Drexel University Habitat for Humanity

Greetings everyone!

Habitat for Humanity had its first meeting of the quarter this past Thursday. Welcome to all our new members, it was great to see so many new faces!

Next General Body Meeting: If you missed the meeting, don’t worry! We will be holding another General Body Meeting (GBM) next Thursday, October 15th at 9pm in GSDC Conference Room D (basement of Creese Student Center), but I’ll also outline some important upcoming events in this email. Our next GBM will hopefully feature an actual Habitat Homeowner, so be sure to come out!

Fundraising: This term we will be canning (collecting money from pedestrians) almost every other week. The first canning date is this Friday, October 9th from 4-6 pm at 30th St. Station. This is a great opportunity to fulfill your volunteer requirement for the chapter as well as for the university. If you are interested in participating in canning make sure you sign up on the website at http://signup.duhabitat.org.

Builds: Our first build for the school year will be this Saturday from approximately 7am-4pm. In order to be eligible for a build, you must have attended one fundraising or volunteer event — canning counts! If you have a car, and are willing to drive, it would be greatly appreciated! If you are interested in attending the build sign up on the website at http://signup.duhabitat.org; more information and directions will be provided to those who sign up.

Hoodies: We have also decided to hold a competition for the design of our 2009 Habi-Hoodie’s! The winner will get a free hoodie with their design on it! Designs must use only a single color ink and must include our name or chapter logo. Submissions are due by our next meeting, Thursday October 15th, in any form.

Executive Board Meeting: An executive board meeting will be held tonight, October 8th at 9pm in our office 3014 McAlister. Board meetings are open to any student, but are generally smaller than General Body Meetings, and are more focused on running the organization. If you’re not sure if you want to attend, I’d suggest waiting to come to the following week’s GBM.

Future Events: More information will be coming soon regarding November’s annual fundraiser, “Rake-A-Thon” and open board positions for the 2010 Executive Board.

Have a great week!

Hope everyone had a great Spring break and that classes are going well so far!

Welcome back ASB group!! Congratulations on all your hard work and we hope you had a wonderful experience!

Although this was a couple of months ago we would just like to say thank you to everyone that came out and helped make HabiJam possible! We sold 110 tickets and made a profit by the end of the night. Although the night went well certain aspects could have gone better. We want to hear from you! If you attended HabiJam or if you were involved in the production process please email us with suggestions for next year!

            Build a House, Build a Dream is tomorrow Saturday April 4^th! If anyone wants to come out and help we need volunteers from 7am-2pm on Saturday. If you can only come for a portion of the time that is fine! If you’re interested please respond to this email ASAP so we can get a head count on how many volunteers to expect!

            Upcoming canning dates and locations will be posted on the website! We will also send an email with a list of days and locations. Keep checking the website for updates!

Our next Executive Board meeting is next Thursday at 6 pm in the Habitat office on the third floor MacAlister. Everyone is welcome to attend the meeting!

 Have a great week!

Hello,

This past weeks executive board meeting was very exciting! Things are getting off the ground. Habijam is just around the corner! We have created an event on facebook, if you haven’t RSVP’d, please do so. Invite your friend’s! It’s going to be an amazing night! Tomorrow, 2/23/09, we are going to go chalking around campus to promote the event. Anyone who would like to help out is welcome. We will all meet up in the Habitat office, 3^rd floor MacAlister, at 7 pm. Your welcome to bring camera’s and there will be pizza after we are done (around 9 pm)!

Build a House, Build a Dream is on April 4th, 2009. Drexel will be hosting this event on campus once again! More details on volunteering for that event when we get closer to the date!

 Have a great week!

Things are beginning to come together for our Habi-events! Keep your eyes open for updates on Habijam and promotions for Habijam. We are going to need everyone’s help in chalking and handing out flyers to get the word out!

Sorry about the late notice for anyone who was planning on going canning Friday January 30th, but it has been cancelled. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Lots of exciting things to come,

Have a great week!

Hey everyone! We had our second meeting this past Wednesday to discuss up and coming events. Habijam is coming along nicely; the date has been set for March 5th in Mandell Theater. As the date approaches we will be doing a couple of different promotions for the concert, one of which will be chalking in the academic buildings on campus. We are anticipating on chalking throughout the month of February; it should be a fun way to get the word out (more details next week). 

Also, we discussed changing the day of canning from Friday January 30th to a different day during that week around the same time (2:30 - 5pm). We have set up a poll! So if you plan on attending canning please vote for the best day for you (if more than one works, you are able to choose more than one; again please only choose days that you actually plan on attending). 

We have a lot planned for the year so keep checking the website for updates!

Have a great week and keep warm!

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We had an awesome first meeting with our new executive board this week! Congratulations and thank you to everyone who helped out with Rake-A-Thon this year. We raised a total of $4,600; $2,000 of which went to us. Great job guys! As you can see the new website is up and running so from now on the minutes will be posted exclusively on the website and not emailed, so try to check it frequently for any updates! We also got a donation from ImageUSA of $100 to Home Depot! Thank you Tony!

The event Act! Speak! Build! week is coming up on March 30th-April 5th, more details after next week!  Also keep the date Saturday April 4th in mind for Build A House, Build A Dream event (volunteers needed to help out set up and such), again more to come as we get closer to the date. 

Finally: We will be going Canning next Friday January 16th and Friday January 30th from 2:30-5 pm; as always meet in Habitats office on the third floor of MacAlister. 

Have a great week everyone! We have a lot planned for this quarter, it’s going to be very exciting!