Week 2: 2\/11\/14<\/p>\n
Submitted by: Dawson Nicholson (mnicholson3@elon.edu<\/a>) and Megan Griffin (mgriffin10@elon.edu<\/a>)<\/p>\n Absent: \u00a0Facilitators: Morgan Abate and Erin Lanzotti<\/p>\n II. Fake break trip with Hope for Honduran Children-Meredith, Christian and April<\/p>\n A. Treats from Honduras<\/p>\n B. What we did<\/p>\n – Visited Flor Azul farm and orphanage, visited new HFHC Transition home<\/p>\n – Took video footage and interviews for Sundance Film Festival Entry<\/p>\n – Isabel mentioned being interested in helping this project<\/p>\n -Interviewed some of the boys and recieved some really great insight from them<\/p>\n All of them are very appreciative of their situation and they want to make the best of it (go to college\/go to the transitional home)<\/p>\n C. Observations about the organization<\/p>\n – Transition House = awesome way for Periclean to get involved and in a \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sustainable way<\/p>\n – Many aspects such as delegation of tasks could be handled better and in a more sustainable way -> potential project: audit organization to improve sustainability<\/p>\n – CRHP model (Periclean: India) could be adopted and put into the works for HFHC<\/p>\n E. Question\/Answer<\/p>\n – Where would we fit into this? -> so many options (Supporting a child financially, writing an external grant, building facilities, help out with sustainability of the organization, etc.), Will be on the report and discussed next class.<\/p>\n -More potential projects:<\/p>\n making a CD from audio and selling it<\/p>\n selling bracelets\u2192 maybe having different departments order bracelets specific to their department<\/p>\n Setting up distributors for jewelry<\/p>\n Donate laptops<\/p>\n -Will there be a committee that focuses solely on this? \u2192 Thinking about having a committee of 4 or 5 people. Some ideas for the committee include, answering some of Karen\u2019s daily emails about trip details, making the website better (with a promo), basically manage the projects with Karen<\/p>\n F. Discussion in small groups about findings on \u201cFounderitis\u201d and partnership with H4HC (Did not get this far)<\/p>\n G. Deadline timeline. Time to go home and process. Make a decision by next class.<\/p>\n Next Class: Meredith and Christian will have a report for the class to read and the class will bring questions; make a \u00a0timeline and establish a focus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Week 2: 2\/11\/14 Submitted by: Dawson Nicholson (mnicholson3@elon.edu) and Megan Griffin (mgriffin10@elon.edu) Absent: \u00a0Facilitators: Morgan Abate and Erin Lanzotti II. Fake break trip with Hope for Honduran Children-Meredith, Christian and April A. Treats from Honduras B. What we did – Visited Flor Azul farm and orphanage, visited new HFHC Transition home – Took video footage … <\/p>\n