Seattle Action Center

Background:

Founded in 1998, CRY America Seattle Action Center is one of the oldest Action Centers of CRY in the United States. Today it is comprised of more than a hundred enthusiastic volunteers, who are mostly professionals at Microsoft, Amazon.com and other organizations based around Seattle.

In 2008 CRY Seattle organized a number of successful and fun fundraiser events and raised over $400,000! Ina Mina Dika, CRY Seattle’s annual Bollywood concert celebrated its 10th year anniversary in style. It was sold out over 10 days in advance and helped raise over $20,000 through ticket sales and innovative fundraising techniques. Uphaar, CRY’s annual benefit dinner raised over $150,000 for child rights projects in India and the US. CRY Idol, a talent competition showcasing Indian singing & dancing, a huge success, raising over $4000. CRY Seattle partnered with other action centers of CRY America to organize a tour of Indian rock-fusion band Indian Ocean. Their concert in Seattle was a huge success, helping raise over $10,000. CRY also participated in Microsoft’s Give campaign, organizing a poker tournament and a carrom tournament.

2009 is shaping up to be an exciting year! CRY & DREAMS organized “Desi Girl”, a Bollywood-themed dance drama. A sold-out performance of this helped raise over $15,000.

We have a number of exciting events coming up this year. See below for more information, and tune in to http://www.cryseattle.org for more event details .

New volunteers are always welcome!  Your involvement can make a huge difference in the lives of underprivileged children.

The team meets every Monday on the Microsoft campus.

Events in 2009

• Diwali Dhamaka: October 24th, 2009
• My Vision Essay and Painting Competition: October 3rd, 2009
• Short Film Competition: October 3rd, 2009 Part of Tasveer’s ISAFF 2009 
• CRY Volley 2009: Volleyball, and fun in the sun! Aug 1st, 2009.
• Ina Mina Dika: Music, Dance & Masti! May 30th, 2009
• Uphaar 2009:  Celebrate Childhood! May 9th, 2009
• DESI girl: Show by DREAMS and CRY America
  February 8th, 2009 5:30PM at Renton IKEA Performing Arts Center, Renton
  

Events in 2008

• CRY America Seattle presents INDIAN OCEAN in concert (Aug 16th @ Neumos) click here
• CRY Idol 2008: "Unleash the Singer in You!"
• Uphaar 2008 – an evening for Child Rights
• Ina Mina Dika 2008: "Dance, Music and Masti!"

Events in 2007

• "Give" Campaign - a month of Giving for charity
• CRY America is proud to partner with Tasveer (www.tasveer.org) to present Seattle’s 4th Independent South Asian Film Festival. (http://isaff.tasveer.org/2007/)
• CRY and Dreams present “My Fair Lady: A Bollywood Ballerina”
• CRYcket and CRYvolley: Cricket, Volleyball, fun in the sun!
• CRY Idol 2007: "Unleash the Singer in You!"
• Uphaar 2007: An evening for Child Rights
• Ina Mina Dika 2007: "Dance, Music and Masti!"
• CRY Dandia 2007: “Dance to the beat of Child Rights!”

Contact Name: Rajesh Munshi
Role: Action Center Leader
Email: seattle@cryamerica.org

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