It is an honor to be the most recent in a long line of Flagler SIFE presidents. On behalf of the entire Flagler SIFE team I would like to welcome you to our website and thank you for your support of our team. Our blog is updated monthly and has more up to date information on our projects and competitions. Continue reading
Hi Everyone,
As the semester winds down, SIFE is still up and running. This past Wednesday we had our annual Thanksgiving dinner. Thursday and Friday we started holding presentation team tryouts, there will be an informational meeting for everyone who tried out on Wednesday, November 30 at 7pm in Markland House. As it gets closer to regionals we are starting to kick it into high gear. There are many opportunities to get involved, please don’t hesitate to jump in. If you have any questions feel free to contact any of the project leaders or officers. This is a great time to stop by Markland with resume and internship questions as well.
It’s been another great week for Flagler SIFE. We have been busy with project meetings and events. We had another successful season of Conservation Cadets, and it ended on a great note with the Grand Finale Party. We want to thank everyone who participated; it truly was a lot of fun! We were happy to have the stars of the show in attendance and to celebrate together. We are excited to announce that we will be holding our first business advisory board meeting of the year. It will be held on Tuesday, October 25th in Markland House. This is a great time for us to update our BAB members on new and old projects, and to gain helpful feedback. It’s a wonderful opportunity for new and old SIFEr’s to meet with the people who help make our projects so successful. If you would like to attend, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Hi All,
We hope you all have had a great week. It’s been a busy week for Flagler SIFE! We have been working on our Spirit Video, and many other new projects and ideas. Many members of our SIFE team even participated in creating a Human Peace Sign, in an effort to break a world record in Hastings, FL. As we continue to move forward with many of our projects, please don’t hesitate to get involved. Feel free to contact us with any questions you may have. Look forward to hearing from you!
Thanks,
Flagler SIFE
Hi Everyone,
We hope you all had a wonderful summer! Many of our SIFERS were busy with summer internships, and it sounds like everyone did a great job with many people obtaining offers to return next summer. We are getting back into the swing of things as well. The container was completed, and it has been officially moved to Ray’s home in Hastings, FL. We have many prior projects kicking off, and some new exciting ones as well. Any new students should feel free to come to a meeting and see what we are all about. We meet every Wednesday at 6:00 PM in Markland house. We would love to hear from you if you have any questions!
Thanks,
Flagler SIFE
Hello,
This is Emily, FC SIFE President. Donna Delorenzo and I went to the Home Again St. Johns committee meeting this morning at the St. Augustine Record. Home Again is a collaboration of many different organizations and non-profits in the community that work with and for the homeless and less fortunate in St. Johns County. Instead of working against each other, these groups are facilitating communication and teamwork and bringing their individual resources together to battle homelessness, hunger, poverty and joblessness. So far the groups have created a community calendar so that all the groups can coordinate feeding sites and times so no one is left out. Second Harvest North Florida food bank has increased their distribution of food by 30,000 lbs. A publication with all of the contact info for all the local services has been created, and they are about to have there second printing of the publication because it was such a success.
I would like to congratulate everyone involved for their great humanitarian efforts, especially in this holiday season.
Finally, I hope everyone is voting for our Containers For a Cause Grant. In case you didn’t know there are two ways to vote.
Instructions for Voting on line
Step 1: Go to www.Refresheverything.com/ContainersforACause
Step 2: Go to the bottom left of the page and click ‘Sign In’ Follow the procedures to sign up
Step 3: Once you are signed in go to the top right of the home page and type ‘Flagler College’ in the search bar.
Step 4: Look for the idea with the headline ‘New homes for the homeless and new opportunities for former inmates’ followed by Flagler College Students In Free Enterprise
Step 5: Click on ‘Vote for this Idea’
Step 6: Repeat Daily
OR you can vote by texting 104881 to 73774 (Pepsi) everyday
The key is voting everyday, both ways.
Thank you all for taking the time to read. Have a happy holiday season!
~Emily Marcellus
President of Flagler College Students In Free Enterprise.
The month of December is half way over. Keep on voting everyday!
Text 104881 to 73774
and
Vote at WWW.RefreshEverything.com/ContainersForACause
Suruwat
Our Suruwat project began 2 years ago to help Nepalese refugees that were relocated to Jacksonville, FL assimilate into their new environment. When the refugees arrive in America they speak little English and do not always understand our cultural norms and ways of life. Flagler SIFE began giving workshops to help these individuals learn everything from how to clean a kitchen to how to speak English.
We learned that 75,000 additional Nepalese refugees would be coming into the United States over the next 5 years. We wanted to create a program that could help these families face the challenges of everyday life in America: going to the bank, shopping at the supermarket, searching for a job. We produced a video and supplemental packet to help with these lessons. Our video and supplemental packet was distributed through the 10 national resettlement agencies including World Relief, Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Services. Since the program was so well received we have been asked to create more videos.
Recently we met with Catholic Charities to determine the languages our video should be translated into, these include: Arabic, Spanish, and Barundi. Our next videos will use different nationalities as actors and will be translated into at least 7 different languages.
Conservation Cadets
Conservation Cadets was started last year when it was brought to Flagler SIFE’s attention that we could help people to conserve energy and save money. We deliver our message through a series of videos in which children and adults reverse roles. In our videos the Conservation Cadets, teach adults how to cut costs and conserve energy. A lot of great tips coupled with humor have allowed our Conservation Cadets to successfully reach about hundreds of people with their crash course in environmental sustainability.
We are pleased to announce that as we begin the fall semester, the Conservation Cadets project is, once again, gaining momentum as we look to the future.
To view the videos and learn more about the project click here OR check out Flagler SIFE’s YouTube Channel.
Containers for a Cause
Containers for a Cause is one of our newer projects, started last semester, it is one of our largest and fastest growing. Containers for a Cause takes used shipping containers and transforms them into low income housing.
We are currently working on building our first container. The plans are still in the building department. When they are approved, we will begin the construction of our first container on The Record’s parking lot.
SIFE General Meeting, 6:00pm, Wedensdays @ Markland
(Markland is the big white house right behind the Student Center)
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