Columbia University EWB – Executive Board

MEETING AGENDA

February 28, 2010

In attendance: Sonal, Bruce, Bethany, Kevin, Christen, Dhristie, Lucy

1. Updates from PLs

a. Uganda: Cancelled Uganda team meeting on Friday! MFP meeting met anyway. Travel dates: May 25-June 25^th.

b. Ghana: On weds, talked about conference call with professional advisor. They have been sticking to their deliverables schedules. Unsure of what will happen over the summer; it will depend on how much funding they get. Discussed AECOM meeting. They are going to make a needs list next week that they can let people from AECOM help them with their projects.

c. India: Summer trip is quite uncertain. Certainly not an implementation trip. They need to figure out who the travel team is so that they know who to send for CPR training.

– Rosemary Email about Chapter Updates

a. Sonal is forwarding this to us (again). We need to give a detailed update about where each program is at.

– Global Connect Network

2. Debrief AECOM Meeting: Money* Mentorship * Corporate Network

a. We would like to get employees involved in our existing projects, or allow them to start new projects.

b. Each program needs to have a well-articulated needs list. Programs need to have a strategy meeting.

c. Bruce: We learned a lot. We learned what their priorities are for working with a college group. They want to work with EWB to get their employees involved in progress. They are a big company, we are a small student group. Our next step: We need to present our needs that a professional could do that we cannot do for ourselves. At some point, we will have the opportunity to give a presentation. Our focus will be on the problems and the opportunities. We need to be creative and think of what is a possible NEXT project that you can get involved in!

i. Ghana already has two projects that we are heavily invested in. If we can find the right relationship within AECOM, maybe we can start a new project. For now, we will brainstorm.

ii.There are also needs within our current projects. But do they present enough of a challenge for an AECOM employee to get involved in?

d. Yuri is involved in the initiative to get AECOM employees involved with us. She is also involved in the NY professional chapter and was a program manager in college. She is very familiar with the way that EWB works.

e. Sonal: This was our first corporate campaign meeting. We created a powerpoint, beginning with an overview of our entire chapter, then going into details about our individual programs.

f. AECOM doesn’t want to “just give us money,” they want to get their employees actively involved in our programs, which is much better than just a monetary donation.

g. We should find out what exactly AECOM means by “getting their employees involved.”

h. India is looking for a new project, so it would be great to have AECOM employees involved in our projects.

i. Ghana already has a list of “Village needs.”

i. Uganda’s mentor, Joey, is applying for an AECOM grant for summer travel. They will take care of his travel costs.

j. PL’s: Present this to your programs!

h. We will have another meeting with AECOM after Spring Break.

3. CPR Workshop

a. Sarah is meeting with Laura this week to discuss workshop. Does the week after Spring break work? YES.

4. Colorado Conference Meeting

– Goals/Expectations

a. Everybody is registered! Sonal bought her tickets! $316 because she is leaving early.

b. Has anyone applied to the scholarship? It doesn’t take long to apply!

c. After the conference, we will have $300 left for the rest of the semester.

d. People going to the conference will be meeting today to discuss expectations.

e. What does E-Board think that we should get out of the meeting?

i. Be one of the premiere student chapters at the conference!

ii. Meet with other NYC chapters.

iii. Ask the professional chapters who we can go to next in our corporate campaign. Promote our Corporate Banquet.

5. Days on Campus

– T-Shirts

a. Lucy contacted Ben from Greek101. Design isn’t done. It’ll be done by Wednesday.

b. Pricing: As low as possible. It will be cheaper if it says Greek101.

c. For the fine Jersey V-neck, $20.

d. We need FINAL numbers and sizes and number of persons ordering by next week’s e-board meeting.

e. Make sure that there is a link with an image of the shirt in the email sent to the programs.

– Presentation

a. Each program can mention to their teams what they want to present and how they want to do it. How they want to ACTIVELY RECRUIT!

b. How to reach out to CC: Can we present at the CC days on campus?

6. Party Planning

a. Do your homework beforehand.

b. EC 302. Peter’s suite. Starting at 8 PM.

c. Ghana: Main course.

d. Conflict: Naach nation is at the same time. It’s a good time. We are NOT changing our time for Naach nation!

7. Our Website: Stuff to Add. To add stuff, send it to Bruce.

a. Now we are members of MCN (Millenium Campus Networks)-explain what it is.

i. The India team won a $500 grant at the MCN meeting yesterday. The India team went to the meeting and gave a very good presentation of what they were doing.

ii. (Ghana still doesn’t have an MCN representative. Maybe next year they will recruit new members and have enough people to send a rep.)

b. The upcoming Colorado conference.

c. Uganda could explain their summer plans. They have dates and everything!

d. Make the explanation under, “what is CU-EWB” smaller font.

e. Let’s change the picture on the website. Christen has many pictures. Can we get rotating pictures, like on the Columbia web page?

8. Brochures

a. Getting reimbursements. Hand in receipts to Kevin. We printed 30.

b. We should just print them ourselves.

9. Global Connect Network

a. We received an email from them.

b. It is an online networking program.

c. It sounds like a disconnected version of MCN, which we just joined.

d. Group consensus: No.