Minutes of Monthly Meeting – December 2020

Agenda:

1. The host walks thru the agenda. Please find the detail agenda at the portal (https://www.jmcalumniusa.com/)

Discussion Items:

• Year accomplishment – by the Host
  • USA chapter contributed USD 3,000 towards COVID-19 relief
  • Br Aman had received the “Alumni of the Year” award
  • A Jamalian family was helped thru this USA chapter
  • Etc. (refer agenda for the complete list)
• 501-C-3 status – by Br Akbar Ahamed
  • a. Registered in NJ as NPO
  • 501-C-3 – will take 2-3 months
  • Proceeding with opening bank account

• Bylaws – by Dr Ruknudeen
  • Br Khalil and Br Muneer to lead this effort
  • Dr Ruknudeen and Br Faruk to oversee the effort
• Civil Services – by Br Ahamed
  • Talking to the Shankar academy to come to JMC facility to train the students
  • Due to the COVID-19 the batch may be limited to 15 members
  • JMC Core Team is doing the below
  • Dr Badhusha & Dr Mazhar
  • Prepare brochure, AV from principal, etc.
  • USA Chapter Team is doing the below
    • Shahjahan called 15-20 people to have internal discussion
    • Doing feasibility study, top-down, bottom-up approaches
    • Reaching out to IKLAS, ILMI

• • Asking JMC alumni in Chennai to do the groundwork such as talking to IKLAS, ILMI
  • So far pledged 19K (13 gold, 2 silver)
  • Working on the model for the program
  • Few areas to be addressed such as:
    • JMC Core Team needs to be more aggressive
    • JMC Core Team needs to have placement cell
    • Needs to have Dr Badhusha in next few monthly meetings

• • Miscellaneous – Dr Ruknudeen
    • New templates for the monthly agenda and minutes to be prepared
    • The monthly meeting agenda and the minutes should be uploaded to the portal
    • Br Akbar Ahamed will join Br Faruk and Br Tolkappian to maintain the portal