March 30 Agenda

March 30, 2011 CILA meeting

 Welcome back! 

 People’s Project with John Meister

• We will have nomination forms for this year’s People’s Project.

• Nomination Parameters: Students, Faculty and Staff involved in disabled community on campus. Nominees should promote 2 of the following qualities: inclusive, proactive, leader, involved, engaged.

• The People’s Project group will decide from nominees the final picks. Nominations are due by April 15^th. Nomination parameters will be sent via email. Remember, we want these nominees to have an impact on the disabled community of Boulder, which is not limited to only the disabled and only people on campus. Be creative in your nominations.

Student Symposium on Friday afternoon April 15.

• We need a few students to describe our group and what we do on campus and in the community. The symposium will be in an informal setup where students can walk by and talk to each student group about what they do. The time of this symposium will be posted later.

Nominations

• For Secretary and Treasurer

• Annabel was elected as Secretary and newcomer Natalie S. was elected as Treasurer! These will be our new executives for next year!

 StrengthsQuest test for anyone interested

• Those people that want to learn about their strengths Amy will email the code for the test.  We will have people from Career Services come in to discuss each of our results at the next meeting. Make sure you complete the online test by the next meeting on April 13^th. This is optional but we suggest that everyone participates.

 Co-sponsored Concert with Ethan Johnston on Saturday April 16, 2011 from 8-11pm

• We need help spreading out fliers, chalking and other broadcasting opportunities. We also need people running tables and helping with funding applications.

• Performance by Lion Souljahs! Performance will be in Math 100. We are planning to spread the word on the concert through Radio 1190, the radio station on campus. Listen in and tell your friends about the concert. $7 for students and $10 for community members.

Fundraising Letters

• If you do not have any letters ready today, please create as many as you can. Email them to Amy by Friday at 2pm. You can also send emails if you have the addresses. Send them to Amy.Rivera@colorado.edu

• There were suggestions to have silent auctions in the fall to kick off the new semester. Just something to think about.

ZBT’s “On the Ball” Fundraiser

• Email Kieran (dunstank@colorado.edu) with any businesses or individuals you think that would sponsor the fundraiser.   We NEED options!!!!!!!!!!!

• Rolling the ball around campus the week before finals

Interactive Theater Project

• Next meeting is this week! Friday April 1 at 3pm at the Dennis Small Cultural Center (4^th floor UMC). For the actual performance, we are hoping to have a recording to show at Disability Services for incoming students and parents.

Next meeting is Wednesday April 13 at 5pm. ONE MEETING LEFT FOR THE SEMESTER!

• Ø  There may be treats…  Ice Cream Bar??? Maybe…

Bake Sale: An official SUCCESS

CILA cupcakes were cute AND yummy!

Hey, everyone!!!  I just wanted to say a BIG thank you to all who contributed to today's bake sale success.  It may have gotten off to a bumpy start, and we definitely learned a lot about the process... but once we got going, we did really well! 

WE MADE OVER $100!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Again, a BIG thank you to Annabel, who coordinated this, as well as Olivia, Sarah, Gabby, Amanda, Molly, and Kieran.  If I'm missing somebody who also helped or came by to buy some goodies, please let me know.

Alright... that's all for now.  See ya at the next meeting: Wed, March 16th, at 5pm.  We have a guest speaker coming in to talk about Values in our lives.

Have a great weekend!
Priscilla  :)

March 2 Agenda

1)    Welcome everyone!
Attendees: Kelly M., Annabel, Kieran, Teresa, Molly, Hilary, Amy, Colin, Eliot, Daniel, Gabby, and some new members: Jessica, Alex, Amanda, Ally, Sarah, Olivia, Michaela, Jennifer, Emily, and Kenji 

2)    Community Health: Teresa Wroe and Julie Volckens

Bystander Intervention – Letter to the Editor, What can we do to be effective? How do you offer help that is effective and not offensive?
Anyone who wants more information or would like to help with the Bystander Intervention Program can contact Teresa (Teresa.Wroe@colorado.edu) or Julie (julie.volckens@colorado.edu)

3)    Teresa’s Event Planning

a)     Do we want to volunteer? Have a team building get together?
E  Everyone agreed that volunteering for a crafts project at Denver Children's Hospital was a good idea.  Teresa will contact the hospital, Priscilla will work on trying to arrange a bus to get us all there.  If not, some can carpool.

4)    Fundraising

a)     Letters with Hilary

We have a draft that is going to Disability Services to be approved. Start compiling your list of friends and family to send the letters.  If anyone has any suggestions on the letter, please let her know before the next meeting.  Priscilla will send a draft to everyone, as well as to John M. to confirm it is okay and to find out if we can use university letterhead or what the appropriate protocol is.

b)    Partnership with ZBT and Kieran

Anyone who has contact with business owners, please contact Priscilla who can pass that information on to Kieran.  He also needs a letter with our mission, what we do, and what we hope to accomplish.  Priscilla will send that to him.

c)     Fundraising Committee – Annabel

We want to get started with bake sales for recruitment and fundraising. We will be shooting for sometime next week. (Mardi Gras goodies).  She's thinking Tuesday and passed around a list for people to sign up with who is interested in helping.  Annabel also wants to do some sidewalk chalking.

5)    Interactive Theater Project – Kelly Mitchell

“This is all you see” – Friday 3pm Dennis Small Cultural Center (4^th floor).  Hopefully we'll have it done by sometime in April.
New opportunity

Blind Café – Waiters and consumers had to participate in complete darkness to spread awareness about visual impairments. The success of this single project makes us want to create more “Blind Cafes” for people all over campus to participate in. Contact Kelly Mitchell for more information.
People who were interested were: Colin, Alex, Ally, Sarah, Olivia, Hilary, & Gabby

6)    People Project – John Meister

7)    Volunteering Opportunities – Annabel

New Vista High School wants a panel to talk about transitions from high school to college for their disabled students. More information will be coming from Annabel.  Priscilla asked Annabel to have someone from New Vista come in and talk with the group.  She will ask them.

8)    Cindy Donahue’s “Disability in Society” panel results

a)     SUCCESS!

9)    Resource Library

10)           Banner???

Brian Rivera will be working on that.

11)           Co-Sponsoring a concert with Ethan Johnston

Possible locations and bands are open now. Please contact Priscilla if you have ideas.
Ally knows a person who could perform, Amanda has contacts with the Diverse Musicians Association, so they will check on that.  Possible locations were brought up: Club 156 in the UMC, Amanda will check into the Black Box Theater in Atlas, and Teresa will check into the Fox Theater. 
12)     Next meeting: Wednesday, March 16th, at 5pm in the same conference room (N215A) next to Disability Services in the C4C building.  We'll be having a guest speaker to talk with us about Values!

Interesting Letter to the Editor about Bystander Interventions

Here is a link to the Daily Camera. Professor Kraft wrote a compelling letter to the editor about his experiences in Boulder. When he was in obvious distress, no one offered him help.

http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_17504449?IADID=Search-www.dailycamera.com-www.dailycamera.com&IADID=Search-www.dailycamera.com-www.dailycamera.com

The Community Health Board has asked for our input in response to this and other Bystander Intervention related experiences. Please look this over and think of how a bystander should act to make a bad situation better.

"Disability in Society" Panel

Yesterday, Priscilla, Molly, Annabel, Eliot and Jordan went to Cindy Donahue's class on "Disability in Society" to discuss each of their relationships with disabilities. The class was very receptive and asked a lot of meaningful questions for the panelists. With every day comes an opportunity to spread disability awareness and March 1 was a successful day!

Meeting March 2

Hey everyone,

I'm sorry I've been slacking on this blog lately. However, we have a great agenda planned for tomorrow evening, including a visit from one of the founding members of CILA, Tricia Downing! I hope you all can make it. Same time, same place.

Amy

Agenda - February 16, 2011

1. Welcome
Attendees: Priscilla, Amy, Hilary, John M., Daniel, Amanda Stewart (from the CU Foundation), Colin, Teresa, Kelly M., Kieran (from ZBT)
2. Guest Speaker: Amanda from the CU Foundation
Amanda spoke with us about a way to raise money for CILA by starting with a letter-writing campaign.        

Hilary is working on creating a template for personal letters for contacts. The idea is that each member can send out about 10 letters asking for donations from personal contacts so that we can fund future events.
2nd guest speaker: Kieran Dunstan from the ZBT fraternity
His fraternity wants to help with fundraising for CILA and other volunteer opportunities.  We'll also help with his "On the Ball" fundraising event.
3. Recurring Agenda Items
        Fund-raising Committee - Annabel, Meghan, Eliot, Hilary, Kelly M., Kelly K. and Gabby
        People Project - John Meister, Gerard, Amy, Kelly K., Annabel, Meghan and Priscilla
        Interactive Theater Project - Priscilla, Kelly K., Amy, Molly and Meghan
                Meeting - Friday at 3pm in the Dennis Small Cultural Center of the UMC (4th floor).
        Volunteering Opportunities - Annabel
        Under-represented Student Group (CUSG) 
                We elected Daniel to represent CILA at this group and we hope to organize future events or projects together to spread awareness on campus about our group.
Daniel raised a concern about he is not given voting status on CUSG because he is considered a part-time student due to medical reasons, but since part-time students are largely under-represented on this campus, this raises another issue.  
* Will talk to Cindy and John about it.
4. Cindy Donahue's "Disability in Society" panel - Priscilla, Annabel and Eliot
        Tuesday, March 1st from 12:30 to 1:45
Teresa will do it and Amy will check to see if she can get out of her class which is at that time
5. We're co-sponsoring a concert with Ethan Johnston, former CILA member and CU student
        Hopefully mid-April, already have a band
        Talk to Priscilla if you are interested in planning
Kelly M. will also be assisting with that
6. Final logo
7. New website http://www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/cila/CILA/Home.html includes blog - thanks to Gerard!
8. Resource Library
8.5 Something fun!
Teresa has volunteered to plan an event that is fun for the group
9. Next meeting - March 2