General Meeting Minutes 12/5/2013

• Last general meeting of the year!
• Facts of the Week: Red Cross deployed a field hospital to Ormoc, Philippines in the middle of the Typhoon Haiyan disaster zone
• Hot Chocolate Fundraiser for Haiyan Relief: success!
• Collaboration with AAA and FASO
• Donations for free hot chocolate yesterday in front of O'Shag
• Raised $80.86
• All proceeds going to NAFCON (National Alliance for Filipino Concerns) 
• Syria forum: TONIGHT 7:30 at Hesburgh Center Auditorium
• What life is like inside Syria
• Father Groody and Kenan Rahmani, human rights activist
• Feedback for this semester
• Favorite event?
• Any changes you'd like to see?
• Looking forward
• Blood drive in January in league with other ARC clubs in the Midwest
• Any events you'd like to do? (Refugee simulation camp to build solidarity when it's warmer, making lunch for firefighters, collection drive with stores for military)
• New meeting times
• Leadership changes

Officer Meeting Minutes 11/21/2013

• Military event ideas
• evening event with veterans, help out with PTSD
• sister club with overseas
• Blood Drive: we are in a league of university ARC clubs, and they want to have each school do a drive in January--talk to James and the new blood drive officer for next semester
• Typhoon Haiyan Relief hot chocolate: 
• order through catering
• after Thanksgiving: what day? possibly Wednesday
• DAT training for next semester
• Spoke with Dr. Go: meet with him early next semester
• December 5: speaker from Syria: A Look Inside Syria; with Father Groody (professor, Catholic Relief Services)
• Working on a video to spread throughout campus to raise awareness
• Met with new director at the St. Joseph chapter: 1 Arabic tutor and 1 French tutor; will inform us when she is more settled in and has more stuff for us to do
• Quarter-zip sweatshirts?
• Treasury: $45 in t-shirt sales, $185 in dues, $230 total 

General Meeting Minutes 11/14/13

• Solidarity with Syria movement: raise awareness for refugee crisis in Syria: 
• $10 dinner December 5th, Syrian alum and speakers who have hands-on experience
• Red Cross's club event for the movement next semester: experience refugee camp overnight in South Quad with speakers from Red Cross
• Other ideas? 
• Refugees: met with Chapter refugee program coordinator! In process of setting up programs for this and upcoming semester: teaching English as a Second Language in homes (Arabic experience especially needed)
• Fact of the Week: Red Cross collaborating with online mapmakers to map out effects of Typhoon Haiyan, most effective routes for aid, etc., find what happened to people in other areas (looking for family, etc.)
• Typhoon Haiyan Relief through Filipino-American Student Organization + AAA: 
• Acousticafe Nov. 14 TONIGHT: listen to great music and donate for the cause
• Sunday Nov. 17: Five Guys 6 pm-10 pm: up to 25% of sales can be donated
• Sunday Nov. 17 at 11 pm: Rosary Vigil at the Grotto
• Also, working on hot chocolate fundraiser for next week
• Military Affairs:
• Veteran's Day event Monday: Notre Dame Thanks You poster signed by students, now hanging in the Veterans Administrations office in South Bend; they are very grateful! Thank-you cards, on Monday and later in the meeting today
• Operation Gratitude
• Soldiers' Angels: Tony stationed in Egypt as part of peacekeeping forces; 20 years old; sent him a letter and care package today! --> care packages every month, letters every week: if you're interested, please sign up! You can do it with friends and it's a lot of fun! You will be reimbursed by the Club
• Letters: monthly sign-ups: sign up to write 4 letters, 1 per week for a month: a Google Doc to be put together
• Write a card to a veteran
• Fill out a form to help raise money for the local chapter

Officer Meeting Notes 11/7/13

• Change meeting days? Surveys
• New soldier: Tony from Kansas, stationed in Egypt, 20 years old
• Veteran's Day Monday 11/11: Poster where people can sign with simple thank-you messages in Dooley Room 
• Care package needed for before Thanksgiving
• New executive director of Red Cross for South Bend, Elkhart, Mishawaka: Sue Gully
• Nominate South Bend chapter for donation prizes --> send out to listserv
• DAT Training on Saturday 11/9: coffee and bagels! (take pictures for the yearbook!)
• Winter reallocation of funds: any new big events for spring semester?
• Project SAFE rescheduling...kind of out of our hands, but suggest February while people are still using heating? Meet with intern Katina Moss at the Chapter?
• Yearbook: we got a story! Mark got interviewed yesterday. They'd like some photos of the club at action
• Refugees:
• new coordinator at the Chapter
• meeting with overall director at Indianapolis
• joined coalition with ND Human Rights, Syrian awareness group, etc.
• dinners by coalition
• lectures by professors
• maybe a lecture by a refugee through St. Joseph Chapter, but there are lots of issues to work through with that
• Red Cross's 3 refugee officers working on refugee simulation camp

General Meeting 10/31/13

• Tuesday meetings instead of Thursday?
• Recent Red Cross News
• Hurricane Sandy housing
• Chicago: provided shelter for 24 families displaced due to apartment fire
• Colorado: working with those affected by flooding
• Ongoing: Veterans Crisis Line/Military Criss Line to support military members in times of personal/professional need
• Gameday Recycling Recap
• Blood Drive: went pretty well
• Syrian Solidarity Lunch: good turnout, good discussions
• Project SAFE: cancelled for now; we will let you know if it gets rescheduled
• Soldiers' Angels: The first guy we had has been in army for 20+ years, in an air field in Iraq, lost his whole family while he was away (no mail), loved and elected by his soldiers. Because of the treaty pulling back soldiers, he's going home to be deployed elsewhere later. So, we're adopting a new soldier and updates coming soon!
• Veteran's Day event: Monday, Nov 11: Dooley Room 2-5 pm
• Poster for the VA outpatient facility for people to sign their names with a brief "Thank you" or "God bless," etc. Maybe for the elevator lobby?
• Writing letters?
• DAT basic training on November 9th: need to sign up on Red Cross Volunteer Connection and take two basic courses online on Sheltering and Disaster Services Orientation; email to be sent out soon

Officer Meeting Notes 10/17/2013

• USC Recycling Day: 15 people signed up = $315!
• University American Red Cross Clubs Conference Call: good suggestions
• Social media: Facebook pages for blood drive competitions, etc.
• Contract with Zorch: all ARC t-shirts from now on should be with this company
• Lecture/speaker: disaster, refugees, etc. Collaboration with another club? or residence hall? Movie vs. documentary? (Syrian refugee crisis, work with the Syria awareness club)
• January: National Blood Donor Appreciation Month
• Next conference call will be about military affairs (November 19)
• Holiday Heroes Letter Writing to veterans, policemen, firefighters, etc. at general meetings: end of October for Thanksgiving, end of December for Christmas
• Get people on VolunteerConnect for chapter volunteering opportunities especially Project SAFE
• Syria lunch: good turnout. Will keep collaborating with human rights clubs, especially since there is no refugee personnel at the chapter
• Adopted a soldier!!! --> Dennis in Afghanistan
• Reviewed confidentiality issues
• The organization will pass over packages so we don't have to worry about coinciding with the end of school year
• Big poster people can sign to hang locally for Veterans Day
• DAT: crash course getting planned 

General Meeting Notes 10/10/2013

• Game day recycling Saturday, 10/19 (USC Game Day)
• 2 shifts
• 10 am - 1 pm
• 1 pm - 4 pm (Amazon gift card!)
• Meet by lamppost 9 in Joyce lot and distribute single-stream recycling bags to tailgaters
• $7 per hour per volunteer paid to Red Cross Club
• Volunteer Connection: Please do this if you would like to participate in events with the chapter (e.g. Project SAFE)
• Blood Drive Competition
• Sign up after meeting for hour-long shifts or email James at jmancino@nd.edu
• Monday (Lafun Ballroom), Thursday (Bloodmobile), Friday (Pasquerilla Center)
• Tell your friends!
• Syrian Solidarity Lunch Thursday, october 17, 12:30-2:30 @ Geddes coffeehouse
• Partnering with Peace Fellowship, Arabic Club, Human Rights ND
• Also, if you would like to help raise awareness for Syria and Syrian refugees, contact Syria Working Group and/or Tori at vroeck@nd.edu
• Rave for the Brave at Stepan Center 10:30pm-2am Friday night!!!!
• Unlimited pizza and Red Bull
• $10 per ticket
• Operation Gratitude for Veteran's Day: write letters to send to veterans
• Where? Lafortune Center
• What time? Late afternoon after 3 pm, 3pm-5pm
• Letter ideas? Markers, construction paper
• Incentives? Some candy on the tables
• Sign-up lists to be sent out
• Adopt a Soldier: right now, trying to get a soldier whose deployment ends in May or beginning of June, should be set up by next general meeting
• Project SAFE: next Saturday or early November, 2-3 hours giving out smoke detectors and fliers on people's doors, get a free T-shirt and juice!
• Yearbook photo--Facebook like competition on the ND Yearbook FB page: Top 10 clubs with most likes get special feature: VOTE TONIGHT!!

Officer Meeting 10/3/2013

• Recycling on USC game day: Katie/Daniel set up sign-ups
• Yearbook competition: take photos, post it to Yearbook FB page, club to get most likes wins a special feature; due Oct. 11
• Open general meeting with "What did the American Red Cross do this week?" 
• Michael, Daniel: DAT Training--pizza, etc.
• Sign up people on Volunteer Connect
• T-shirts: out of smalls; go through M & L
• James: Blood Drive
• T-shirt template approved
• Alumni Association to call to talk about paying for them
• Blood Drive Competition NEXT WEEK 
• Oct. 14: Lafortune Ballroom
• Oct. 17: Mobile blood drive by stadium
• Oct. 18: Pasquerilla Center
• Get the word out! ND Observer, Week @ ND
• Refugees: mock refugee camp? --> segway into a lecture or talk at the mock camp?
• Refugees liaison at chapter to be hired in 2 weeks
• Trick or treat on Eddy Street: Businesses come up with deals and club volunteers fundraise

General Meeting Minutes 9/26/13

• Teach For America program presentation
• Teach in low-income communities to "close the achievement gap": get a good education no matter what your zip code is and have the opportunity to go to college
• Good gap-year service opportunity before law/med/grad school, work
• Cool Red Cross Facts
• 186 National Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies throughout the world, connected through the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
• Won Nobel Prize 4 times: 1917, 1944, 1963, and Henry Dunant's award in 1901
• 1898 (Spanish-American War): Red Cross first formally supported active troops
• Red Cross sends personnel to the front lines: 18,000 nurses and 4,800 ambulance drivers in WWI; 104,000 nurses, 13.3mil units of blood in WWII; psychological support programs, emergency messages, comfort kits, calling cards, greeting cards, personal care items, canteen services, etc.
• 330 blood drives nationally per day by Red Cross
• Red Cross supplies 40% of national blood supply
• Single donation saves 3 lives
• 91% of donations go to aid, the rest to running the organization: one of the most efficient and best performing non-profit charities
• In 2010, there were 384,000 homes fires in the U.S. (1 every 1-2 minutes): Red Cross responded to over 70,000
• Disaster Relief: for Sandy Relief, over 8 million meals, 6 million relief items, etc. given
• Adopt a Soldier or Support Many?
• Soldiers' Angels: the soldier gets elected by his/her troop. Exchange letters, pictures, 6mo-1year. 
• Pro: You get to know a given soldier personally, more impact
• Pro: Concrete affirmation of appreciation.
• Con: You can use same money for many more soldiers
• Con: Less direct participation by club members
• Give2theTroops: takes monetary funds or requested items
• Pro: Benefit multiple soldiers
• Pro: More direct participation possible, more activities (fundraisers, item collection drives)
• Con: Spread it too thin? Not make that much impact 
• Adopt multiple? Multiple for shorter periods? Adopt a soldier and collection drives for general care packages? Anyone know of any other organizations?
• Vote: ADOPT A SOLDIER
• Dues Clarification: $5 and shirts are still available: to William Kim, treasurer
• Register on Volunteer Connection at redcross.org with your basic information to volunteer for Red Cross chapters everywhere--sign up after meeting
• Disaster Action Team: required: 2 training modules online and 1 "crash course" on campus (4 hours on a Saturday) --> talk to Michael after meeting if interested
• DAT: Chapter needs help renewing local hotel arrangements: sign up after meeting
• Firefighters & Police: Project SAFE: 1st Saturday in November, 3-4 hours in the morning, go out in teams of 2-4 to distribute fire safety information and smoke detectors to underserved communities in South Bend area
• USC Gameday Recycling Fundraiser
• via Office of Sustainability
• 9am-12pm: show up in main lot
• Free shirt and breakfast
• Distribute recycling bags (can put in aluminum, plastic, glass, everything) to tailgates
• OS will pay the club, which will pay for club activities
• Sign up after meeting
• SAO will also pay the club to staff Friday or Saturday night events
• Refugees: Chapter case worker left unexpectedly, will be replaced in a few weeks...brainstorming for the time being
• NEXT GENERAL MEETING: in 2 weeks

Officer Meeting Minutes 9/24/13

• SAO raised the club dues to $10 --> pay dues and get a T-shirt for free at next general meeting
• Semesterly SAO meeting Wednesday 5:30-6:30, 7:00-8:00; Thursday evening
• Two officers: Katie and Mark
• Meeting with Doug delayed
• Volunteer forms for Chapter for next meeting
• Sign up members for volunteer database? -TBD after Mark talks with Doug
• Game Day Recycling - walk around tailgates handing out recycling bags, $7/hr/person and free T-shirt and snacks! --> sign-up at general meeting
• General Meeting Thursday 7 PM at Dooley Room
• Blood Drive: Oct 14 & 18 (day before USC game) for competition
• T-shirts
• Posters at general meeting
• What Red Cross worldwide did this past week/Quick questions about what Red Cross does
• Sign ups for veteran projects
• Adopt a soldier or general care packages? TBVoted
• Teach For America or Alliance for Catholic Education short presentation
• Bring change for dues
• Red Cross Club nationwide conference call Friday 3-4 p.m.
• USC Blood Drive Competition t-shirts coming soon

1st General Meeting! Minutes 9/12/13

• Introduction to the Club
• Mission
• Fundamental Principles 
• Red Cross @ Notre Dame
• Officer Introductions
• Dues: $5 to Treasurer, William Kim (wkim2@nd.edu)
• T-shirts for sale! $5

Officer meeting minutes 9/1/2013

1. Activities Night

Please wear the new club shirt if you're volunteering at the table.

Here's the link to the spreadsheet for signing people up.

Katy's picking up tablecloth and banners from chapter on Tuesday.

Setup from 6pm-7pm: Jaehyun (bringing laptop) and Katy

7pm-8pm shift: Daniel (bringing laptop) and Nestor

8pm-9pm shift: Michael Dinh (bringing laptop) and James

 

2. Meeting with Doug from Chapter

He'd like to talk with us about how we are going to be involved with the chapter this year (especially DAT, blood drives, international, volunteer opportunities). If we are able to get some more volunteer opportunities through the chapter, I think we'll be able to retain members better. Please make an effort to come to this meeting and vote at http://when2meet.com/?1068181-tqpa8.

 

3. 1st General Meeting Presentation

I'd like each of you to make a slide or two about your role as an officer and anything else you'd like to say. You should have received an email with the presentation.

4. Blood Drive Competition vs. USC

To collect more blood than USC Red Cross Club for a traveling trophy. Possibly a week before USC game? More details to follow.

Meeting Minutes 4/30/2013

Last meeting of the year!

Club shirt

• Talked to Jas at the Chapter: logo on the back needs to be updated
• To be continued in August
• $5 per shirt

Five Guys

• Check came in today: $45ish to us
• $200ish to Red Cross
• Next year: ask people to propose an event with the budget of $45

Meeting with Dr. Go

• He suggested that we try to create a signature event of the Red Cross Club
• Ideas?
• Dodgeball tournament? or any sports/team tournaments
• Attach it to a cause, maybe a different one each year
• Hot chocolate/lemonade stands? Since they're easy to set up and immediately according to need
• Pins

World Refugee Day with the Chapter this summer

• In downtown South Bend
• About two hours
• Mayor is speaking
• Three refugees and some volunteers telling their stories
• Plaque to commemorate
• Working with Refugee Coordinator at the Chapter
• Food vendors, belly dancers, live dancers
• Working on advertising to the community

Blood Drive yesterday

• Huge success
• Goal: 40something, Result: 77!
• Thanks to all those who helped out!

April care packages have been sent out. Last package for our person is June. 

Thank you to Cameron!

Officer Meeting with Dr. Go

• With stable membership, be more aggressive for membership growth next year
• Signature event to increase awareness throughout campus/community
• Etc.
• Five Guys night: collected about $292.73, about 25% comes to us, ~73 dollars
• Keep it for the Club
• Next year: ask members what event to plan with $75
• Chapter contact to be figured out with all the reorganization in the chapter: we need a chapter sponsorship to exist

• General meeting times next year? 
• Tuesday night around/after 8 p.m.
• SAO requests can be done over the summer
• World Refugee Day, June 12
• Blood drive on the 29th!
• Better advertising
• Posters, table tents
• How to get into Week@ND or computer cluster backgrounds?
• Facebook events
• On-the-day advertising
• Tap into Engineering Council database for volunteers
• April care packages to be sent out soon; leftover items to be sent out to a Support Our Troops-like organization
• Last general meeting next year

April 16 General Meeting Notes

• Five Guys Fundraiser tomorrow, all day! Just let them know you came with the Red Cross Club.
• Mark is going at 5 from main circle if you want to join
• No marketing on the street
• Blood Drive on Monday, April 22nd
• Distribute posters, Google doc to be sent out
• In light of the Boston Marathon disaster...
• Any ideas to help out?
• Redirecting the funds from Five Guys?
• St. Joseph Chapter will not be directly involved
• Buttons and hot chocolate like we did for Hurrican Sandy?
• T-shirts for next year
• Quotes on the back: "You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give." -Winston Churchill
• Color: Red...
• Logo

Meeting Notes 04/02/2013

1. Firefighter lunch at the Notre Dame station, this Friday, April 5

• Want to participate? E-mail Steve
• Start cooking around 11:30, serving around 12:15

2. Danny: Veterans - looking into working with a new organization

3. Five Guys Fundraiser - Wednesday, April 17

• Get people to come - more people, more money!
• Feel free to make shameless plugs: at dorms, section meetings, etc.
• Posters to be sent out via e-mail: print them out and put them up to get the word out!
• All-day event
• Take shifts during evening hours to stand outside Five Guys and hand out fliers?
• At strategic points!!! 
• GoogleDoc to be sent out

4. CCC (Club Coordination Council) has an opening in the Social Services section: anyone want to apply?

5. Red Cross Chapter internships for the summer? To be investigated...

6. New officers

7. Budget allocation: any new events/projects to be listed? Talk to Daniel by midnight today

February 19th General Meeting

• Blood Drive--thanks for helping
• Jessica:  training this Saturday
• Danny:  operation gratitude
• Huddle drive
• Organize trip to grocery stores, ask others to donate an item
• Volunteers may be hard to come by, but would include the South Bend community
• Letter writing/crafts in Lafun
• dining halls?
• during blood drives?
• coordinate with Revathi
• Steve:  firefighters’ dinner
• Gesture of gratitude toward department: cook them an easy lunch and get to know them a little
• 2/24, 3/10, 3/24 Sunday lunch
• Mark:  fundraising
• Five Guys event coming up some Thursday this semester
• Blog for info
• Elections coming the week after spring break
• Must be dues-paying member to run
• Form will be emailed
• Talk to current officers to get idea of what they do (contact info available on blog)
• Food will be provided
• Transition will occur early to mid-April
• Ideas from members
• Improving meeting attendance--ask members
• If you’re interested in joining Disaster Action Team, there are several trainings coming up. Email club if interested in specific dates
• This Saturday: 9:30-4:30 CPR class (email if interested!)

Training Sessions

Here are the remaining training sessions at the chapter:

Course Name	Date	Time	Registration Method
In-Person Orientation	Tuesday, 5-Mar	2pm or 5pm	Email the chapter
Client Casework: Providing Emergency Assistance (2 days)	Tuesday & Wednesday, 12-Mar, 13-Mar	6-9:30pm (7 hours total)	SABA*
CPR/AED/First Aid	Saturday, Feb 23	9am-4:30pm	Call or Email chapter
Disaster Assessment Basics	Thursday, 21-Feb Thursday, 21-Mar	6-8:30pm	SABA*
Disaster Services: An Overview	Thursday, 7-Mar	6-9pm	SABA*
Shelter Operations	Wednesday, 6-Mar	6-9pm	SABA*

*SABA: please go to red cross's website https://classes.redcross.org/Saba/Web/Main . After you registered, you will be able to search for classes based on keywords and postal code. Please register for the course at St.Joseph's county.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us!

General Meeting minutes Feb. 5

Februrary 5

• Writing letters to Phebe, our soldier. Let Danny know if you’d like to send one! We’re still sending at least a letter a week and a package a month.
• Our blog is up! ndredcross.blogspot.com
• We’ll be posting meeting minutes, opportunities, etc.
• Contact information for officers is also on the blog if you need to contact a specific person (example, you can find Danny’s email if you want to send something to Sgt. Phebe)
• We took our yearbook photo and it was lovely
• Upcoming events
• Operation Gratitude (Danny)
• Steve’s working on setting up a dinner for police/firefighters in community
• Look out for elections, feel free to ask us questions