Jain Digest 1995 04

Author(s): Federation of JAINA
Publisher: USA Federation of JAINA

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HEADQUARTER NEWS
JAINA Convention Planning Board in session
Only 450 Families out of 7500 are Life Member of the Jain Digest
Preparations for the 8th Biennial JAINA Convention are in full swing. The Convention PlanningBoard President's Advisory Council formed for the first time , comprises the chairs of various committees formed by the Jain Society of Metropolitian Chicago and representatives of JAINA. The larger planning board meets monthly in Chicago while the Chicago committee meets every week to plan for the most successful and best JAINA Convention, ever!
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We have mailed over 7500 copies of the Jain Digest, all over the world. This number has been increasing every quarter. Unfortunately the revenue remains the same. The gap between the expenses of publishing and mailing and the revenue generated by ads, donations and interest on the endowment fund has been widening.
The people putting the Jain Digest together are all volunteers. By profession they are physicians, professors, engineers, accountants and business people. They have been putting a great deal of their personal time into this community service. But they have been carrying with them the additional burden of financing the publication. Numerous suggestions have been made to save dollars including discontinuing the free subscriptions. We do not want to do this. If we send the Jain Digest only to the Life Members, we will be depriving 94% of families from the benefits of this impor- tant journal. Introducing a subscription policy may have a similar effect.
We want to rely on your generosity. At the present time, only 450 families out of 7500 (this represents only 6%) are life members. We appeal to the remaining 94% of you to become Life Members by donating only U.S. $101 which is equivalent to $10 a year for subscription of 10 years. This will put the endowment fund on a strong footing and generate sufficient interest to pay the expenses of publication and mailing.
Please join us and help us to help you in getting this valuable Digest in your hand.
President's Advisory Council
The President has established an Advisory Council consisting of the original signatories of the JAINA Constitution (+), past president (V), convention chairs (©), Editors of the Jain Digest O), and recipients of JAINA Ratna Award() so that JAINA may benefit from the leadership experiences of these people. The following individuals are eligible to join this council, based upon their previous participation:
Khusal Bhaiji, North Royalton, OH- + Harshad Doshi, Flushing, NY - Manoj Dharamsi, Reston, VA - + V Vinay Jain Wellesley, MA - + Tansukh Salgia, Columbus, OH- + Girish Shah, Campbell, CA-+ Mahesh Shah, Ashburn, VA - + Vinod Shah, Hartsdale, NY - +
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March 1995
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