If your alumni group is interested in participating, please send an email to info@atenista-usa.org with your name, contact details, and your school/team’s name.

In the coming weeks, we will announce the date and venue of our 2010 Pasiklaban games. Stay tuned.

WHEN: Feb. 26 date postponed. New date to be announced
WHERE: Croton Reservoir Tavern
108 W 40th Street New York, NY
(between 6th Avenue and Broadway)

Proceeds of this event will go to Food for Thought, a feeding program of the Ateneo Alumni Association-Gawad Kalinga Molave Village for underprivileged pre-schoolers.

Only 1 entry allowed per person/email address. Must be based in the U.S. to qualify. Highest number of correct answers wins the game. In case of a tie, earlier submission will be declared the winner.

In addition to the main winner, anyone who guesses correctly on all 8 categories below will receive free entrance to all AANI events from May 8, 2010 to December 31, 2010. That’s a $50+ value!

Only submissions before March 7, 8 PM Eastern time will be considered.

WHEN: December 5, 2009 at 8:30 PM
WHERE: Croton Reservoir Tavern
108 W 40th Street (between 6th Ave. and Broadway)
New York, NY

Featuring: IskulBlueKul – with Ateneo alumni guests and singers. For the benefit of “Food for Thought” – a feeding program for underprivileged youth.

WHEN : October 28, 2009 (Wednesday) at 6:30 P.M.
On the Feast of Saint Jude, Patron of Desperate Cases

WHERE : Saint Patrick’s Cathedral
(On Fifth Avenue, between 50th and 51st Streets)

Please bring your cash donations. All donations collected during the Mass will be channeled through the Philippine Jesuit Foundation, a duly registered charitable organization in the U.S., to support the rebuilding phase and long-term recovery of the affected families in the Philippines.

Check donations will also be accepted during the Mass. Please make your check donations payable to the Philippine Jesuit Foundation, and place “Ondoy and Pepeng donation” on the memo line.

For online donations, you may also visit: www.atenista-usa.org/site/

A choir composed of singers from the Ateneo Alumni Northeast, Hangad, Bukas Palad, Ateneo Chamber Singers, and friends will lead the congregation in singing some of our classic Filipino church songs.  Jandi Arboleda, co-founder of Bukas Palad Music Ministry, will lead the choir, together with two of Hangad’s founding members, Leanne and Chad Arcinue.

For inquiries, contact Project Leader Tina Cabanez at info@atenista-usa.org

The Ateneo Alumni Northeast, Inc. (AANI) in New York – the official alumni group in the U.S. Tri-state Region – will be channeling all online donations sent through the AANI website to the Philippine Jesuit Foundation (PJF), a duly registered and qualified charitable organization in the U.S. Your online donations through AANI (less PayPal fees of 2.9% + 0.30) will be remitted by the PJF to the Ateneo as quickly as possible.

Donations to the PJF are deductible gifts under the U.S. Tax Code Section 501(c)(3). Official receipts for individual donors – including those that have previously donated – can be issued upon request.

The AANI fundraising drive for typhoon Ondoy victims gives donors a safe, quick and convenient option to send online donations via credit card using PayPal.

To make a secure online donation, click on the “ChipIn” button below. Donations are now US tax-deductible.

For those who want to send check donations, please feel free to send them directly to the PJF.

Send or mail the check with the donor’s (1) full name, (2) email address, and (3) postal address to:

Cristina Tabora
Executive Secretary, Philippine Jesuit Foundation
236 West 27th Street, Ninth Floor
New York, NY 10001, U.S.A.
Telephone (212) 627-2788, (212) 233-0888
Downloadable PJF Donation Form available at http://www.philjesuit.net/illhelp.asp

Please tell family, friends and colleagues about this important update to help the typhoon victims.

Thank you for your support.

The Ateneo Alumni Northeast, Inc. (AANI) in New York, the official Ateneo alumni group in the U.S. Tri-State Region, is now accepting online donations for the victims of tropical storm Ondoy in the Philippines. All donations (minus PayPal fees) will go to Ateneo Task Force Ondoy, the relief efforts at the Ateneo de Manila University, which is now an open shelter for evacuees.

Over 27 provinces in 7 regions, as well as in the National Capital Region (NCR), are now under a state of calamity. Your help is urgently needed.

To make a secure online donation via PayPal, click on the “ChipIn” button below. Donations are now US tax-deductible.

Many of the victims are in dire need of your support. Any amount you can give will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

To all donors of AANI’s online fundraising efforts for typhoon Ondoy victims:

You will be receiving a PayPal receipt under the name of Michael (Mike) Ruivivar, the President of AANI. Mike is the designated intermediary for donations collected for this fundraising initiative. If you have questions for Mike, you may call him at (212) 391-9090. You may also reach him at the AANI headquarters, located at 43 W 46th Street (5th Floor) New York, NY 10036.

The outpouring of support during the former president’s wake and funeral brought back memories of the 1986 EDSA Revolution, a historic event for Filipinos which catapulted Mrs. Aquino to power and ended the previous dictatorial regime. As in the peaceful revolution of 1986, the scenes during the past few days showed crowds wearing yellow clothing, tying yellow ribbons on posts, throwing yellow confetti, shouting “Cory! Cory!”, flashing the Laban (fight) sign, and playing songs like Bayan Ko, Magkaisa and Handog ng Pilipino sa Mundo. And while the driving force back in 1986 was the people’s anger against an oppressive regime, this time people gathered out of love and gratitude for a president who became instrumental to restoring democracy to the land, and who represented many of the things that are good in the Filipino – selflessness, courage, prayerfulness, and love for country.

During his homily at Mrs. Aquino’s funeral mass, Ateneo’s Fr. Catalino Arevalo, SJ, spiritual adviser of the former president, captured what many Filipinos felt as they bid farewell to their beloved leader:

“Thank You Father in heaven, for your gift to us of Cory Aquino. Thank You that she passed once this way through our lives with the grace You gave her to share with us. If we give her back to you, we do it with hearts of thanksgiving, but now, oh, with breaking hearts also, because of the greatness and beauty of the gift which she was for us, the likes of which, perhaps, we shall not know again. ”

Thank you, Cory Aquino, for all the sacrifices you have made for our country, for inspiring us to make a difference through your own brand of silent courage and inner strength, and for making us truly proud to be Filipino.