Hurricane Relief

Brad Nunnally · 2005-09-01T16:52:31-05:00 (Thursday)

Is anyone interested in trying to do some kind of fund raiser to donate money to the relief fund. We did this for the tsunami(sp?) relief witht he ipod. I was wondering, since this has happened at home, if there is something we can do to for the relief. I am pretty sure they accept water, food, and mainly money. I will look into more tonight to get the details. I just wanted you guys input on whether we should look into this or not. Thanks.

"A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool."
Henry Fielding

Tyler · 2005-09-01T19:32:50-05:00 (Thursday)

If you wanted to do something like the ipod giveaway we did last year, I might be willing to donate an ipod shuffle or something like that if it will help raise money for Katrina victims. Let me know.

derrickb52 · 2005-09-01T19:49:26-05:00 (Thursday)

Geeks unite!

What did you guys do last year, for those of us who have been away from the forum for a few years?

Brad Nunnally · 2005-09-01T23:00:20-05:00 (Thursday)

Quotederrickb52 wrote:
Geeks unite!

What did you guys do last year, for those of us who have been away from the forum for a few years?

Last year on the quad we held a "Guess the number of keys?" booth where people guessed how many keyboard keys were in a bucket. The winner got a Ipod shuffle. The money was then donated to the Tsumia(sp?) relief fund.

From what it look, the only kind of donation you can give is money. Personally I would like to see if a relief fund gets created soley for the hurricane relied, because I am leary about donating to the red cross because your not sure if the money goes to hurricane victims.

The only thing I can think of is spread the word around campus and have a few donation spots where people can swing by and drop off a couple of bucks. Anyone else have any other ideas?

Ross Mead · 2005-09-01T23:55:08-05:00 (Thursday)

I think a benefit event or donation booth is a great idea. I like the idea of having something to give away, but I'd like to shoot for something other than an iPod Shuffle... ya' know, try and stay hip with the times! :-P I'm thinkin' that it'd have to be around or under $100 if we plan on having anything of real benefit to the cause. Let's throw around some ideas, and maybe look at some school-wide events that may be comin' up. Maybe we can set up a booth during a larger campus event to get more participants involved.

On a side note, some friends and I have been thinking about getting a benefit concert going for the hurricane victims. I got a call earlier today from a friend at Eastern and she's invited my band, Jinriksha Armata, to play a benefit concert somewhere around there on October 1st. So if anyone from around here is interested in making the commute with us, making a donation, or would just like general information on the event and/or my band, please let me know... ;-)

Jerry · 2005-09-02T08:14:38-05:00 (Friday)

I would be happy to support any fund raising effort.

Here's a couple of ideas.

1. Donate $1 (or more) of each cheap lunch to a relief fund. Or maybe price cheap lunch so it is $x.01 and ask to donate the change. Or cheap lunch for a class (I would be willing to purchase cheap lunch for a CS class).

2. Used book sale. I would guess that all of the CS faculty could easily donate a dozen or more books - novels, sci-fi's, text books, interesting science books. Price them to move $0.25 to $3.00.

Ross Mead · 2005-09-02T09:22:03-05:00 (Friday)

Those are both really great ideas! Could we do both? Heck, we could do cheap lunch and then do a book sale out in the quad, or we could do both at the same time and place (i.e., at cheap lunch) since the books will probably be tech-related and will most likely to be bought by engineers.

Jerry · 2005-09-02T12:05:08-05:00 (Friday)

Let me know if you want to organize the book sale.

I'll help collect books from the faculty.

derrickb52 · 2005-09-02T20:25:05-05:00 (Friday)

oooh I could use some books!

Brad Nunnally · 2005-09-02T22:10:28-05:00 (Friday)

Those are great ideas. I know I have some books I can part with. Plus, I know of someother people I can get some from. Thanks for all the ideas. I hope that if we can do this we do a really good job raising money, cause god knows they need it.

"'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after."
William Shakespeare

Jerry · 2005-09-03T08:37:45-05:00 (Saturday)

I suggest one of our officers ask Associate Dean Van Roekel to call a Joint Student Council meeting - the more people involved the easier it is to get sometihng to happen.