Richmond Pledge Drive and Fund-Raiser Dinner - Summer 2008

This means $2,000,000.

• $1,440,000 for the Pods: $120K each to build, transport and maintain for eight years minimum (the usable lifespan of each Pod can be upwards of 20 years).
• $560,000 for Institute operations over the next two years including the inevitable costs of fund-raising and infrastructure

Each pledge counts and matters.

Each action counts and matters.

You count and matter.

For the Virginia Tech 32

We think it would be very fitting and appropriate to set up a full-function EcOasis "Pod" either at Virginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) or else at another location, the site and details to be determined by consensus and agreement involving the families of the thirty-two victims and the community of Virginia Tech.

Additional information can be found in a specific proposal (click here).

Please think about making a commitment to help with either financial or other support. As this specific project moves forward, we will need your expressions of intended support in order to pull together critical institutional attention and support. As you know, getting doors to open in "high places" is often harder than raising money, and often the key is being able to show that you have the Numbers - the people and the money. We don't need your money right this minute and we are not asking you to send a check right now, either. We just want you to show support for what is not just a nice idea and a nice memorial, but something that is going to be used and used and used to give, give give to People - to give water, light, medicine, and knowledge, in the form of at least one EcOasis Pod system, be it on the campus of Virginia Tech or perhaps, if the families and friends prefer, in some village on the other side of the world, where families and kids will grow up and live a better life, knowing about and remembering:

• * Ross Abdallah Alameddine
• * Christopher James Bishop
• * Brian Roy Bluhm
• * Ryan Christopher Clark
• * Austin Michelle Cloyd
• * Jocelyne Couture-Nowak
• * Kevin P. Granata
• * Matthew Gregory Gwaltney
• * Caitlin Millar Hammaren
• * Jeremy Michael Herbstritt
• * Rachael Elizabeth Hill
• * Emily Jane Hilscher
• * Jarrett Lee Lane
• * Matthew Joseph La Porte
• * Henry J. Lee
• * Liviu Librescu
• * G.V. Loganathan
• * Partahi Mamora Halomoan Lumbantoruan
• * Lauren Ashley McCain
• * Daniel Patrick O'Neil
• * J. Ortiz-Ortiz
• * Minal Hiralal Panchal
• * Daniel Alejandro Perez
• * Erin Nicole Peterson
• * Michael Steven Pohle, Jr.
• * Julia Kathleen Pryde
• * Mary Karen Read
• * Reema Joseph Samaha
• * Waleed Mohamed Shaalan
• * Leslie Geraldine Sherman
• * Maxine Shelly Turner
• * Nicole White

Our Plan, Our Board, Our Advisors

Validation and Credentials

EcOasis is presently very mature in technical and systematic respects. The team that will manage the configurations and installations is mature. The project is new and we are in the process of establishing the relationships with those organizations and people who will enable us to install EcOases around the world where they are needed.