Mission
The Student Leadership Office is the center for active students who wish to improve their leadership skills. Our office aims to direct the highly motivated student leaders among us who wish to help in the relief effort. Our students come from diverse backgrounds, have all kinds of skill sets, and through their coop experiences, may be able to provide the relief effort with creative, energized solutions and assistance. Our office aims to direct their energies and knowledge so we can all acheive greatness, and help the vulnerable victims of the recent devastations of the hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Stan.
Donations made for Hurricane Relief
Student group Hurricane Relief efforts include....
- The Hurricane Relief Committee sent $1,400 to Oxfam America and $1,400 to Habitat for Humanity.
- Utsav's Spiced Boat Cruise raised $3,000.
- The NU College Democrats date auction raised $1,300
- Delta Zeta sold lemonade at move in and raised more than $500
- Unifec: $467
- Iintro to Student Leadership: $275
- Delta Zeta and Kappa Sigma $501
- Cup: $837
- West Village A and B bake sale: $108
- Kappa Sigma dunk booth with our very good natured VP of Student Affairs Ed Kotzbier raised over $140 and MATCHED it with a $150 donation of their own.
- Silver Masque bake sales: $170
- NUBilaga passed the hat at the recent Margaret Cho program and brought in $344.
- A Hurricane Relief Concert at afterHOURS, featuring f NU Bands GoosePimp Betty, Hood Official and others, and organized by student Alvin Carter, $208.90
- SGA vs. NUPD softball event $40.35
Who We Are
This group is responsible for assisting students and student organizations in coordinating and maximizing efforts to assist with relief for people and areas affected by Hurricane Katrina.
We are currently looking for students to serve on a "Relief Steering Committee" to help develop fundraising, service, and human aid programs. If interested, please email us at hurricanerelief@neu.edu.
This effort is being organized by The Student Leadership Office, which provides students with several levels of FREE, co-curricular leadership training: the Developing Leader Conferences, and the Leadership Programs: Emerging Leader Series, Engaged Student Series, Enlightened Leader Series, & the Experienced Leader Seminar. Our mission is to improve the following skills: communication, ethics, diversity, health/wellness, conflict resolution, and service learning.
Upcoming Student Events for Hurricane Relief
THE Hurricane Relief STEERING COMMITTEE -- There are four committees:
- Donations : this committee will responsible for managing all donations that are not earmarked to a specific charity and will research appropriate outlets for these funds.
- Service Opportunities : responsible for creating, advocating for, researching, and organizing service opportunities such as Spring Break trips, weekend volunteer programs, providing volunteers for programs in existence, and developing long term strategies for service and co-op within the institution.
- Education & Awareness : develop, cross promote, and manage education and awareness initiatives such as programs, events, lectures, or even articles of importance that will provide a greater understanding and education to those unaware.
- Relief Related Programs : develop, manage, coordinate, collaborate and market programs which include Relief related efforts.
Past events include:
Date auction fundraiser Dec. 3, sponsored by LASO and other groups
Info session on volunteering with Red Cross Nov. 17
Canned goods drive Nov. 14 for Greater Boston Food Bank
Prof. Ron Bailey and the students of his class AFR 399 Black Community and Social Change recently held a forum to discuss public and government responses, technology and society, media coverage, and coordinating aid to the Katrina victims, short-term and long-term.
NU students Sarah Puccio, Kayne Bordes, Grant Oberg and Meghan Loraditch volunteered to greet and accompany guests from Camp Edwards who came up for the day to attend the Coltrane program at Blackman Auditorium. Thank you!!
Volunteer Opportunities
The Boston office of the Red Cross have two types of volunteer opportunities:
- Mandatory two-week commitment that involves travel to the affected areas.
- For those who wish to volunteer, but cannot make the extensive time or travel commitment.
Each volunteer opportunity requires the completion of forms which can be found at http://bostonredcross.org/Hurricane%20Katrina.htm
- The need for volunteer health professionals and support staff to organize and staff a medical clinic for the evacuees at Otis Air National Guard Base on the Cape has been filled through the efforts of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, The Massachusetts Hospital Association, The Medical Reserve Corps on Cape Cod and Cape Cod Healthcare. A range of volunteer opportunities still exist with the Medical Reserve Corps. Those interested in volunteering now or for future responses, local and national, should visit the following sites:
- Cape Cod Medical Reserve Corps, Church of the Nazarene, 209 Upper County Road, South Dennis, MA 02660; Cheryl Bushnell, Project Director (508) 394-6811 cheryl.bushnell@capecodmrc.org or admin@capecodmrc.org Visit the following website for an application and CORI form: http://www.capecodmrc.org/application.html or Upper Cape Medical Reserve Corps, 100 Ter Huen Drive, Falmouth, MA 02540, Eileen O'Keeffe, Project Coordinator, (508) 495-7137 eokeeffe@capecodhealth.org
- Medical Reserve Corps --Additionally, the Medical Reserve Corps is seeking health professionals, health/medical students and faculty, and community members to add to their roster of volunteers. Please visit the link below for more information: www.medicalreservecorps.gov; For questions, call Cape Cod Medical Reserve Corps, 508.394.6811 www.capecodmrc.org
- Students at The Greenhouse School in Salem will make and auction a quilt that pays special homage to the culture of New Orleans. The quilt will be entered at the Topsfield Fair, and the students hope to tour the finished product, displaying it at several local venues to create awareness and, they hope, attract increasingly larger bids on this work of art. Only one will be the lucky bidder, but the students won't turn down any other donations either. They will also be selling their "hope magnets," hand made buttons with inspirational themes they used to raise money for tsunami victims earlier this year. For further information, and for those interested in helping to display the quilt, please contact Dan Welch at wpdanny@netzero.com; call the school at (978) 745-4549; or visit the school's website at www.greenhouseschool.org
