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

First General Body Meeting Notes

Tshirts

• Shirts will be $10
• The new design will be royal blue on white shirts

Slideshow of the history of UNICEF

• UNICEF UVA is sponsored by the US Fund for UNICEF
• The Campus Initiative provides us with supplies and funding for projects
• Our goals are to education, advocate, and fundraise
• We wants to hear your ideas and goals!

Officers

• There are not currently any spots open as officers but it you would like to come to the meetings we can give you a position
• Officer meetings are every other Tuesday at 8 pm in the Student Activities Center (the bottom floor of Newcomb)

Ideas for the semester

• Documentary or film series
• Door-to-door fundraising

Publicity

• The publicity committee needs as much help as it can get! We need people to help chalk and flyer to spread the word for events
• We will also (hopefully) solicit help from Greek organizations

Nicaragaun Orphan Fund

• If you are interested in going to Nicaragua during spring break to work with orphans then look for more information from NOF coming soon

Blog

• The website for the blog is unicefuva.blogspot.com
• It will contain relates new stories, minutes from the meetings, and general announcements

Guluwalk

• Guluwalk will take place on Saturday, October 25th
• Join the facebook event and invite all of your friends!

First General Body Meeting

Don't miss our first meeting tonight!!

Tuesday, 8:30 PM

Minor 125

We'll be giving an overview of what UNICEF is all about and what UVA-UNICEF does.

We will also be discussing our plans for the year including a few big events coming up.

Learn how you can get involved, have fun, and meet lots of new people!

Don't forget to bring $10 for a T-shirt if you're interested.