General Meeting Minutes 4/13/15

Vaccinate a Village

• Meredith: print outs
• Allison: markers
• Danny: banner
• David: fact sheets
• if cant get there at the start shift, drop stuff in mailbox upstairs
• Thomas will send a sign up google doc and link
• if we collect cash, have to turn it in the day of- to the Club Resource Center

Officer elections

President: Allison Gormley

VP: Jenny Diamond

Secretary: Meredith Hollender

Treasurer: Carol Renneburg

Blood Drive: Brianna Kozemzak

Disaster Action Team: Alli Kwon

Firefighter/police: Petra Rantanen

Military/Veterans: David 

Blood Drive

• Monday 4/20
• 11-5
• Need volunteers- James is going to send a google doc 

Officer Meeting Minutes 3/30/15

Blood Drive

• ·      get posters stamped
• ·      handouts- 3/page
• ·      truck will get here an hour before
• ·      drive starts at 11, but need 1+ volunteer to help unload/set up at 10
•      volunteer to help clean up too
• ·      red cross will help to recruit
• ·      online sign up sheet if we want it
• ·      can get ROTC to help too

DAT

• ·      promote early training for next year so that we can be on call
• ·      1-day training event on a Saturday
• o   look into the online option
• ·      future officers look into this!

Vaccinate a Village

• ·      Thomas is going to submit a new SAO request

Officers

• ·      should have two military/veterans officers

Food Drive

• ·      packaged and sent to Operation Gratitude
• ·      going to work with Marine Corps League of SJC to set that up for future years

Future

• ·      should do a concession stand to raise money because we’ve used a lot of our funds for events this year
• ·      blood drives: start setting it up early, in the SUMMER
• ·      Officers: Carol treasurer/secretary

o   Michael?

o   Petra: abroad

o   two people expressed blood drive officer interest

o   might have some younger officers

General Meeting Minutes 3/16/15

General Meeting 3/16/15

Martin's Food Drive

• Saturday, March 21st
• 11 am - 4 pm? 
• shifts of volunteers
• 1.5 hour shifts 
• items to buy: care packages for soldiers overseas 
• check with Alison to see what the items will be 
• google doc signup sheet

Vaccinate a Village

• next Wed and Thurs (25-26) or the week after Tues and Wed (3/31 and 4/1), have a meeting that Monday to cut out papers
• Red Cross and CDC
• for $1 you can vaccinate a child 
• make little slips to hand out at the front of Lafun 
• candy 
• domer dollar swiper 

Blood Drive

• Lafun ballroom
• April 20th (Monday)
• 9 am - 5 pm 

General Meeting Minutes 2/23/15

2/23/15

Vaccinate a Village

• ND family cut outs: mhollend@nd.edu (Meredith)
• 2 days: Tuesday Wednesday Thursday? March 15-21. Ask SAO
• Advertising
• posters - printable versions
• week@nd
• Candy

Food Drive

• March 21st at Martins 11 - 4/5
• print out more slips/use cashiers to recycle
• week@nd if we can get it SAO approved first 

General Meeting Minutes 2/9/15

2/9/15 General Meeting

Valentine's for Veterans

• Thurs 3-6 pm in Lafun
• sign up for 1 hour shifts
• people can stop through and write a valentine to be sent to VFW with chocolate

Martin's Food Drive

• Saturday, March 21st 
• 11 AM to 2 or 3 PM
• hand out slips of paper with suggestions for purchase
• To be sent to military personnel

Our soldier: Darrell

• on leave for two weeks to see his family
• next step: Afghanistan to employ his medical skills

Blood Drive

• Tentative date: April 27th
• possible dates in March 
• blood donations have been down 15% this year due to weather

Vaccinate a Village

• vaccinations against measles and rubella
• $1 buys one vaccination
• event idea: "Make a Village" (sponsor a child, family or school room)
• candy
• incentive: if you make a $10 donation, get a shirt
• or baked goods, but might be too complicated
• Not a friday, do something 2 days consecutively? 
• use domer dollars 

End7

• Internationally funded effort to end 7 diseases
• Fundraiser or just campaigning to spread the word
• On March 7th 
• Speak in classes, show a short clip
• Use domer dollars 
• make worms n' dirt cups

General Meeting Minutes 10/6/14

We are more than blood drives!

CPR/First Aid Certification

• ·         Use club funds to certify club members?

Club T-shirts

• ·      Set up a committee
• ·      Design competition
• ·      Email redcross@nd.edu if interested in the committee
• ·      Pre-order?

Delete Blood Cancer: bone marrow drive

• ·      One or two day event?
• ·      Tentative date: November

“Vaccinate a Village”: idea from another university

• ·      Measles and Rubella Initiative
• ·      Fundraiser ideas?

o   Domer dollars

o   Chipotle gift card raffle

o   Bake sale

Welcome Sue Gulley

• ·      St. Joseph county Red Cross Chapter rep
• ·      9^th year
• ·      promote campus-community relations
• ·      DAT lifetime opportunities

o   E.g. Ebola volunteers abroad

• ·      Family reunification: one of the goals of the chapter
• ·      National Initiative: Home Fire Preparedness Campaign

o   Goal: in 5 years reduce deaths by home fires by 25%

o   Prevention is the key: fire alarms

o   Project Safe: October 18^th in South Bend

§  Goal: 3,000 households receive fire safety info, smoke alarms and installation

§  Need volunteers!!

§  9 AM

• ·      Mobile Apps

o   Blood Drives

§  Get involved early, make it a habit

o   Tornado App

o   Earthquake App

o   Hurricane App

o   First Aid App

General Meeting Minutes 9/25/14

Officer Introductions

Powerpoint with officers and event info:
https://docs.google.com/a/nd.edu/presentation/d/1Cv3b-OAXL_5gQOxCTVojVj7QMnLGdyFVM0hvUfjPDBI/edit#slide=id.p

Event Sign ups

• blood drives
• bone marrow drive
• Soldiers' Angels
• dorm reps