10/6/14
Raffles are to donate; we will vote at the end
-One to a local organization
-One for ebola fundraiser
Options:
Amherst Survival Center: welcomes everyone to enjoy our hot lunch, fresh food distribution, free medical clinic, free store and community center/volunteer program
-Need donations for food distribution
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Hampshire County: Matches volunteers w/ children who need positive adult role model in their lives
-Leader of youth service
-One-on-one relationships with mentors and children ages 6-18
-Increased graduation/college enrollment for kids w/ mentors
Motherwoman: supports and empowers mothers to create positive perseonal and social change by building community safety nets
-Impacts family policy and promoting leadership and resilience of mothers
-Policies for paid maternity leave
-Comparisons to maternity 3x time we have in US, fathers get maternity leave too
-Postpartum depression
Youth Action Coalition: Promotes youth empowerment through creative expression and social action projects
-Core program: arts-for-change: social justice education and intensive arts
HASA: Haitain American Student Association
-Culture awareness through community service initiative, social events, fundraising for university enrichment and service trip
-Go to Haiti once a year to bring supplies
-Chapter couldn't go last year b/c of lack of funds for transportation, housing, and supplies
Time for a vote! Amherst Survival Center wins!!! We will donate proceeds of one raffle to ASC
What should we put in goody bags? Twix, milky ways, starburst, peppermint patties, Hershey’s kisses with slip on mindfulness, M&M's, raisins
Raffle baskets (tabling on 31st, putting together on 20th), one fall theme and one UMass theme?:
UMass theme: UMass sport gear, t-shirt, pencils, bumper stickers, gift card to campus store, SPHHS t-shirt, Sam the minute man, Career services
*Can we get donations from UMass store?
Fall/wellness theme (5 below stuff in W. Springfield): mug with hot chocolate, yoga mats, scarf, mittens, baby pumpkin, pumpkin spice candle, Freedom Cafe, Rao's gift card, GoBerry gift card
How much should the tickets cost? We can set up GoFundMe, maybe around a dollar, get a deal if you buy more than one