Category: Announcement

MAMCOAANA-FFE Scholarships

We are very excited to share that MAMCOAANA and FFE have partnered to establish scholarships at MAMC and affiliated hospitals.

Foundation for Excellence (FFE) was established in 1994 in USA and has funded 111,464 scholarships amounting to $54.5 Million USD so far for 38,342 students in India.

Their Tax ID is: 77-0474749. More details at: https://ffeus.org/

FFE financial reports can be seen at: https://ffeus.org/financial-reports/

The Foundation For Excellence (FFE) is a 30-year-old registered non-profit and was founded by Dr. Prabhu Goel and Mrs. Poonam Goel. The Foundation for Excellence India Trust was registered in 2003 as a public Charitable Trust in India and operates in association with FFE. It shares the same objectives as FFE and gathers resources from donors worldwide. FFE awards scholarships to students pursuing degrees in Engineering, Medicine, Pharmacy, and Law in India.

Today, over 80 corporate partners including Amazon, Axtria, KLA Tencore, Wabtec Corporation, S&P Global, Tesco, RBL Bank, Societe Generale etc. and Foundations such as Michael and Susan

Dell Foundation, Aditya Birla Groups support FFE.

Meet the FFE Scholars: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw2_mHaDnaXExlfywfPG-8ygCV0Nmax6r

Why create a MAMCOAANA-FFE scholarship:

  1. What better gift than ensuring education of a needy MAMC student whose family income is less than Rs. 3 lakhs annually (approx. $3,750/year or about $10/day).
  2. Honor your loved one by naming scholarship after them.
  3. When donating directly to FFE, 100% of your donation goes to the student – no expenses deducted from your money.
  4. Get an IRS tax deductible receipt for filing your US taxes.
  5. FFE case workers support your student through MBBS and have periodic updates sent to you as well as a Zoom call where you can meet with your student on an annual basis.
  6. Transparent and Fully complaint with US IRS rules and India RBI regulations.
  7. Multiple ways to donate (including from India) – see below.
  8. Excellent website. To donate: https://ffeus.org/donate/ – please write “MAMCOAANA” in the memo section.

Types of Scholarships:

  1. ASP (Adopt a Scholar): $3500 Supports a MAMC scholar for five years.
  2. Yearly Scholarship: A donation of $700 supports MAMC scholar for one year.
  3. Perpetual Scholarship: A Donation of $15,000 for one scholarship at MAMC on a perpetual basis. This will provide a scholarship to one student and when that student completes MBBS, another student will be supported financially without the need for additional donation.

Funds can be donated to the MAMCOAANA-FFE scholarship by Check, Credit card, PayPal, Donor advised fund, 401(k) account, Wire transfer, Stock transfer and Venmo.

Can also donate to the Scholarship’s Indian account from a Bank account in India.

For more details: us_support@ffe.org

See video:

Regards,
Manish

Manish Garg, MD, FACP, FASN, MBA
President
MAMCOAANA

Can’t Wait!

Hi everybody,

We are very pleased to report a robust response to the upcoming convention. We want to encourage continued registration and participation.

Our riverboat cruise on Friday has reached near capacity. Please don’t let this dissuade you from registering. Be assured, we have made prep for an enjoyable Friday evening on land for those who are unable to board the cruise boat.

The highlight of the convention is the gala on Saturday night and we would like to welcome all of you.

Sincerely
Aashish Dua, ’88 batch
President, MAMCOAANA 2023

Oxygen Concentrators Fundraising Update

Dear colleagues,

I would like to thank all of you for the generous contributions towards MAMCOAANA’s COVID relief efforts. With your support and Dr. Pandya’s relentless perseverance, we were able to deliver 100 oxygen concentrators to Dr. Baweja in India. This will give our colleagues the valuable ammunition to fight the deadly COVID epidemic in India. The concentrators have been received, have cleared all custom formalities and are ready for distribution.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your commitment to the MAMCOAANA mission.

Sincerely,
Aashish Dua
President MAMCOAANA 2021

COVID Relief for MAMC

Dear fellow Maulanians,

We are all aware of the Covid catastrophe going on in our parent country, India, right now. Each one of has been directly or indirectly already affected by this disaster. Our doctors are struggling to provide something as basic as oxygen to their patients, and worse, even themselves when in need. Many of us have already volunteered our time, money and efforts to support delivery of oxygen in various ways to India.

In this context MAMCOAANA received an impassioned request for O2 concentrators for doctors from Dr. Hansraj Baweja. Dr. Baweja is a MAMC alumnus, former president of Delhi Medical Association (DMA) and a leader in Indian Medical Association (IMA).

In the past 72 hours frantic activity went on behind the scenes to honor this request. The MAMCOAANA EC met and felt it was our duty to step up as an organization to help our own across the globe.

We, on behalf of MAMCOAANA, are pleased to report that within this short time we have collaborated with IMA, bought 100 oxygen concentrators and have organized shipment out for physicians in Delhi and MAMC alumni. The distribution and redistribution will be overseen by Dr. Baweja from IMA. The MAMCOAANA fund, whose life blood is your contributions, has been utilized for this task, given the nature and urgency of the request.

We write not just to thank you for your contributions in the past to MAMCOAANA, but to ask you to please donate further to MAMCOAANA, our alumni association in USA. This is a marathon and not a sprint, we need to replenish and build our funds to continue doing the good job. MAMCOAANA is a tax-exempt organization, so please donate.

Regards all and keep safe,

Dr. Ashish Dua (President)
Dr. Bhushan Pandya (Treasurer and Past President)

Click here to donate, or mail a check payable to MAMCOAANA to P.O. Box 11954, Danville, VA 24541

2021 Convention Cancelled

Dear fellow Maulanians,

I would like to wish you and your families a very happy and healthy 2021.

We had our MAMCOAANA Executive committee zoom meeting on Jan 7 , 2021 to discuss plans regarding the 2021 convention. The uncertainty about the pandemic and travel restrictions coupled with unknown future risk would seriously jeopardize an in person convention. Hence, we have decided to cancel the 2021 convention scheduled to be held in Pittsburgh.

We are still in the process of identifying suitable means to have a virtual meet and greet session this year. I will continue to communicate through the MAMCOAANA website as more information becomes available.

We are hopeful that universal vaccination and new therapies will help return us to normalcy as soon as possible.

I would like to thank all of you for your support and patience during these challenging times.

Hope to see the MAMCOAANA family in person soon.

Please stay safe and healthy,

Sincerely,
Aashish Dua

Special GBM

Due to cancellation of MAMCOAANA Convention 2020, the usual GBM was not held. Therefore, a special general body meeting was conducted virtually and concluded successfully on August 1, 2020. We welcome our president for 2020-2021 Dr. Aashish Dua who will take on the workings of MAMCOAANA in some very challenging times!

The minutes of our special GBM will be made available as usual on this year’s Sandesh which will be published online as usual in the weeks to come.