l. Partnering with CSUS students for event
planning and fundraising
Professor
Beth Erickson from CSU Sacramento explained her program in Recreation, Parks and Tourism
Administration and helped our group explore ways we might partner with her
students. Each semester 40 students in her senior class are required to plan
and implement a big event. In the past they have done everything from golf
tournaments to wilderness film festivals. The students work in pairs to
organize an event guided by advice from Beth. The student pairs are responsible for
the planning and all of the “foot work” involved …i.e. contacting vendors,
providing publicity, writing sponsorship letters for donations, etc. Our
obligation to the students would be our availability on a weekly basis for
guidance. The events are usually planned for November during the fall semester
and in late March and early April for the spring semester. We will discuss the
possibility of partnering with a pair of students for a Heifer event in the
spring at the next volunteer meeting. We need to let Beth know of our interest
by January 2013.
ll. Charitable Campaign tabling and
speaking events
So far our
volunteer group has met all Calif State Employees Charitable Campaign AND
Combined Federal Campaing requests for
tabling and speaking events. We have had a busy September and October with a
total of 19 events (not counting some that might have occurred in Chico).
Jill
Kilty-Newburn will be tracking the contributions made to Heifer through the
state and federal charitable giving campaigns we have been supporting this fall
with our presence. We are hoping for information about the impact of our
efforts.
lll. Donor reports and outreach
We will look
at the list of churches sent out by Jill Kilty-Newburn and decide on a game
plan for outreach at the next volunteer meeting. Judy will ask Jill to send us
phone numbers and addresses for the churches on the list. We may send our
volunteer postcard with a note, along with attempting to make personal contact.
lV. Team Heifer
The Team
Heifer site is being revamped at headquarters. There has been confusion over
the team pages and individual pages but the site does correctly show $1,216
credited to our volunteer group. Checks to
Heifer collected by our group should be mailed to Jill Kilty-Newburn. She will
make sure the donations are credited to us.
To access
the Team Heifer website for our group, follow this path:
Go to
heifer.org > GIVE tab
> Team Heifer (in dropdown
menu) > Team Heifer Search (in left-hand column) >
Enter “Sacramento” in the search field
> Click on “Sacramento Heifer
Volunteers” in the TEAM results
Cheryl is
experimenting with donating via Visa directly on the Team Heifer site; results
will be reported next meeting.
V.
Conversation with a donor: “I’d like some news about my goat…
What do you
say to someone who wants this kind of information?
• The
donation to Heifer is a symbolic donation that supports the entire mission of
Heifer International …including all of the training that the families will
receive.
• It can
take many months before the training is completed and goats are placed with
families.
• To receive
news about a donated goat would be logistically very difficult and would add
another layer of expensive administrative costs. That money might be better
spent providing animals and training for families.
• The goat
that has been donated will be a pregnant goat that may give birth to a female
kid that can be passed on to another needy family in the community. Your gift
will multiply with the passing on of goats and ripple out into the community to
help many families.
• The pool
of money needed for goats may be already met…but other animals may be
desperately needed by the project partners. And so your donation may go to help
those families.
Vl. Other Items
- Record your volunteer hours for September on Google docs.
- Midtown Kiwanis presentation on November 2 -- John Brewer and Linda Eisenman will work together on this early morning event.
- Teresa Fung
received a donation of 27 ceramic boxes from ceramicist, Jeff Drullard. We are
considering using them for tabling events, living gift markets, silent auctions
etc. Judy Grimshaw will send Mr. Dullard a thank you note.
Monday, November 5, 2012, Campus Commons Board Room 6:00 pm.
We will discuss
partnering with a pair of students for a Heifer event in the spring (see item 1
above).
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