Talent Showcase

UNICEF UVa is planning a Talent Showcase for Thursday, April 28th from 5 to 7 pm. We are hoping to hold the showcase in the Amphitheater, but are awaiting approval. Currently, we are seeking artistic submissions in the form of artwork or performances. Performances should range in length from 3 to 7 minutes and should draw inspiration from water. The purpose of the event is to raise awarness about the global water crisis, in which millions of men, women, and children face a severe shortage of clean and safe drinking water. All of the funds raised at the event will go toward the Japan Tsunami Relief Fund. Please join us for a night of awarness with food, fun, and free entertainment. All are welcome!

General Body Meeting February 3

New Approach this Semester

• Focus more on advocacy and education
• Incorporating presentations of situations
• Figure out how we can help the situation
  Today we are focusing on the Gaza strip
  Giving a non-partisan overview of the situation and the plain facts
• We’ll have a letter writing campaign
  Send to representatives, asking them to open humanitarian aid to Gaza
  That’s our “partisanship”
  All is in accord with UNICEF’s official stand (2 UNICEF hospitals and schools bombed)

Events this Semester

• Water Tap Project
  March 22 – 28 (World Water Week)
  Need help tabling
  Overview: paper water droplets sold at Newcomb or on the Lawn for 6 cents, drops will be displayed in Newcomb display case
  All the money goes to UNICEF Tap Project
• Joshua Tetrick
  Speaker on Global Challenges and Careers
  From Generation We: worked with UNICEF Commission in Nairobi
  How to take passion for humanitarian crisis into a career
  March 18 (don’t have a location yet)
• Community Service Project
  Exact time and project will be determined by next week
  One weekend of going out and helping
  Sometime in February hopefully
• Video Series
  Short film festival (3 or 4 movies)
  Each movie under 25 minutes
  Films will revolve around humanitarian crises
  Uganda, West Bank, and others
  $3 each
  Half of the money goes to UNICEF, half goes to Initiative Recover (Prof Canfora)
  Goes to building a school in Guida, Uganda
  http://www.studiorecover.virginia.edu/recover.html
• STAND Race for Darfur 5k
  Run the 5k as a group
  $10 per person if you sign up in a group
  Saturday February 21
  E-mail if you’re interested
  https://eventcal.itc.virginia.edu/eventcal/event/display?event_id=1232861890001
  http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=61035801584

Arab-Israeli Conflict

• Website for history: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/middle_east/03/v3_israel_palestinians/maps/html/default.stm
• UNICEF calls for humanitarian space in Gaza
  UNICEF schools and hospitals serving as shelters were bombed
  8 aid workers have been killed
  Providing school and aid kits, as well as water

Letter-Writing Campaign

• Writing letters to US Representatives
  Asking US to use influence with Israel to ask for movement of humanitarian trucks into Gaza strip
  Ashi has a template, but you can write your own as well
  UNICEF can mail the letters, but please donate money for stamps!
• You can drop off your letter in the SAC Mailbox 484

Compassion Meal

• Saturday February 7
• Lunch of rice and beans
• Enjoy a tasty, cheap lunch!
• http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=51823357446&ref=mf

Officer Meeting January 27

Events for This Semester

• Water Tap Project: collaboration with Circle K International
• Joshua Tetrick speaker: Global Challenges and Careers
• Community Service Project
• Forum: talk to various professors about speaking
• Video Series
• Professors as Speakers

Water Tap Project

• Collaboration with Circle K International
• Rescheduled for March 22 – 28 (World Water Week)
• We already have all the materials and an advertising campaign
• All we need to do is book a Newcomb table and the display board
  Table in Newcomb 22 – 28 (11 am – 2 pm)
  Display board in Newcomb 22 – 28
• Event: selling water droplets for 6 cents (or more)
  6 Cents Initiative: 6 cents buys drinking water for one person for one dayWater droplet has person’s name, put water droplet on the board
• Advertising
  Need to think about it
  Table tents, flyers, chalking?
  Listservs
• Money goes to UNICEF’s Tap Project

Global Challenges and Careers

• Joshua Tetrick
• Wednesday, March 18
• Member of Generation We
  Speaks about how “big needs – climate change, clean-energy, global poverty – connect with incredible careers…”
• Co-sponsorships
  GDO (Global Development Organization) - Ashi
  UCS (University Career Services) - Rashmita
  UPC (University Programs Council) - Sanaa
  Building Tomorrow - Sanaa
• Need to book a room
• Need to get him a gift
  Jefferson Cup
  Take him out to dinner

Service Project Updates

• Project will be some weekend in February
• Updates by General Body meeting
• Ashi will send out the power point with everyone’s assignments

Forum

• UNICEF Panel Discussion
• Topic: the role of the state versus international organizations in sustainable development
• Speakers
  Holcomb
  Githinji
  Canfora
  Ms. Biel from Johnson Elementary
• May need to reword the topic so that it’s more attractive
  Government and NGO Dynamics in Sustainable DevelopmentDynamics of Government and NGOs in Sustainable Development
• Need a room and a date
• Alternative: Initiative Recover
  Canfora’s project
  Fundraising for the initiative

Film Screening

• Foreign films
• Example: West Bank Story
  Story of Gaza strip
  Highlights conflict between Israel and Palestine
  Very applicable right now
• Quandt could talk – keynote speech
• Charge $3 per movie
• Partner up with Off Screen?
• Need to come up with a list of short films
  Can be from different regions
  3 or 4 movies about 20 minutes longBinding concept would be that UNICEF works in these regions
• Sometime in April

Consensus

• We’ll do the film screening
• Money
  Half goes to UNICEF
  Half goes Initiative Recover (http://www.studiorecover.virginia.edu/recover.html)
• Homework
  Come up with 2 short movies we could display by next officers meeting
  See how much it costs to buy or if it’s available at ClemonsAny humanitarian crisis in the world

General Body Meeting

• First 15 minutes highlighting an international issue
• 8 pm on Tuesday February 3 in Minor 130?
• Updates for service projects
• Two short movies each (by Officer’s Meeting at the latest)
• Talk about Palestine/Israel conflict
  Letter writing campaign
  Letters to Congress urging them to open funding to Gaza
  Templates for letters, addresses of representatives

Officer Meeting October 14

Food Updates

• Greenberry's leftovers on Friday (Alderman and Clark at 4:45 pm)
• West Range leftovers on Friday at 3 pm
• Call the locations that you have visited if you have not heard back yet

Halloween

• Trick-or-treat for UNICEF
• Potential Lawn party when kids trick-or-treat on the Lawn?

Publicity

• Appropriations should be in by now but they're not
• Flyering will occur as soon as we know our budget
• Tabling will occur next week - signups through Doodle Poll by end of this week
• Pick up supplies for tabling in SAC 484
• OAS and Invisible Children want to help with publicity
• Note: Molly will spearhead publicity temporarily
• Chalking and poster-making at next week's meeting

Guluwalk Schedule of Events

• People arrive and make posters (2-2:30)
• Introduce Virginia Belles (Chelsea 2:30)
• Belles sing 3 songs (2:30-2:45)
• Opening address (Ashia 2:45-2:53)
• Anselmo Canfora speaks (2:53-3:10)
• Introduce AVP (Chelsea 3:10)
• AVP performs 3 songs (3:10-3:25)
• Chelsea announces beginning of walk (3:30)
• Walk downtown
• Kim introduces Liz Braden
• Liz Braden speaks
• Kim? Chelsea? announces return
• Closing address in Amphitheater (Kim)

Extra notes

• Water Drop Initiative with Circle K International has been pushed to November 5
• UNICEF Day in the Spring?
• Raffle at Guluwalk
• Work at Rita's this fall to fundraise

General Body Meeting October 7

Appropriations

• Hearing is October 8th
• Should receive funds by October 13th

Guluwalk

• Justin Holcomb cannot speak because of other obligations
• Amphitheater is booked
• Virginia Belles and Liz Braden confirmed

Publicity

• Ask businesses if we can advertise at their stores
• Don't know yet how much we can flyer (funds)
• Take 15 posters from the SAC Mailbox (484) and put them up where you live
• Tabling will be done through Doodle Polls
• Join the Facebook group
• Chalking the week of Guluwalk

Flyering Locations

• McCormick, Alderman dorms
• Cabell, Wilson, E-School, Physics, Chemistry, Gilmer
• Clemons, Clark, Alderman
• Hereford, Gooch, Dillard
• Bice, Brown
• Bathrooms
• Amphitheater

Officer Meeting September 30

Appropriations

• Due October 5th, hearing is on October 8th
• Advertising needs 5 boxes of chalk, 200 flyers, advertisements in news papers
• Equipment needs balloons and posters

Guluwalk

• Speakers are Professor Justin Holcomb (and his wife) and Elizabeth Braden (and the Virginia Belles will be there!)
• Shirts for Guluwalk will be here in 1-2 weeks
• Guluweek will take place the week before the walk (which is October 25th), we will have events with Invisible Children and OAS
• We'll talk to sororities for publicity just after Fall Break (October 15th)
• We can't have amplified sound because of Parent's Weekend events
• The amphitheater is booked from 2 (hopefully changed to 1) until 7 pm
• We need to book 6 tables for the amphitheater as well as tables for the week before
• Join the Facebook event!
• Solicit donations from businesses by this weekend if you're signed up for an area!

Next week's meeting

• The meeting will start with group bonding at Post Secret at 7 pm
• We'll have an open officers meeting and prepare for advertising

Various other notes

• Chelsea is our new treasurer!
• T-shirts will be here on Friday

Notes Sept 16, 2008

Thanks to those of you that came to the meeting tonight. Here's a recap of what we talked about.

Officer Positions Available

• Fundraising board will consist of 2 (?) members to rise money for activities during the year
• So far Chelsea Germano is one of these members

Publicity

• Venues for publicity this semester can include the Dec and the Cav Daily
• Saana will send out the Guluwalk information and logo so we can start to flyer and chalk soon

Sources of Money

• Appropriations for UNICEF
• OAA and AAS (academic organizations that give money to groups)

Guluwalk

• Saturday October 25th 2pm
• Tabling October 20th - 24th
• This is during family weekend so we will have to compete with the family activities, but it could help us in donations

Water Droplets

• Tabling October 27th - November 1st

Draft Letters

• Ashi will send out a draft letter sometime this week to take to businesses asking for money/goods for Guluwalk
• Elizabeth Tilton (Saana will contact her) can donate food
• Go to any businesses at home if you happen to be home one weekend
• 5 areas: Corner (Molly and Chelsea), Barracks (Rashmita and Mehak), Downtown (Ashi and Kim), Target/Whole Foods (Rachel), our own homes
• Remember it's tax-deductible!

Guluwalk

• We still need to find speakers - ask Invisible Children and Building for Tomorrow
• We're also looking for music groups to perform
• The Invisible Children might be coming through this area soon with the Lost Boys

Next Week's General Body Meeting

• Tuesday September 23rd 8pm Minor 130
• This will be an educational meeting
• We'll talk about Guluwalk, publicity for this semester, and the Nicaraguan Orphan Fund

Service Festival

• We're continuing to brainstorm ideas for a booth, but let us know if you have any