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

General Meeting Minutes 4/16/14

• Delete Blood Cancer
• You sign up to be on call to donate bone marrow
• Howard hall same drive? SAO?
• Blood Drive
• April 29^th 11 am to 5 pm
• With ROTC
• ROTC will provide lots of volunteers
• Ms. Glaser is going to bring posters next week for us to hang up
• Measles and Rubella Initiative
• Raised $70
• Deposit at the ND Credit Union (Jenny), bring FOPAL number
• Shirt Design
• Design next week to order over the summer, look into company

General Meeting Minutes 4/2/2014

• New officers!
• Fact of the Day: South Sudan refugees in Uganda: everything from first aid and emotional support to hygiene promotion and reconnecting separated families
• Martin's Soldier Supply Drive: great success! Thanks to everyone who participated! We collected 120 pounds of items
• Delete Blood Cancer Apr 23 4-6 pm in the Sorin Room: 3 volunteers needed
• Collaboration with Takashi and a couple other students
• Blood Drive Apr 29, 10 AM - 4 PM: volunteers needed
• Global Health Week: an event on Thursday
• Potential topics: Refugees, blood donation, disaster relief
• Collect donations for the Measles and Rubella Initiative
• North vs. South dining halls competition?
• Tuesday 6-7 pm in Lafortune, probably Montgomery Auditorium: panel will feature 
• Club Budget: we have a good budget, so much that we're asking for a negative budget! So feel free to brainstorm for events without thinking about budgeting!

Officer Meeting Minutes 3/26

• Collaborate with Takashi and blood cancer organization on a drive to sign people up to donate bone marrow for bone cancer, maybe on 23 April, 3-6 pm? ~3 volunteers plus material distribution-->Facebook event
• Martin's Item Drive: went really well, $70+ in donations, filled the back of a truck with donated items, handed out 650+ slips-->photo(s) on Facebook
• Budget for next year: budget to Club Coordination Council will be submitted to Dr. Go by this weekend; any big events that might need budget considerations? The Superhero Run, concession stand, Fireman Foam event
• 3 General Meetings left!