Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment Budget

We currently use CMU's Gelfand Center shuttle to visit our 20 refugee families in Carrick and Mt. Oliver. These services are donated to our organization, saving us $1620 ($60 a trip x 3 times a month x 9 months a year = $1620). This number has risen from last year because we are visiting our families more often each month to allow student volunteers to form stronger bonds with their families.

Revenue from annual winter holiday card fundraiser. Created handmade holiday cards, tabled and campaigned to sell cards and baked goods over two-week period at the end of the fall semester.

The Gelfand Center subsidizes the cost ($10 per person) for our yearly Pennsylvania Child Abuse Clearances. We currently have an estimated 32 tutors from this year, and can reasonably expect a growth of 8 new tutors next year.

Ticket sales for Conversations over Dinner (the "refugee dinner party") $5 a person x attendance of 55 people

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Cardstock for the creation of 600+ holiday cards.

Envelopes to accompany holiday cards.

Construction paper and paper decorations for the holiday cards, purchased from the Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse. Negotiated a 15% discount.

Shipping envelopes to complete orders of holiday cards that need to be mailed.

We buy samosas or momos for our late-night events because they are both popular and represent a sample of food that our refugee families offer to us as an expression of culture when we visit them.

At our late night events, we offer arts and craft activities and then donate the product either to our families or to local charities that work with similar groups or have similar missions. For example, this year we are looking forward to decorating picture frames and then sharing the work with our families. This gives them the opportunity to share with us their pictures from their home.

We provide Nepali tea at our late night in order to give the participants a taste of Nepali/Bhutanese culture.

We use color printed fliers and table displays as a promotional tool.

We offer a variety of cooked dumplings to demonstrate diversity and integrate cultures. This is an important theme of our organization, and represents our mission in helping our families assimilate into a new community.

To bring excitement to our late nights, we provide a performance element such as acapella groups and dance troupes. Also this year we will be displaying a slide show of pictures taken throughout the year of our interactions with our families. We ask AB Tech to manage the technical aspect of our events.

We currently use CMU's Gelfand Center shuttle to visit our 20 refugee families in Carrick and Mt. Oliver, PA. These services are donated to our organization, saving us $1620 ($60 a trip x 3 times a month x 9 months a year = $1620). This number has risen from last year because we are visiting our families more often each month which allows mentors to form stronger bonds with their families.

Annual ZipCar Membership Fee

To reach the expanding refugee population outside of the Carrick and Mt. Oliver Area, we will need zip car memberships to visit our families ($120 month x 9 months) With transportation and the visit, it would take about 3 hours, so 4 visits x 3 hours/visit x 10 $/hour = $120 per month x 9 months = 1080.0.

We estimate having at least one awareness/speaker event throughout the year to educate both members and the campus community, and would like to give our speakers a small gift of thanks for their time. This semester in April we will host a "refugee dinner party" where students and members from the Pittsburgh community can come have dinner with a refugee and engage in a facilitated discussion at each table about the refugee's personal experiences. We believe it's important to spread awareness of the voices and perspectives of refugees themselves, and think that conversations over dinner provide a comfortable context for the refugees and students to create connections. Additionally, we think a meal is a respectful way to share and experience culture, and plan on serving a typical Nepali meal that attendees will eat in a typical Nepali way (ie: with one's hands, instead of with utensils). To thank the refugees who take time out of their evenings to speak with the campus community, we would like to purchase them each a CMU mug ($6 per mug x 5 refugees)

At the "Refugee Dinner Party" we will serve Nepali momos, a commonly eaten Nepali dumpling that our families often share with us.

As the main dish, we intend to serve Dahl Bhat, a lentil dish which is a staple of Nepali meals. We estimate each Dahl Bhat to cost around $8 x 60 attendees (55 campus/community attendees and 5 refugee speakers) = $480.

To go with the rice as a small side, we serve Nepali pickle, which many of our refugee families continue to make themselves even in America.

We will serve rice as well, which goes with both the dahl bhat and the nepali pickle. We will cook it ourselves to be cost efficient. A 10 lb bag of rice costs $25 from Kohli's on Craig Street.

We additionally intend to serve Nepali tea, which our families frequently serve us when we visit and is a daily beverage for the Bhutanese/Nepali refugees.

At the end of each semester, we take our refugee families somewhere in Pittsburgh to do a group activity so that they can enjoy some of the opportunities Pittsburgh has to offer (as low-income they often don't have the means to participate in such activities themselves). We would like to take a few members of our refugee families to Bhangra in the Burgh, as it is a culturally similar event that they will enjoy that will hopefully assist their integration (rather than assimilation) into the Pittsburgh community. The anticipated cost of this activity for 25 refugees and 10 club members at $20 per person for the refugees and $10 per person for the club members is $600. Bringing refugees to a CMU event like "Bhangra in the Burgh" would also increase the audience diversity of the event and increase awareness of both the university and the refugees in Pittsburgh.

A bus to transport students and their refugee families (about 60 people) to the designated location in order to help integrate families into the Pittsburgh community and develop meaningful relationships with the families.

Food for gathering, typically purchased from the grocery store in order to accommodate dietary preferences.

At the end of each semester, we take our refugee families somewhere in Pittsburgh to do a group activity so that they can enjoy some of the opportunities Pittsburgh has to offer (they often don't have the means to participate in such activities themselves). We would like to take several members of our refugee families to an activity like going to the zoo, or bowling. The anticipated cost of this activity for 40 refugees and 15 club members at $7 each (based upon previous trips to zoo @ $8 per person and bowling @$6 per person) is 385.

A bus to transport students and their refugee families (about 60 people) to the designated location in order to help integrate families into the Pittsburgh community and develop meaningful relationships with the families.

Food for gathering, typically purchased from the grocery store in order to accommodate dietary preferences.

Fall Activities Fair printing about 200 brochures and flyers and photographs of club members working with their families.

Candy for Fall and Winter Activities Fair tables

Spring Activities Fair printing about 100 brochures and flyers.

Refreshments (pizza or samosas) for information session for prospective new members at the beginning of fall semester.

Refreshments (pizza or samosas) for information session for prospective new members at the beginning of spring semester.

Each group of tutors encounters diverse needs while working with their refugee family. We want to provide each group of tutors (~10 groups) with $20 to purchase additional educational supplies (ie: ESL workbooks, picture flashcards) or subsidize an independently- organized activity such as ice skating, visiting a museum, or bowling.

based on fy13 actuals

The cost for our yearly Pennsylvania Child Abuse Clearances ($10 per person). We currently have an estimated 32 tutors from this year, and can reasonably expect a growth of 8 new tutors next year.

You have this being fully covered by revenue, but this charge does not seem to hit your account. It should be removed from future budgets.

Samosas and pakoras for the event, purchased from Yuva India. Negotiated a 60% discount. It was important for us to provide food that represents the culture of the refugee families that we work with.

This year we paid $120 for our tech fee from Concierge Entertainment, only because AB Tech was fully booked that weekend. This event takes place in Rangos 1 and 2 , and includes singing, dancing, and performances that require multiple microphones and amps.

Streamers to decorate Rangos for the event. We choose steamers in colors that are culturally relevant to our families.

Bus to pick up performers and our families from Carrick/Mount Oliver. As the performers don't have their own method of transportation, we arrange to bring them to CMU so they can participate in this event.