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