We are pleased to announce that the Manny Pacquiao Foundation has joined Give2Asia (www.give2asia.com). We met with Mike Howe (President & CEO of Give2Asia), Jennifer Lofing (Vice President of Programs for Give2Asia), and Dien Yuen (Director of Philanthropy for Give2Asia) on March 26th 2009. The meeting went extremely well, much better than I had imagined since I was extremely nervous. I want to extend a special thanks to the folks at Give2Asia for meeting with us, and also to Robbie Fabian for setting up the meeting and joining us in speaking with Give2Asia.
By joining Give2Asia we are able to immediately start our fund raising activities, rather than waiting for the long turn around time for the IRS to grant us 501(c)(3) tax exempt status. Give2Asia is helping us with all the behind the scenes stuff so that we can concentrate on fundraising. I will update the site again once we have our donation page on Give2Asia’s site, so that anyone looking to donate can do so.
Thanks to all those involved in getting this foundation off the ground. Especially Manny, Winchell, Robbie, Dee and Mi-An and everyone at Give2Asia. We should be ready to go with in a couple weeks, hopefully sooner.
Anton