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