{Press
Release} July 9, 2007
Ganesh Davuluri
Public Relations
Director
Next Generation Foundation
4th
Annual BCC Cup 2007 - A Cricket tournament to support a great cause
Boston July 9, 2007 Burlington Cricket Club
(BCC) and Next generation foundation (NGF) are pleased to announce the
4th Annual BCC Cup 2007 - a Cricket tournament to promote cricket for
fun, and to fund the charity projects of NGF to benefit underprivileged
children. This tournament will follow last year's highly successful tournament,
wherein 27 teams participated with over 300 players, and more than 1000
people watched the tournament's games.
Cricket For Fun
This year's tournament will continue the 16 Overs-a-side, 11-players-a-team
format with a hard tennis ball, and will be held across various fields
in Burlington between the 10th and 19th of August. On popular demand from
an overwhelming number of participating teams last year, we are pleased
to announce that we would continue to organize "Floodlit Night Games"
in this year's tournament too. A lot of trophies and awards will be presented
to players and teams that excel.
Cricket to support a Great Cause
The proceeds of the tournament would benefit NGF's Dharma Yuga and NIRC
projects for underprivileged children in India. Dharma Yuga project is
a self-sustaining program supporting education of 1000 underprivileged
children a year by privileged children in several cities across different
states in India.
NIRC project located in Devrukh, Maharastra, India is a residential and
educational facility for orphan and underprivileged children providing
best in the education and character building. The seed money for Dharma
Yuga project for one year that would result in supporting 1000 underprivileged
children by the end of that year is around $8000. Funds raised through
this tournament would fund this year's Dharma Yuga Project and NIRC Project
construction work.
Funds raised through this tournament would fund NGF's this year's Dharma
Yuga Project and any overflows would benefit NIRC Project.
Sponsorship Opportunities
We are expecting a crowd of about 1000-1500 and over 300 players, based
on last year's participation. Sponsorship opportunities to target this
diverse crowd exist at various levels. The opportunity to make a difference,
and let people have fun while doing it makes this tournament special and
worthwhile of your contribution. Make a difference in the lives of the
underprivileged and orphaned children and bring a smile to their faces,
while getting a lot of goodwill and rich exposure to your brand/company.
We thank
our Platinum sponsors Princeton
Properties for already pledging $3000 towards the sponsorship.
Next Generation Foundation (NGF) is a registered socio-charitable
organization striving to create a revolutionary drive within people to
make the social changes to benefit the food, clothing and educational
needs of underprivileged children. Members of NGF believe that every child
across the world should have the equal and fair opportunity to choose
their own destiny and build a better future for mankind. NGF had taken
our first step towards this belief and started with NGF founders' home,
India, by extending help to the underprivileged children living in this
world's largest democracy. In the long-term NGF would be able to extend
charitable help to other parts of the world. NGF welcomes you join them
in this revolution. NGF is a 501(c)(3) public charity. All contributions
to NGF are tax-exempt. Visit NGF's website for more information about
NGF at http://www.nextgenfoundation.org.
Burlington Cricket Club (BCC) is a dynamic not-for-profit group
of cricket enthusiasts who play cricket for fun and keep the game alive
and kicking in the Greater Boston area. Originally known as Induslions
in 2003 BCC has been organizing highly successful cricket tournaments
in the area since 2004.
- Web Site: www.burlingtoncricket.org
- YahooGroups: BurlingtonCricketClub
- We play at: MITRE grounds in Burlington, MA.
- We currently have: About 25 active members and 20 more non-active members from all over New England.
- Our Motto: To have fun and bring people together through cricket.
- Membership: Is open to everyone who can play cricket and wants to have fun.
- What do we play with: Hard tennis ball in a baseball grounds.
- What do we follow: International Cricket Committee (ICC) rules with a few exceptions.
When do we
play: Every summer weekend either at MITRE or other locations.
Contact
Information
To participate or to donate and sponsor please call or email us at:
Challa Ramakanth: (978) 808-4460 or e-mail at cramakanth@yahoo.com
Karthik Natarajan: (508) 981-0720 or e-mail at ksharma423@gmail.com
Shazad Khan: (617) 312-5657 or e-mail at shazad@gmail.com
Pramit Makoday: (508) 366-0552 or email at mpramit@yahoo.com
Further information
is also available on our websites at:
http://www.burlingtoncricket.org
http://www.nextgenfoundation.org
