l. Reports on Recent
Events
Sacramento Earth Day – This was a successful and
well-attended event held at Southside Park. Volunteers were kept busy talking
to interested participants about Heifer’s work, making bunny puppets with
children and manning the ever-popular Heifer spinner.
Midrasha Jewish School – Susan Sundell reported on her
presentation to teens interested in community service activities. The 14 children
attending were familiar with Heifer’s work and the World Ark magazine. It was
suggested that a follow up email be sent to the group leader to offer our
support and fundraiser ideas to encourage the teens to get more deeply involved
with Heifer.
Renaissance at CSUS - JoAnn shared 2 Heifer videos with her
Spanish group (Seeds of Change and a video on youtube about bringing back
traditional food in Bolivia). Both videos, done in Spanish, were so well
received that several members of her group made contributions to Heifer.
The Fun Raiser of March 29 was featured on the national
Heifer website When Cows Fly. Woohoo --
we're famous!
ll. Upcoming Spring Events
John suggested that we have a point person for each of the
spring events for next year…one person in charge of making contact and handling
the details of registering and signing up volunteers for each event.
Walk on the Wild Side
Saturday,
May 18, 10:00 – 4:30 (Setup 8-9:30)
Beach Lake Preserve, Freeport
Day on the Farm
Sunday, May 19,
10 – 4 (Setup 8 - 10)
Soil Born
Farm American River Ranch
2140 Chase Drive, Rancho Cordova
United Methodist Conference
June 20
& 21 Thurs. and Fri., 11:30 – 1:30
Sacramento
Convention Center
Suellen
Rowlison is attend as a delegate
Jill Kilty-Newburn will make a presentation
lll. New Volunteer Site
https:volunteer.heifer.org – This new site comes from
headquarters. It invites people to volunteer in their communities and to fill
out Activity Reports. More information to come about using this site as we
learn more about it.
IV. Other Items
State/Federal Employee Charitable Giving Campaign – Laurie
Heller will talk with Jill Kilty-Newburn about any data received from the work
we did last fall on several events we supported with talks and tabling. This
fall we may just go to the kick-off event on the steps of the state capital and
partner with Jim Hill from Global Impact to support any event requests he
receives.
Spinner – Jill has purchased a new, lighter spinner to replace our
attractive but very heavy spinner to take to events. Cheryl will be working on some graphics to
go in each of the 12 slots. We’ll keep it simple and try to make it useful for
most situations.
Dates for
future meetings-
• July – summer break / no meeting
• August TBA
• September 9
• October 7
• November 4
Vll. Next meeting Monday, June 3, 2013, Campus
Commons Board Room 6:00 pm
