the largest Surfactant manufacturer in whole of Asia and progressing towards being the largest in the world.

Ashok Mahindru is a qualified Surfactant Technologist and has specialized in the field of Surface Active Chemistry with a strong commitment to Research & Development. He has been directly responsible for achieving sixteen breakthroughs in the process technology for manufacture of Surfactants, five out of which are innovation grade. The Gas Route Sulphonation Technology developed by Ashok Mahindru has been rated as the best in the world so far.

Ashok Mahindru had been associated with various industry forums such as Detergent Manufacturers Association of Delhi Region, Haryana Soap Manufacturers Association. He is currently President of All India Federation of Detergent Manufacturers and Member, Executive Committee of Oil Technologists’ Association of India (OTAI – NZ).

Ashok Mahindru is a widely traveled person. He has attended several international seminars and conferences all over the world. He has presented technical papers on Surfactant Industry at various international seminars in India and abroad such as:
•    Malaysia Oil Technologists Association
•    American Oil Chemists Society
•    OTAI (Oil Technologists Association of India)
•    IIChE (Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers)
•    SCODET ASIA, Bombay 2000
•    ICSL (Institute of Chartered Accounts of Sri Lanka)

As Chairman of Mahindru Charitable Trust, engaged specially in the field of providing Eye Care including Eye Bank and Cornea transplant unit etc., Mr. Ashok Mahindru, through Mahindru Charitable Trust, is involved with community services projects operating at grass root level through Arya Veer Netra Chikitsaalaya and Niramaya Charitable Trust. Ashok Mahindru is the Vice President of the Indian Eye Banks Association.

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