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SBA's Community Service
Commission
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Our fearless
leader helping
at Make a Difference day.
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Volunteer Opportunities
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BLSA needs help organizing and sorting
food after their holiday food drive. Email Trinia if you are interested
in helping. trinia@ku.edu
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Beau and Julie will need committee
members for the laptop project. Help them stamp out poverty and
extremism in developing nations by giving children a tool to make
themselves the "architect of their own fortune". (thanks to
Roman Emperor Claudius Caecus for the
quote)
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Reach Out And Read, sponsored by NILA,
is going to hold a book drive in March 2008. Email Geri Hartley ,
NILA President, to help or contribute. kunilagreen@gmail.com
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Recycling Awareness - see Tracie
Reevis. (Tracie also needs a co-chair). Sign up on our SBA office
door to volunteer with the
RAC. |
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Changing the way
you Change the World
Using Habitat for
Humanity as a dynamic example,
authors of Forces for Good,
Crutchfield and Grant,
present this
manifesto on what high-impact nonprofits
do to achieve
wide-scale social change. These methods
are insightful for all
organizations, including
for-profits and individuals. You may
just want to
pick up a hammer and take a swing at changing the
world.
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Commission
Goals
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Provide a clearninghouse to match
participants with community service events.
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Help organizations best plan
community service events.
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Enable community service to happen
on the most efficient level, in order to provide the most public good
from the human, financial, and intellectual capital
available.
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Track Record of the
Commission
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MAD Day helped at over six local community
service projects, including Habitat Restore and Habitat for
Humanity.
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Race Ipsa was a success. Our primary goal, to raise
awareness of the SBA and KU School of law, was realized by having
over 70 runners. The SBA also raised over $900 for Van-Go and
Lawrence Community Shelter. Check out the pictures HERE!
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Our crash food
drive to help local pantries was a success. Food was donated to
the store at the East Kansas Economic Opportunity Company, where
families in need may obtain food at almost no cost. Thanks to The
Merc for their generous help on this
project.
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Volunteers at Habitat for
Humanity during Make a Difference Day
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Laptops for
Children in Developing Country
Julie
Larson and Beau Jackson will be chairing
a committee to raise funds to buy laptops for children in developing
countries. As uber-genious Seth Godin puts it, "when you give
children the ability to access wikipedia and the rest of the world,
things change fast".
Seth
Godin's blog post about One Laptop Per Child.
One Laptop Per Child
homepage. |
Make a Difference
Day
Click HERE to visit the official MAD Day Page.
Thanks to Justice Carol Beier, Judge Jan Karlin, Kevin Kelly, and
all others that helped organize this event. The students and alumni
appreciate the opportunity to help out and meet each other at the same
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To contact us about the CSC, please email the
following addresses: tdunville@gmail.com or christelpoague@hotmail.com
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