[mit-habitat] Minutes from 11-22 Meeting

[Elyse J Pieper]

Hi everyone,

 

For those of you who came to the meeting, thank you sooo much!  Your input
and enthusiasm are greatly appreciated.

For those of you who were unable to come, we’re sorry you couldn’t make it
and hope you’ll be able to attend meetings and other events later in the
semester.

 

A very not-brief summary of the meeting is as follows:

 

At the meeting, we planned 3 events for the spring term and agreed to have 4
workdays.  The details for each thing are as follows:

 

Workdays:

            January 21

            February 11

            March 11

            April 22

 

Campus Build:

            For those of you who do not know, Campus Build is an on-campus
event during which students and other members of the MIT community help
build window and door frames to be sent to the Habitat warehouse for future
use.  The benefit of holding this event is that it gives people the chance
to volunteer for only an hour when they cannot make the commitment that a
workday requires.  The wood used to build the frames has been purchased in
the past from Home Depot.  This year we’re going to try to plan ahead and
get it donated.  Planning for this event involves reserving a location on
campus (probably Kresge BBQ Pits), getting the plans from the Habitat
contractor (I would provide his contact info), and getting the wood somehow.
Tentatively, we’d like to host this event over Spring Weekend (the dates of
which are not yet finalized).  The benefit of doing it this weekend is that
Spring Weekend Committee could help fund it and advertise for it.  Michael
Kokko will be primarily in charge of this event, but we would appreciate any
other help.

 

Breakfast Fundraiser:

            This will be held Friday, February 24th, at a booth in Lobby 10.
The event itself will last probably from 9 AM until 5 PM.  To plan this
event, we will need to reserve the booth, call / talk to companies about
getting food donated, and figure out how the food is getting to campus.
Companies that have been involved in the past include Starbucks, Dunkin
Donuts, Au Bon Pain, Rebecca’s Café, Alpine, and La Verdes.  With things
like this, the sooner we contact companies, the better.  We do have cars
available to us, so getting the food to campus the day of the event should
not be a problem.  We may also consider purchasing Krispy Kreme donuts to
sell in addition to the purchased food.  The purpose of this event is to
raise money for our the operations of our organization so that we can
continue to fund workdays and other activities like Campus Build.  

 

Sleep-Out:

            This event will be held Saturday, May 6th (morning) to Sunday,
May 7th (afternoon).  It will be held in Boston Commons.  For this event, we
will actually “sleep out” in that we will get sleeping bags and sleep in the
park
assuming we ok it with Boston Police and any other relevant
organizations.  This event is intended to raise awareness about Habitat for
Humanity’s goals and homelessness in general.  Our target audience will not
be the MIT community exclusively (since MIT students can be reached through
our other activities like Campus Build).  Instead, we will be trying to
reach out to Boston.  Hopefully, in spreading the word about Habitat, we
will increase the volunteer base of the organization as well as solicit
donations for the organization.  We are hoping to get Habitat chapters from
nearby schools involved in this event such that it will be a larger group of
individuals, thereby delivering a larger impact.  The planning for this
event would involve contacting the other chapters, contacting Boston Police,
deciding the exact logistics of the event, etc.  Lindsey and I will be
working primarily on this event, but are glad to get help from any other
interested individuals.  

 

In addition to these three events, we need help with two other things:

 

Flyers: 

            We need to make new flyers.  They will be created by combining
information from old flyers as well as from the Habitat website itself.
These flyers will be distributed at all of our events to help increase
awareness.  Jeff Borowitz is primarily in charge of this, but any other help
would be appreciated.

 

Website Upkeep:

            We need to keep our website updated
and maybe just change it all
together.  We would provide you with the necessary information to put on the
website, and then you could have creative freedom in making it look awesome.


 

In closing, if you are interested in helping with ANY of these activities,
e-mail epieper at mit.edu AND lpete321 at mit.edu, specifying which event you’d
specifically like to help coordinate.  

 

Additionally, it is important to stress that while you may not be interested
in planning the event, when the event actually occurs, we expect many of you
to help run it to make the event successful.  

 

Thanks for reading this REALLY long e-mail and if you have any questions,
don’t hesitate to ask!

 

Your co-presidents,

 

Elyse Pieper and Lindsey Pete

 

 

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Elyse J Pieper

480 Commonwealth Ave

Boston, MA 02215

epieper at mit.edu

702.354.2648

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