ಸಹಾಯ ಹಸ್ತ ಯಾಚಿಸುತ್ತಿರುವ ಹಲವಾರು ವಿಶ್ವಾಸನೀಯ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಗಳ ಪಟ್ಟಿ ತಯಾರು ಮಾಡಿ ಅವರಿಗೆ ಸಹಾಯ ಹಸ್ತ ನೀಡುವುದು ಪ್ರಗತಿ ತಂಡದ ಮುಖ್ಯ ಧ್ಯೇಯವಾಗಿದೆ.
ಈ ನಿಟ್ಟಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಗತಿ ತಂಡವು ಆರೋಗ್ಯ, ವಿದ್ಯಾಭ್ಯಾಸ, ಕಲೆ, ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ, ಇತ್ಯಾದಿ ರಂಗಗಳಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಅನೇಕ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಗಳ ಜೊತೆ ಒಂದಾಗಿ ಕಾರ್ಯನಿರ್ವಹಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದೇವೆ.

• Brindavana Kannada Koota NJ in association with TASK (Trenton Area Soup Kitchen) organized “FOOD AND ESSENTIAL ITEMS DRIVE”. Charity Donations to purchase of items for:
  • 80 Diabetic Lunch Bags
  • 120 Meal Bags
  • 30 Hygiene Care Packs
• Collected Toys & Winter coats from Brindavana Members and donated to HomeFront  organization on Dec 23,2021
• During Summer Picnic 2021 , Raised $485.35, rounded and donated $500 to “Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (TASK)”
• Collected and Donated $1000 for renewal of  Sri. D.V.Gundappa memorial school at Mulbagal, Karnataka, INDIA through OSAAT organization.
• Collected and Donated $10000 for Covid Relief work in Karnataka, India ($5000 through Rashtrotthana Parishat and $5000 through Vasavi Trust of San Jose)
• Collected and Donated $1860 for Jnana Deevige program in association with Navika
• Brindavana -Pragathi team joined hands with Chiranthana (A holistic development and skill development center for people with disabilities, to empower them for independent, functional and happy living). Collected and  donated $800 for their proposed Gubbi Project. 

Sourabha tanda promoted charity in the following ways:

• Conduct cultural events to raise funds.
• Organize coat drives and collect soup cans to support for local shelters and neighborhood.
• Raise funds on need basis to help around catastrophic events around the world.
• Participate in local walk-a-thons supporting various common causes.

The young members of Sourabha tanda have been a very integral part in all its charity activities and also contributions from Yuva Brindavana volunteers in this pursuit.

•  Conducted a  food drive as part of April 7th program, raised over 100 cans of food, donated to SB Pantry.
•  Held an awareness booth from Shankara Eye Foundation as part of April 7th program, raised cash in charitable contributions.
•  Conducted Vijay Prakash music concert on May 5th to raise the funds for Indian Armed forces, raised funds and donated to the Bharath Ke Veer organization.  This event was held in collaboration with the following sister organizations: Katte Boys, Triveni Kannada Koota, New York Kannada Koota, Delaware Kannada Koota (Hoysala), Connecticut Kannada Koota (Hoysala), Sahithya Ranga, Vokkaligara Parishath, and Veerashaiva Samaaja of North America.
•  Held Lemonade & Majjige stand as part of July 13th program and raised donation for Karnataka flood victims.
•  Held Karnataka Flood Victim donation event as part of September 15th program, raised funds and donated to Chief Minister’s parihaara nidhi.
•  Supported Kaveri Koogu efforts as part of the Isha Foundation, raised funds for donation.
•  Conducted winter coat drive, collected 25 coats as part of the September 15th program and donated to Bowery Mission.

Planned event: SAMAR bone marrow match drive and Bake Sale as part of the December 7th program, proceedings to be donated to SAMAR

Seva Brindavana by Abhimanada Tanda – 2017-2018

• The Charity team started with an ambition to raise an amount of $3000 for 2017. After good amount of research, the team presented two beneficiary choices for BOD and finally selected “Suraksha Charitable Trust” as a primary beneficiary for all 2017 activities.
• During the Ugadi event in April, the team setup a raffle program, with the first prize being Amazon Tap to raise the money. The team raised a total of $480 and KCOB added 120$ to make it a total of $600. Prasanna Kumar physically handed over the proceeds to Gopinath of Suraksha Charitable Trust during his India visit.
• During the picnic event in June, the team has organized a Brindavana Oota program, where nearly 80 runners participated in the run including kids, adults and seniors. The team raised a total of $800.
• During the Ganeshotsava event in April, the team setup a raffle program, with the first prize being Fitibit HR2 to raise the money. DouOven restaurant, located in South Brunswick sponsored and provided their restaurant gift voucher as consolation prizes for the Raffle. In addition, Arati Nataraj, one of member of Brindavana came forward and donated her few paintings and audio CD’s and pledged the proceeds to the charity. The team raised a total of $1000. The proceeds were donated to Habitat for Humanity, a charitable organization that was helping the Hurricane Irma and Harvey victims.

For 2018:

• Suraksha Charitable Trust was the primary beneficiary for all 2018 charity proceeds.
• Raised $600 from the Ugadi event via Raffles program.
• Conducted a separate 5K event in association with Katte Boys, VPA, Konkani Sangha for AKKA Charity. Raised a total of 2500$ excluding all expenses.
• For Rajyothsava event, running an “Share the Warmth” drive to collect Blanket and Coats, which will be donated to the local organizations that help the poor and needy.
• 2018 Goals Review:
  • An exclusive Marathon/Music program for Charity. –  Accomplished
  • Target is to raise $4000 for 2018. – Raised a total of 3100, 24% short of the planned amount.

Brindavana ‘Milana’ team’s contribution towards charity 2015 onwards is as follows:

Nage Habba – Feb 15, 2015
Brindavana successfully conducted a Coat Drive and collected lightly used Warm winter coats and woolen material and donated these boxes into Greater New York Area Coat Drive Collection organizations.

Vasantotsava – April 19, 2015

Brindavana successfully conducted a donation drive to help collect funds for “The Arc of Middlesex” and donated the proceeds to the “The Arc of Middlesex” a foundation to help children with special needs.

Help us Help Nepal – May 9, 2015

Brindavana participated in “Essential goods drive to help the earth quake hit Nepal” by joining hands with all Kannada groups in NJ – Help us Help Nepal and established 12 collection centers and collected numerous boxes and delivered into Afya foundation which air-shipped these essential goods into Nepal.

Mukhya Mantri Drama – June 7, 2015

Brindavana organized “Help Nepal Rebuild” fund raising drive to collect money during the Mukhya Mantri drama and donated the money raised into Paropkar foundation and contribute to rebuilding of an Orphanage run by Dr. Dambar Nepali in Kathmandu.

Brindavana Picnic – Aug 1, 2015

Yuva Brindavana organized a 5k Run & Walk, 10k Run – Yuva Brindavan O’ta to help raise funds and awareness for Bangalore based school for poor slum dwelling children run by Dr. Jayaram and his non-profit foundation ILID (www.ilid.org)

Ganesha Habba – Sept 19,2015

ಬೃಂದಾವನ ಗಣೇಶ ಹಬ್ಬದಂದು ನಮ್ಮ ಚಾರಿಟಿ ಟೀಂ ರೂಪ ಭಟ್ಟ್ ಅವರ ನೇತೃತ್ವದಲ್ಲಿ ಸಿಂಚನ ಫೌಂಡೇಶನ್ ಅವರ ಕಾರ್ಯಗಳಿಗೆ ದೇಣಿಗೆ ಸಂಗ್ರಹಿಸಿದರು, ಈ ಹಣದಿಂದ ಸಿಂಚನದ ಮಕ್ಕಳಿಗೆ Hearing Aid ಉಪಕರಣ ಪೂರೈಸ ಬೇಕೆಂಬುದು ನಮ್ಮ ಚಾರಿಟಿ ಟೀಮಿನ ಬಯಕೆ.
Brindavana Charity team under the leadership of Roopa Bhatt raised money for Sinchana Foundation, an organization working with physically and mentally challenged individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Cerebral Palsy, Learning Disability,etc. Brindavana Charity team wishes to provide Hearing Aids to needy children at Sinchana using the money raised at the event.

Uppi star night – Sept 25,2015

“ಬೃಂದಾವನ – ಉಪ್ಪಿ ಸ್ಟಾರ್ ನೈಟ್ ” ಕೂಡ ಚಾರಿಟಿ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮ ಮಾಡಿ, ಉಪ್ಪಿ ಆಟೋಗ್ರಾಫ್ ಮಾಡಿದ ಪೋಸ್ಟರ್ಗಳನ್ನು ಹರಾಜು ಮಾಡಿ ಅದರಿಂದ ಬಂದ ಹಣವನ್ನು ಚಾರಿಟಿಗೆ ಉಪಯೋಗಿಸಲಾಗುವುದು.
Brindavana – Uppi Star night was a Charity event, the team raised money by auctioning off Uppi autographed posters, CD & photographs and the money raised during this event will be used for charitable purposes.

Chandru Aradhya: Joint Secretary and Director – Charity

Sambhrama TanDa’s strong commitment to community, eagerness to give back to ociety we live-in and good will of Brindavana’s new and old members have driven charity work to a whole new level in this past two years. KCOB Brindavana as we all are aware  was founded on the principles of promoting cultural and social causes of kannadiga’s  and is a 501 (c) (3) organization. Sambhrama Tanda guided by these principals considered charity work as its foremost priority to promote and bring  attention  to some important issues in its each and every program during its tenure.

Sambhrama Tanda has encouraged the charity work among the members young and old for the following reasons

•  Can help us to learn something about the cause and its organization
•  Can give us New Perspective towards the cause.
•  Teaches Humility and Inspire Others to be part of charity work.
•  Our young members can learn New Skills being part of it.
•  Satisfaction of giving back to community.
•  Charity Work Lets You Experience Something Larger Than Yourself.
•  Teaches the Significance of a Simple Gesture.
•  Charity Work Rewards Last Longer Than Cash.

Sambhrama Tanda has  promoted various  organizations of  charity work  in USA and in India for various causes like rural education, environment, natural calamity &  disasters, consciousness raising groups addressing South Asian women concerns in USA,  Homeless support group and  Nursing homes for elderly in Somerset county of NJ, providing schools supplies to underprivileged school children of Franklin township of NJ. Sambhrama tanda has maintained process of selecting the beneficiary organization for each event which is in need and helping them in the following ways

• Conducted cultural events to raise funds
• Organized  school supply drive for local school districts,  winter essential clothing drive, and  food drive  for local homeless shelters and neighborhood

For the first time raised funds for Manavi which is a New Jersey based, non- profit organization working on issues of violence against South Asian women who provide advocacy/peer supportive counseling, legal clinics and legal referrals, transitional housing,

• Raised funds on need basis to help around catastrophic events for Uttarakhand flood relief funds, HELP Jammu & Kashmir flood.
• Conducted 5 k marathons to raise funds for Arivina Aramane rural education in remote villages of Karnataka by Ashraya .
• Got sponsorship through GNANA charitable trust to donate T-Shirts to 5K marathon participants to bring awareness about active life style during Brinadavana Picnic
• Raised funds for SHIP, the Samaritan Homeless Interim Program, for people who are in desperate need of emergency housing and associated services
• Raised funds and school supply drive through GNANA Charitiable Trust to donate to Franklin township schools in in poor neighborhood.
• Encouraged young members of KCOB Brindavana to be an integral part in all charity activities.

The following table presents the beneficiaries list of Sambrama Team’s charity work:

Report by Anil Kumar – Director – Charity

• Donation to Shankara Cancer Foundation 
  Maitri tanda decided to support Shankara Cancer Foundation, raised and donated $1600/- by organizing Swara Saneevini by superstar singers, Rajesh Krishnan, Ramya Vasisht & Shamita Malnad.
• Donation to Red Cross North America
  To support local communities who are in need and we had donated $500/- to Red Cross North America
• Donation to Samatharana
  Maitri tanda selected Samatharana to support and donated $1250. ($1000 from Bridavana and one of members paid $250 directly to Samathara during our fund raising event)
• Donation to Help Foundation
  Maitri tanda selected Help Foundation to support and raised and donated $300/-
• Donation to Local Communities (Coat and Food Drive)
  We had organized a successful coat and food drive and donated all the collection to Red Cross.
• Hurricane SANDY Relief Drive
  Maitri tanda in coordination with other kannada organizations has come together in an enormous effort to help Hurricane Sandy victims across the tri-state area. With the combined effort, we are able to collect fifty boxes of cloths, food and other basic essentials for the Hurricane Sandy victims.

On Sunday November, 11th, we had donated all the collected items to, “Legion of Good Will”charity organization for immediate distribution to Hurricane Sandy victims.

• C.N.Rajan Memorial Charitable Trust
  On today’s event, we are planning to raise fund for C.N.Rajan Memorial Charitable Trust, Bangalore. Which is actively involved in distribution of books, equipping library, conducting workshops, etc in government schools and also address issues related to health and hygiene in girl students. Maitri tanda sincerely consider that these are the most essential factors in building the future of children.
• Charity Drive during Vasanthotsava 2011
  Executive Committee for the upcoming Vasanthotsava Celebration decided to make Red Cross and Akshaya Patra as the target charity organizations, to raise money towards the recent tornado outbreak and mid-day meals for school children in India respectively.