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)