External Affairs Updates

The Spring trash pick-up will be happening this weekend! Yea!!! Oregon Hill is working w/ the SGA and Green Unity on thei event. I am still waiting to hear about pizza money. OHNA has reserved the William Byrd house for us to eat pizza in after the pick up. Niyant is suppose to check w/ our new Communications Director to see if he can take pictures of the event for the web site....

Elle and Lean will be meeting w/ OHNA this week to talk about the details for the weekend.

Leah and Elle are getting down tot he final details for the trash pick-up on March 6th. Oregon Hill is on board and will reserving a room at the William Byrd Community House for pizza afterwards. Eberly is making a poster and we hope to get those out next week. Leah need to check with Eddie about $ for the pizza.

We need to get trash bags, gloves and paper plates.

Leah helped student with an event idea for next year - Mardi Gras at VCU - She refereed him to OMSA

This week has been productive. Elle and Leah have coordinated and started to finalize Paint the Town Green event fro march 6th. Leah is talking with Oregon HIll and Elle is working with Green Unity.

Martha Harper will be reserving a table for the SGA to host at the Off Campus Housing event on April 1st.

Leah will be organizing a community service group for Affordable Housing Week in April -more details to come.

Spoke with Ron Brown in the VCU/Carver Partnership - External will be coordinating a group to particpate in a community service project for the Affordable Housing Week in April

Martha Harper is going to reserve a table for the SGA to participate in the Off-Campus Housing Fair at the end of March

Sara and Leah will be organizing a trash pick up for March 6th.

Leah

This semester is going to be a busy one! We have Rams on the Hill, trash pick-ups and many other events going on. really hope to end my final semester and VCU on a strong note.


The first trash pick-up will be at the end of Feb. I will be contacting Oregon Hill to see if they want to participate.

Sara is going to looking to the Pack it Up and Pass it On event for the end of the year.

Leah

Not a lot to report. I followed up with Martha Harper - she will be contacting the Fire Chief next semester

pack it up and pass it on - United Way contact will connect after the new year

Trash pick-up: TBD for next semster

Coat drive will continue to the end of the semester

Have a great holiday break!

The coat drive boxes are set out.

Leah connected the City's Fire Chief with Martha Harper. They will be participating in the upcoming housing events.




HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!!!!!!

Sara will be picking up the box for the coat drive today and putting it in the SGA office

Leah will follow-up this week with her United Way contact regarding the Pack It Up event at the end of the year.

The Community Advisory Meeting is this Thurs - will provide update after

Leah has been asked to particpate in next semester's speak out event. She will follow-up with Gonzi ASAP.

Leah has hooked up with Ron Brown and it wokring to recruit students for the Caring to Act initiative events coming up. They include and Homeless Connect event and a Kids Coat drive. Leah will put a box in the SGA office ASAP - Waiting on Ron

Leah has approached the United Way about partnering twith VCU to do a Pack it Up and Pass it On event at the end of the school year. She will get back with them next week. For this event to be successful External will need to work with Student Life, the Greeks, the "green" groups on campus, and the residence halls. Over the next couple weeks Exteranl will be reaching out. We really want to make this a huge event. We will be copying Texas



Community Advisory Board - Nov 19th - will update after

Not much to report.

Leah worked with senate committee LICA and has recruited volunteers for the SBE on election day.

Community Advisory Board - Nov 19th. Leah will provide a full report

Leah and Sara have been brainstorming on some efforts the SGA could get invloved in. We have been discussing a food drive...

Leah has called Hands On Greater Richmond - an organization that arranges community service events in the RVA area - to see if the SGA can help out with any upcoming projects - update ASAP

Leah has called Ron Brown from VCU about the VCU Acts of Caring efforts. There are several events coming up that the SGA could contribute to. - update ASAP.

Leah will be coordinaing with the SGA VP on his efforts for a large student engagement effort. They will be meeting after University Council on Thurs. - update ASAP

Not alot to report for this week.

Taylor has become the Director of Political Affairs so Sara Cox will now be the Deputy for External.

The Community Advisory Board meeting is coming up in November. From email chains, it seems that Oregon Hill is still having a lot of problems. Maybe we should have our next trash pick-up there.

Still recruiting volunteers for the SBE - LICA has been notified and will be getting back to me.

Taylor and Leah sent out thank you notes to the Carver group an the other VCU partners ie The Well and Ron Brown

Taylor would like to look into using swipes to benefit the homeless population of RVA. We will be setting up meetings with Dr. Rodriguez to see is this is possible.

Leah will be trying to gather volunteers to work at the State Board of Elections on election day, Nov 3rd

The trash pick-up on Saturday was a huge success; we had over 40 participants. Taylor did a great job coordinating withe student groups and Leah worked with the Carver Assoc. Senator Sara Cox arranged breakfast for the group and Jaocb Powell from the GSA took pics.

Leah and Taylor will send out thank you emails this week along with sending the picture to Carver Assoc. Kanwar, and Ron Brown from VCU

The trash pick-up is on track.
The flyers have been distributed, Taylor has connected with several different groups, Leah has connected with Carver. Right now, we are hoping for over 40ppl. We will get our final numbers be Wed. The SGA will be sponsoring breakfast and Carver will be providing lunch.

Things are on track for the trash pick-up scheduled for October 10th. Senator Sara Cox will be formulating the flyers and will have them to distribute by the 28th. Taylor is following up with AOP and Ms. Ward about volunteer recruitment.

The tarsh pick-up has been moved to Oct 10th per the neighborhood's request.
Leah will follow up with Eberly about posters
Taylor has been in contact with APO and Volunteer Services about the pick-up and will follow up this week

LICA has agreed to draft a resolution for the Voter Asst Office establishment.

Leah and Taylor met this past week to discuss ideas for the up coming semester. We will be focusing on community service efforts and working with other student org's

The first trash pick-up is scheduled for Oct 3rd. It will be held in the Carver neighborhood. Leah and Taylor will be coordinating w/ Senator Sara Cox and the Carver Neighborhood Assoc in this effort

Leah will be working with LICA to pass a resolution for VCU to establish a Voting Assistance Officer. Leah will stop by the LICA meetign Sunday night. More details to follow

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