Good News!

The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for the President of Sudan based on his actions against the people of Darfur. Let us hope that he does not react violently before he is detained!

You can sign a petition to President Obama urging that he assigns someone to the Darfur crisis by following this link.

Bake Sales Next Week - We Need Help

We are unable to meet this Friday, so we called a brief meeting for today, Wednesday. Thanks to all who stopped by.

We are having a bake sale NEXT Thursday, February 13th. We need people to bake and to sign up to sell at the table. We need people periods 4-8. (Periods 4 and 8 right now we have no one slated to do..)

Also, we will continue the sale on Friday if we have enough leftovers. We will need people to sell on Friday too. Please post if you can commit to sell on any of these periods on either day.

Also, please bake stuff! You can drop your baked goods off in F206 on Thursday morning.

Lastly, we will need people to hang up flyers on Tuesday. Please come to F206 to get the flyers.

Thanks!

Meeting Overveiw for 1/9/09

• We were not able to do the DVD sale this week and have to cancel it.
• At next Friday's meeting, we will be watching the documentary Sand and Sorrow about the genocide in Darfur. Try to encourage new members to come and learn about our cause! Fliers will be going out at the beginning of the week- please stop by the room to get some to hang up.
• We decided to donate money raised from the comedy hypnosis show to STAND, an organization that provides alternatives for women who have to leave the camps in search of firewood, often being met with danger. Money goes to alternative-fuel stoves, hiring patrols, and paying for firewood.
• Our major upcoming fundraisers are the Scavenger Hunt and the Dine-Around. Does anyone have any additional ideas?
• We are trying to get the big display case near the library, and we already have a nice banner to hang in it, but we may have to take down our other display case in exchange.

See everyone next week!

DVD Sale - Part 2

If we are able to proceed with this on Jan. 6th, and Jan. 7th, people would need to hang more flyers on Monday (I have them in F206) and we would need to get an announcement to E-administration early on Monday.

DVD SALE - IMPORTANT

Well, good thing we didn't sell the DVD's last week...only one person came to my room to hang up flyers. So, I reserved Jan. 6th and 7th (Tuesday and Wednesday) of the week that we are back to have a table in E-Commons to sell the DVD's. However, because of Friday's snow, we had no meeting and therefore no one is slated to man/woman the table on these days. If we can work this out through the blog, great. If not, we may have to cancel and find new dates.

Also, I think we should have an example of what one of the DVD's would look like, so people can see ahead of time what they are purchasing. Can anyone make a case and label for the DVD?

Please respond if you could sell at the table Periods 4-8 on Tuesday (Jan. 6th) and Periods 4-8 on Wednesday (Jan. 7th). Thanks!

hey guys, I checked out global impact
5.3 percent of every dollar Global Impact spends is for administration and fundraising.
However, the idea of them as a middle man, probably isnt best.

- Danielle

Charity Research

Since no one else seems to have found anything, here are the charities that I have researched.

nothingbutnets.org- $10 buys one mosquito net for a person in Africa. They have distributed nets to refugee camps in Chad, and hope to be able to send some to Sudan as well. According to the FAQ, this organization takes no overhead from the donation- all of it goes to purchasing, shipping, and educating people how to properly use their nets. The nets help stop the spread of malaria.

divest for darfur- i could not find a breakdown of where the money goes.

kidsforkids.org.uk - I found a pie-chart on their website, but was unsure as to whether or not there are any overhead costs. Maybe Mr. Cone or Mrs. Donohue can figure it out? http://www.kidsforkids.org.uk/about_importantinfo.asp

Because of homework, those were the only charities I had time to break down. Of course, we can always send our money to savedarfur.org or the solar cookers again, but it may be nice to do something different for a change.