Projects

UR Community Cares

Ur Community Cares, another 501c3 organization, connects volunteers with elderly or disabled community members who need help with everyday tasks. They help fill in the gaps of traditional at-home care services by mobilizing residents to care about and connect with each other. BASIC has raised over $1,400 to help pay for the background check services for the volunteers of UR Community Cares. If you would like to donate, please click here Fundraiser by Kunal Bagga : Fundraiser for UR Community Cares (gofundme.com)

4 Elements Direct Primary Care

4 Elements Direct Primary Care has adopted a unique approach to providing healthcare by giving options on how to engage with their physicians. They use technology to develop their relationships and focuses on customer's health between visits to the doctor's office. They also provide options of home visits.

BASIC has partnered with the practice to provide learning opportunities to the high school student community in South Windsor. Students are working on a wide spread of tasks, from brochure design to patient interaction to inventory management. If any of these sound interesting to you, please register!

Art Mentoring

Sanya Shah, a sophomore year student from Bridgewater, NJ reached out to BASIC to help her identify Volunteering efforts in her community when her summer camps got cancelled from COVID. BASIC helped her formulate a structured Art Camp for 10 weeks where she designed her own curriculum. She had the kids explore many facets of traditional art and exposed them to new mediums and materials. Her students applied the techniques they learnt with Sanya, to create some of the very interesting art projects. The different topics covered included Linear Perspectives, Drawing from Reality, Positive and Negative Space, Drawing Portraits, and Color Theory. She clocked 560 volunteering hours as a result of this initiative.

You can connect with Sanya here.

South Windsor Police Department

When the pandemic hit, various organizations were scrambling for personal protective gear, BASIC was able to secure thousands of face masks and other supplies that was all donated to the South Windsor Police Department to be distributed amonst medial practices across the region. These supplies was in existing stockpile of dental pratices that were closed in Spring of 2020. BASIC volunteers spent hours contacting such practices who had no use for these supplies at the time.

VLink Inc

VLink Inc. is an end to end global partner that provides consultative to coding services to global customers. BASIC has identified and placed a high school student as a marketing associate in an ongoing internship.

Private Tutoring

The harsh environment of COVID had many parents realize the agonizing truth about online learning. BASIC volunteers have been helping families with additional learning resources that are not only virtual but highly customizable to suit every families individual needs. If you are interested in becoming a volunteer tutor with BASIC please register.

Enough Is Enough

Enough Is Enough was formed to create awareness for local BLM protests in areas that did not formerly have them with the ultimate goal to end systematic racism through education and policy change. BASIC volunteers have helped the organization raise over $400 to support daily operations. If you are interested in joining the BLM movement, please reach out to Enough Is Enough here.

Smithsonian Museum, Digital Transcriptionist

The Smithsonian Transcription Center is a crowdsourcing transcription project that aims to assist with the preservation and digitization of handwritten material in the Smithsonian Institution.The Transcription Center cites five reasons why transcription matters: discovery, humanities research, scientific research, education, and readability. Collections available for transcription include such documents as scientist field notebooks, artist diaries, astronomy logbooks, botany and bumblebee specimens and certified currency proofs. BASIC has helped students find volunteering opportunities with the Smithsonian museum to make historical documents and biodiversity data more accessible. If you are interested, please send us an email at info@basicinitiatives.org or click here

Juvenile Detention Center Literary Program

Nearly 350,000 youth are detained in the United States each year. More than half of these are adjudicated as delinquent, and nearly 90,000 are placed in residential facilities. Access to educational resources is of special importance for such young people during confinement. The average cost to confine a juvenile is $88,000 per year – and a recent study showed that about 55 percent of youth were re-arrested within twelve months of release. Research has shown that literacy is one of the biggest predictors of whether or not a young person will return to the juvenile justice system once they are released. Without books, life for such juveniles is reduced to boredom and their blank stares at the walls only make matters worse.

Till date BASIC has fundraised for over 300 books to be donated to juvenile centers on the east coast. If you would like to donate, please click here Fundraiser by Kunal Bagga : Juvenile Detention Book Drive (gofundme.com)

Love Uganda Foundation

The Love Uganda Foundation cares for dozens of orphans outside of the city of Kampala. Usually, the organization raises money by offering safaris to foreign tourists, but in the wake of COVID, this avenue became no longer available. Dozens of children are in need of basic school supplies, food, and medical products. Even though some of these young people are facing challenges including struggles with poverty, HIV, and abusive family backgrounds, they are determined to build a brighter future for themselves, and with your help, I know they will be able to do so.

BASIC has fundraised over $1400 to support Ugandan orphanages. The funds were used to set up a computer lab for the class, enabling classes by Skype. If you would like to donate, please click here Fundraiser by Ansh Modani : Empowering Ugandan Orphans (gofundme.com)