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