Student Education, Communication & Industry 2017 Capital Campaign for The United Earth Fund Student Initiatives United Earth Fund In Support of UEF University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan University Student Work-Study Initiatives to Benefit the Public Interest. A 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Educational Corp. Established 1978. Allen Licari Founder / President Executive Summary For the last 40-years United Earth Fund has been empowering students to fight for human rights and biodiversity, while igniting student passion to Participate in journalism, with ecology & human rights initiatives. United Earth Fund has evolved two worthy initiatives empowering In support of UEF’s EnviroNotice students & participants to follow their passion to support life and liberty. & Food Rescue Student Hunger Initiatives
A Central Ecological & Environmental Calendar We are building an exciting destination for people to EnviroNotice energizes the groups themselves locate and keep up to date on their interests in by centralizing their information to be easily Ecology, Environment & Human Rights. Being able found by students and individuals who want to to find what you are looking for in Environment, join in to explore their passion to make a Ecology and Human Rights in one place is difference. unprecedented. It Is a central place where anyone UEF Chapter structure creates a sustainable can find and explore their passion to make a student organization to publish EnviroNotice difference. EnviroNotice is a student initiative that into the future for the benefit of all. Find what creates a sustainable research organization to you want easily by topic or area; from fracking publish, maintain and update our central calendar to water shed clean ups, from nuclear to nature on the World Wide Web. The calendar contains a – you will find it here. The Human Rights comprehensive index of events, issues and Calendar Index follows the same process. activities of all existing ecology, environmental and human rights groups. Page 1
UEF Chapters Project #2 Student Hunger Initiative Student’s Food Rescue and Feeding the Hungry. . . A Sustainable Student Hunger Initiative. Food Rescue & UEF’s Student Hunger Initiative Student operations locate food and medical resources on an ongoing basis. These are UEF consulted with the oldest food rescue provided free to those in need in the organization in the USA: Washtenaw Food community. This project is designed to be Gatherers. Student success relies on using a easily replicated by students to aid those in template approach to orchestrate the contact, need in nearby cities. collection and distribution of food, clothes and medical resources. In operation, students will pass the baton from semester to semesters to support this activity. UEF guides students, using a blueprint-template to identify, organize, gather and distribute resources to needy and hungry people. Many universities Note: The student hunger initiative is Inspired by and in and schools have mandatory community service memorial to “Mother” C harleszetta Waddles and her time as part of a student’s educational experience. daughter, Ms. Audrey Ellis, who fed and is still feeding This initiative can fulfill students community service the hungry and needy around the Detroit region. time requirements. Page 2
A Sustainable Focus and Mission . . . EnviroNotice: “It’s the place you can find what you want to know.” EnviroNotice is: Student-sourced, Peer-curated, Globally-distributed. EnviroNotice is about News and notices covering This is how you will be able to figure out there ecology, environment and human rights. is something going on that you might want to jump in and be involved in. Help us build our global/local calendar! If you are someone who wants to make a What we are going to do is create this robust, self difference and passionate about animals and sustaining calendar. We are building a calendar their welfare, biodiversity, climate change, or that no other group has done, that doesn’t exist, human rights – or perhaps you want to be that would organize all the groups and put them able to help respond to oil spills or floods, in a central calendar. Everyone benefits. animal rescue or humanitarian disasters – Students work to collect details on all existing you will love this. ecology / environmental “actors” to create a If you are really concerned about what’s going sustainable central calendar. It is composed of on and want to join in to make a difference - specific calendars from different locations locally EnviroNotice is for you. and globally, putting it all in one place. Page 3
Mission Number One . . . UEF Student University Chapters with Work-study Our most pressing need is conducting a successful Work-study assignments tasks can include Campaign to fund work-study students to build and research, journalism, app design, digital source data for EnviroNotice. We are launching a production, grant writing and volunteer recruitment. $1 million Capital Campaign to set up UEF student At UEF’s chapter at UMich, students will assemble chapters. Our objective is establishing 9 regions the digital and artificial intelligence aided process and 50 universities of participants. Each chapter to gather the data other UEF Chapters will employ. employs 1 to 3 work study students, 20 hours a Publishing the on-line calendar commences. week for one year;– (3 semesters / 16 weeks each) . EnviroNotice visitors will experience the UEF provides each chapter with all the student unprecedented ease & power of staying informed salary, guidance, support, network and production on their interests in ecology environment and tools needed to join in EnviroNotice research and human rights. Students will join in and follow their production. “Adobe Cloud for Teams” provides passion to support life. UEF Chapters aim to “pass students with all the needed digital tools and the baton” semester to semester to sustain this connections to UEF’s central network hub. activity for generations to come. Page 4
The Campaign Initiative Strategy . . . UEF remains committed to secure funding to establish student work-study chapters at universities in each of the 9 participation regions (map). Student research includes ecological and human rights issues in their local community, school and region. Student-sourced, peer-curated EnviroNotice will make it easy to find all the groups, events and issues all in one location. It is the place to go to find out what you want to know. Using the central calendar will generate a positive experience finding your specific interests with options for joining in or getting alert notices about your interests. Leader and Student Participation Goals Our fundraising will address all areas for UEF is enlisting a special Capital Campaign Committee to secure the funding for this the UEF student chapter’s costs during each important project. semester. This is an important step which creates the digital collection process (for the calendar) We have a long way to go before we reach and central data base. our objectives. But you can make a difference by joining in to help UEF empower students Our process (and database) will scale up to join in to create EnviroNotice’s sustainable accommodate more students, schools and calendar to make it easy for people to join in universities, joining in. UEF’s Ultimate goal is their passion to support biodiversity and life. multinational school participation. Page 5
The Past UEF Advisor Team . . . Currently Seeking Outstanding Volunteers UEF is looking for exceptional board members to help lead campaigns to success. Contact us about participating In our team of dedicated volunteers or our advisory committee: Pass the Baton: Top row – right to left . Bottom row – right to left. Honoring Past Advisors & Contributing Participants: Geraldine Larkin – Committee Member, Advisor Dr. Harrison Chandler Stevens – Board Member & Admiral Ignatius Joseph “Pete” Galantin – Committee Member, Advisor ( Founder of Participate, Advisor (Creator of UEF’s “Good Will Abroad Through Pioneer of Computer Conferencing, Director Massachusetts Students” initiative and the Polaris Missile.) Institute of Technology Media Lab, Global Dialogue Initiator ) Anthony Putman – Advisor John Pope aka Rolling Thunder – Committee Member, Twylah Hurd Nitsch – Committee Member Advisor ( Cherokee Medicine Man & Humanitarian ) {Seneca Historical Society, Humanitarian} Baron & Baroness Killi & Edmee DiPauli – Board Melvin Claxton – Advisor Member & Committee Member {Pulitzer Prize for Public Service Reporting} Thomas Banyacya – Committee Member, Advisor ( Hopi Indian Interpreter for Traditional Hopi Leaders ) Page 6
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