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The SOAR Foundation, 4 Union Square, Suite H, Union City, CA 94587 Ph: (510) 675-0680 office@soaronline.

1 The SOAR Foundation, 4 Union Square, Suite H, Union City, CA Ph: (510) office@soaronline.org Volume 14, Issue 1 February 2010 Annual Membership Meeting Date: Saturday, April 3rd, 2010 Time: 10:30am - 12:30pm Place: Fremont Main Library, Conference Room A,2400 Stevenson Blvd, Fremont, CA th Annual Benefit Dinner Date: Sunday, May16, 2010 Time: 5:30-9:30pm Place: Koi Palace Restaurant ( ), Serramonte Plaza, 365 Gellert Blvd, Daly City, CA (650) RSVP by April 30, For silent auction, please bring valuable gift donations to Soar office by May 5.

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4 Volume 14, Issue 1 4 奬奬 In my report in the last Newsletter, I mentioned that we applied to Nvidia for their $30,000 grant awarded to five charity groups they selected. I am glad to report that the case is closed with success. SOAR has the much needed $30,000 donation from Nvidia. (See next article for details.) Last time I also wrote about our approaching Global Angels in London, a foundation of foundations, regarding the fund-raising for SOAR. Our President, Siu Chang and I met with Ms. Molly Bedingfield, the Founder and CEO of Global Angel when she came to San Francisco in the late summer, We discussed the potential of our collaboration in working toward the same goal. Now Global Angels is scheduled to organize a big show on site on the London Eye, the giant Wheel in London this summer, with multiple performances by famous entertainers throughout the world for fund raising for different organizations including SOAR. After our dear donor Janette Chang from Shanghai passed away, we have been working with her family to fulfill her will of supporting two hundred students of her choice. Recently I had another verbal communication with Janette s father. Mr. Chang has again promised to support the 200 students until they graduate from high school. I am having my

5 Volume 14, Issue 1 5 fingers crossed for money being remitted to our Beijing account any time. NVIDIA Win A Fund-Raising Success Story Davy Kao September 2009 Hurrah!! We have just won a $30,000 award from this world-renowned Graphic Processor Technology leader, after a keenly competitive process among dozens of charity organizations competing for the five grants of equal amount the company dishes out annually. On May 27 th, 2009, the SOAR fund-raising team received an from our beloved chairman, Ben, informing us that there is a Request for Application package at SOAR from NVIDIA. The deadline for responding to the RFA is June 1, SOAR volunteers receiving this RFA are to be commended for dispatching the package timely to the right people, and giving us five days to work on it. The fundraising team became very busy immediately, and with the help of SOAR-wide cooperation, primarily from Suey-ju, in providing the needed legal and financial documents, we were able to complete the mission impossible in time. It all started with the kind heart of Mr. Kai Chen, an NVIDIA employee, who happened to have watched a KTSF-San Francisco TV interview of Siu Chang and Davy Kao promoting the SOAR Annual Fund-Raising Dinner in late May of Mr. Chen spent a lot of efforts locating SOAR, then sent us the RFA via . We answered all the 10 questionnaires in the RFA as a first try, and forwarded them to Mr. Chen. We got in touch with him over phone for numerous modifications of our answers. Our telephone conversations with Mr. Chen didn t seem to stop from then on, until our final submission of the application on June 1, In these phone conversations, Mr. Chen told us that there could be as many as over 50 applicants this year for the grant. The first run of a NVIDIA Company-wide allemployee tally of votes would eliminate all but 10 candidates. Then another screening will drop 50% of the finalists, and leave 5 organizations as winners of the $30,000 grants. In a year like this, when all purses got tightened up like clams, 30 grand turned a lot of heads of charity organizations. The competition was sure to be tough. As a nominator of SOAR, Mr. Chen has been holding our hands throughout the process. We are deeply indebted to him for his tireless guidance and for his careful attention to details. As a result, we were forced to work equally hard and to try our best to perfect our package. By mid-july, Davy received an from Mr. Chen and NVIDIA grant steering committee, advising us that SOAR has passed the first cycle of elimination to become one of the 10 finalists. That added severity to Davy s heart condition to make it beat even faster. Now that the $30,000 check arrived at Suey-ju s desk a few days ago, his heart has finally calmed down. NVIDIA is the world leader in research, development, manufacture and distribution of Graphic Chips, which is believed to be the future of the computer industry. It will be GPU in the place of CPU. With $5 billion revenue and a 20% net income, the company is well positioned for the next graphic presentation revolution soon to arrive. We wish them all the best in their venture in the near future. (The Company s background information can be found at: Nvidia). We thank the company for their philanthropic generosity and spirits. We thank their company-wide employees for their charityminded kind deeds. Of course, our sincere thanks go to Kai Chen for his initiation and leadership to finally make SOAR one of the honored recipients. The only regret left is that nobody in SOAR has met Mr. Chen in person yet. We are sure Mr. Chen will remedy this regret of ours by responding to our invitation to meet with him soon.

Volume 14, Issue 1 6 奬 Mr. Ken Chong Mr. Lo-shih Hu Mr. Shing Fan SOAR Foundation Profit & Loss Year of 2009 Income Donation 64,587.00 Membership 3,630.00 Sponsorship 431,688.00 Fundraising 36,755.

6 Volume 14, Issue 1 6 奬 Mr. Ken Chong Mr. Lo-shih Hu Mr. Shing Fan SOAR Foundation Profit & Loss Year of 2009 Income Donation 64, Membership 3, Sponsorship 431, Fundraising 36, Memorial Fund 14, Interest Income and others 9, Total Income $560, Expenses Office and Operation Expenses USA 17, China 16, Sub-total 34, Fund Raising Cost 7, Scholarship and Fees560, Projects Kunming/Shangluo 71, Total Expenses $674, Net Loss ($113,951.00) Dr. Wen Lan Wang Dr. Steve Young Mr. Chi Yuan 奬晗

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