Sunday, December 18, 2011
FUNdraising
EWB-UI is growing exponentially, and our fundraising efforts are growing with it! Our goal for the 2010-2011 school year is $10,000 and we are well on our way!!! Our second Biannual "Doughnut Day" Krispy Kreme FUNdraiser was a complete success! We sold 200 dozen which raised over $1000! This is a 33% increase from the 150 dozen that we sold last spring at our first Doughnut day!
The EWB UI holds biannual "Doughnut Day" on the Wednesday of dead week for the University of Idaho. Our group drives to Spokane to get our pre-ordered doughnuts at 4 am the morning of to ensure that the buyers get them as fresh as possible. We then sell them on campus and to local companies for $1 for one, $5 for half dozen, and $10 for a dozen. Together with the Applebee's Pancake Feed in October, we have raised over $1,200 dollars!
We are looking forward to continuing our fundraising efforts with our first annual EWB UI Gala Event in spring of 2012.
However, now is the time for the Annual EWB National Matching Campaign. For every penny we earn we will be matched 150% by EWB National's corporate sponsors. The match ends January 15th so we need your help now! What we would like you to do is go to the DONATE page and donate any amount, even $1 helps!!
EWB USA gives $5,000 prize for the greatest number of donations no matter how small and another $5,000 prize for the most amount of money raised. So any little donation truly can help!!
Thursday, November 3, 2011
The Birth of a Blog
Well isn't this exciting, the birth of a baby blog! And how fitting for our organization in its infancy.
But what IS Engineers Without Borders you may ask, and what do we do?
Well, as EWB USA's mission statement says,
"EWB-USA supports community-driven development programs worldwide by collaborating with local partners to design and implement sustainable engineering projects, while creating transformative experiences and responsible leaders."
And how do we do that?
We, as an EWB student chapter, have committed 5 years at minimum to the community we have partnered with in Chiwirapi, Bolivia, and the local Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Engineers In Action. Our project will proceed in the general outline as follows:
1. Assessment Trip the Chiwirapi to have take water samples, survey the land, and most importantly have a conversation with the community members about what they would like to see, and what resources are available
2. Design team prepares a solution given these facts back at the University of Idaho
3. An Implementation Trip to implement the design
4. Consequent trips to educate the community as to how to repair what we implemented on either own, and to do other projects as requested by the community
Now, as is generally appropriate for a first blog, let us review a quick history of our organization!
EWB-UI was started by in January 2011 by Aaron Lewis, a former University of Idaho graduate student in Civil Engineering. A statue is of Aaron is pending (in our minds) due to his patience when dealing with the prolonged struggle with U of I's legal department over establishing the club. Shortly after becoming an official U of I club, the first Officers were elected as follows:
President- Nate Suhr
Vice President- Mary O'Brien
Treasurer- Am Grewal
Secretary- Hailey Woodruff
Idaho State Representative- Donald Lewis
Moving at a pace previously known only to the famed Speedy Gonzales, EWB- UI quickly chose a water treatment and delivery project in Chiwirapi, Bolivia, and was approved by EWB national in September 2011!
Now the challenges of the club include choosing essential personnel for our first Assessment Trip in late August 2012, fundraising for the trip, and raising community awareness through outreach and involvement.
But what IS Engineers Without Borders you may ask, and what do we do?
Well, as EWB USA's mission statement says,
"EWB-USA supports community-driven development programs worldwide by collaborating with local partners to design and implement sustainable engineering projects, while creating transformative experiences and responsible leaders."
And how do we do that?
We, as an EWB student chapter, have committed 5 years at minimum to the community we have partnered with in Chiwirapi, Bolivia, and the local Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Engineers In Action. Our project will proceed in the general outline as follows:
1. Assessment Trip the Chiwirapi to have take water samples, survey the land, and most importantly have a conversation with the community members about what they would like to see, and what resources are available
2. Design team prepares a solution given these facts back at the University of Idaho
3. An Implementation Trip to implement the design
4. Consequent trips to educate the community as to how to repair what we implemented on either own, and to do other projects as requested by the community
Now, as is generally appropriate for a first blog, let us review a quick history of our organization!
EWB-UI was started by in January 2011 by Aaron Lewis, a former University of Idaho graduate student in Civil Engineering. A statue is of Aaron is pending (in our minds) due to his patience when dealing with the prolonged struggle with U of I's legal department over establishing the club. Shortly after becoming an official U of I club, the first Officers were elected as follows:
President- Nate Suhr
Vice President- Mary O'Brien
Treasurer- Am Grewal
Secretary- Hailey Woodruff
Idaho State Representative- Donald Lewis
Moving at a pace previously known only to the famed Speedy Gonzales, EWB- UI quickly chose a water treatment and delivery project in Chiwirapi, Bolivia, and was approved by EWB national in September 2011!
Now the challenges of the club include choosing essential personnel for our first Assessment Trip in late August 2012, fundraising for the trip, and raising community awareness through outreach and involvement.
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