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