2016 Update (02/11/16)

The Periclean Class of 2016 is well on our way to executing a Sustainable Business Summit. This week we have been putting the final touches on our plans for “People. Planet. Profit.” on Feb. 20th. It is going to be an awesome event and we are so excited to share some of the ideals and lessons that we have learned as Pericleans with the Elon community. We have been making plans on how we want to continue our relationship with Casa Noble, our Honduran partner, and one of the first steps we will be taking is providing a water filtration system for the new transition home. We are very excited about this endeavor and look forward to a meaningful and sustainable partnership with this organization even as we graduate. More updates soon!

– Class of 2016

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Some of the cohort busy planning the Business Summit.

16’s Class Notes 05/05/16

Week 12: 05/05/15

Submitted by: Dawson Nicholson (mnicholson3@elon.edu)

Absent: Anna, Erin R, Isabel, Juliana

  1. Announcements:

 

  • Review writing assignments in groups.
    Offer constructive feedback on the forms. Save these drafts and turn them in with your final draft due next week.

  • Updates from committees:

 

  1. LUPE: Grant they are working on this summer. ESL class materials are prepared. Have a class at the beginning of next semester about teaching English classes. Casey here over the summer and will help do classes. Kerianne and Christian might also be available for the summer. Will try to meet with LUPE before the end of the semester.
  2. H4HC: Waiting to hear from Bill Burress about the student coming to study abroad.
  3. Summit in Honduras: Skype every other week. Needs help with marketing. Doing assessment of current online status.
  4. Summit: going to start contacting businesses. Summer plans to work on a website. Add businesses to website.

 

 

  • Parking Lot
  • Should we move class next Tuesday so that people can participate in the rally at 4:30? → Yes going to the rally
  • Dinner for Finals: Savannah and Caroline Thursday May 14th 6pm, big nice room in Global

  • Announcements and discussion:

 

    1. Need someone to write the class resume from fall 2014 and spring 2015. Could be considered a writing project. Megan Griffin will work on with Christian.
    2. Plans for the final exam period on Thursday, 5/14, from 6-9. Supper from where? Who will organize? Oral reflection time. Will be held in Global room 20X beside our normal room.
    3. Update on Stoles
    4. Update on Admissions Scholarship meeting
    5. Next version of Mapping Our Success → cookies to gogo write up (Lexie has it YAY!)
    6. Need someone to go to steering committee 4-5 for Dawson: Ashley will go
    7. Lexie needs to know if we have an updated logo to put on our shirts (flags from 2016-2019’s)
    8. Suggestion for Summit: Kevin Trepani instead of Tesla. Or Dan Baum from the Redwoods Foundation.
    9. Please go ahead and order the t-shirts. But FIRST send the design to Tom Arcaro for approval.
      1. ALSO idea!-Get some additional t-shirts to use for fundraising or gifts. Jenna
    10. Get a “Mapping Our Success” book
    11. Class next week/Racial reconciliation rally (Abby)
    12. Matt Gendle is the new associate director
    13. ESL-Whiteboards- Erin L
    14. Need volunteers for ESL class
    15. Need a volunteer to go to meet Dr. Manring on Friday at 10 am

 

 

  • Assignments for week 15, 5/12/15 (FINAL CLASS) (Please let April know if you think we need to have other assignments added.)

 

    1. Due date for individual writing assignment that you chose. Bring all previous drafts and final version and clip together.Start wrapping up your projects for this semester. Have a plan for when you will get them all finished. Writing, reading, talking to people, etc.
    2. Start working on your final written reflection. Prompt is posted to Moodle and is due after finals electronically.

2016’s Grant Writing Workshop

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Dr. Kurt Moore: Grant Writing Workshop

Summary: We were able to learn all about the grant finding and writing process. This is great for our domestic projects (LUPE and Sustainable Business Summit) and for our abroad projects (Hope For Honduran Children).

 

Notes:

  1. General Announcements
  • Need people for Spanish lessons over spring break
  • Meeting with Francois (exchange program vs. apply as Elon student)
    • meeting with Paul Geis and Admissions
  • 31st Immigration Talk (Juliana)
  • Cookies to gogo April 8th
  • Mission statement has been revised
  • Van from Elon to LUPE

2. Grant Writing Workshop

  • buy a space (LUPE) = capital grant
  • we might want to try foreign
  • 75% donated comes from individuals
  • government call for proposals on what they have budgeted
  • apply through Honduras embassy, H4HC would apply for the grant from the Honduran government
  • do your research and make sure you are a fit
  • Private Foundations -> look locally for LUPE (NC community Foundation/Greater Greensboro Community Foundation)
  • Corporate Gifts In-Kind -> companies give supplies rather than money
  • Transition home computers -> go to manufactures for that
  • How to find these foundations? direction connection is best
  • look at foundation directories on powerpoint; contact to use Elon’s subscription to these directories
  • go to hospital/local places and see where this funding is coming from
  • look at organizations that are doing similar work
  • think out of the box!!!
  • show funders that you are sustainable
  • have a leader for each grant?
  • one person writes it . . . so it flows well
  • make sure to write the summary last
  • show off the successes of your organization, why YOU???
  • address whether or not you will use outside consultant
  • you can put money to your volunteer hours -> put in annual figure
    • this is money we are bringing to the table
  • Ask Dr. Moore for attachments that we need
  • Sponsorships (getting equipment)
  • sponsors wants visibility
  • Dr. Moore can research foundations to see if they are a good fit

 

Steering Committee Meeting Notes (3/12/15)

Steering Committee Meeting Notes (3/12/15)

1). Reports from classes

  • 15’s
    • Monthly munchies: March 18th 8-11
    • Fundraiser with Pelicans (need a place)
    • 5K plans being discussed

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      The Steering Committee sharing updates with each other and showing remarkable tolerance to the demand to “get a picture” from that director dude.
    •  Graduation Stoles: still in the works
    • Class sustainability: creating a club at Elon
    • Partner was featured in documentary; Library is ordering this -> maybe we can share this to campus
  • 16’s
    • Grant writing class next Tuesday
    • Cookies to gogo April 8th
    • Good vibes from partners
    • LUPE meeting went well
    • English lessons continue
  • 17’s
    • Accountability representatives
    • Mission Statement and email template revisions
    • New contacts:)  Leonard Shikololo in the north of Namibia

2). Pan-Periclean Updates

  • Handbook -> physical copy by induction (1st draft) but updated every year
  • Induction: Periclean of the year (will be announced at induction) Let Arcaro know as soon as it is decided.

3). Director Updates

  • Chiapas
    • can’t send anyone down without fac/staff leadership
    • Need a way to decide who goes on the trip if it happens.  We need a faculty/staff person to go
  • Search
    • Susie and Kelsey on search committee for assistant director
    • Ad goes out next Monday -> will proceed from there
  • Periclean Foundation
    • successor of Periclean alumni foundation (2012)
    • 12’s Franklin Project Initiative -> pathways of service for year after graduation
    • Have a Elon fellow for your class to continue your project?

4). Random Notes:

  • make sure to post your notes on the blog after each class meeting
  • make sure to categorize your notes and use headings and pictures!
  • Core 455: Start now to construct; needs to have deliverables
  • money for stoles comes from pan-periclean; think ahead for this
  • steering committee blog post in  Periclean Book
  • buttons at induction (perhaps “Peace, Love, Periclean” if we’re lucky)!!!

 

 

 

 

2016’s: balls are rolling.

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  • Revisions to the syllabus were made adding a more focused writing component for the semester to be done with accountability partners.
  • Accountability duos will be responsible for posting weekly news report on the Facebook account.
  • Who are our partners (LUPE, H4HC, Honduras Summit, and Business Summit) and what do those relationships look like?
  • Broke into groups to define those partnerships and make clear initiatives for each partnership.
  • Will be finalizing and reporting to the group next week. Balls are rolling.
  • Great ideas and vibes were flowing:)

Seeking What They Sought.

 

 

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“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.” –

Matsuo Basho

What large and profound footsteps we see from our vantage point at this very moment.

Today the 16’s came together for our second class period. We are still matching names to faces and trying to gather exactly what it means to be a Periclean Scholar. Dr. Arcaro graced us with his presence this afternoon and explained the history of the program, answered our questions, and told stories of his recent trip to Honduras with Professor Post. As we ate plantain chips and gawked at pictures of their journey, every mind around the room was beginning to turn. Ideas were being formed about just how we as a class might embark on our own journey to Honduras.  Will we focus on gang violence, hunger, health issues, or education? Will we be working with the Corporate World or should wetake a different approach? So many questions and ideas came to fruition in each individual mind today. It will be incredible to see where research and discussion decide to lead us as a group in the weeks to come.

It is rather wild to me that a program like Periclean Scholars actually works! A handful of driven, hardworking, go-getters who each have opinions and ideas that differ from each others . . . there is no way conflict could arise! From my quick analysis, the reason that this thing called “Periclean Scholars” works is because of one common attribute that each member of the cohort possesses. That one thing is passion. Each Periclean Scholar has an undoubted passion for the world around them. Each member of the cohort has refused to be blind to the needs of the world around them. It will be up to us over the next 3 years to figure out how to arrange those passions together and multiply them into a sustainable and life changing project for each individual involved.

As we embark on this journey we know that we have an outstanding group of older and wise Pericleans to lean on and learn from. What we must remember is that although we are the 11th cohort to take this road, each one is unique. We will be faced with many issues and obstacles that other classes have faced. For those hurdles we can turn to our predecessors for guidance and wisdom. What we will also encounter is a new slew of questions and decisions that have not been asked or made before. For these issues it is imperative for us to remember that to “seek what they sought” not their footsteps. We must look for what the past Pericleans used to make decisions and find answers to questions. At this point I do not know what that entails, but I do know it involves remembering our passion for the world. I am looking forward to working with this group and seeing where this journey takes each of us.

 

Paz,

-Dawson Nicholson ’16