[nabs-l] Few questions on Student seminars....

[Darian Smith]

In california, we have had  our seminars in both northern  and
southern california.  The  Student division has had set-up shop in
locations such as  our state school for the blind and a  religious
college campus.  if you have a larger and well-known college in a
larger city (San Francisco  and San Francisco State, or Berkley and
University of California  at Berkley, in the case of california), you
will find that not only could students who live a distance away find
it easier to  access the location by a form of  mass-transit, but, you
might even have a pretty good amount of students on campus who   could
 pretty much walk out of their dorms and into the seminar.
 Getting speakers in the local community/colllege administrators and
Federationests who all have unique stories to share that would benifit
the population you would idealy have  might be a cost-effective and
community building option for  the student division.

On 11/5/10, Cindy Bennett <clb5590 at gmail.com> wrote:
> We hold our seminar in Raleigh. This is a central city that is easy to
> get to from the whole state, and most of our leaders in NABS live
> there. But I do think that if you start having one every year, moving
> it around wouldn't be such a bad idea.
>
> We try to charge as little as possible for students to come, so that
> way more can come, and they can spend other money on transportation.
> We colaborate with the local DSB offices, that is division of services
> for the blind, not sure what it's called in New York, and some of them
> are willing to bring vans of students to the seminar so that
> eliminates the transportation costs. That being said, we have not done
> an overnight seminar, so we have never had to think about hotel costs
> and more than one meal.
>
> The money we use to run the seminar comes from a yearly fund raiser
> that we do. We work with a vendor who graciously donates snacks to us
> and make snack packs for our state convention. They are a hit. Some
> other popular fund raisers are the Belk days cards. Basically, they
> give organizations $5 off gift cards, and the organization charges $5
> for them. So people are giving $5 to the organization instead of Belk,
> and then they go to Belk on the designated Saturday and get $5 off.
> This is most effective if you sell them near the store on that day.
> One thing my local chapter did was get a local Apple Bee's to do a
> pancake breakfast for $2 a person. The chapter then sold tickets for
> $7, and a lot of people heading into work saw the sign and stopped in
> for breakfast. At school, psi chi has done a couple of fund raisers
> with restaurants such as Moe's and Buffalo Wild Wings in which you
> tell people to place their receipts in a bucket by the register and a
> portion of the profit from each receipt in the bucket at the end of
> the day goes to the organization. This can be a bit tricky, because it
> means you have to get people to go out to eat, and sometimes the
> restaurants aren't very supportive of you going to the restaurant and
> telling strangers to support you, because it means more money that
> they are giving the organization. To me, the best fund raisers involve
> projects that the division does not have to spend a lot of initial
> money on, but I know this can sometimes be difficult.
>
> I know Wall-Mart has a grant for nonprofits, and I know a couple of
> local chapters in North Carolina have received it to put on various
> events, but I don't have any personal experience with it.
>
> A key thing would be to try to get as many presenters to come for free
> as you can, or to get NFB members with various expertises to present.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Cindy
>
> On 11/5/10, Alexander Castillo <alexandera.castillo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello All, here in New York, we are thinking of having our first
>> student seminar in a long time. Before we do so, there are a couple of
>> questions that some of you might be able to assist us with.
>>
>> What sort of funding is typically used to put on a seminar? As I
>> understand things, we are able  to apply for funding from the
>> Imagination Fund, however, are there additional resources that are
>> used? Have any of your divisions put together a seminar in which some
>> participants were sponsored by a  state agency? If so,  what steps did
>> you take to have these students sponsored?
>>
>> What does your typical agenda look like? We are looking at three main
>> points of focus; these would be Technology, education, and other
>> useful resources.
>>
>> Like most of your states, New York has students spread throughout the
>> state: What sort of locations are regularly used to hold your
>> seminars?
>>
>> Looking forward to your answers.
>>
>> Thanks for reading,
>> Alex
>>
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>
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> Cindy Bennett
> uNC Wilmington Psychology major
>
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