More Power 100 stuff

We've broken through 200,000 points!! Go WC!

We didn't have a meeting today, because April was busy and finals week has been crazy. I'll write up a Facebook message to all the ONE members about how to keep the points coming over winter break.

Nick has offered to drive me to DC, and I'm looking at hotel prices, etc. It's fun =]

More info later.

Last week's minutes and more!

We're up to 182 recruits and we're solidly in the #5 place!

April and I have to determine how we'll get to the Power 100 Summit - and I suppose we'll discuss it at the meeting tomorrow at 3:00pm.

I'm going to post the minutes from the last meeting (finally!)

ONE Chapter Meeting

Monday, December 03, 2007

3:00pm

Present: April Bentley, Caitlin Reed, Milyda Cass, Caitlin Ryan, Tony Staubach

Minutes

1. Ranking: We are 9^th as of right now, Dangling on the edge of having 100k points. (99,170). Once we get the ONE City proclamation we’re good. April still needs to talk to Dan about having a “ONE Campus.” They mayor did count as a prominent alumni.

2. Non-logged things: some tables, most of the meetings (because April has to scan in the minutes and agendas to use them as picture files). We don’t think the weekly challenge was logged under the weekly challenge link, but we’ll still get points for having AIDS event. We haven’t logged Oxfam Hunger Banquet.

3. ONE at Dance Marathon: We had a ONE team, we had 44 people spell out “ONE” on the floor. We took video and pictures.

4. Shirts: Do we want ONE t-shirts? Which design?

5. Note from Tony: We need to do something really creative and out-of-the box. Sponsor a recycling bin? Cleaning up the environment will help with world health. Group discussion with faculty and students at the beginning of next semester, demonstration on campus. Tony can’t take all the responsibility. Talk with Neil Snarr about speaker who can talk about Africa and AIDS and the environment impacting poverty. It doesn’t necessarily have to be about AIDS. Neil might be able to point us in the right direction for a speaker. We can try and get McCoy room or even Boyd. We get points for on-campus student-faculty forum. Prof-student forum, then break into mini-groups with one panel member and a few students. Evening, a few hours. We need to include an international focus. Tony’s friend Laura works with Brazilian shantytowns – possible? Tony will talk to her and see if she will still be here next semester. Mini-conference on a Saturday, including a service project (weather permitting) and hot cocoa afterward.

6. Athletics: We talked to Terry in Athletics about different things we can do. We can go get the Quaker head and take a picture with a shirt. He talked about the coaches he thought might be willing to wear a ONE band during an event. He also recommended

7. Concert, teams, Caitlin-organized events: Need paper info for Steve Haines. April will work on it and get it to Caitlin.

8. SGA passing the proclamation: All we have to do is write up a proclamation and SGA will sign it.

9. Dan and the ONE campus: April and/or Tony will set up a meeting with Dan. Maybe over Christmas break, maybe at the beginning of next semester.

10. Little points: We can get 75 points/day for blog entries, ONE your pet, etc. We move up when people report their stuff.

Meeting adjourned at 3:42pm

Power 100

My day had ups and downs, and a lot of the vacillation was due to the ONE Campus Challenge.

UP: I got accepted to attend the Power 100 Summit!
DOWN: I had to find a way to pay for transportation.
UP: My dad said he would cover the expenses.
DOWN: I feel bad about him paying for it...but he doesn't, so I'm trying to not feel so badly about it.

So...I'm going to DC!

I just have to figure out how to get there and where I'm staying =]

Are you ONE?

Here's an email that Tara Lydy, our ONE Chapter Advisor on campus, sent out today:

Hello,
I would like to send out a little recognition for some of our
students who have been working so diligently on the ONE Campus
Challenge which focuses on eradicating global AIDS and poverty. The
campaign has been a huge success across the nation by empowering
students to stand against these issues and encourage student
activism. Currently, the Wilmington College ONE Chapter is 5th in
the nation! So, a round of applause to the following students who
are leading the way: April Bentley, Caitlin Reed, Arin Bentley,
Milyda Cass, Mariah Fulton, Bri Rogers, April Mays, Abbey
Pratt-Harrington, and Caitlin Ryan.

If you would like to help the chapter maintain its status in a very
simple way, sign up to join the campaign. This is one of the many
ways the chapter has earned points. So sign up today, it's
FREE! Visit this website to do so. http://www.one.org/campus/index.html
Have a wonderful weekend!
Tara

End of the week update

We didn't have a meeting today because April couldn't make it and we didn't have a whole lot to go over anyway. We're going to have a meeting next Wednesday, December 12, at 3:00pm to set up a game plan for semester break.

I still haven't heard anything about the Power 100 Summit. I applied a few weeks ago to be considered as a second Wilmington College representative.

We are still 5th in the standings, and Tara Lydy will be sending out an email to faculty, etc. detailing our efforts and helping to recruit.

Arin Bentley and I sat at a table this morning at the open house for the Peace Resource Center. We had ONE bands and bookmarks for sale, and we sold three bookmarks. We also sold seven tote bags for the CSCE Recycling program, but those sales don't benefit ONE.

More later,
Caitlin

Number Five.

We are FIFTH! We're above HOFSTRA, who was #1 since the dawn of time. We can really do this! I'm so very VERY excited. I just had to mention it =]

More later!

Mondays!

We didn't quite make Photo of the Week with the swimmers, but ONE decided to give us 1000 points for the awesome picture anyway. At least, that's how I think they did it.. Anyway, we got on the ONE CC blog!

We're also going to have some press releases in local newspapers and possibly on radio or TV or something...we're working on it.

We had a meeting today. I'll post the minutes tomorrow.

We dropped down to 9th but now we're 5th!

More info later.

Peace,
Caitlin

Dance Marathon 07

Dance Marathon was a blast! We had a ONE team there, and we got 44 people to spell "ONE" on the floor. We couldn't get the ladder back far enough to get all the people in one picture, so we're just going to submit both or Photoshop them together.

I'm going to put in some pictures from DM. If we had had the DM shirts, we would have ONE'd them, but we didn't, so it's okay. We were there representing ONE and we got the human logo - it was World AIDS Day too, and the whole week was full of events for AIDS Awareness!
At DM, there was DDR, Guitar Hero, a mechanical bull, sumo wrestling suits, a mechanical surfboard, and a little putt-putt type thing. The picture with me talking into a microphone is me talking about the ONE Campus Challenge and asking people to spell "ONE" on the floor.

Meeting Minutes 11/30

Here are the minutes from our last meeting on Friday!

ONE Chapter Meeting

Friday, November 30, 2007

3:00pm

Minutes

Present: April Bentley, Caitlin Reed, Milyda Cass, Abbey Pratt-Harrington, Debbie Horton, Arin Bentley, Mike Weidman

1. This week: We’re currently 7^th! Need to submit Bri’s off-campus tabling, called presidential candidates about On The Record campaign
1. Hunger Banquet: 18 people, has not been submitted yet (waiting for video), Oxfam – partner project
2. AIDS Week: ONE table, quizzes, speaker Wednesday night, working on a tri-fold board, display with statistics, going to do a human display – AIDS symbols, etc. WE HAVE TO TABLE THIS SATURDAY!
3. Darfur speech: worked with Mike Snarr, we tabled, got 26 recruits, will submit as speakers w/ 100+ in attendance, video bonus, movie, on-campus tabling
2. Meeting with the mayor: This morning April Bentley, Caitlin Reed, and Emily Moroney met with the mayor, talked about ONE Proclamation saying Wilmington is a ONE city, put a ONE band on him (prominent alumni)
3. Dance Marathon: We have submitted 4 registration packets, should get 1 more from Caitlin’s hall activity, anyone interested? We will spell ONE with crowd. We’ll try to get a table there for on-campus tabling.
4. Swim team: 28 total, need to figure out how to pay for bands, they’re willing to spell ONE in the pool (take picture from balcony), talk to Tripp about wearing a band at a meet
5. ONE Benefit Concert: Caitlin talked to Steve Haines about setting up a battle of the bands/benefit concert for ONE, need to get him paper info
6. Tabling next week: Tabling for Heifer International

Monday Lunch: April Dinner: Caitlin, Mike

Tuesday Lunch: April, Arin, Mike Dinner: April, Arin, Mike

Wednesday Lunch: April, Caitlin Dinner: April, Caitlin

Thursday Lunch: April, Caitlin, Mike Dinner: April, Caitlin, Mike

Friday Lunch: April, Arin Dinner: Mike, April

7. Meetings during finals: We will meet Wednesday, 12/12 at 3pm (need to Facebook everyone)
8. Additional concerns: sponsor an on-campus grocery cart float competition, we will be getting bands and shirts from OCC, Peace House open house Friday 12/7 from 10-12am (Mike, Arin, Caitlin at 10; Abbey, Mike, April? at 11), bookmarks will be done before open house on 12/7, business cards? Next semester meeting times – bring your schedule for next semester to figure out what works for everyone

Meeting adjourned @ 3:38pm

Diving in to fight poverty!

Oh, we have swimmers! I talked to Paula Stewart, an Assistant Coach of the WC swim team, and she said she'd ask Trip Breen, the head coach, about having the team spell "ONE" for us. Trip asked them, and they responded by diving into the pool and getting in this handy little formation right away. They were really excited to help out!

We also talked with the Athletics Department about putting a ONE shirt on the Quaker mascot and getting some teams and coaches involved with the ONE Campaign and the ONE Campus Challenge!

Mayor's Office

We met with the Mayor of Wilmington today, and we should have a proclamation naming Wilmington as a ONE City within the next two weeks!

We also put a ONE band on him and took a picture - the Mayor of Wilmington is a prominent alum if I ever saw one =]

More details later.

Darfur

Today was a fun day. We tabled at the Darfuri speech...the event will get us:

5000 points for speakers and a crowd of over 100 people (there were 166)
400 points for on-campus tabling
250 points for taking video

and 1300 points for getting 26 people signed up! Woohoo!

We're still in 7th place, but we're making it harder for #8 to take our spot.

It's late and I'm tired, so I'll write more tomorrow.

Hunger Banquet

Today was the Oxfam Hunger Banquet. There were only 18 people participating, which was a LOT lower than the 60 I was shooting for, but at least they came!









I think that it was a successful event, even if a lot of people didn't show up. By the way, we're up to 7th place! Tonight is another AIDS Week project. A speaker is coming to WC to talk about AIDS and AIDS prevention. I'm not able to make it, but April and Arin will be there.

Dinner with Dan!

Tonight, the students who attended the Student Lobby Day met with President Dan DiBiasio for dinner. We talked about a lot of things, and I managed to put in a plug for the ONE Campaign and the ONE Campus Challenge. I got a photo of me putting a ONE band on him.

Also, April left her phone with me (I had been holding it for her since she had no pockets), and I got a call from Nick Stevens of the ONE Campaign. He asked for April and I told him about the mix-up, but I said I was our ONE Chapter VP and I could help in whatever way I could. He talked to me about the Power 100 Summit and said that there was a good chance I'd be going to the Summit since I had gotten my application in early. He talked about the Leader Tools and everything and about personalizing the text on the ONE CC website. I'll be sure to relay the message to April =]

Tuesday

Hey hey,

We kicked off World AIDS Week with tabling and a quiz about AIDS facts. We're also selling ONE merchandise at the tables for AIDS week. The Weekly Challenge is for World AIDS Day awareness, and we're pretty excited about this week.

I don't think they've named the 4th runner-up for the Awareness Project Challenge, so we'll see how that goes.

Meeting minutes

Minutes

Present: April Bentley, Caitlin Reed, Milyda Cass, Caitlin Ryan, James Palmer, Arin Bentley, Bri Rogers

1. Last week: Didn’t do much, up to 141 recruits, down to 12^th

2. Dance Marathon: Registration forms in by WEDNESDAY with $20. We will spell “ONE” with the people there. Caitlin Reed, April Bentley, and Arin Bentley will be on the ONE team – need at least 2 more to be a team.

3. Oxfam Hunger Banquet: This Wednesday 11/28, volunteers from 4-7, 5-6:30 meal, need names and emails to sign up for ONE CC

4. Darfuri Refugees: we can take names and emails, need ONE table, “speaker on campus” activity, Caitlin will talk to M. Snarr, at least 4,000 points – be there @ 6:30pm to set up

5. New ideas: Parade in Bethel, OH – ONE float in parade worth 4,000 points. Bookstore in Peace House to be up soon. Banner in TOP. Greek banner. House party.

6. Heifer International: Collect donations to add up to purchase an animal to be sent to an impoverished country. Talk to Jonna at the TOP for H.I. event.

7. AIDS Day: Wednesday 11/28 7:30 pm TOP C+D speaker, ONE day table at brunch

Table schedule: Next week, Heifer International table.

Short update.

We're down to 12th. I took some more pet pictures, and I'll have them submitted soon.

The Oxfam Hunger Banquet is this Wednesday! More points!

ONE Kitty

Riley!

Ashton's ONE debut

I got a picture of Nick's dog Ashton with a ONE band (after he squirmed around and we got him to sit still long enough!) Also, I signed up Nick and his mom! Yay!

Bookstore fun

Abbey works in the Peace House and she has talked to Jim Boland (who runs it), and he said he's cool with us having a poverty section in the Peace House Bookstore with a ONE logo in the vicinity. Abbey just has to run it by Charlotte, and then we'll be good to go for having a ONE/Poverty section in a campus bookstore.

In other news, 2 runners-up have been announced. We're not either one, so we have 2 more chances for them to select us as a runner-up for the Awareness Project Weekly Challenge.

Losing steam

My sister's cat, a la ONE.
We had a meeting today...here are the minutes:

Minutes

1. Last week: ONE’d Sigrid (not submitted), Tabling (not submitted), Tunnel commercial (submitted), submitted most of backlogged events

2. Thanksgiving: Blog! Take a picture of pets with ONE bands. Recruit. Tabling?

3. Heifer International: Table for Heifer International (ONE Partner). Caitlin’s Hunger Banquet will count as an Oxfam partnership activity.

4. Darfuri Refugees: Mike Snarr’s Honors Global Issues class is bringing 2 refugees to campus Thursday 11/29/07 7:30pm, we will have a table, and we’ll use the opportunity to recruit.

5. SGA: Need to talk to Jenn about the official letter ASAP for submitting to ONE CC and to the Wilmington City Council

6. AIDS: Need publicity (info channel, 60 table tents), Mon 11/26 – Sat 12/1, Activities: speaker, Day of Silence (wear red), vigil w/ candles (sale), ETC performance (maybe), tabling (trying for every day)

7. Flag: Going to put a flag in the TOP.

8. Overhaul: Things we can do…Dan, Basketball Coach, Tara must say she’s an advisor, set dates for tables (will decide next Monday), ONE Dance Marathon team (April, Milyda, Arin, Caitlin, April Mays, Robin Vaughn, Jessica Reed), house party (pizza for poverty), Peace House bookstore stuff, fundraiser, ONE SLEB, ONE livestock, work on customizing web page, work with International Club for movie night, talk to people who have studied abroad, paint the rock, DM ONE logo, off campus tabling, letter to the editor, tailgate, classroom lecture (talk to Tara about emailing all faculty), banner on Greek row, HS outreach, endorse ONE goals with 5 other campus groups, SGA pass ONE Proclamation

9. Power 100 Summit: April should be getting info about it, Caitlin applied to be a second representative.

We're up to 11th.

The Tunnel didn't win the weekly challenge, but 4 runners-up will receive 2500 points. I don't know if we're included in that, but I'll find out soon enough, when they list them in the OCC Blog.

I'm starting to feel really discouraged. I feel like April and I are the only ones doing anything. The ONE Board helps, but we don't have enough of a group to do much. I feel like we're working and working, and we're doing the best we can with only a few people behind the cause. I know we have 133 people signed up, but we only have 10 or so even taking it seriously, I think.

I just don't know what to do. I know that the purpose is to raise awareness, but I don't even feel like people care. We rope them into signing up because we berate them until they do. We have to tell them it doesn't cost anything. Some just walk away, not caring at all. I don't have the strength to personally be the heart and soul of the movement. I feel so powerless and useless trying to do everything by myself (with April and some others) while other schools have some huge student body rising to the occasion. Why doesn't anyone here care?

I just wish it was easier. I wish the people that were judging all the entries realized that most of the stuff from WC is coming from only two people who are running themselves ragged trying to recruit people and publicize the Campaign and do all they can. I'm tired. I'm worn out. And it never stops, because when I go home, I'm taking pictures of my cat with a ONE band, and I'm asking my family to sign up for the Challenge, and I'm blogging for the cause.

I'll try to be more positive tomorrow.

Peace,
Cait

Broadcasting ourselves...

Here's me making a total dork out of myself while giving April a tour of the Tunnel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9Gmw3poj6g

And here's a video from Third World Dodgeball.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BWLJMHlzko&feature=related

Enjoy! There are tons more.

Check out ONE1Campaign1WC1Ohio (username) on YouTube for more ONE Campaign videos from Wilmington College!

Darfuri Refugees and Thanksgiving

Mike Snarr's Honors Global Issues class is raising money to being two Darfuri refugees to speak on campus. They'll be here Thursday, November 29th at 7:30pm. He has agreed to work with the ONE Chapter to include ONE in the event, and we will get mucho points for it. He expects well over 100 students, which would give us 5000 points. We'd get 4500 points for a crowd of 50. If less than 50, we'd get 4000 points. I'm so excited! I usually have SI on Thursday nights but this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

ONE members will help his class sell t-shirts to raise money. We'll also try to have a table with ONE information at the event, and have people text to join or give us their email addresses so we can invite them. It will be fabulous!

Also, Bri Rogers is doing a food drive to collect Thanksgiving meals for people in Wilmington who can't afford them. She's including ONE and we're counting it as a creative project.

Love it! We should be back in the top 10 as soon as all of April's backlogged items get approval from the ONE Campus Challenge

Until next time,
Caitlin

TGIF!

We had a meeting today! Here are the minutes!

Minutes

1. Dance Marathon: Bonnie emailed Caitlin asking if we’d like to do something with DM. Planning to spell ONE with dancers at beginning.

2. This week: Videotaped 6 min commercial for the Tunnel. April will submit for weekly challenge. We were top 4 for the t-shirt challenge, but we didn’t win. April has uploaded all pictures to Flickr, will submit THIS WEEKEND.

3. Upcoming activities: Talk to Abby Hastings about greek banner on houses. Bring white banner to paint at next meeting. Hunger Banquet on November 28^th (partner with Oxfam! – spell ONE!!) Band Sigrid and Dan.

4. World AIDS Day: Events all week, more info later

5. Power 100 Summit: January 2-5 (we get one free rep, look into cost for a second rep) More details next meeting.

6. Anything else? Mailbox stuffers specific to faculty/students/athletics. Specific “blog” days to get 75pt blogs. Band a student group.

Meeting adjourned at 3:29pm

We're pretty excited. We'll work on mailbox stuffers soon. April's uploading videos and submitting all our backlogged activities right now. We're in Pyle Center at a table to recruit people. We've slipped down to #12 because we haven't submitted anything recently, even though we've been doing lots of stuff. Once we get our points, we'll shoot right back up!

Thursday's events!

Today April filmed me in a "commercial" for the Tunnel. It's about six minutes long. Fabulous. We're going to play it on the WC Info Channel as well as submitting it for the ONE Campus Challenge. Woo!

Also, Bonnie Byrne (Dean of Housing) asked me if I'd like to do anything for ONE during Dance Marathon on December 1st - I told her that it would be FABULOUS if we could spell out "ONE" on the dance floor with all the people!

More info soon - meeting tomorrow at 3pm!

Free Rice!

I'm pretty sure our shirt didn't win. The voting ended today and we were 4th out of 4 last time I checked.

Tony emailed me about this sweet online word game to help the hungry! It's at freerice.com and you just pick the synonym of the word it gives you, and for each correct answer, the site donates 10 grains of rice to help feed hungry people.

I love it!

More later!

Weekly challenges.

Our shirt is losing, but we might win this week's challenge.

It's about awareness projects, and the Tunnel is perfect!

Pics and video soon.

Peace,
Cait

Woohoo!

We had a meeting today, but there's better news:

WE HAVE A SHIRT DESIGN IN THE WEEKLY CHALLENGE POLLS! Go to http://www.one.org/tshirtcontest/?id=128-3413318-kDw.bE&t=3 and vote for the shirt that says "I'd rather end poverty than do my homework"

PLEASE help us out!

Random blurbs

We're still at 9th, but we need some serious points to get moving up. The competition is a little more fierce up here in the top ten =]

The Tunnel gets set up tomorrow!! Pictures will follow.

We're getting more recruits! I keep inviting and inviting and inviting people. We're up to 113 recruits, joy!

More shirt designs

Design 2 front (up) and back (down)



Design 3 front (up) and back (down)

Plans

I have to reschedule the Hunger Banquet. Boo. Oh well, at least I haven't done any publicity yet with that date!!

I made my printouts for the Tunnel today, and we blew some facts and a cartoon up so there'd be a variety in the size of stuff people are looking at. Woohoo!

More later, but this is gonna be fun!

TOP TEN!!!

We're NUMBER NINE!!!!

My heart stopped beating! I was just checking the ONE CC site on a whim, and BAM, there it was, we're in 9th place.

Just thought I'd blog this historic moment, where we broke into the top ten. Go us.

Weekly challenge

This week's challenge is about shirt designs! Here's my first one:



I'm pretty excited. I'm gonna make another, I think.

Working on events

I'm gathering up some volunteers to help with my November events, and I emailed social science professors to push the events in their classes. I've requested information from 30 Hour Famine AND Oxfam.

I have a long to-do list for these things, but they'll be freakin' sweet.

Here's a copy of the email I sent:

Hello wonderful Social Science professors!

I'm writing to tell you about the activities I'm planning for November for my position as Hunger and Homelessness Coordinator on the Service Leader Executive Board. I've got two projects going for this month.

First is a project called "The Tunnel." It's modeled from an activity that Ashland University did last year to illustrate the reality of hunger and poverty. I'll be using the little stairwell in Pyle Center that goes from Margaret Thomas Lounge to the Underground as my "tunnel," and I'm going to cover the walls with statistics, facts, and pictures that relate to world poverty (and national and hopefully local poverty as well). I'm going to plan on having a mini-survey for people to fill out after going through it. I'm not sure at this point if I'll be having set times to take people through or if I'll just have them do it on their own time, but in any case, it will be on display the week of November 12-16 (next week).

Also, on Tuesday, November 27th, I'm planning another Oxfam Hunger Banquet! I'm still in the planning stages of it, so there might be some time or date changes, but the current plan is 11/27 from 5-6:30pm. If students make a donation (minimum $1) for Oxfam, they will receive a service hour for participating. We had a good turnout last semester when I held a Hunger Banquet, and I think with your help we can have another successful event!

If you have any questions or comments, please email me and I'll get back to you ASAP!

Let me know if you are interested in incorporating one or both of these events into your classes as soon as you can, and I'll keep you updated on the dates and times for them. Sorry I don't have concrete details at the time! Also, if you'd like to incorporate service learning into your class, please contact Emily Moroney in the Center for Service and Civic Engagement.

Thanks so much,
Caitlin Reed

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"The Tunnel" is underway... I'll be getting some local homelessness stats from the Homeless Shelter, and I'm finalizing my fact sheets and whatnot, but it'll be great!

More info later.
-Caitlin

Another week begins!

We're up to #12 in standings! We had a meeting today and talked about our weekly goals and such. I'll post the basic minutes - I haven't edited and smoothed them out yet, but you'll get the point.

Standings in OCC

We're up to 12^th, we got 4900 points this week – 5^th in standings of "highest points this week"

Recent points

Signups, ONE website

No points yet, but submitted: videos on YouTube, Cheerleaders, videos from last week, points in SLEB newsletter and Witness,

Haven't submitted: ONE Chapter (need SGA letter), meetings

This week

Weekly challenge: shirt design

Things to do for major points: more congressmen, mayor (ONE city)

Individual activities

We need people to do things on their own to get points

College Club – youth outreach

Need to talk to High School students (HS outreach gets points) –Tony will contact WHS

Write ONE song?

We need publicity out NOW – Caitlin will work on tomorrow

Get sport-related points

Ok, so...this month I'm doing "The Tunnel" and an Oxfam Hunger Banquet - I got approved for my Tunnel project already so I'm gonna be working on that for the next few days =]

More later - so busy, no time!

-Caitlin

TGIF.

Well, it's Friday. That doesn't mean a whole lot to me, except that I don't have classes for two days. I'm still busy.

Today: we didn't do a table in Pyle but we will next week. Next week we'll be tabling for Heifer International, a partner with ONE, and we'll also have our ONE CC station up with it. It'll be good. My bulletin board is a work of beautiful art.

We had another ONE Chapter meeting and talked about doing ONE CC activities related to sports (i.e., ONE your head coach, ONE logo on field, ONE info on scoreboard) before football season is over.

We're also going to attempt to ONE some local people running for public office...BEFORE Tuesday, which is election day.

I've started planning my November projects: an Oxfam Hunger Banquet and an awareness project modeled off Ashland University's "The Tunnel" project, in which they covered the walls of a common area with black paper and hunger/poverty statistics. I'll be using red paper (because the resource room doesn't have black!), but it'll basically be the same thing. I'll get ONE logos and ONE information around too! It'll be fabulous. Watch for pictures.

Visit one.org!!

-CR

No table.

We didn't do a table at dinner because something came up and April couldn't be there, and I had a meeting at 5:30 and tutoring at 6:00, so I couldn't be there...so I think we're going to table all next week =]

We're still 14th but we'll kick some butt shortly.

-CR

Table

We did a bulletin board today and we've upped our recruits to 100! We need 8 more to grab 13th place! Woohoo!!

I'm pretty excited. More news later.

(I'm also working on a huge canned food drive - but I gotta go so I'll write about it later)

Peace!
-CR

Third World Dodgeball: Success!

It rocked! At first, no one showed up, then I got two...four...five...and eventually around 12 people. They had a lot of fun and, though I didn't play, I got pretty excited myself.

Here's another rundown of the rules:

I divided them into teams by having them count off by threes. Odd numbers were on one team, even numbers on another. At this point, they're like "Why are these teams not fair?"

I explain the rules to them - the big team can only use red and orange balls, cannot cross the line, cannot get "out" members back "in" when they catch a ball... the little team can use any color ball (there were 6 colors), can cross the line to get balls, and get members back "in" if they catch a ball.

At this point, the "fairness" cry was in the other direction.

Basically, the point is that there are WAY more impoverished people in the world who don't have very many rights (big team), and there are few people in the world who have lots of rights (little team).

After the game (they played 3 or 4 times), they all gathered around and I gave them candy that had facts about hunger and poverty.

"One in ten U.S. households are living with hunger or are at risk."

"One child dies every five seconds due to hunger."

"Over 850 million people in the world go hungry."

"Six million children die each year due to hunger."

"Make poverty history. Join as ONE. http://one.org."

I called it "Food for Thought." We'll be using what's left over to give to people when they sign up for the Campus Challenge tomorrow while we're tabling in Pyle.

We took loads of video with me talking about the ONE Campaign. I'm so excited.

Wow, what a day!!

I'll give you today's dish on chronological order.

This morning at 8am, April and I were assembling a pamphlet to describe the ONE Campaign and how organizing a ONE Chapter on campus would be beneficial and would coincide with the Wilmington College Mission.

At 9am, April met with Sigrid Solomon, our Dean of Students. The meeting went very well and Sigrid said April had really done her homework =]

At 5pm, April and I went before the Wilmington College Student Government Association to describe the ONE Chapter to them, because they're the ones who would recognize us as an official group.

I passed Jenn (from SGA) in the parking lot around 6, and she said we're cleared!! We're recognized! We'll be getting a letter soon and then we'll submit it to the ONE Campus Challenge.

Speaking of which...

We're in FOURTEENTH place!!! We got another 4,000 points for electing a board! Only good will come of this!

Third World Dodgeball is tomorrow. I'm a little bit nervous. I don't think a lot of people will show up =( I'll post more tomorrow.

Peace.

-Caitlin

Another Monday!

Well, we didn't have a meeting today for the ONE Chapter. No one was around and it would have been me and April sitting around talking about stuff we can just get done on our own time. We're tabling in Pyle on Thursday to get people to sign up for the ONE Campus Challenge! Woohoo! I think I can have publicity done by the end of the week, but it may very well be next week before I can get to it - this Wednesday is dodgeball and I still have to finish making labels for my "food for thought."

New Facebook Group

I made a Facebook group for our ONE Chapter at Wilmington College! I also made a gmail account for the Chapter, and the Exec Board members will all have the password. Anything relating to the group will go to that address.

Email one.wilmington@gmail.com for more information =]

This week, we're going to try and set up a table for Thursday, Nov. 1, because it's a ONE Day! We'll sell bracelets and we might have a laptop (mine?) so people can join the ONE Campus Challenge right there! Or I might take their email addresses and invite them through the ONE CC website. I do get a bit paranoid about my stuff.

We have another meeting tomorrow, as well as our SLEB meeting. Third World Dodgeball is on Wednesday. Woohoo!! And then the planning for November begins! I think I'll set aside a few hours every week just to work on this stuff. I'm too involved! I love it!

I need to report the Facebook group on the ONE CC site so we can get a couple hundred points for that, and we'll have more points rolling in soon with more people signing up and April submitting more pictures and such.

Until next time!
-Caitlin

Make A Difference Day

I spent six hours working at Sugartree Ministries this morning! I helped sort and hang clothes in the free "store" and I helped a little to put donated food on the shelves in the food pantry. We can definitely think abut using Sugartree for ONE events.

We're 17th today, but we'll be submitting a lot of stuff in the next few days so we should shoot right back up!

I added photos to the Facebook group. There are two from Student Lobby Day and two pictures of pets with ONE bands. I'm going to add ones from Homecoming and everything, but I have to go fishing through Facebooks for them. Wheee. It should be awesome.

This is the 7th post for the week, I believe. We're good for submission!! I'm working on some ONE Chapter publicity. I'll show it to the ONE Chapter group Monday at the meeting. I love this. This is going to go so far, and I think we can make such an impact!

-Caitlin

check out http://one.org/campus and sign up for Wilmington College!

ONE Chapter Meeting

We had our elections today - I'm the VP of the Wilmington College ONE Chapter!! We've yet to be recognized by the college, but we've got meetings set up next week to take care of those matters. I'll just post the minutes here instead of trying to recap everything.

ONE Chapter Meeting

Friday, October 26, 2007

3:00pm

CSCE

Attendance: Caitlin Reed, April Bentley, Mariah Fulton, Bri Rogers, Milyda Cass

Minutes

Constitution: April shared a copy of our Constitution and by-laws, and she needs to change one thing before submitting it. Our Constitution was modeled off other campus organizations’ Constitutions but has been specified to the ONE Chapter’s goals. To ratify the ONE Chapter’s Constitution and by-laws, 2/3 of the members present at one of the first two founding meetings must vote to ratify it. April went over constitution and by-laws and allowed for discussion of any questions. The ONE Chapter’s advisor will be Tara Lydy. The President of the ONE Chapter will report to the Service Leader Executive Board (SLEB) at weekly meetings. The ONE Chapter will go through SLEB but needs to be recognized as its own entity by SGA.

Mariah Fulton moved to ratify the proposed Constitution and by-laws, and Bri Rogers seconded the movement. No discussion was requested, and the vote to ratify was unanimous.

Meeting with Sigrid: April Bentley will be meeting with Sigrid Solomon (Dean of Students) Tuesday, October 30 at 9:00am. The meeting will define the ONE Campaign, describe how a ONE Chapter will be relevant to WC’s mission statement, and describe how the ONE Chapter will positively impact WC’s campus.

Elections:

Description of offices:

President – presides over standing committees, attends all ONE meetings unless excused by another member of the Executive Board, serve as ONE Chapter representative to SLEB

VP – presides when the president is not at a meeting, dually assigned as marketing coordinator, may request or assign publicity to other members, duties as assigned by president

Treasurer – handles funds related to ONE Chapter, keeps account book

Secretary/SGA Rep – Represents ONE Chapter before SGA at weekly meetings, dually assigned as secretary, keeps records and minutes of ONE Chapter events and meetings

Nominations:

President: Caitlin Reed move to nominate April Bentley for President, Bri Rogers second -unanimous vote

Vice President: Bri Rogers and Caitlin Reed both gave short speech – vote by ballot – Caitlin Reed voted Vice President

Treasurer: Caitlin Reed nominate Bri Rogers, Milyda Cass seconded

Mariah Fulton nominate Milyda Cass, Bri Rogers seconded

Both candidates gave short speech – vote by ballot – Milyda Cass voted Treasurer

SGA Rep: No nominations, will re-address at a future meeting, April Bentley will serve as SGA rep until election takes place, and Caitlin Reed will serve as Secretary

Wrap up: We will set weekly goals on Monday (3:00pm) and recap/review weekly goals on Friday (3:00pm)

This week’s goals were: Write a Constitution, hold elections, band state legislators at Student Lobby Day (10/23)

Current ONE Campus Challenge standing: 16^th

Next week’s goals: ONE tabling (Thurs 11/1), ONE pizzas (creative project), talk to Greeks about ONE banners on houses, ONE flag in TOP with other flags (already talked to Janet), get publicity out (Caitlin will work on over the weekend), April will report Exec Board to ONE CC, find someone who has studied abroad, contact Katrina Frazee, Bri will talk to Kevin Snarr running for office, letters to the editor, professor lecture, set up meeting with Jim Boland to talk about Peace House bookstore, April Bentley to contact ONE CC about WC not having December commencement or a marching band (would be impossible to gain all points for bonus), talk to Sigrid Solomon about combining ONE and WC logos, talk to Dan DiBiasio about declaring WC a ONE campus, ONE hall activities – Caitlin Reed to address Bonnie Byrne and BDMF staff, talk to ETC about skits

Meeting adjourned at 4:10pm

Sixteen!

We're up to sixteenth, and we're fourth in the standings for "most points raised this week" or whatever that count is. We've made such leaps and bounds this week. We're on fire =]

Third World Dodgeball is coming up next week, and I just got materials for a 30-hour famine. I'm planning on doing it in April. Well, I'm planning on having it take place in April. By the time April rolls around, I might not be the Hunger and Homelessness Coordinator anymore.

Today will be our second ONE Chapter meeting, even though we're not recognized on campus yet. We're hopefully electing our officers today. April wrote up the constitution but she has to meet with Sigrid before we can go to SGA.

Nineteen!

WE'RE NINETEENTH!!!!

The ONE band-ing of the state legislators got us MAJOR points, and we are totally rockin' now! We're 19th! On the FIRST page of the standings! Ohhh, we can do this. I feel rejuvenated and ready to go!

ONE Chapter @ WC

April finished the Constitution for our ONE Chapter and she'll submit it to SGA as soon as possible. I'm really excited. We're going to have a President, Vice President, Treasurer, and SGA Representative. The Vice President will also serve as Secretary and Marketing Coordinator. We're having another meeting this Friday at 3:00pm at the Center for Service and Civic Engagement, so we'll be able to discuss more about the ratification of the Constitution then.

I logged on to the ONE Campus Challenge site and my pictures from Student Lobby Day were on it!! I was excited :) I'll ONE the pets and take pictures next time I go home. April's the one who made the Flickr account, so she's doing the pictures. We both have blogs. I hope we can really take off with the ONE Campus Challenge and have a huge impact on the campus community!!

Lobbying

Well...it all started as an effort to let the Senators and Representatives know how important financial aid really is to students attending independent (private) colleges and universities in Ohio, but April and I took matters into our own hands!!

We banded two state legislators! We got Dave Daniels, the Representative for Clinton County. He now has a ONE band and a specialized (and framed!) certificate from the ONE Campaign @ WC. I also banded Ron Amstutz, the Senator for the 22nd Voting District (where I'm from).

Here are pics!
The first picture is April Bentley giving a WC-specific ONE Certificate to a freshly-banded Dave Daniels. The second picture is me giving a ONE band to Ron Amstutz.

The connection to ONE with Dave was a smooth segue from April, who talked about her own poverty issues (face it, college students are poor!) and bringing up her activism with the ONE Campaign as a way to address the eradication of poverty. With Ron Amstutz, it was a lot easier. He asked me about the bracelet. No segue necessary!

I think today was fabulous. We talked about issues! Plural! More than one issue! And for the most part, I felt like the legislators were listening. They weren't familiar with the ONE Campaign, but now they have bracelets, which will serve as a reminder of our little lobbying visit.

Until next time,
Caitlin

Busy busy

Well, it rained today so I postponed Third World Dodgeball - the new date is Wednesday, October 31, from 6-7pm. This will give me time to make that "food for thought" :)

I wrote an article for the Servant News (SLEB's Newsletter) about my November projects - The Tunnel and an Oxfam Hunger Banquet. More to follow on those!

We had our first ONE meeting today!!! We had 6 or 7 people...we're going to have two meetings a week. One on Monday to set weekly goals, and another on Friday to follow up on said weekly goals. We're holding elections on Friday, and April and I hope to have the constitution written by then. Joy!

I'm going lobbying tomorrow (for financial aid in private colleges) and we're going to ONE-band our state legislators! Hahahaha!!! The epiphany came to us during the ONE meeting.

Over the weekend, we ONE-banded the cheerleaders at the football game AND the entire Homecoming Court!

This week's challenge is to take the best ONE picture. I vote for the one of Lindsay Lyn Lydy with a bracelet!

Peace,
Caitlin

Yay!

We shot right back up to the 30s! We're currently #31 in standings after 4 calls to Congress have been logged!! There are more coming!

I talked to my Research with Descriptive Statistics class about the ONE Campaign, the ONE Campus Challenge, and the Jubilee Act, and a lot of their comments really shocked me.

They asked why we should do anything, how is it going to help US to help THEM, why aren't we doing anything about the poor in our own country?

I was a little bit disgusted, to be honest. If we have the power to help the world, why wouldn't we want to use it? Am I so naive to think that we can actually make a difference? I really think we can. I called my senator. It's a baby step in the right direction. I think that the people with the means to create change for the better have a moral obligation to do so!

I wish more people thought that way.

It doesn't have to be like this. We can make it better. I'm pleading with whatever forces exist, with whatever deity you worship, that we can make it better. I know we can do it. It won't happen overnight, but we can at least DO something instead of sitting around not doing anything that doesn't immediately benefit us.

In Spanish, we had to read an excerpt about how the United States is a Utilitarian country. I didn't believe it until today. I thought more people cared. I thought college students were at that idealist age where they wanted to change the world. I was totally floored by the lack of support they had for this campaign!

We have the power, why aren't we using it?

Phone call

Today was my first ever phone call to a senator. I called the office of Senator Brown to encourage him to co-sponsor the Jubilee Act, which cancels debt of impoverished countries so they can afford to invest in education, housing, etc. I think it's really important that this gets passed.

For every $1 that African countries are receiving in aid, they're paying $2.30 back in debt.

They'll never get out.

Unless we help.

PLEASE call 1-800-786-2663 and follow the automated directions to contact your senator or representative. Urge them all to support the Jubilee Act. It's a step toward eliminating world poverty.

When Tanzania received debt relief, the government shifted its focus to education and the elimination of school fees instead of debt payment, and almost overnight, an estimated 1.6 million children enrolled in school.

We can make this kind of IMPACT on the world!!

Call!!! Urge your senators and representatives to co-sponsor the Jubilee Act!

Make poverty history.

-Caitlin

Happy Global Day of Action!

Tomorrow I'm going to call senators and representatives to get them to co-sponsor the Jubilee Act! Call 1-800-786-2663 and follow the automated directions to contact your rep or senator and urge them ALL to support the Jubilee Act!!

Here's an excerpt from the email I received today from the ONE Campaign:

The Jubilee Act calls for debt relief for some of the world's poorest nations. Experience proves that debt relief for countries committed to investing in their people's future is one of the most effective ways to fight extreme poverty. And it's easy to see why.

Haiti spends twice as much repaying debt as it does on health care. Eliminating this debt would allow Haiti to spend more on programs that would help the extremely poor like Tanzania did in 2000. When Tanzania's debt was canceled, that government was able to eliminate school fees, sending 1.6 million children to school almost overnight.

Since we started taking action on the Jubilee Act last week, key Senators introduced a companion bill, a critical step in the process. That's just the beginning. If we make our voices heard on Capitol Hill, if we get the phones ringing off the hook, we can put momentum behind the Jubilee Act. And it all starts with you.

Sinking!!

We're down to #42!! :(

The good news is, we're planning lots of fun stuff to get our points back up!

ONE has not yet given us points for my first 5 blogs. We're supposed to receive 300 points per week for a minimum of 5 blogs per week. "ONE Blog" shows up in our points, but it says 0, which is a far cry from 300!

I don't know if I want to resubmit or not. I emailed ONE about it, but I don't know if that will even get to the right hands. It might be a no-reply email address.

More later!!

-Caitlin

Another day

It's only Tuesday! Holy wow!

The Peace Symposium is tomorrow, and the topic is the environment. Too bad that doesn't really relate to ONE. Well, sustainable development is sort of related to both the environment and poverty/hunger in the world.

October 17th is the Global Day of Action for ONE. As such, we have a project going on that will be submitted to ONE for the weekly challenge. April Bentley will be taking a group to help with Habitat for Humanity, an organization already linked with the ONE Campaign. She's going to talk about ONE and how we can make a difference.

She's also going to make a ONE banner for Homecoming, which is this Saturday. I can't believe October's almost over! There's so much more to do. November will be GREAT for my site - I'm going to plan a Hunger Banquet, a Hunger and Homelessness Awareness display, and maybe put up information about 30 hour famine. I'd like to do a 30-hour famine, but I just don't think it would get good results. I could publicize during my H&H Awareness display and then try and do one next semester. That sounds grand.

Constantly dreaming of new ideas!

Until next time,
Caitlin

Woman with a mission

April is going crazy with ONE stuff! She's started her own blog about ONE, and she's even sent an email to a non-ONE college near us, challenging them to become a ONE campus! She was the one who really lit a fire under the idea to start the group. I wanted to, but I had only been talking to professors about it; she's just doing it. She said "Hey, let's start a ONE chapter. When are you free for meetings?" and that was it. We're meeting this week to go over things, but I believe I've already written about that.

Still only three people (including myself) have signed up for Third World Dodgeball. It makes me kind of sad. I really want people to come! I think it'll be really fun and it'll be a good learning experience. I need to look up facts for the "food for thought."

Go to http://one.org and support Wilmington College (Ohio)'s ONE Campus Challenge!

-Caitlin

Exciting news!

We're going to start a campus ONE chapter!! Our first meeting will be this Friday, and we're just going to go over stuff we need to do to be recognized as an official group on campus. It's not "official" yet. Yay! More POINTS!

April is thinking of using the ONE Campaign as her senior capstone project. I think it's GREAT! I can't wait for us to really get rolling on points. We're going to try and have some ONE bracelets here by this weekend (expedited shipping, yeah!) so we can band the Homecoming court and take pictures for more points =]

We're going to see about getting ONE banners up on the Greek houses, and we're trying to orchestrate a trip to see the mayor about signing the ONE Declaration and making Wilmington a ONE town!

Nothing more to report, I don't think.

-Caitlin

Jumping back up

We're back up to #29. Woohoo!

I'm going to submit my blog today for our points! I have a total of 5 (this blog will make 6), so we can start counting! April also made a blog for ONE stuff so we'll see how that goes too! She's taking a group to the Habitat ReStore on the 17th. It'll get us more ONE points! =]

As soon as I have time, I'm going to work on making a banner for ONE that we can display in Pyle Center. I also hope to order some bracelets so we can sell them in Pyle on ONE Days (1st of the month).

Third World Dodgeball is a week from tomorrow...I honestly am a little worried about it. I made it a Facebook event and only three people have RSVP'd. Publicity should be up this week.. hopefully that helps. It'll be a fun way to give people information about the poverty of the world.

More tomorrow after the Service Meeting.

-Caitlin

More ONE

Well, we're still at #32.

My proposal for Third World Dodgeball was approved, and Tara wants me to try and get some sort of prize..like packs of crackers or candy or something cheap. We'll print labels with some sobering stats and the address to the ONE site (http://one.org) and call it "Food for Thought." Tara just wants to make sure they leave with something concrete, since college students have a tendency to zone out :)

I made a Facebook event for Third World Dodgeball, but only one other person has an "attending" RSVP. I hope it picks up! We should have publicity up very soon.

What I'm going to start doing with the blog is having SLEB members email me their posts they want and then I'll add them to the blog so that we can all contribute. Or, we might make an entirely different blog altogether for SLEB.

I need to look up some facts about world poverty, etc. to make my "Food for Thought" before Third World Dodgeball, which will be making its Wilmington College debut on Monday, October 22!

Nothing more to report for today. Hopefully I can recruit some hometown people to the cause this weekend!!

-Caitlin

The saga continues

We're slipping!! We're down to #32, but I have faith that we will jump right back up! I haven't emailed professors yet. I need to do that.

My current thing dealing with Hunger and Homelessness is the Cans Across America project. It's through Sodexho, our dining hall service, and it's a nationwide canned food drive. We're trying to beat our personal record of 881 pounds of food, and Sodexho as a whole is trying to beat the World Record. Woo!! I sent out a Facebook message today to recruit people, and I've gotten a couple responses already =)

I can't submit my report for this blog yet because I have to have my 5 weekly blogs published, and I didn't know how it worked so I reported after one blog, thinking I'd just have to report them all individually. Nope, just every five! I like it. Easier.

Not a whole lot happened today regarding ONE. April Bentley (Habitat for Humanity Coordinator on SLEB) will be taking a group of volunteers to the Habitat ReStore on Wednesday, October 17th. Afterward, she'll give a quick session about ONE and what it's all about to get more recruits for the ONE Campus Challenge!

This week's challenge is to plan an event for 10/17...that's the day of our Westheimer Peace Symposium, so we can't do a whole lot around it. April is taking people to the ReStore, so that's something. It's related somewhat to poverty - they build houses, after all =)

That's about all the reporting I have for today. I'm super excited about the ONE Campus Challenge!!

Sign up at http://one.org!

Until next time,
Caitlin

So many ideas!

We're still #27 in the standings, but that's way better than #133 last Saturday! I've been recruiting, getting friends and family members to sign up and support WC. It's even on my white board on my door, and I include it in my away messages on Instant Messenger. Next, I'm going to invite some professors. It's imperative that we have a strong network of support so that our efforts succeed. In the past, the Social Science professors have pushed my Hunger and Homelessness projects on their students; last semester I had a Hunger Banquet and some profs offered extra credit.

I hope the same goes for Third World Dodgeball. I submitted my paperwork and the dodgeballs have been ordered. It's scheduled for Monday, October 22 from 6-7pm. Hopefully I'll get a good turnout, and I have to make sure to take TONS of pictures!

I had a couple other ideas for ONE mini-projects. They're all centered around Halloween, or as I've deemed it, Hallo-ONE =]

We can paint ONE logos on pumpkins and pass out candy with snippets of ONE information on them. Oooh. Maybe we could have a Halloween party with candy and whatnot, or stuff mailboxes. I like the mailboxes idea. I'll start working on that this weekend.

Speaking of this weekend, I'll get my mom and sister to sign up, as well as talk about it with Nick's family - I know I asked Nick and his sister both to sign up, but I'll mention it to his mom too. I'm so glad it's taken off like this. We can keep it going strong!

I'm going to check out http://one.org and see what kind of merchandise is available. I'd love to have some gear to promote the ONE Campaign and the Campus Challenge.

Sign up!
Make poverty history!

It starts today.

I'm officially starting my 5-blogs-per-week blog today! As I explained before, this will get us major points for the ONE Campus Challenge; 300 points per week! What I find odd is that to mention ONE in a normal blog gets you 75 per day you do it, and after 5 days, you'd have 375 points. Whatever, I'm not really going to worry about it. I like having a blog devoted to ONE.

What we're going to do this week:

SLEB has a meeting every Monday afternoon, so I'm sure we'll start talking about ONE again tomorrow and making plans. Expect a blog about it! We already have a coordinator that deals with poverty awareness (me, Hunger and Homelessness Coordinator), so ONE fits in splendidly with our program.

Sometime in late October, I'm planning an event called Third World Dodgeball. I read about it on the 30 Hour Famine website and it sounds like a very useful tool to teach about the distribution of resources in the world.

The first thing we'll do is make two groups, one big and one small. The big group will pick a name of a third-world country, and the small group will pick a name of an affluent/developed country. After they have their names, we explain the rules. We'll have twelve dodgeballs in six colors - the big group can only use two colors. The small group can use any color dodgeball. The small group is allowed to cross the dividing line between sides to get balls they can use, but the large group is not allowed to cross the line (note: the players must be on their own side to throw/attack). Other rules might include allowing the small group to retrieve players that are "out" when they catch a ball thrown by an opponent, but not allowing the large group's players to do the same.

After the game, I will ask questions about how the game related to the world's situation. So many people are like that large group; they have few rights, they can't afford to do what the tiny little group of people can do. So much wealth of the world is in so few countries - and that's where ONE comes in. I will be able to fit in a blurb about the ONE Campaign nicely. I'll get the email addresses of anyone interested (since people tend to forget), and I'll also tell them the URL for one.org and mention that they can text in their membership on the campaign.

By the way, we're up to 27 in standings!!

We can make poverty history.

My ONE Blog

This blog will be devoted to my involvement with the ONE Campus Challenge, through the ONE Campaign to make poverty history. Last Saturday I found out about the ONE Campus Challenge, and I got excited. I immediately joined, invited people, made a Facebook group, and wrote an article about poverty for the campus newsletter. Why, you ask? To get points!

It seems strange that there exists a competition to reduce poverty, but it's definitely a motivator. My only fear is that people will get too distracted from the cause while they're focusing on winning.

Wilmington College is a small school. We were founded by the Quakers (or the Religious Society of Friends) in 1870. We have approximately 1200 students. And ONE is taking over the campus like the best kind of epidemic you can imagine. In five days, we went from #133 in standings to #33! Can you believe that? I think we can make a difference. Tiny little Dub C can make a huge difference.

We recently expanded our Service Learning Office into a campus-owned house, and we're now the Center for Service and Civic Engagement - and if this isn't Civic Engagement, I don't know what is.

The point of the Campus Challenge is to get points by doing ONE-related things, like dressing your pet in ONE gear, or taking a picture of 25+ students in ONE gear at an iconic location on campus. Some more tech-based points come from making a Facebook group (done!), and blogging about ONE.

If I continue to write in this blog 5 days a week about my involvement with ONE, Wilmington College will receive 300 points a week! I can do that! I'm going to start writing my 5 weekly posts this Sunday, October 7th.

Sign up to help Wilmington College in the ONE Campus Challenge! You don't have to be a student here - friends, family, students, and alums are all welcome to join, and if you're willing to help us out, you're definitely a friend of WC!

Go to http://one.org and look for the ONE Campus Challenge! Specify that you're for Wilmington College in Wilmington, OH and help WC make poverty history!