General Meeting Minutes 2/26/2014

• Fact of the Day
• H.O.M.E.: Helping Oklahomans Manage Emergencies, similar to Project SAFE but aimed toward tornadoes and severe weather emergencies
• Ukraine Red Cross emergency response teams: 360 people within 48 hours but lack of respect for humanitarian aid workers
• Valentines for Veterans: Thanks for your help! A huge success, including JPW parents and students; dropped off at VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars)
• Military and Veteran Affairs: 
• Item Drive 3/22, Saturday after Spring Break 11 AM - 5 PM at Martin's
• Drivers? E-mail Danny dkerekes@nd.edu
• Another care package, thanks to Catie and David
• More letters this month from Lindsey
• Refugee
• Tutoring opportunities available: drivers needed, email Tori at vroeck@nd.edu
• English tutoring; afternoons
• Thanks to Thomas and Michael for doing snacks!
• DAT Training: required online courses through SABA>My Learning>pick classes
• DAT Fundamentals
• DA Fundamentals
• Disaster Mental Health
• Officer Elections 3/19 immediately following Spring Break during our usual General Meeting time
• Requirements:
• Be a dues-paying member (not too late!)
• Be committed to the club
• Perks:
• Work with a fantastic group of passionate ND students
• Work toward great goals that the Red Cross has set in place
• Exposure to great opportunities (ex. Mark's life-changing summer internship with the Red Cross)
• Expectations:
• Attend weekly meetings (alternating officer and general meetings)
• Meet with Dr. Go
• Collaborate with the Chapter and other student groups to coordinate volunteer opportunities
• How:
• Fill out online ballot (coming soon via listserv)
• Give a brief 2-minute 'speech' (prior involvement in club, why you want to run for this position, etc)
• Positions:
• President: coordinate events, meetings, communicate with the Chapter
• VP: loose ends, SAO, assistance as needs be
• Secretary: keep minutes, update blog and facebook, check/respond to/forward emails as necessary
• Treasurer: keep track of budget and expenditure, get receipts signed by Dr. Go, reimbursements from SAO
• Refugee: communicate with Chapter, coordinate tutoring, volunteering, culture school, collaborate with other clubs (humanitarian/service)
• Military/Veterans: letters, care packages, Adopt-a-Soldier, Veteran's Day
• Disaster Action Team: communicate with local Red Cross branches, keep track of members and trained members and schedules
• Blood Drive: communicate with the Chapter to set dates and get on-campus locations for the blood drives, coordinate volunteers and recruit donors
• Firefighters/Police Coordinator: Project SAFE (fire safety event), appreciation events (ex. make lunches)
• Training Coordinator: coordinate training events, work with DAT, CPR training
• Feel free to email any of the officers for questions!

Officer Meeting Minutes 2/19/2014

• Refugee tutoring...need to get through some paperwork to do it at homes
• Elections
• Snacks at next general meeting: Michael & Thomas
• Wisam from the Chapter to speak at the meeting next week?
• Culture school to be set up in the next few weeks
• Contact info for Sue

General Meeting Minutes 2/12/2014

• Food!
• Fact of the Day: 
• over 200 people in Red Cross shelters in the south
• relief supplies and response vehicles
• Another fact: blood needed; 1000 drives canceled from the cold
• Meeting with Chapter Reps
• DAT is on!
• Regular volunteering at Chapter Building
• Transportation? Bus, bike, van through CSC
• Refugee/International Needs
• Finding affordable housing
• Weekly culture school
• Ideas from Sue
• Superhero 5K race
• Free Training Opportunities on campus
• Citizen CPR (1 hour)
• DAT Boot Camp (3-4 hours on a Saturday)
• Military Affairs
• Item Drive: hand out lists of items most asked for by soldiers to customers at grocery stores, ask them if they are willing to buy one or two of these items to donate: leaders for the weekends? email Danny
• Valentines for Veterans to be sent to Veterans of Foreign Wars (140 members)

Officer Meeting Minutes 2/5/2014

• Meeting with Dr. Go at our next officer meeting, 2/19
• Meeting with the new contact at the Chapter?
• Next week, Tuesday or Wednesday
• New refugee program manager: met on Friday at the move-in; new but qualified
• Meeting with him soon?
• Getting a professor mentor from CSC to get some authority on us in our discussions with the Chapter
• More tutors needed: email to be forwarded to listserv
• Move-in: thanks to the volunteers, sorry for the poor planning at the Chapter...
• Blood Drive: Chapter miscommunication, will be cooperating with the Army
• Veterans: "Valentines for Veterans" event? Write cards at general meeting and send to the VA/Veterans of Foreign Wars
• Speakers at general meetings? Contact professors
• Food at meetings to be notified in the meeting reminder email
• Facebook maintenance
• Getting a percentage of tickets for a show/movie/concert to be donated to a cause
• Prizes for getting to a certain level (# of hours of volunteering) on Volunteer Connection --> for later
• GET THROUGH THE CHAPTER TO BE MORE COOPERATIVE WITH US
• Veteran fundraiser at Martin's
• Training Sessions: CPR; collaborate with FAST if Chapter is unresponsive