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Yonvention board had major meeting during 4th of
July weekend. The Board has been having
teleconferences every two weeks at the very minimum to discuss various policies and procedures. The Board has appointed various convention committees and its chair and vice chairs. Board has set about milestones to make sure that all events take place on timely basis to meet the final deadline to bring about the best convention ever in all aspects.
Lodging and Facility: We have negotiated excellent rate agreements with four-star hotels such as Westin, Marriott and Hilton Hotel reservations will be made with JAINA for those registering for the convention. This will avoid double booking, and help ensure everyone getting rooms close to the convention facility. Pre convention daylong tours are being planned to explore San Francisco and surrounding areas. There is also seven-day post convention tour with a major tour operator. For those who do not want to go for sight seeing there will be Swadhyay sessions. Family would be able to plan two weeks vacation and get the best of both the worlds, entertaiment and Adhyatmic at very reasonable cost.
Board has appointed following chairpersons: Facility: Ketan Itchhaporia; Finance: Keerti Shah; Food: Pramod Patel; Fund Raising: Kundi Kapadia, Chair, BOD JCNC; Guest Services: Smitin Mehta; Marketing: Jayesh Kamdar; Planning: Bharat Kamdar; Programming: Parveen Jain; Technology: Devang Shah; Youth Programming: Nita Itchhaporia
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Food committee: Delicious Jain menus have been planned keeping in mind everybody's needs. Kids and elderly will find American food to full desi mouthwatering meals.
Technology Committee: They are working on on-line registration forms to simplify the process of registrations including hotel room requirements, youth programs, etc.
Programming: They have identified scholars, dignitaries, various topics of lectures, workshops, etc. They have created various tracks or themes and each of these tracks may have up to eight to ten lectures in each. This will help get maximum exposure to attendees on given themes. For those who want to explore the subject deeper they would have opportunity to attend day long workshops to maximize the benefits from the convention. Programs have been laid out for morning sessions from Pratikramn to Yoga.
Overall, we are making excellent progress. Jain Center of Northern California has hosted JAINA convention in 1993. They have created one of the outstanding facility, the visit to their Derasar is most memorable. Their members are very enthusiastic about this convention. They want to make this to be the best of all conventions. It would be truly a Teerth Yatra for all attending this convention The Convention board is looking forward to welcome you to JAINA XIII Biennial convention.
Finance: They have created policies and procedures for budgets, approval of the expenses and payment methods. The checks and balances have been created to keep better control for accountability. Target budgets have been set out for various departments. Now various department heads would come up with their requirements. This would help set registration fees.
If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please do not hesitate to call on any of us:
Convener: Kirit C. Daftary, 254-776-4209 Co-Convener: Girish P. Shah, 408-373-3564
Fundraising: Most of you are aware that the registration fee does not cover 50% of the total cost of the convention. Many of us have found that professional convention registration fees costs us in upwards of $500 without any meals, and are also heavily subsidized by major industry leaders. In the past our North American Jain Community have generously supported fund raising efforts to make convention affordable for anyone. Marketing and Publicity: They have created logos and sent out first flyer to all Jain Sanghs. Many of you who have seen this were so impressed, that they have started making weeklong plans. They will be working with news media to bring out press releases. We have been discussing with Nipul Shah of San Diego to create memorable displays. He had created masterpieces at Philadelphia and Chicago conventions in the past. Look for still better displays. None of the displays will be discarded, but rather will be given away to major donors supporting the conventions.
MEMBERS: Anop Vora, President JAINA, 585-473-9290 Bipin shah, President JCNC, 408-873-1004
Samprati Shah, 847-524-0463 Dilip Punatar, 937-848-3228
Hasu Shah, 510-657-5927 Secretary : Jitendra B. Shah, 408-729-7916
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