Meeting Minutes (April 17, 2008)
Today we held our final meeting of the semester. Thanks to everyone for coming even with exams coming up, and thanks to Koushik for making sure we had a place to meet in peace! We covered some important topics today, so I think we're all caught up before we leave for the holidays.
Firstly, Sriram and Ahrar talked about the preliminary survey that we conducted on Saturday, April 12. Although not all of the data has been analyzed yet, there were a few trends that we were able to identify. The details of the analysis will be posted in the near future, as soon as the work is finished. As far as basic trends go, we are predicting that our areas of greatest concern will be sanitation and hygiene, as well as nutrition. There are a few more questions that everyone felt should be added to the original survey. The demographics committee will be working on that. Everyone had some great ideas for how to get started, but no final decisions have been made.
Next, Malar gave a quick snapshot of our current funds, which was helpful to all of us to know where we stand and how much work we have ahead of us.
In the same vein, Ahrar talked about planning another basketball tournament for sometime around mid-July. Further planning will be done as we get closer to the date.
The final order of business was perhaps the most important. As our group is getting bigger and we are getting more ambitious, it is important that we streamline and try to make our efforts as efficient as possible. To this end, we've decided to set up committees for all the various aspects of the project. The committees have been posted, so if you weren't at the meeting, be sure and look through the list of committees and decide how you want to get involved. It is vital that as many of us join the committees as possible so that we share the work equally. We will be doing a lot of background work and research work over the May holidays, so be sure and get in touch with your committee leader before we leave.
As we break for holidays, we will all be coming in contact with family and friends, who are all potential donors for our cause. Aslesha has designed a wonderful flyer which has all the necessary information in one place. We will be giving everyone one copy of the flyer to take home with them. Please make as many copies as you need and be sure you're talking to everyone about our work. We have ambitious goals and many tasks ahead of us, all of which will require sufficient funds, so we all need to do our part. There will be a funds form as well a packet of receipts that each of you will get. Please be sure and keep solid records of all the funds you are collecting as well as signatures from the donors.
We also want to mention that we have started a Facebook group and cause, please join that. If we don't have your email address, please provide us with it so that we can stay in touch with you. Also, if you would like to contribute to the blog, please let us know so that we can add you to the author list. We would like as many of our members as possible to be authors of the blog, so that we can hear everyone's perspective and we can all stay on the same page.
If anyone has any questions, comments, or suggestions, be sure and contact us or the relevant committee leader.
Firstly, Sriram and Ahrar talked about the preliminary survey that we conducted on Saturday, April 12. Although not all of the data has been analyzed yet, there were a few trends that we were able to identify. The details of the analysis will be posted in the near future, as soon as the work is finished. As far as basic trends go, we are predicting that our areas of greatest concern will be sanitation and hygiene, as well as nutrition. There are a few more questions that everyone felt should be added to the original survey. The demographics committee will be working on that. Everyone had some great ideas for how to get started, but no final decisions have been made.
Next, Malar gave a quick snapshot of our current funds, which was helpful to all of us to know where we stand and how much work we have ahead of us.
In the same vein, Ahrar talked about planning another basketball tournament for sometime around mid-July. Further planning will be done as we get closer to the date.
The final order of business was perhaps the most important. As our group is getting bigger and we are getting more ambitious, it is important that we streamline and try to make our efforts as efficient as possible. To this end, we've decided to set up committees for all the various aspects of the project. The committees have been posted, so if you weren't at the meeting, be sure and look through the list of committees and decide how you want to get involved. It is vital that as many of us join the committees as possible so that we share the work equally. We will be doing a lot of background work and research work over the May holidays, so be sure and get in touch with your committee leader before we leave.
As we break for holidays, we will all be coming in contact with family and friends, who are all potential donors for our cause. Aslesha has designed a wonderful flyer which has all the necessary information in one place. We will be giving everyone one copy of the flyer to take home with them. Please make as many copies as you need and be sure you're talking to everyone about our work. We have ambitious goals and many tasks ahead of us, all of which will require sufficient funds, so we all need to do our part. There will be a funds form as well a packet of receipts that each of you will get. Please be sure and keep solid records of all the funds you are collecting as well as signatures from the donors.
We also want to mention that we have started a Facebook group and cause, please join that. If we don't have your email address, please provide us with it so that we can stay in touch with you. Also, if you would like to contribute to the blog, please let us know so that we can add you to the author list. We would like as many of our members as possible to be authors of the blog, so that we can hear everyone's perspective and we can all stay on the same page.
If anyone has any questions, comments, or suggestions, be sure and contact us or the relevant committee leader.
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