Info and Update

Terps for Animal Welfare: Thursday Sept. 17 meeting review and EVENTS!

Hey everybody,

Hope everyone who came enjoyed our meeting yesterday. This first section is mostly a review of what happen yesterday, feel free to skip.

Meeting Review:

• Meet and greet of the executive board (check us out on our blog, linked below)
• Group information –What TAW is about and out focus on Advocacy, Service and Fundraising
  • Advocacy: raising awareness of Animal Welfare issues, hosting lectures, petitions
  • Service:  Volunteer work at shelters and rescues
  • Fundraising: raising money for club operations and for donations to animal welfare causes like American Humane society, rescues and shelters
  • Ice breakers
  • Upcoming events (listed below)
  • Available positions (listed below)
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Issues:

Listserv/Google group: just to let everyone know that we have sent invitations to join our google group, it is mostly a means of sending out mass emails. Most of our information will be posted on facebook, so check there first for information. If you haven’t joined our google group, email us back at tawexec@gmail.com under the subject of “google group” and we will add you. There were many people we sent emails out that haven’t been responded to, so check you inboxes and your spam first.

Meetings:

A lot of people have said that meeting dates are inconvenient and were wondering if we could change. Currently meetings are held on Thursday from 5-6pm. The only other times we have available are Thursday from 6-7 or 7-8. Remember that winter is coming and that it is getting dark so the earlier we can hold meetings the better. A discussion forum is on Facebook where everyone can discuss the issue. Please do not email the group back to discuss it, only on our Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=112421633679&ref=ts).

Upcoming Events:

THIS FRIDAY – September 25, 2009: we will host a shelter visit to the Washington DC Animal Shelter, signups are on Facebook and only around 10 people can attend. Timing is not set yet as there will be a Facebook discussion on what time the most people will be available to go, the shelter closes at 8pm so the earlier the better. This is a service activity, which is part of our mission statement, so we would like to have all available spots filled.

SATURDAY OCT. 10 – 4^th annual Walk for the Animals: We are partnering up with the Washington DC Animal Shelter for the Walk for Animals event, which fundraiser to help end pet homelessness by providing for adoption, spay/neuter, and humane education efforts of the Washington Humane Society (WHS) and The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). We need with managing the kids zone and to help set, break down, lead different stations. We would like to get volunteers to sign up to come in different block periods. Block periods are: from 9am to11:30am, from 11am to 1:30pm, from 1pm to 2:30pm. We would like to have 5 to 10 people for each section and anyone want to stay longer than the 2 ½ period is more than welcome to.  More information will be available soon.

You can sign up at: http://www.sign-up-sheet.com/users/sheets/3542

Available Positions: We have some available positions open in the group. The positions are:

Advocacy: Work with the VP of Public Relations to communicate with Animal Welfare groups, help in organizing petitions and speakers, helps manage blog

Community Service: Work with the VP of Public Relations to organize community outreach to local shelters and rescues

Fundraising: Work with the VP of Programming to come up with fundraising ideas, helps in the implementation of fundraising activity

Freshman Rep: Works with President and VP of Marketing in recruiting and with marketing

Events Chair: Works with the VP of Programming help design and implement events and programs.

Some people have already signed up for positions, however we will need everyone who is interested to email us at tawexec@gmail.com a short 100-150 word blurb about why they should be elected to the position. Please send the email under the subject of “Join Exec team”.

Sorry this email was so long but there was so much to say. If you have any questions please email us and we will respond asap. Thanks and have a great day.

~TAW

An update

Hey,

This is TAW letting you know that our first meeting was yesterday and was legit!! Thanks everyone who showed up and hope to see you guys again. By Monday, I will have posted a review of the meeting as well as an upcoming events. This was just a quick update to let everyone know that this blog is working and just to give a quick update.

Also this blog is still under construction so don’t be scared of the lack of information and post and how generic the graphics are (Michelle is working on it). More information is still to come.

~TAW