Brandon Carroll
 

***Updated 01/15/2010 at 2am


Please e-mail me at brandoncarroll@vt.edu with any comments/additions

 Any events that students run for Haiti will be donated directly into the Hokies United Fund. From there, we will donate to Partners in Health (PIH) once a week on behalf of Hokies United. This way, we will be able to count how much is donated by the Hokie Nation. We need to make this transition in the near future.

I have attached a JPG that you can use for your facebook and/or advertising materials for an event you may want to hold.

Ideas

Challenge Jars: Basketball teams can have jars in secure boxes that we can count (through volunteers). They can be used to get bigger donations during games - wrestling, volleyball, and basketball can all participate. We are waiting on athletics to see if this is something they want to take part in.

T-shirts: We have a lot of t-shirts that people can buy at their own named price (extra sga t-shirts, past hokies united t-shirts for Katrina, and more). Also, we can make our own t-shirts and sell those as well. All options will be discussed. Feel free to add your t-shirts as well.

Collection Points: We will have collection points in Squires Student Center starting Tuesday. They will be in secure locked boxes, and be given to Steve Burrell in Student Activities at the end of the day. We can also get Professors or anyone really to match donations made at one point and/or in a jar.

5k/Runs: We can organize a run with RecSports, where all of the proceeds go to Hokies United in an effort to support Haiti

Potluck Dinner: Raise money in a simple fashion, working alongside the Blacksburg Community. Contacts here are: Chris Strock and Margaret and Daniel Breslau

Radio for Awareness: Contact here is Andy Morikawa. There may be a radio show for awareness. 

For the potluck dinner/radio awareness, first contact is Vero Arroyave at varroya@vt.edu

Students to Haiti: Some students really want to go to Haiti to help. Is it in Hokies United best interests to send students to help in the relief efforts and/or plan a trip for Spring Break?

Stop Hunger Now with SGA's The Big Event: This was already being planned by Dan Knisley ( dknisley@vt.edu ). They were attempting to raise $75,000 to send 300,000 meals to Haiti, and they are supplying 1,200 volunteers to help them package the meals.

Questions

When do we give things other than money? We are in contact with PIH and other relief groups to figure that out, but it is a talking point regardless

All the money going to PIH? The issue with this is the money is untraceable.Also, some students have other charities they are interested in the Hokies United money going toward. VT has an official partnership with PIH (see attached). If money goes to Hokies United, we can actually see our impact. We also need to set a goal and maybe estimate the total donations made to PIH? Also, I was given a good piece of advice from someone who said we can ask PIH to tell us the total donations made with a @vt.edu address, and then try to get students to e-mail hokiesforhaiti@vt.edu if they've donated via their cell phone or through some other organization.

How do we mobilize volunteers? How do we host events - the logistics?

How do we create one consistent message throughout the entire Hokie Community?

What is the most important issue we need to focus on right now?

***Update on Awful Arthur’s Fundraiser – the artist will most likely be Danni Rosner (http://www.myspace.com/dannirosner) – she is coming to play for free. There will be a cover charge, and all proceeds will go to Hokies United. Contact Jenny Borman at jcborman@vt.edu for more details.

If you and/or a group wants to start a fundraiser with the proceeds going to Hokies United, please e-mail me at brandoncarroll@vt.edu and I can get you on the agenda for Tuesday. I want to have a running list of fundraisers (marathons, concerts, events in downtown Blacksburg, et cetera) by Monday at 9pm. We can also open up the floor for some ideas on Tuesday.

 


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