AVI USA Donor Development Training
On Monday, February 10th, AVI USA held a Donor Development Training in Auroville. The training was designed for AVI USA’s partners & projects leaders in Auroville, to discuss, create and collaborate in developing strategies for connecting with new donors.
The meeting, hosted at SAIIER hall was hours long, filled with curiosity, enthusiasm and creative ideas. Almost 50 project leaders, as well as AVI USA’s Beam support team, were in attendance, ready with questions and expectations about what the session would bring.
Sunny’s Bras for Girls Project
It was with this certainty that I woke in early November, 2022 with the idea of collecting bras to take around the globe. Hear me out before you think me crazy…bras were on my mind for two reasons….
Matrimandir and I Premiere
Join us Saturday, April 8, 11:00am New York, 20:30pm Auroville, to watch three episodes of the Matrimandir and I series.
Filmmaker Serena Aurora and B William Sullivan, featured in the Matrimandir and I episode premiere, are joining us for an intro and discussion of the series
The Mother’s Anniversary
The Mother, Mirra Alfassa, 1878-1973, is the creative force behind the birth of Auroville. Every year, during the fourth week of February, Auroville celebrates two anniversaries. The Mother’s birth, February 21, and Auroville’s creation, February 28th.
Every Soul Is Unique
Every Soul Is Unique is a co-creative musical play, performed by 70 children from the Auroville area, including children from outreach programs and special needs school. Fakeera, the creator, was moved to use the interplay of art, personal healing and spontaneous expression in a manner that would be a joyful opportunity for the children’s growth, using the medium of performing arts to reflect their accomplishments back to the children.
Ruud Lohman, Auroville Pioneer and Author
Ruud Lohman is the author of Iniyan, the short story on which the film Iniyan is based on.
A Conversation with Camille, Founder of Sustainable Fashion Brand Tulita
Tulita officially opened in 2021 and it has since become clear that this is Camille’s calling. But for a time, Camille wasn’t so sure. She had considered returning to her job as an occupational therapist but the pandemic interfered in that plan.
Auroville Today’s New Website & Free Article
To celebrate the launch of Auroville Today’s new website, we are collaborating to bring you the latest Auroville news for the next few months. AVI USA readers will have first access to the unlocked Auroville Today headline articles through the summer through our collaboration with Auroville’s premiere news outlet!
Auroville Today Headline Article, April 2023
UTSAV -A Mixed Use Experimental Building Complex | Interview with Mona, lead architect.
President’s Letter
Every day I’m working on practical matters elated to AVI USA’s mission. I work on financial reports and bookkeeping, on revisions to the website, and on reviewing applications and reports from projects in Auroville. I meet with AVI USA board members, team members, and project leaders in Auroville. I think about how to address immediate needs and how to prepare for the future.
I approach all this work as a kind of yoga. Auroville and AVI USA have grown out of Sri Aurobindo’s visionary approach to yoga, which is all-inclusive. There’s no compartmentalization between spiritual life and material life, or between work and spiritual practice. It’s all one movement. And it’s all for God.
Haridas Choudhuri and Integral Yoga
With Debashish Banerjee. A course at the California Institute for Integral Studies
AVI USA’s Volunteer Recruitment and Retention Training
The Volunteer Retention and Recruitment Workshop opened the discussion about developing an initiative by attracting enthusiastic, and potentially longterm volunteers. Finding and keeping volunteers within a growing project brings new ideas and energy. It gives a sense of change and progress, easing the workload on
AVI USA and IDRF
Several months ago, AVI USA Director of Development, Binah Thillairajah, reached out to a sister nonprofit, IDRF, the India Development and Relief Fund, to jumpstart an AVI USA- IDRF collaboration in support of our Auroville partners. Learn about our first collaboration involving the support of Udavi School, the Ashram School Trip and Deepam School for Special Needs Children.
ATB at Madhuban Ashram
This March, Amir, a certified Awareness Through the Body trainer, led workshops at the Delhi and Madhuban Sri Aurobindo Ashrams. AVI USA board member Julian Lines was there to bring us the story.
