If you are interested in any of the positions listed below, please email jirair@bu.edu before Monday, April 30th with your primary and secondary interest and also relevant leadership experience and/or ideas.
Here is what’s available:
Treasurer: Collect receipts and submit for reimbursement to Student Service Office, attend all general and board meetings
Communication Director: Coordinate all room reservations, Maintain and update facebook account , Photograph events, meetings, Respond to all outside email inquiries, Flyer postings on campus, ensure banner is present at all events, End of semester update to rotary club of boston website , Attend all general and board meetings
Social Director: Organize and execute one social event/month, attend all general and board meetings
Community Service Officer (need 3-4/semester): Primary- Organize and execute one local community service activity, Secondary- Assist one other CSO with planning, Attend all general and board meetings
Webmaster: Maintain and frequently update website: people.bu.edu
Monday, April 16, 2007
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Meeting Recap 3/27
1) Membership: Get your dues in if you haven't! For those who ordered/paid for pins, they are in - contact Kirise: kkramer1@bu.edu
2)Malaria Madness: Great job so far - This Friday at 8 PM we'll be partying at McFadden's at Fanueuil hall with live music and a comic act until 10PM (at which point all are welcome to stay/enjoy the bar).
Contact Jess (jkraft@bu.edu) to help out.
3) Cheescakes Factory Fundraiser: April 5th is distribution day - contact Jamie (jamste@bu.edu) to help out in any shift from 4:30-7, or to get a flier to post at your workplace.
4) Dunk the Dean: April 21 Plans are underway, email Eva (evabk@bu.edu) to sign up to help on the day of, any shift from 11AM to 6PM. Also email if you have a local business you think might give a prize (small item or gift certificate) and I will get you a solicitation project.
5) Darfur Rally: April 29 Email Sylvia (sbaedorf@bu.edu) if you're interested in beting event staff or helping with logistics, communication or visual effects for the rally!
2)Malaria Madness: Great job so far - This Friday at 8 PM we'll be partying at McFadden's at Fanueuil hall with live music and a comic act until 10PM (at which point all are welcome to stay/enjoy the bar).
Contact Jess (jkraft@bu.edu) to help out.
3) Cheescakes Factory Fundraiser: April 5th is distribution day - contact Jamie (jamste@bu.edu) to help out in any shift from 4:30-7, or to get a flier to post at your workplace.
4) Dunk the Dean: April 21 Plans are underway, email Eva (evabk@bu.edu) to sign up to help on the day of, any shift from 11AM to 6PM. Also email if you have a local business you think might give a prize (small item or gift certificate) and I will get you a solicitation project.
5) Darfur Rally: April 29 Email Sylvia (sbaedorf@bu.edu) if you're interested in beting event staff or helping with logistics, communication or visual effects for the rally!
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Notes from 3/5/07 general rotaract meeting
If you missed last nights meeting, here is what’s planned for the rest of the semester and how you can contribute:
March is Malaria Madness--- we are participating in a global fundraiser and with every $5 donation we get, we are one step closer to preventing someone from getting malaria. There will also be a social event fundraiser at the end of the month. For more information, go here: www.madnessagainstmalaria.com/busphrotaract or email jkraft@bu.edu to be on the planning committee. Last time I checked, we had raised $879.01!
Cheesecake Factory Holiday fundraiser is back—we are raising money for our own projects and to support international service projects. Advertising will begin 3/22 and pick up is schedule to be a couple days before the Easter Holiday. To be a part of this exciting process, please email Jamie Cheesecake Stevenson, jamie.stevenson@gmail.com
Saturday April 21st from 12-5 we will be hosting Dunk the Dean - a dunk tank festival featuring several good-natured faculty members, food, games, and music. Proceeds will provide materials and equipment for setting up an oral health clinic in the Kashmir region of Pakistan. We need help with soliciting community donations, promotion, and staff for the day of so contact Eva if you want to help- evabk@bu.edu. No previous carnival running experience is necessary.
Plans for a huge city-wide Darfur event are already in the works for April 29. We are working with student organizations all over Boston and under the guidance of the MA Coalition to Save Darfur (www.savedarfurma.com) focusing on implementing peacekeeping troops and targeting BU to divest from Fidelity. Creative thinkers, investigative journalists and activist are needed to be on our planning committee – email Sylvia at sbaedorf@bu.edu. For more information about our plans, email Waceke (waceke@bu.edu) or myself if you have any questions.
March is Malaria Madness--- we are participating in a global fundraiser and with every $5 donation we get, we are one step closer to preventing someone from getting malaria. There will also be a social event fundraiser at the end of the month. For more information, go here: www.madnessagainstmalaria.com/busphrotaract or email jkraft@bu.edu to be on the planning committee. Last time I checked, we had raised $879.01!
Cheesecake Factory Holiday fundraiser is back—we are raising money for our own projects and to support international service projects. Advertising will begin 3/22 and pick up is schedule to be a couple days before the Easter Holiday. To be a part of this exciting process, please email Jamie Cheesecake Stevenson, jamie.stevenson@gmail.com
Saturday April 21st from 12-5 we will be hosting Dunk the Dean - a dunk tank festival featuring several good-natured faculty members, food, games, and music. Proceeds will provide materials and equipment for setting up an oral health clinic in the Kashmir region of Pakistan. We need help with soliciting community donations, promotion, and staff for the day of so contact Eva if you want to help- evabk@bu.edu. No previous carnival running experience is necessary.
Plans for a huge city-wide Darfur event are already in the works for April 29. We are working with student organizations all over Boston and under the guidance of the MA Coalition to Save Darfur (www.savedarfurma.com) focusing on implementing peacekeeping troops and targeting BU to divest from Fidelity. Creative thinkers, investigative journalists and activist are needed to be on our planning committee – email Sylvia at sbaedorf@bu.edu. For more information about our plans, email Waceke (waceke@bu.edu) or myself if you have any questions.
Monday, February 19, 2007
NOTES FROM SECOND GENERAL MEETING: February 14, 2007
GUEST SPEAKER: Rotarian Dr. Ranna Parekh – she spoke about the Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship- all Rotaract members are eligible---call or email her directly with questions or interest. See Jirair for her contact information.
CLUB UPDATES:
Wednesday luncheons with Boston Rotary Club: Every Wednesday at noon, location: Boston Park Plaza Hotel, 64 Arlington Street, Boston MA 02116 (check with concierge about room location)- email Jirair if you want a free lunch.
Workshops:
Workshop #1: Networking Like a Rock Star is Back- Thursday, Feb. 22nd from 12noon- 1:30pm; Location: TBA Sign up sheets were distributed. Contact Jamie with interest.
Workshop #2: Professional Grant Writing Seminar- Friday, March 2nd from 9-12noon; location: 670 Albany St, Room 107/108- there are ONLY 3 spots available. Act now - contact Jirair to sign up.
Building your advocacy skills- hosted by PHR @ Tuffts University- Monday, March 5th from 5pm-7pm- details to come in an email. Contact Jirair with interest.
Working on: “How to achieve personal financial freedom” Contact Jamie with interest
Social and Community Service Events:
Greys Anatomy- every Thursday at the Ground Round - $5 Rotaractinis, 25% off all menu
items, and FREE parking
2/15- Demystifying Humanitarian Relief- lunchtime talk with ICRC (Jirair) L110, 12-1:30
2/16- volunteer for Community Servings: (Jess) meet at 1:45pm in the lobby, 2-5PM
Next Community Servings - Fri. 3/9 from 6-8pm and Fri. 4/13 from 2-5pm
2/21- Slavery: A Global Investigation- lunchtime movie screening (Nikkii) L112 12-1:30
2/22- volunteer for Rosie’s Place – contact Kate to sign up
2/26-3/2 – Global AIDS Week of Action - display, table in lobby, talks --- contact Rebecca to be on the planning group
Malaria fundraiser- March – details still in the making (Jess)
Midsummer Night's Dream- in March (Friday or Saturday night – details still in the works)
Public Health Week, 4/2-4/8 – BUSPH wants the club’s help. Start thinking of ways to contribute.
Update on 4/21- Dunk the Dean carnival (Eva)
4/28 or 4/29- Darfur Rally in Boston ( Jirair)
CLUB UPDATES:
Wednesday luncheons with Boston Rotary Club: Every Wednesday at noon, location: Boston Park Plaza Hotel, 64 Arlington Street, Boston MA 02116 (check with concierge about room location)- email Jirair if you want a free lunch.
Workshops:
Workshop #1: Networking Like a Rock Star is Back- Thursday, Feb. 22nd from 12noon- 1:30pm; Location: TBA Sign up sheets were distributed. Contact Jamie with interest.
Workshop #2: Professional Grant Writing Seminar- Friday, March 2nd from 9-12noon; location: 670 Albany St, Room 107/108- there are ONLY 3 spots available. Act now - contact Jirair to sign up.
Building your advocacy skills- hosted by PHR @ Tuffts University- Monday, March 5th from 5pm-7pm- details to come in an email. Contact Jirair with interest.
Working on: “How to achieve personal financial freedom” Contact Jamie with interest
Social and Community Service Events:
Greys Anatomy- every Thursday at the Ground Round - $5 Rotaractinis, 25% off all menu
items, and FREE parking
2/15- Demystifying Humanitarian Relief- lunchtime talk with ICRC (Jirair) L110, 12-1:30
2/16- volunteer for Community Servings: (Jess) meet at 1:45pm in the lobby, 2-5PM
Next Community Servings - Fri. 3/9 from 6-8pm and Fri. 4/13 from 2-5pm
2/21- Slavery: A Global Investigation- lunchtime movie screening (Nikkii) L112 12-1:30
2/22- volunteer for Rosie’s Place – contact Kate to sign up
2/26-3/2 – Global AIDS Week of Action - display, table in lobby, talks --- contact Rebecca to be on the planning group
Malaria fundraiser- March – details still in the making (Jess)
Midsummer Night's Dream- in March (Friday or Saturday night – details still in the works)
Public Health Week, 4/2-4/8 – BUSPH wants the club’s help. Start thinking of ways to contribute.
Update on 4/21- Dunk the Dean carnival (Eva)
4/28 or 4/29- Darfur Rally in Boston ( Jirair)
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Happenings of the BUSPH Rotaract Club
NOTES FROM THE FIRST GENERAL MEETING
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
*There was approximately 50 people and our club advisor in attendance
*Pizza and homemade brownies were served – if you weren’t there you totally missed out!
*15 people signed up and paid dues for the semester already!
*Next meeting is:
*Gather at the Ground Round (@ The Hampton Inn on Mass Ave.) on Thursday, February 1 for some Grey’s Anatomy, Rotaractini’s and 25% off all food!
Jirair, Rotaract President, spoke a little about what Rotaract is and what the club accomplished last semester:
Rotaract is an international program of Rotary International for young professionals who want to make a difference. There are 7088 clubs in 150 countries worldwide.
Last semester we volunteered in the community by creating a World AIDS Day display, holding a Blood Drive, a Darfur town hall meeting, conducting a cheesecake fundraiser, toiletry drive, and much more.
Jirair spoke about the focus of BUSPH Rotaract:
~Service- thru local community service and international projects/fundraising
~Education- thru guest lectures and workshops for professional development
~Friendship- thru socials events in order to meet new people and make new friends
Jirair highlighted membership details:
~Membership consists of an application and $10.00/semester, which will provide you with
Three 90-minute professional development workshops
A worldwide network of endless opportunities
You can pay the $10.00 by check, pay pal over our website, and cash at your convenience
Jirair shared club resources and important save the dates:
~Our Website = http://people.bu.edu/rotaract/
~Our Blog (meeting minutes)= http://busph-rotaract.blogspot.com/
~Google group email list serve
~Facebook account!!! – THIS IS NEW THIS SEMESTER – Thanks Eva for getting us signed up!
~Club meetings from 5-6pm (every 3 weeks)
Plans for the semester were disclosed:
A. Service Events
~Nicole- Youth Volunteer Project-teaming up with Citizen School after school program to do a service project in Dorchester
~Nicole- Book Drive- collect books on the Main and Medical campus during the book buy back period at the end of the semester
~Katherine- Volunteering at Rosie's place once or twice a month
~Jamie- Cheesecake Fundraiser for an international cause (Easter)
~Jessica- Community Servings, Malaria Bed Net Fundraiser (March)
~Eva- Dunk-tank fundraiser: an afternoon of dunk tanks, food, and fun to raise money to help launch an oral health community clinic in Kashmir.
~Jirair-Alternative Spring Break Adventure: S. Alabama Cares (Mobile, AL), Habitat4 Humanity (Biloxi, MI), March 10-18, 8-12 people
~Darfur Action event- Fidelity divestment, Rally (March or April)
~Rebecca and Jirair- Global AIDS Week of Action: Activities and Visual Displays revolving around the following issues: Health Worker Shortage, HIV Prevention and Treatment for Injection Drug Users, HIV and Malaria, IMF and World Bank Trade Ceilings- end of February
B. Education
~Jamie- Monthly workshops - February - Top Negotiation Skills--what to do when you want to kill someone in the workplace--but can't. - March -- Networking like a Rock Star returns!
C. Social Event- Katherine
~Social events- 1 or 2 events per month for us to get together and hang out.
~Our first Social Event was Thursday, January 24, 2007 at The Ground Round and it was a great success – great turnout – see photos of tour first social of the semester on our website and Facebook account!
If you would like to be more involved in any of these above-mentioned activities, please email the CSOs directly and express your interest:
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
*There was approximately 50 people and our club advisor in attendance
*Pizza and homemade brownies were served – if you weren’t there you totally missed out!
*15 people signed up and paid dues for the semester already!
*Next meeting is:
*Gather at the Ground Round (@ The Hampton Inn on Mass Ave.) on Thursday, February 1 for some Grey’s Anatomy, Rotaractini’s and 25% off all food!
Jirair, Rotaract President, spoke a little about what Rotaract is and what the club accomplished last semester:
Rotaract is an international program of Rotary International for young professionals who want to make a difference. There are 7088 clubs in 150 countries worldwide.
Last semester we volunteered in the community by creating a World AIDS Day display, holding a Blood Drive, a Darfur town hall meeting, conducting a cheesecake fundraiser, toiletry drive, and much more.
Jirair spoke about the focus of BUSPH Rotaract:
~Service- thru local community service and international projects/fundraising
~Education- thru guest lectures and workshops for professional development
~Friendship- thru socials events in order to meet new people and make new friends
Jirair highlighted membership details:
~Membership consists of an application and $10.00/semester, which will provide you with
Three 90-minute professional development workshops
A worldwide network of endless opportunities
You can pay the $10.00 by check, pay pal over our website, and cash at your convenience
Jirair shared club resources and important save the dates:
~Our Website = http://people.bu.edu/rotaract/
~Our Blog (meeting minutes)= http://busph-rotaract.blogspot.com/
~Google group email list serve
~Facebook account!!! – THIS IS NEW THIS SEMESTER – Thanks Eva for getting us signed up!
~Club meetings from 5-6pm (every 3 weeks)
Plans for the semester were disclosed:
A. Service Events
~Nicole- Youth Volunteer Project-teaming up with Citizen School after school program to do a service project in Dorchester
~Nicole- Book Drive- collect books on the Main and Medical campus during the book buy back period at the end of the semester
~Katherine- Volunteering at Rosie's place once or twice a month
~Jamie- Cheesecake Fundraiser for an international cause (Easter)
~Jessica- Community Servings, Malaria Bed Net Fundraiser (March)
~Eva- Dunk-tank fundraiser: an afternoon of dunk tanks, food, and fun to raise money to help launch an oral health community clinic in Kashmir.
~Jirair-Alternative Spring Break Adventure: S. Alabama Cares (Mobile, AL), Habitat4 Humanity (Biloxi, MI), March 10-18, 8-12 people
~Darfur Action event- Fidelity divestment, Rally (March or April)
~Rebecca and Jirair- Global AIDS Week of Action: Activities and Visual Displays revolving around the following issues: Health Worker Shortage, HIV Prevention and Treatment for Injection Drug Users, HIV and Malaria, IMF and World Bank Trade Ceilings- end of February
B. Education
~Jamie- Monthly workshops - February - Top Negotiation Skills--what to do when you want to kill someone in the workplace--but can't. - March -- Networking like a Rock Star returns!
C. Social Event- Katherine
~Social events- 1 or 2 events per month for us to get together and hang out.
~Our first Social Event was Thursday, January 24, 2007 at The Ground Round and it was a great success – great turnout – see photos of tour first social of the semester on our website and Facebook account!
If you would like to be more involved in any of these above-mentioned activities, please email the CSOs directly and express your interest:
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