Meeting Minutes
March 25, 2010
- Open House is Saturday March 27th from 9:30am until noon! Please come and support our organization and meet some prospective students!
- Briefly discussed the Women's Leadership Institute for one week this Summer; if you are taking Maymester/1st short session classes, this is during finals for these classes (If you are interested, please let Michelle or Mimi Fortune know ASAP)
- We will be participating in the Freeze Project to bring awareness to the horrors of human trafficking! Please recruit anyone and everyone you know! We need a big turnout for this to be effective.
- Women's History Month event on Wed. March 31st from 7 until 8:30pm in the Chestatee Room in Chow; this event will honor inspirational/outstanding women (students, faculty, and staff) from the surrounding Lumpkin County Schools and from NGCSU.
**Let Michelle know BY MONDAY if you are coming!
- Speaker night in the Fall; we will also collect old cell phones for NOA, because these are items that are especially useful for the women they help!
- Since we are interested in doing some volunteer work, NOA is doing a volunteer workshop for their bargain shop on Saturday April 24th; this is a great opportunity for helping others (and volunteers also get a pretty good discount)! Please let me know if you are interested in doing this as a group or by yourself!
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March 4, 2010
- Discussed Open House
- Michelle will contact officers from last semester
- Discussed speaker possibilities; Michelle will contact NOA and Angela will contact her friends who own businesses
- Discussed volunteering; Michelle will contact Kandi for ideas
- Angela presented some great ideas for posters!
- Michelle and Kathie are meeting with Gena to discuss some sort of event for Women's History Month (March) and will pass info on to the group members
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February 18, 2010
- Discussed having a table at Spring Open House on Saturday March 27th from 10am until noon; if you are able to come (even for 5 min.), please email Michelle ASAP!
- Revisited Gena Trust's SSA group and think that it would be a good group to be involved with
- First meeting for the SSA is Wed. Feb. 24 at 1pm in Barnes Hall Conference Room
- Want to host discussions on selected topics at meetings
- Discussed volunteering/getting involved in the community
- We're still planning on the film and speaker nights; we're just waiting on our budget to be approved by SGA
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February 4, 2010
- Decided to meet every other week [next meeting will be Thursday Feb. 18 @ 12:45pm in Dunlap 205]
- No decision on whether or not to join Gena Trust's SSA (Students for Social Awareness) group.
- Will get more information on Interfaith Children's Movement (organization dealing with preventing exploitation in Georgia); check out their website here: http://interfaithchildrensmovement.org/
- We are in the process of getting the rights to show the film Playground; if we are unable to get the rights to this film, we will look at other options.
- If YOU are interested in helping Kelli Scott and Laura Balkcom with the Take Back the Night event in the Fall, please email klscott [at] northgeorgia [dot] edu
- Discussed possible speakers; Michelle will speak with professors in multi-cultural relations, interested in volunteering within the community (Gessell), Sociology (Dolan), Psychology (Smith and Cate), and Criminal Justice (Allen) departments to see where the interest lies in speakers/topics, and we will make a decision about who/what topics to include.
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October, 22, 2009
- Thanks to Ginnie and Carrie who came to work on our banner, which we will use at events! It looks wonderful!!
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October 15, 2009:
- We will be having a table at Open House on November 7 from 9:30am until noon. We'd love your help!
- We briefly discussed the Vagina Monologues, and it seems to be something that we are very interested in doing.
- Brainstormed/discussed ideas of some possible events that we'd like to do: Harvey Katz (a wonderful transgendered speaker); the double standard between men and women; some sort of "sisterhood" event or talk about why girls are so mean to other girls; a movie event for Human Trafficking Awareness Day, which is in January; something for Sexual Assault Awareness Month in April; an event with speakers from NOA and possibly some from elsewhere (have some ribbons, information, etc. available at the door) for Domestic Violence Awareness Month(October), which we might try to do in November depending on space availability; and a potluck dinner with a discussion on body image and media's influence on determining that, or on a different issue.
Have ideas? Feel free to post them on the group, shoot me an email, and/or bring your ideas to our meetings! :)
- Keep an eye out for a message concerning meeting times. Please reply and voice your opinion!
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September 24, 2009
- Introductions: Let's get to know you!
- Elected officers (president, VP, treasurer, secretary, publicity chairs)
- Read through and discussed the Constitution, which we will finalize and ratify at next week's meeting (October 1st)
- "Inspirational Women" event tomorrow night (Friday September 25th) at 7pm in Hoag. Free to attend and there will be t-shirts for sale! We will have a table in the Great Room after the speakers, so feel free to come to the event and/or help spread the word!
- Discussed possible event with NOA (No One Alone) local shelter and with different speakers
It was great meeting everyone!
**Next meeting: Thursday October 1 at 6pm in Dunlap 104!
- Open House is Saturday March 27th from 9:30am until noon! Please come and support our organization and meet some prospective students!
- Briefly discussed the Women's Leadership Institute for one week this Summer; if you are taking Maymester/1st short session classes, this is during finals for these classes (If you are interested, please let Michelle or Mimi Fortune know ASAP)
- We will be participating in the Freeze Project to bring awareness to the horrors of human trafficking! Please recruit anyone and everyone you know! We need a big turnout for this to be effective.
- Women's History Month event on Wed. March 31st from 7 until 8:30pm in the Chestatee Room in Chow; this event will honor inspirational/outstanding women (students, faculty, and staff) from the surrounding Lumpkin County Schools and from NGCSU.
**Let Michelle know BY MONDAY if you are coming!
- Speaker night in the Fall; we will also collect old cell phones for NOA, because these are items that are especially useful for the women they help!
- Since we are interested in doing some volunteer work, NOA is doing a volunteer workshop for their bargain shop on Saturday April 24th; this is a great opportunity for helping others (and volunteers also get a pretty good discount)! Please let me know if you are interested in doing this as a group or by yourself!
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March 4, 2010
- Discussed Open House
- Michelle will contact officers from last semester
- Discussed speaker possibilities; Michelle will contact NOA and Angela will contact her friends who own businesses
- Discussed volunteering; Michelle will contact Kandi for ideas
- Angela presented some great ideas for posters!
- Michelle and Kathie are meeting with Gena to discuss some sort of event for Women's History Month (March) and will pass info on to the group members
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February 18, 2010
- Discussed having a table at Spring Open House on Saturday March 27th from 10am until noon; if you are able to come (even for 5 min.), please email Michelle ASAP!
- Revisited Gena Trust's SSA group and think that it would be a good group to be involved with
- First meeting for the SSA is Wed. Feb. 24 at 1pm in Barnes Hall Conference Room
- Want to host discussions on selected topics at meetings
- Discussed volunteering/getting involved in the community
- We're still planning on the film and speaker nights; we're just waiting on our budget to be approved by SGA
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February 4, 2010
- Decided to meet every other week [next meeting will be Thursday Feb. 18 @ 12:45pm in Dunlap 205]
- No decision on whether or not to join Gena Trust's SSA (Students for Social Awareness) group.
- Will get more information on Interfaith Children's Movement (organization dealing with preventing exploitation in Georgia); check out their website here: http://interfaithchildrensmovement.org/
- We are in the process of getting the rights to show the film Playground; if we are unable to get the rights to this film, we will look at other options.
- If YOU are interested in helping Kelli Scott and Laura Balkcom with the Take Back the Night event in the Fall, please email klscott [at] northgeorgia [dot] edu
- Discussed possible speakers; Michelle will speak with professors in multi-cultural relations, interested in volunteering within the community (Gessell), Sociology (Dolan), Psychology (Smith and Cate), and Criminal Justice (Allen) departments to see where the interest lies in speakers/topics, and we will make a decision about who/what topics to include.
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October, 22, 2009
- Thanks to Ginnie and Carrie who came to work on our banner, which we will use at events! It looks wonderful!!
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
October 15, 2009:
- We will be having a table at Open House on November 7 from 9:30am until noon. We'd love your help!
- We briefly discussed the Vagina Monologues, and it seems to be something that we are very interested in doing.
- Brainstormed/discussed ideas of some possible events that we'd like to do: Harvey Katz (a wonderful transgendered speaker); the double standard between men and women; some sort of "sisterhood" event or talk about why girls are so mean to other girls; a movie event for Human Trafficking Awareness Day, which is in January; something for Sexual Assault Awareness Month in April; an event with speakers from NOA and possibly some from elsewhere (have some ribbons, information, etc. available at the door) for Domestic Violence Awareness Month(October), which we might try to do in November depending on space availability; and a potluck dinner with a discussion on body image and media's influence on determining that, or on a different issue.
Have ideas? Feel free to post them on the group, shoot me an email, and/or bring your ideas to our meetings! :)
- Keep an eye out for a message concerning meeting times. Please reply and voice your opinion!
________________________________________________________________________________________
September 24, 2009
- Introductions: Let's get to know you!
- Elected officers (president, VP, treasurer, secretary, publicity chairs)
- Read through and discussed the Constitution, which we will finalize and ratify at next week's meeting (October 1st)
- "Inspirational Women" event tomorrow night (Friday September 25th) at 7pm in Hoag. Free to attend and there will be t-shirts for sale! We will have a table in the Great Room after the speakers, so feel free to come to the event and/or help spread the word!
- Discussed possible event with NOA (No One Alone) local shelter and with different speakers
It was great meeting everyone!
**Next meeting: Thursday October 1 at 6pm in Dunlap 104!
