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Meeting tomorrow, 4/5!

We hope everyone’s week has started off on a good foot. We are in the final month of our semester! 

This Wednesday (4/5) we will be having our meeting @6 in Boswell Hall 1. At our meeting, we will have a presentation from a special group of students who traveled to Baltimore to learn about food insecurity with the Branch Out Alternative Breaks! This is a great opportunity to learn more about food insecurity affecting communities, sustainability, and may interest you to join this trip next spring. 

This Saturday, we will be moving to our new satellite location!!!!  If you are available to join us in the transportation and set up on our new spot, please put your name here! We are in special need of students with cars. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VDUS4YIoygDy5hL8JQRXxkmLIyaM3ovRmjCESDf758Q/edit#gid=0 

We need volunteers to join us for tabling on April 15 for the Day for Admitted Students (https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E4CAAA822A7FAC16-dfas) and on April 22 for the Student Assembly Earth Day Bash (https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E4CAAA822A7FAC16-earth)! 

As always, have a great evening and see you tomorrow. 

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Meeting Wednesday, 3/1!

We hope everyone has had a great week and that everyone’s first round of exams have gone smoothly. We’re almost to spring break!

This Wednesday (3/1) we will be having our meeting @6 in Boswell Hall 1. This meeting will be focused on our group’s participation in Impact Week!!! Impact week is a one-week, campus-wide competition for undergraduate votes and for various funding amounts ranging from $2500-$1000. FFA is competing to purchase new foods and supplies for the satellite location in Sadler. To thank the students who vote for us, we will be creating “thank you” notes at the meeting. Bring your markers, pens, etc!

***Most importantly*** We need your help to ensure that the mission of FFA is shared with as many students as possible. Sign up for a slot (or slots!!) as soon as you can. Tabling begins on Thursday! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1URVZnDoS6tWKJO81zNVZxLWOFnfTLZpGxozWiskakF8/edit#gid=0

As always, have a great evening and see you on Wednesday. 

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FFA members, also interested in Rotaract?

Thank you to everyone who attended our meeting tonight. We are very excited to see so many students are ready to support our mission on campus. 

I wanted to share another opportunity with you, especially if you are interested in both local and international service work with a professional mentorship. This group is called Rotaract, and you may be familiar with Interact or Rotary. 

To better explain what Rotaract is accomplishing this semester, we are hosting our first interest meeting THURSDAY 2/2/23 at 7:00!Location is Blow Hall 322. 

Highlights for this semester are as follows: Collaboration with the Rotaract Club of Istanbul, Turkey, Spring Retreat for District 7600, a workshop about the power Rotary International by Internationally-recognized Rotarian Walter Hughes, the launch of a PR campaign for the Grove Community in Williamsburg, and volunteering with W&M Lafayette Kids and/or the Grove Outreach Center. Rotary offers scholarships, networking, international exchanges, and the opportunity to continue as a Rotarian through your adult years.

We are also looking for new executive members, so there is a potential to grow within the club! Those who attend tomorrow will continue to receive emails from the Rotary side.

Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions! 

P.S. Check out our website for more information. https://rotaract.pages.wm.edu/

Join our instagram: @Rotaractwm

Join our Groupme: https://groupme.com/join_group/89663903/VPiHxtnl

Here is the link to our Sponsor’s Website: https://www.williamsburgrotary.org/

Here is a link to the Rotaract Club of Istanbul’s Website: https://istanbulrotaract.org/

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Meeting this Wednesday with Dr. Sasi!

Hello FFA!

We hope your Monday is off to a great start. Some announcements for the group:

  1. We have an exciting general body meeting planned for this week. Our guest speaker is Dr. Sasi, who is an adjunct lecturer of Asian and Middle Eastern studies. While not teaching, Dr. Sasi runs his own farm local to campus. He is the Executive President of Harvest Earth, a non-profit focused on facial justice, food justice, and climate justice. He also runs his own farm and is a popular vendor in CW’s Saturday farmers market.

You can read more about him here: https://www.wm.edu/as/globalstudies/ames/people/balasundaram_s.php

Our meeting time is 6:30 in Boswell Hall #342, this is the same room we met the first time.

  1. Our club has applied for both SA funding and a national grant that would allow us to begin working on plans to expand our reach with FFA by moving the Campus Food Exchange to an old kitchen in One Tribe Place.
  2. Recently, the Williamsburg Merchants Association and the W&M Law school both had successful food drives to help us restock!
  3. Please volunteer for the Campus Food Exchange! https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0e4caaa822a7fac16-fall1

That’s all for now. See everyone on Wednesday!

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Meeting: 4/13/22

When: Thursday, April 13th, 2022, 7:00 to 8:00 PM

Where: Blow 333

What: Join us to get a recap of our successes this semester, upcoming events for the last few weeks, and to hear what’s in store for us.

This Saturday, 4/15, at 2 PM we are attending Veggie Society’s lettuce eating competition on the Sunky G’s. It costs 4 dollars to enter and in return you get your very own lettuce head of which we expect you to devour very very quickly. The person who scarfs down their lettuce the fastest will be crowned lettuce victor: an honorary but prestigious award. All proceeds will be donated to the Campus Food Exchange.

Our swipe drive this past Tuesday was a huge success with over 600 donations! Thank you to everyone who donated. Students can now apply for 10 swipes through the Dean of Students office. https://www.wm.edu/offices/deanofstudents/heartfund/index.php

Lastly, sign up to volunteer at the Food Exchange! https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0e4caaa822a7fac16-spring

We are closing out a very productive and successful first semester ever and I am super proud of what we’ve been able to accomplish.  

Have a great week!

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Announcements After Impact Week

Happy Thursday. Welcome back from break. Below we have some updates and announcements: 

Last week we competed for funding during Impact Week, and *drum-roll please* we have been declared as the winner! This means that we will be granted $2,500 for the purchase of our new fridge. Thank you to everyone who supported our cause by tabling and voting. We couldn’t have done it without you. Stay tuned as big changes and new partnerships are coming!  

Tonight, instead of hosting our normal meeting, we will be attending a community discussion, “Food Insecurity in Our Community and Beyond” at 6:30 – 8. To register, the link is below: https://wm.givepulse.com/event/286245-Food-Insecurity-in-Our-Community-and-Beyond-A-Community-Discussion

Additionally, the meal swipe drive is scheduled next Tuesday, April 5th 2022. Please help us to collect swipes from students by volunteering below. Per University policy, each student can currently donate 1 swipe each. We need as many volunteers as possible, so all FFA members are encouraged to sign up and share the link with your other activity groups and anyone who may be interested! https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0e4caaa822a7fac16-meal

Lastly, sign up to volunteer at the Food Exchange! https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0e4caaa822a7fac16-spring

Have a great rest of your week!

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Updates After Brief 3/10/22 Meeting

Here are some updates from our brief meeting:

  1. Impact week is the week right after spring break (March 21-25, 2022)! We need volunteers so please sign up for a slot (or slots!) as soon as you can! https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0e4caaa822a7fac16-impact
  2. For the Food Exchange, we are switching over from the google sheets to SignUpGenius so that volunteers can get reminders about their shifts. If you have signed up for shifts after spring break, please sign up again. Or, if you would like to sign up for future shifts, use this link. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0e4caaa822a7fac16-spring
  3. The Meal Swipe Drive is happening April 5, 2022 in all campus dining halls. Please sign up for volunteer shifts for this using this link! https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0e4caaa822a7fac16-meal

Have a great spring break!!

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Next Meeting and Impact Week Volunteers

Happy Sunday! We hope that you all get to enjoy the beautiful weather today. 

We have some announcements as follows:

  1. Our general body meeting will be this Thursday on the Sunken Gardens at 7.
  2. We have also been selected to compete in IMPACT WEEK!!! With this, we will be competing amongst other student organizations on campus for various funding amounts of $2500, $1500, or $1000!!! Our goal is to win (obviously) so that we can use these funds to purchase a commercial fridge for the food exchange. 

But we need all of your help. Please sign up to help us table at Sadler from March 21-25.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KGQE6sI62lkY5mnBVFh-nyD0CTLqopZqtaevBg0sqV0/edit#gid=0

Please come to our meeting this Thursday to learn more about impact week, how to help us win votes, and to make this effort a success. This is a huge opportunity for us.

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Meal Swipe Volunteers Needed

Food for All has been organizing a Meal Swipe Drive to take place at all campus dining halls on April 5, 2022. In order to effectively collect meal swipes, we are in need of volunteers to staff tables at each location during mealtimes. I will be sending out more information on the volunteer responsibilities as the event grows closer, but basically volunteers should expect to interact with peers as they enter the dining hall, encourage them to donate a meal swipe (as they swipe in for their own meal), and answer any questions that come up. If you have any questions, please let me know and I’ll be happy to help! The link to sign up is below, feel free to sign up for more than one shift if you are able. Additionally, I will eventually be expanding this volunteer opportunity to the rest of the student body after y’all have signed up, so you are welcome to invite friends to sign up as well!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E4CAAA822A7FAC16-meal

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Officer Application Results

The application pool for the officers’ position was extremely talented, and took a long time to judge who was best for each position. Here are the results:

President: Allisyn Lam

Food Pantry Chair: Priya Singh

Swipe Chair: Grace McGehee

Outreach Chair: Bridget O’Keefe

Congratulations all! As for the committee sign-up, here is the general google sheets to sign up!:
Committee Sign-up – Google Sheets

We will be having a meeting this Thursday at 7 at Blow Hall 333! We will be talking about:

  1. The new officer team
  2. COVID-19 Food Delivery Updates
  3. Renaming of Food Pantry + Advertisement
  4. Launching the Swipe Drive
  5. Other misc stuff!