Minutes
Thursday March 24th
Congrats to Heather Gage for receiving the U ROCK!
Volunteer Builds
The last build is Saturday, April 16th (8 am- 4-pm). Spots are still open! Let’s finish out this year of great volunteering with a bang :)
E-mail ko.ange@uwlax.edu if you would like to help out!
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Neighbor’s Day
On April 16th, Habitat for Humanity—La Crosse will take part in Neighbor’s Day—a day to help elderly and disabled persons in La Crosse. Tasks include help sprucing up homes such as gardening. Breakfast and lunch are included too!
Schedule
8-9 Light Breakfast
8-1 Project
1-2 Lunch
Women’s Build
For people who signed up for the Women’s Build, be sure to e-mail Sara Sturdevant to reserve your spot on the team! The kickoff day is May 7th.
Cardboard Village
Get excited! On April 29th (Friday), there will be an awesome event called Cardboard Village on Drake Field. The purpose of this event is to raise awareness of sub-standard housing through building houses out of cardboard and sleeping in them overnight. This event will include a live band, food, and games. More information to come as the date approaches.
T-shirts
Still some left over for $6! E-mail Beth Nieuwenhuis if interested!
Thursday February 10th
Picnic Building
On March 2nd and March 8th, the Re-store will be building picnic tables and benches from 6pm to 8pm. The Re-store benefits greatly from the help of volunteers. The tables are both donated and sold. All profits go directly to Habitat for Humanity-La Crosse Area for building more houses and to remove families in need from poverty housing.
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Congrats to Darci Johnson for being the Habitater of the the Week!
Know someone who is worthy of being recognized and receive the “U ROCK” rock and a candy bar? Submit a name in the Habitater of the Week box at the next meeting!
Women’s Build
Kicking off during the week leading up to Mother’s Day, women of the Coulee Region will join with women around the world to help eliminate poverty by making a difference in building homes and communities.
The kickoff day is May 7th. UWL Habitat for Humanity will have a women’s team (sorry women’s only). Each team has to raise $1,000. Our team already has 15 interested members, that’s roughly $67 dollars per person to fund raise. That amount will go down as more people are interested too.
Volleyball Tournament
On March 25th in Mitchell Hall, Habitat will hold a volleyball tournament fundraiser. It will be $8 for a 4 person team. Sign-up some friends and play some volleyball for a cause! E-mail Joshua Depiesat depies.josh@.uwlax.edu if you would like to sign up via e-mail.
Cardboard Village
Get excited! On April 29th (Friday), there will be an awesome event called Cardboard Village on Drake Field. The purpose of this event is to raise awareness of sub-standard housing through building houses out of cardboard and sleeping in them overnight. This event will include a live band, food, and games. More information to come as the date approaches.
Elections
Interested in being on the Exec Team for the Habitat for Humanity 2011-2012 year? All positions are open! Chapter Elections will be held on March 24th. In addition to the individual task requirements of each exec position, each exec is required to attend all executive meetings and general meetings. See the attachment for further info.
Buffalo Wild Wings
Like wings? Want to help out Habitat? On March 2nd (this Wednesday) from 5 pm to 12 am, Buffalo Wild Wings will donate 10% of the tab to Habitat.
Transportation is provided--we will be offering rides at 4:45, 5:45, and 6:45 at Hutch Circle. If interested, email the number of people coming with you and time interested in dining. Hope to see you dine for a reason :)
Thursday January 27th
Hot Chocolate Mug Sale—Success!
Thanks to all who bought hot chocolate and the designed mugs last semester. On that note, we apologize for the designs washing off! The paint markers swore they were permanent, but turns outs they were not. Next time, we’ll try to make sure they won’t wash off!
Volunteer Gala
Last Sunday our exec team took part in this event. Kudos to Tom Claflin, our UW-L Habitat advisor to receive the Silver Presidential Award and Kelsey’s work in planning this awesome event!
Volunteer Builds
This upcoming semester is filled with opportunities to help build some houses within the area! The next build is Saturday, February 12th(8 am- 4-pm) and we still have 8 openings. E-mail if you would like to help out!
Raise the Roof
Habitat for Humanity—La Crosse is looking for individual to help sell tickets for the annual Raise the Roof event, a benefit dance party on February 19th at the La Crosse Center—North Hall from 6:30 to 11pm. They need volunteers to sell tickets at the La Crosse Festival Foods (30 Copeland Avenue). We have 2 openings for a 12-2 pm shift on February 12th.
Picnic Table and Trellis Building at the Habitat ReStore
The Habitat ReStore is looking for volunteers to help out building picnic tables and trellises within the coming months. Every Tuesday and Wednesday will meet from 6-8 pm, depending on interest. The picnic tables are donated to families and trellises are sold to interested individuals at the Re Store. All profits go directly to Habitat for Humanity-La Crosse Area for building more houses and to remove families in need from poverty housing.
Feb 1st(Tues)—filled
Feb 2nd(Wed)—filled
Feb 8th(Tues)—1 spot open
Feb 9th(Wed)—1 spot open
Women’s Build
Kicking off during the week leading up to Mother’s Day, women of the Coulee Region will join with women around the world to help eliminate poverty by making a difference in building homes and communities. Habitat for Humanity’s Women Build program brings women from all walks of life together to learn construction skills and then use those skills to build simple, decent affordable houses.
The kickoff day is Mother’s Day. UWL Habitat for Humanity will have a women’s team (sorry women’s onlyJ). Each team has to raise $1,000. This may sound like a lot, but we already have ten people interested.
Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
All spots are filled! E-mail uwlspringbreak@yahoo.com for any questions pertaining to spring break.
Volleyball Tournament
On March 4th in Mitchell Hall, Habitat will hold a volleyball tournament fundraiser. Look for sign-up sheets in the dorms around February 14th. It will be $8 for a 4 person team. Sign-up some friends and play some volleyball for a cause!
Cardboard Village
Get excited! On April 29th (Friday), there will be an awesome event called Cardboard Village on Drake Field. The purpose of this event is to raise awareness of sub-standard housing through building houses out of cardboard and sleeping in them overnight. This event will include a live band, food, and games. More information to come as the date approaches.
Thursday November 18th
Are you a marketing major?
Habitat for Humanity—La Crosse is looking for a marketing student to help with the annual Raise the Roof event.
Tasks include helping generate ideas for the event as well as helping hand out posters, selling raffle/admission at the festival, and such. This is a great resume builder! If you would like more information, just contact Kelsey at volunteer@lacrossehabitat.org.
Spring Break
There will be an informational Meeting on December 9th! This will following our 7:00pm meeting (Room 259). If you are interested, stick around for some information. Questions? E-mail uwlspringbreak@yahoo.com
Relay For Life - February 25-26
Want to be on the Habitat for Humanity Relay for Life team? Ask anybody, it’s a ton of fun and a great cause. Sign up by November 29th, the link is under the events tab.
Gingerbread Social
It’s getting close to Christmas and what better way to celebrate the winter holidays and de stress before exams than gingerbread graham cracker house making! Join us in room 259 Cartwright on December 9th at 7 pm. This is the same time as the general group meeting.
Hot Chocolate Fundraiser
Warm up to some hot chocolate on Friday, December 10th at Wimberly Hall. Habitat will be selling decorated mugs and hot chocolate from 12pm to 4pm. It will be $2.50 per mug and .50 per refill. If you are interested in helping out, let us know!
Cardboard Village
Get excited! On April 29th, there will be an awesome event called Cardboard Village on Drake Field. The purpose of this event is to raise awareness of sub-standard housing through building houses out of cardboard and sleeping in them overnight. This event will include a live band, food, and games. More information to come as the date approaches.
Thursday November 4th
ISV
Courtney Hackett a member of our Habitat group told us about volunteering with ISV. Want more info on these summer volunteering trips? Send her an email hackett.cour@uwlax.edu
Frucle
This year for Raise the Roof, we are working at finding new ways to attract businesses to help us by donating money, an item for raffle or silent auction, or by simply hanging our flyers and information around their business, allow me to introduce Frucle.
This site is designed to help people meet others within their community that enjoy doing the same things that they do. It then encourages these people to take these friendships into the live community by going to events that they are both interested in or by using local coupons where you can meet up. The events system on Frucle has the ability to create an event, attach coupons to the event, as well as show you a map of where the event will be located! Once we start to sign up we can use the events system to send out invites .
Getting the user base up means we need you!! Start an account on http://www.frucle.com/login/ tonight!!!
Halloween Volunteering!
Thanks to all who volunteered on Halloween. We made $200 for Cardboard Village!
Relay For Life
Want to be on the Habitat for Humanity team for Relay for Life? Sign up by November 19 (this Friday) online at www.relayforlife.org/laxcolleges.
Spring Break
Our Spring Break location is FT Lauderdale, Florida! We will be able to take a total of 34 people. Sign up will be available late this semester. Updates to come soon.
T-Shirts
If you ordered a T-shirt, remember to bring your money to the next meeting (November 18th, Thursday) at 7:00pm in Room 259 Cartwright.