Meeting Minutes 11/13/08

ONE Minutes

-C. Reed bought the scrapbook and the Bentleys bought the pictures for it

-putting it together as the meeting goes on

-Keith Hamrick, president of Gay-Straight Alliance, attended the meeting

-On Thursday of World AIDS Day week, ONE and GSA are doing a joint movie night (RENT)

-GSA wanted to know if ONE was going to contribute to the movie night

-ONE is providing plates, cups, and napkins

-GSA has extra money in their budget

-GSA has card from Omegas to get extra-large pizzas for a cheap price and C. Reed has coupons

-Do movie night in Mason Center

-GSA will buy pizzas and drinks

-RENT discussion panel: C. Reed and C. Ryan are both willing to participate in discussion

-Want to ask Mary Rose Zink, Missy Holmes, Renee Pinkelman

-ONE has $25 for World AIDS Day -- was originally going to use it for a gift certificate for the person who wins the quiz on Monday

-Do we want to do this or use it for extra funding?

-Keith thinks that extra incentive would be good

-Arin suggested a $10 gift card to Buffalo Wild Wings

-Allyssa wants to do Grassroots Soccer

-Mike's scavenger hunt will be done the Friday of World AIDS Week

-Mike and Arin will work on it

-C. Reed wants to draw chalk corpse outlines outside and write poverty facts inside them so people can see the death inside them

-This week's challenge: write a note about our experience with the ONE Campaign, poverty, etc., on Facebook

-Have to add Maisie Pigeon as a friend

-C. Reed already wrote her note

-We moved up to ninth place :)

-Open house - next Wednesday, so no meeting

-Stevie is going to the resource room to make a giant poster and already put fliers in the RAs' mailboxes

-C. Reed is going to finish the scrapbook while on duty tonight

-Still need a panel of people affected by AIDS

-Stevie suggests talking to Mary Rose

-Tony is hoping to help as well

-Ana Dorr attending the meeting and recorded parts of it to submit for the video bonus

New ideas!

I haven't blogged in a while, but I need to start up again. I have re-inspired my commitment to ending poverty. I was going through the motions for a while but I saw a video in my Social Justice class today that reminded me of all the people in the world who have nothing, while I sit here in my relative splendor. I make about $275 a month. That's not a lot when you're going out with friends, buying groceries, and doing whatever else college students are doing. I'm also trying to save a little for my upcoming wedding or in case my car breaks down or something.

But some people have NOTHING. People are dying of preventable diseases like diarrhea while I complain about the taste of Pepto Bismol. People are living on little to no nourishment while I complain about the offerings of my school's dining services.

What would I do, were our situations reversed? What would my life be? Who would help me?

Those were my thoughts today as I thought about new ways to increase people's excitement about the cause.. and as I thought of all the people dying in the world and people's excuses for not helping with global poverty being "we need to take care of who is here before there" - I had a thought. What if we brought poverty, disease, and death to campus? What if people saw the dead while they walked to class?

I want to do chalk outline sketches of "corpses" on the sidewalks all over campus. Adults, children, everyone. In the outlines I want to write statistics and facts about the poverty in the world, and how it is affecting those who are less advantageous than we are.

I love it.

My other idea involves toilet paper rolls! I want to take the paper tubes from toilet paper and use fake money wrapped around them with something like "We waste so much money - why not help others?" or something. I haven't worked that one out quite yet.

Check out one.org/campus and get involved!

Homecoming

We made our Homecoming banner and it is prominently displayed on the fence by the football field. It took us about four hours total to make... I have pics
now of the unfinished banner, and I will have pics of the finished result later!

Global Day of Action

We have decided to turn the Global Day of Action against Poverty into the WEEK of Action Against Poverty. Here's the calendar:

Monday 10/13: Create a country and develop your own Millennium Development Goals to make poverty history in your country.

Tuesday 10/14: Tabling in Pyle Center about ONE Partners

Wednesday 10/15: Showing of "The Bicycle Thieves," the story of a poor man searching the streets of Rome for his stolen bicycle, which is the only means he has to work.

Thursday 10/16: Poverty Games - Third World Dodgeball, Capture the Flag: Survival, and Clusterbomb games.

Friday 10/17: Speaker(s) from the Clinton County Homeless Shelter and/or Sugartree Ministries will be on campus to discuss local poverty and ways students can get involved to make a difference in the community.

More information later!

Making Progress

Today three of our ONE Chapter officers went to the store to get supplies to create our Homecoming banner, which will be displayed at the Homecoming football game this Saturday for all to see! It's an '80s theme, and we're taking a few creative liberties to incorporate some funk and some color to make it fabulous! I shall post pictures this weekend :)

Back in Action - Game On

We're back in the swing of things for OCC 2.0! So far, we've been holding weekly meetings (Wednesdays at 8pm in the CSCE) and brainstorming ideas for the weekly challenges. We came out on top last year after not winning a single challenge, but I think maybe with a little more creativity and some motivation we can snag a weekly challenge win!

Details about our plan for the Global Day of Action Against Poverty will be up soon!

Meeting 2/20

ONE Chapter Meeting

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

6:00pm @ TOP Dining Hall

Minutes

1. Elections:

VICE PRESIDENT:

Mike Weidman nominated Caitlin Reed

Caitlin Ryan seconded

Vote: unanimous in favor

SECRETARY:

Caitlin Ryan declined nomination

Position still open

For the time being, Caitlin Reed will assume responsibility of secretary

SGA REPRESENTATIVE

Caitlin Reed nominated Mike Weidman for SGA Rep

April Bentley seconded

Vote: Unanimous in favor

TREASURER:

No nominations

Position still open

For the time being, Arin Bentley will assume responsibility of treasurer

2. Rank: We were 6^th in standings at the time of the Top Ten decision. Since we were in the Top Ten, we now will continue on in the competition to receive the grand prize. We will receive a $1,000 grant from ONE. The blog announcing the Top Ten schools is on the OCC Website.

3. Paint your poverty: Arin is setting up around 12:15 tomorrow (Thursday, 2/21) in the CSCE. So far, only 4 people have RSVP’d on Facebook. Arin will have publicity in Pyle tomorrow for day-of advertising. We will try to get the artwork displayed in Pyle.

4. Weekly blogging/Personal blogging: Keep it up!

5. Questions/concerns:
1. We don’t know if we can still submit things for points. We need to email OCC to ask.
2. Make sure you sign the petition to send the next President to Africa! April sent a Facebook message to the Wilmington College ONE Chapter group.
3. For the next meeting (Monday 2/25), have at least one idea of how to use the grant money. We will discuss and write up a proposal.
4. Sweatshirt raffle: We will table next week in Pyle to sell raffle tickets. We may also have information on Heifer International.

Schedule for table:

MONDAY

11-12: Lindsay

12-1: Arin

5-6: Caitlin, Mike

TUESDAY

11-12: Mike, Arin

12-1: Caitlin, Mike

5-6: Caitlin, Mike, Arin

WEDNESDAY

11-12: April (?)

12-1: Arin

5-6: Lindsay, Mike, Arin

THURSDAY

11-12: Mike

12-2: April, Arin

5-6: Mike, Arin

FRIDAY

11-12: Lindsay

12-1: April, James

5-6: Caitlin

Top Ten!

Here's today's OCC Blog:

The Top 10

After almost 5 months of open competition, we’re now narrowing the competition down to the top ten schools:

1. Sacred Heart University
2. University of Nevada, Las Vegas
3. Brandeis University
4. Western Kentucky University
5. Princeton University
6. Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio
7. Kansas State University
8. George Washington University
9. Hofstra University
10. Campbellsville University

Each school will receive a $1,000 grant to create their own poverty advocacy program.

Thank you all for waiting patiently while we processed points. We know that the leader board might shift around a little, but at the point that we cut off the competition (Monday) these were the schools that made the cut for the final 10.

This doesn’t mean that the competition is over for everyone else. If you didn’t make the top ten, you can still create you very own advocacy project and submit it for a chance at a “wild card” spot. In late March when we all vote for the final winner, we’ll include the wild card entry in with the top 10 schools for voting.

Though the competition of the Campus Challenge is narrowing, the larger competition against extreme poverty is far from over. We’ve got lots of work to do, and it is crucial that we all continue to do the work we have done during the campus challenge, even if the fun and games are coming to a close.

Meeting Minutes

ONE Meeting
Monday 2/18/08 6pm
CSCE

Rank – We are currently 6^th. We intend to have everything logged by the end of the week.

Officer Elections – Elections are Wednesday at 6:00pm. All people interested need to have a list of what you’ve done and a short speech about why they are qualified for the position.

ONE Voice – The concert was Wednesday 2/13. It was a success! Dan and Chris were very impressed and we had several faculty members attend.

Paint Your Poverty – Thursday 1-4pm in boardroom, we will have paper and markers, etc. for people to “paint” their idea of poverty. We will try to display them around Pyle and other campus buildings. We will submit it as a creative project. Bring people – the more the better! Arin is working on publicity to be out tomorrow.

Posting events – If you do something, post it and let the exec board know that you posted something so we don’t repeat anything we log.

Cincinnati Enquirer

Hey hey! We made into the Cincy news :)

Here's the article:

NO. 1 IN ACTIVISM

Wilmington College has been ranked first among 1,438 colleges and universities in the One Campus Challenge.

This initiative focuses on eradicating extreme poverty, along with development goals such as improving education, promoting gender equality, combating HIV-AIDS, reducing child mortality and improving maternal health.

College chapters can also earn points for activities ranging from recruiting members and gaining campus support to lobbying elected officials.

On Jan. 25, Wilmington chapter members shared the One Campaign story with the college's board of trustees, who were so moved by the sincerity of their presentation they formally declared Wilmington College as a "One Campus."

That action was on the heels of Mayor David Raizk proclaiming Wilmington a "One City," helping the college vault from third place to the lead in the competition.

The Wilmington chapter gained recognition with projects geared toward poverty awareness such as spearheading the Global Day of Action Against Poverty during homecoming, fostering campus involvement in Third World dodgeball, and the Oxfam hunger banquet.

Students created a Web page and sold wristbands and T-shirts with the slogan, "I'd Rather End Poverty Than Do My Homework."

On the OCC Blog!

I was asked to submit a blog for the OCC, and here it is!

Wilmington College (Wilmington, OH) didn’t win the “On Campus Educational Project” with these, but I was asked to blog about them.

The first thing we did is a really easy, interactive way to spread the word about the ONE Campaign. I folded sheets of construction paper in half and put a huge question mark and the words “Did you know” on the front. On the inside, I wrote a statistic about world hunger and poverty. It’s more unique than just posters or flyers because people get intrigued and then they go to read the inside…not knowing what they’ll find. The idea was to shock people with statistics and inspire them to get more involved to make a change in the world.

Pictures of the “Did You Know” cards are on Flickr.com with the tags “WILMTONOH” and “ONE.” Click here to check out the set.

The second thing we worked on is a game called Worldopoly. Obviously, it is modeled off Monopoly, but we used the GDPs of all the countries in the world to make a ratio that directly related them to the values on a traditional monopoly board. For railroads, we used the four highest grossing oil producers in the world. For the “Water Works” property, we substituted a new well for the community, and for the “Electric Company” property, we substituted yearly vaccinations for the community.

Click here to check it out on Flickr.

In addition to these projects, we also set up a table in Pyle and asked people to take short quizzes about poverty. When they were finished, we gave them a fact sheet with the answers and information on how to get involved with ONE.

-Caitlin Reed

Wrapping up

The house party wasn't as popular as we would have hoped...but we had a handful of people come, and we had fun playing games :)

The only thing left to do is LOG EVERYTHING!!! Yikes.

We're down to 5th place, by the way. Maybe logging all our stuff will bump us up. OH! And we got in the Cincinnati Enquirer! It's pretty awesome :)

Friday

Today, there was a Mardi Gras themed dinner at the TOP and there was a mini-float contest. Arin made a ONE float for the contest!

Other than that, we're still 3rd. We have to get the concert on YouTube :)

I think that's it for today... I'll write about the house party tomorrow.

RAK

This week is Random Acts of Kindness (RAK) week, and today the activity in Pyle Center was writing letters to Congress members about co-sponsoring acts to relieve poverty.

I wrote one encouraging my Congressman to co-sponsor a bill that would increase funding to get immunizations, vitamins, clean water, etc. to impoverished people and increase maternal and child health care. Over 500,000 mothers die each year as a result of childbirth complications. One child dies every 3-5 seconds! Children in the world are dying of preventable diseases that we could stop with vaccines and medical attention. But we have to provide for others, since they can't provide for themselves.

Many Singers. ONE Voice.

The concert was tonight and it was AMAZING!! The choir sang Bambalela, We Are The Ones, I Am Willing, A New World, and I'll Make The Difference. I sang Imagine. Kevin and Micah sang For Good. All the songs rocked!!

There will be video on YouTube hopefully by the weekend :)

I'm so excited - it was amazing to put my talents to use for a cause.

Now Cathy and Chris DiBiasio (the President's wife) are talking about taping us singing "A New World" and sending it to the Obama Campaign... amazing. I'm still excited. I've been grinning forever.

Meetings this week

Our meeting was canceled on Monday because a lot of the Chapter members were going to an off-campus speaker.

I'm not sure when elections will be held for other officers...possibly next week.

We won't be having a meeting on Wednesday, because the ONE Concert is at the regular meeting time.

This week's challenge is to show off our skills - and I think that singing is definitely a skill. I think we can win this week's challenge with the concert. I certainly hope so.

I'll be putting together a short introduction for the concert today or tomorrow :)

This week's activities!

This week is gonna be crazy for us!

Monday at 6 we have a meeting.

Wednesday at 6 we WOULD be having a meeting, but we have the concert! It's only three days away!! I need to practice my solo... yikes.

I imagine that we'll do elections on Monday. We also need to attack the next weekly challenge. Coming down the last stretch is going to really put a strain on us.

The votes are in...

After a long wait, we finally have an answer: Arin is the new ONE Chapter President.

This will be an interesting experience.

Elections

We started the election process tonight, and it was basically a train wreck. Arin and I are vying for the Presidency. We each presented a list of things we had done for the ONE Campus Challenge, and we discussed our goals for the growth of the Chapter and campus involvement in the ONE Campaign. We wound up suspending the elections until further notice. That was all that happened at the meeting tonight, and I really just don't know what to do anymore.

I know that I care about ONE for ONE's sake. I don't care about the OCC for the points, I care about the cause. I want to bring awareness to people and spark that fire in student's idealism - because I know it's there. Once people realize their voice counts, they use it, and I want to be the person to help them realize that.

...I just don't know what's going to happen.

3rd again :)

Well, they bumped our points because of the LTE issue. We're down to 3rd and Sacred Heart and Brandeis are #1 and #2, respectively.

It was nice being number 1 for a while, but like I've said before; it's not about the points, it's about the cause. I just wish it was that way for everyone. I'm feeling really discouraged because it's become a contest to see who can get the most points, not who can make the most impact on their campus or in their community. I hope that after the OCC, all of these ONE Chapters continue, because we are going good things by getting the word out. I sure wasn't highly involved with the ONE Campaign before the Challenge.

ONE Meeting

We had a meeting today - it was pretty interesting. Here are the minutes:

ONE Chapter Meeting

Monday, February 4, 2008

6:00pm

CSCE

Minutes

• Standings: 21,975 pts this week. Thanks to Bri (LTEs) and Mike (blog, monopoly)
• Today is the last day for LTEs!
• Log events: log your events – April logged educational activity (educational survey – she will have statistics to display). Caitlin did “Did You Know” flyers.
• Partner project updates:
• Arin: working on ONE float- Jonna organizing float competition for mini cars during Mardi Gras week, waiting on R. Sarvis to get us pics from Trustee dinner
• Caitlin Reed: House Party vs. Poverty – working with L. Storck for RAK week
• Mike: Working on it.
• Caitlin Ryan: submitted Witness article. Randy Sarvis is doing an article too.
• Poverty-opoly: it fell through last week because we couldn’t get a room. This week’s challenge is to do an educational project off-campus. We’re going to try and do Poverty-opoly. Bri will contact Sugartree to see about Thursday. Issues & Artists conflict: we could make it 9pm on Thursday. Name change to Worldopoly to keep it neutral.
• Relay for Life team: We can have up to 10 people – we have 6 so far. April and Arin are checking to see if Chi Alpha needs people before signing up for our ONE team.
• Elections: April is President and student leader on the ONE site. We need to have elections because we need a SLEB rep, but SLEB has decided that we need to elect this week to determine the ONE Coordinator position. The new President will not take effect until after the OCC is completed. Elections are this Wednesday. There will be open elections. The Presidency will be decided before other positions are filled. Each person running is to prepare a short speech including what they have done for the ONE Campaign, who they worked with, etc., and why they are qualified for the position. Each contested position will have a discussion.
• Bri moves to amend Article 2.2 in the Constitution
• Caitlin Reed seconds movement
• Amendment: members who have attended at least three (3) meetings of the Wilmington College ONE Chapter will be able to vote in elections.
• Pass unanimously
• Next week on the 12^th there is an SGA meeting (Tuesdays at 4pm) – our newly elected SGA rep will start attending SGA meetings at this time.

Officers: VP/Marketing Coordinator, President, Secretary/SGA Rep, Treasurer

Tabling

Today is a ONE Day, and we're out in Pyle letting everyone know we're here! April and James made ONE quizzes that people are filling out, and that's also part of our educational activity (though I didn't know that when I submitted our report for the Weekly Challenge, but we can just re-submit... so much for people logging their own activities).

Uh Oh!

ONE is going to be limiting the points for LTEs to 5/person. This is happening because, without a limit for submitting, people were submitting up to 200 LTEs per person! ONE feels that this isn't an effective way to fight poverty; it's spamming. I agree to some degree, but it's not spamming if different letters are going out, and it's not all to one newspaper.

I don't know how this will affect the rankings. Brandeis and Sacred Heart will probably go back to #1 and #2, and we'll either be #3 or #4.

I honestly thought I was still dreaming.

I just wanted to immortalize this moment in WC ONE History:

Yes. That says #1. And it's on Wilmington College's page. We, out of nowhere, have over 400 LTEs. I don't know how long it will last, but I put out my educational activity today and that will be submitted as well.

I and precious few others still believe that the OCC is about the cause, not the points. I hope that, even though we managed to get here once, it doesn't become the focus of all our efforts. I want to raise some awareness.

Teetering.

Last night, we went from third to fourth. So Mike and I invited and recruited some people and got us back to third.

Then we went from third to fourth again. George Washington has probably been saving up all their points to spring forward at the last minute like this. Mike and I submitted more stuff...

and I woke up and we were third again. We're only ahead by 2,000 points, so we need to jump on it.

I talked to three people about their trips abroad and had them submit statements...the statements are now in this blog and have been submitted. I still have one person I want to talk to...Angie Lauver went to Kenya and I'd love to get that story.

More later!

Study Abroad Story 3

Statement of Rachel Stevens

Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio

For the past four years, I have gone to the Dominican Republic for two weeks of my winter vacation. I spend half of each January working with orphaned children. I live with a Dominican family, and I work in a small mountain town called Jarabacoa. I’ll describe my typical week.

Three days a week, we do construction work. Then we work with orphans in sort of a “vacation Bible school” setting. The other two days a week, we work with kids from the street who don’t have a place to live. Even though I don’t speak much Spanish and they don’t speak English, their smiles say everything. Their whole faces light up when we come in to talk with them and teach them a little of what we know.

Working in the DR taught me so much about how we take so many things for granted in the US. Walking through the grocery store with my Dominican family, the lights would just go out, and it was no big deal for them. When taking a shower, it was either really hot or really cold, and once I had to shower using only a bucket. Some mornings there was no electricity. We ate whatever we had for breakfast; it was mostly rice and hot dogs.

I realized how different our worlds were when, after returning home from working with the orphans, my Dominican sister said that we were “back to civilization.” That really hit it home for me; the US is so much more modernized than a lot of the world. We take little things for granted all the time, and we need to step back and think about other people in the world and what they consider “civilized” living.

Study Abroad Story 2

Statement of Chris Jones

Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio

Last summer, I went to Mexico with a group of students from my Spanish class. It was a great trip; we visited a bunch of beaches, traveled to different parts of Mexico, partied a little, tried the local fare, and made friends with a burro vendor on the corner. We walked all over the place. We stayed for six weeks and took classes for college credit (that is the point of studying abroad, after all), but aside from that, we had some really cool experiences that just aren’t that common in the US.

We went with a group and taught some orphans some English and played games with them. They weren’t terribly disadvantaged, but I still felt bad for them. I’m still working on writing a letter to keep in touch with them. On the negative side of things, I did get some things stolen from me, and I got acquainted with the Mexican penal system.

In wondering whether or not Mexico changed the way I feel about being from the US, the answer is yes. Spending six weeks in Mexico dramatically increased my appreciation for our police force. It also made me very happy that we don't use concrete as a universal construction material. Spending the time in Mexico also aided me in knowing what it felt like to be a minority in a country where you don't speak a language fluently and you're afraid that everyone is out to get you. People in the United States don’t usually understand that concept. My trip to Mexico helped me see how privileged I really am to live here.

Study Abroad Story

Statement of Abbey Pratt-Harrington

Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio

In Summer 2007, I traveled to Nicaragua with my Spanish professor. We stayed with a Nicaraguan family. Their house did not have a floor or plumbing, and we had to walk past a very aggressive pig on our way to the outhouse. The family had a tiny TV with terrible reception, and they watched American movies. They had a wood stove. One morning, I woke to the sound of a pig being slaughtered next door, and chickens would just wander in and out of the house. The adventures didn’t stop in the house, though.

We went out and met with children who lived in a huge garbage dump. Their houses were made out of anything their families could find, and they used glue to curb their hunger pains. We went to a women’s clinic where women are taught about birth control and AIDS, and children could receive medical checkups. We saw the Maternity House, where women could go to have their babies safely if they were at risk for pregnancy complications. We traveled a lot on our two-week trip in Nicaragua; I can’t even remember all of it.

After spending time in Nicaragua, I am so thankful for all the privileges I receive by being in the United States. I feel so sad that there are children living in dumps. I can’t even imagine growing up like they do and never knowing anything else. What really surprised me was how nice the people were. They were giving and sharing, even though they didn’t have much. The women who worked in the clinic worked for free. I was amazed by the altruism of the Nicaraguan community, and I wish we could bring some of that spirit to the US.

LTEs

After some 85 letters to the editor we generated, we're well positioned at #3. April really does not want to slip.

We have a meeting tonight, so I'll post the minutes this evening :)

Lots of fun plans in the works!!

Kickin' it up a notch.

April's freaking out because George Washington University came out of nowhere and is now closely trailing us at #4. We might falter a little bit this week. It's a huge blow that Weekly Challenges are now worth 50,000 points, because if #4 or #5 gets one, we get blown away. It's a little depressing. We're planning a dorm storm to be submitted for at least 30,000 points - knocking on every single door on campus and asking if people have signed up for the ONE Campus Challenge yet.

More tomorrow after our meeting.

Benefit and Dorm Storm

I've got the Quaker meetinghouse booked for our mini-benefit on February 13th! I'm so excited. I'll have flyers out this week - maybe even today! All we're going to charge for admission is a valid email address so we can sign people up for the ONE Campus Challenge!

I also had a thought about going door to door in the dorms asking people for their email addresses. We could submit it for 20,000 points, because it's like a list-serv, but more intense. They can't click "delete" on a person =)

A New Week

Meeting minutes:

ONE Chapter Meeting
Monday, January 28, 2008
6:00pm @ CSCE

Special event – Happy birthday Milyda!

Ranking – 270,620 points and 219 recruits; we need everyone to participate – if you haven’t done something for us, do something!

Battle of the ONE Bands – Concert tentatively scheduled for 2/13 @ 6:00pm. It’s during RAK Week – let’s promote it! We’re working on getting it in the Quaker Meeting House.

Trustee Dinner – We practiced, practiced, practiced! We met with the Trustees last Friday night in front of some 45 audience members. It was great! April is meeting with Sigrid this week to write up a proclamation of WC as a ONE Campus. Dan is meeting with a congressman and he’s willing to take some ONE information with him and put a ONE band on some congressmen!

Individual project updates – the weekly challenge this week is an educational activity. It can be a powerpoint, a game. If we can solidify a date and time tonight – we need publicity for an event out TOMORROW.

8:30pm Thursday: Caitlin Reed, Arin, Caitlin Ryan

Brainstorm: quiz bowl, poverty-related board games (The Game of Life: Poverty Edition; Povertyopoly) – prizes? Raffle tickets, bookmarks, ONE bands.

Someone needs to check with the PRC and see if we have sold any bookmarks.

Reporting – let’s all go over to the computer for a tutorial on how to log a ONE activity.

Heifer International – We are sending out letters to all organizations – we are hoping to get support and donations. It’s worth 1600 points.

We are going to upload everything that was backlogged from April and Arin.

Recruits

We're up to 214 recruits! We have a meeting tomorrow at 6:00pm, so I'll have more updates then.

Trustee Dinner

WOW!!! The dinner with the Trustees was absolutely amazing. Our presentation went really well, and the audience asked a lot of questions. It looks like we might even be getting named a ONE Campus tomorrow! After the presentation, we actually had one person text to join the ONE Campus Challenge! (That reminds me, I want to go look at our OCC page...) We haven't had any new recruits show up on our page yet. We're at 208 as of tonight. I will check back in the morning and see what's happened! I AM SO EXCITED.

We did a great job, and doing this work has prompted me to want to apply for the ONE Coordinator position on SLEB, as I will probably be applying for President of the ONE Chapter.

Practice makes perfect

We were at the office this morning at 7:00 to run through our presentation again. This time it went a lot more smoothly. We trimmed it down so that we fit into a twenty-minute presentation, but we have to get it to even less. The presentation should be twenty minutes including Q&A. I'm pretty excited about it. Everyone else is nervous, but I feel great. We're meeting again at 4:00pm to run through it with the actual screen set up where we'll be presenting and eating dinner.

We're still 3rd!

Third Place

We are currently in 3rd place! If this were the Olympics, we would have the bronze medal!

We met for an hour and twenty minutes to go over our presentation to the Trustees tomorrow, and while it was a horrible trainwreck of a practice, we certainly have pointers to go over to be perfect by tomorrow.

That's all we really have going on at the moment...everything else is on hold so we can get through this dinner.

Benefit concert

One of the ways to get points for the ONE Campus Challenge is to host a "Battle of the ONE Bands." What I'm proposing isn't exactly that, but it's music-related. Here's the quote from the ONE Points list:

"Description: Arrange a performance of campus and local bands. Try to keep the cost low and make part of the price joining the ONE Campus Challenge."

What I'm planning to do is just arrange it like we do our other benefit concerts. There will be choral performances as well as solos and duets. It says "campus and local bands," but I think that having campus and local singers of any sort should be good!

Two songs my choir already knows are "Bambelela," which means "Never give up," and is a commonly-used song in AIDS awareness performances, and "It's A New World," which speaks about changing the world to be the way we want it.

I also want to sing John Lennon's "Imagine," because I saw it done once with a slideshow running behind the singer showing images of MLK, and war scenes, and happy scenes, and all this fun stuff that makes people cry.

I'm going to do some research on possible songs, and we'll have a "donations and signups" style admissions process. We'll also have a ONE Table to count as on-campus tabling.

I'm going to talk to Cathy Roma (Choir director) about it very VERY soon.

First meeting

We had our first meeting of the semester tonight! Here are the minutes :)

ONE Chapter Meeting
Wednesday, Jan 23, 2008, 6:00pm
Center for Service and Civic Engagement

Minutes

We’re ranked #4, mainly thanks to Bri Rogers working with Barb Kaplan to get us a list of every student on campus’s email address.

Trustee Dinner – Caitlin, April, Arin, Milyda, Lindsay Storck presenting. We will meet at 4:30pm on Thursday, January 24 to discuss who will speak about which part of the presentation.

Power 100 – It was awesome! It took place Jan 2-5^th in DC and April got us 1000 pts for going. We have administrative support like no one else does. Their leaders aren’t doing anything that we aren’t, except that Brandeis did a phone bank for the “On the Record” challenge. For letter-writing campaigns, we could make a simple letter and hand-write ten per member of the Chapter, and have it signed by students.

We’re doing Heifer International – we get points for any project with a ONE partner, regardless of tabling.

ONE Sweatshirt raffle – we have a Women’s XL sweatshirt ($40 online). We could try to raffle it at a sporting event and sell tickets for $2/ticket.

Shirts from ONE - If we order 20 shirts, they’re $6 each ($15 online). We need the tax ID number so we can order them.

Upcoming weekly challenges –

Now—1/28: Recruit

Individually ask your professors!!

1/28—2/4: Best educational project

Part of our Trustee Dinner will count; something we can use many times

2/4—2/11: Best off-campus project

Working with Tony on a “Game of Life” idea w/ life in impoverished countries – can use stories from Oxfam Hunger Banquet – include other organizations to help (International club, BSI) – possible venue? Maybe Sugartree, HS (youth outreach)

2/11—2/18: Put your skills to work

Campus-wide emails – April has a list of all campus emails and she has been inviting people and our numbers are increasing!

We need to table in Pyle for some more points. We will set up a schedule at Monday’s meeting.

Officer/member duties: Ideas and follow through – we want everyone to help in the planning and projection of our activities, we want the work to be more balanced.

Possibilities:

Float contest put on by Sodexho. Jonna Sibole will talk to Janet to approve the event. It would be a “mini-float” project, and people could vote on the best one.

Caitlin will work with Cathy Roma to put on a ONE Benefit concert – hopeful date 2/13 or 2/20 – NEED BY FEB 24 (DEADLINE)

Maybe...

Once the points from the mayor's proclamation hit, we should be in third place. It's so exciting!

In other news, I wrote an OTM for April Bentley's work on the ONE Campaign and attendance to the Power 100 Summit.

April also sent a mass email to every student at WC, for a huge amount of points.

...maybe we could really win this.

Latest news

Latest news: members of the WC ONE Chapter will be meeting with Randy Sarvis to put a press release about the ONE Campaign into a local Wilmington paper. Sweet! We're currently working out a time to meet with him that works for all (or most) of us. Caitlin Ryan should still be putting something in her local papers, since she has connections ;)

I'm an intern this semester at the Center for Service and Civic Engagement, and I'll be working to incorporate service learning into classes within the social science department - ONE fits great there =]

Scootin' along.

Hey hey! We had a quick meeting this afternoon to discuss the presentation we'll be giving to the Board of Trustees. The powerpoint has to be submitted by Monday so that everyone can proofread it and check it before its presentation at the dinner on Friday, January 25th.

It should be super cool. We're submitting it as one of those "make your own point value" activities. Since getting the Board of Trustees is not an easy feat, we're shooting pretty high point-wise. I'm not sure what April's gonna go for, though. We'll have to wait and see.

We're 2nd in the "most points this week" rankings, but still maintaining 4th in the overall rankings. When our Trustee points hit, along with the mayor's proclamation that Wilmington is a city of ONE, we're gonna be shooting right along.

More info to come!

Back from break

Welcome back from break! We're back and today is the 2nd day of classes for Spring semester '08. Over break, April attended the Power 100 Summit, and I'll get some info in here about that shortly.

We are now FOURTH in the standings. We maintained a steady 5th place all during winter break.

Our meetings start up tomorrow night, and they will be held each Monday and Wednesday evening at 6:00pm.

More info to come! We're working on some great ideas!

PS. We were selected to present to the Board of Trustees - that's a HARD thing to do! They only meet a few times a year!