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!