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Follow this these steps if you would like less stress planning your next fundraiser. Fundraising is not easy but staying informed and being adaptable surely help. #Organization is key to successful fundraising

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To engage the public one has to be keenly aware of their ability sustain their interest enough to educate them. The importance of marketing is often under represented. Marketing is vital to education because enticement to learn more works far better than cold dry facts. #Captivatinginterestishard

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Long term sustainability is contingent upon support from the public...International organizations like Invisible Children have demonstrated that the average individual has incredible power and potential to influence major organizations. It can be done and it has. As evidenced by Invisible Children and their #Koney2012 campaign.

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Obtaining Corporate resources and contacts is quite challenging...What does one do if they are a novice? Step 1. Read this article. Step 2. work hard to implement lessons learned.

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An interesting section on soliciting for donations. Since it was my role to solicit for donations, perhaps in my future career I can look how my approach needs work and model it after these examples...

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SUMMARY & REFLECTION

On November 19, 2014 after the bake sale the class reflected on the experience and lessons learned, progress, accomplishments and areas of strength and areas of weakness.

Many students said that they felt like the project was too rushed, and did not provide an opportune time to become settled into the group dynamics. The experience according to many students was that they felt they were given a lack of time and even out of instructional time...

Additionally the class said that they did not feel like a unified "team". The class said that they felt fragmented.

The class felt that they learned a lot about group work and all of the effort that it takes to implement a bake sale. Like the steps that it takes to fundraise and how one should raise awareness for a cause.

With regards to progress, the class had a shaky start in the beginning to of the term to select a topic and according to the class it was difficult because individuals where pursuing their own interests instead of the collective group effort.

The class had collectively attained the fundraising goal of $2,100. The class did accomplish its goal and worked very diligently towards that goal.

The following are project challenges and Next Steps...

Project Challenges:

Planning last minute

Anemic alternate established

Responsibilities where unfulfilled as were ownership of them

Resistance to event planning

Confusing the event with the project

Next Steps:

Maintain a consensus on the project mission

From the onset, establish communities with corresponding responsibilities

More class time and better/more productive use of allotted class time

Abide by more structure and leadership; class agendas, meetings and a general project deadline

Inspire more people to promote the cause and recruit ambassadors for our cause (i.e., aim for more donations of a smaller amount than few donations of a larger amount)

Engage the beneficiary agency

  Strengths of group: moving past conflict, raising the financial goal, social media advertising and organization.

Weaknesses: generating a lack of awareness in educating the school community about the cause and relying on the bake sale as the only source of revenue.

It was my role and responsibility to solicit for donations either in the political, corporate or social domain. Despite the fact that the outcome was not ideal, I learned a lot about what it entails to fulfil this role. Like my professor always says, "you can only learn by doing and making mistakes". I was not perfect but I tried my best.

Kind Regards,

RMK

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#Bakesale

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POST-BAKE SALE: SUMMARY AND REFLECTION

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On Thursday night, the official Twitter account for “The Colbert Report” committed the comedic sin of delivering a punch line without its setup. The offending tweet, “I am willing to show #Asian community I care by introducing the Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals or Whatever,” was meant to be a satirical analog to the Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation, whose creation was announced earlier this week by the team’s owner, Daniel Snyder. The joke, which originally aired on Wednesday’s episode, is not particularly complicated: Daniel Snyder created a charitable organization for the benefit of a community and used a racial epithet for that same community in the organization’s name—so here’s an absurd fictional extrapolation of Snyder’s own logic. Everyone who hates both racism and Daniel Snyder laughs.

5. Hashtag activism (in response to Stephen Colbert’s racist slurs against Asians on his show) Suey Park a 23 year old freelance writer from the United States devised the hashtag #CancelColbert as a means to end the racism and white privilege that the show was endorsing . That hashtag launched 500,000 comments in over 60 countries and gained a Twitter following of over 100, 000.

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NEW YORK -- A panel on social innovation and social change started with a joke. A panelist said they should go the full hour without saying the word "Twitter." But Twitter, along with Facebook, were unavoidable terms that came up repeate...

4. Occupy Wall Street 2014 – Only 1% of the American population are elite and privileged in American society while the rest of society the 99%, are subject to inequality. The 99% of American protesters camped outside of New York in 2014 to advocate for equality against hegemonic oppression and social stratification in society ever widening economic gap between the rich and the rest of Americans. The occupy movement relied on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to shed awareness about the cause.

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Social media has not only been at the core of major protest stories, but drove some of 2011's biggest news, from Occupy Wall Street to the Arab Spring. Digital tools such as You...

3. Syrian uprising – since YouTube was blocked by the Syrian army civilians and protesters relied on social media platforms, especially Twitter to document the injustices going on in Syria.

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While true that "slacktavism," online bullying, and unprecedented threats to our privacy are challenges, few could argue that social media has not vastly facilitated political involvement. The results have been impressive, if not always as ...

2. The Arab Spring. The Arab Spring's relevance and awareness was generated heavily on social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter to organize and share with the world about was going on in Egypt.

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The KONY 2012 campaign started as an experiment. Could an online video make obscure war criminal Joseph Kony famous? What were the results?

  Stop Kony 2012 – The was Project founded by Invisible children Inc., which sought to raise awareness about the heinous crimes against humanity committed in Uganda by Joseph Kony founder of the LRA. Invisible children Inc. sought assistance from The Hague, US senators, governments, human rights activists, acclaimed lawyers, celebrities as well as average individuals across the globe to simply generate knowledge since for 20 years many have not have not even heard of the atrocities committed in Uganda. Invisible Inc. sought to raise global awareness to educate the masses about this injustice and join the cause in solidarity by April 20 2012 through its aggressive Facebook campaign and YouTube video.

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5 Examples of Social Media Activitism

5 Examples of social media activism

Stop Kony 2012 – The was Project founded by Invisible children Inc., which sought to raise awareness about the heinous crimes against humanity committed in Uganda by Joseph Kony founder of the LRA. Invisible children Inc. sought assistance from The Hague, US senators, governments, human rights activists, acclaimed lawyers, celebrities as well as average individuals across the globe to simply generate knowledge since for 20 years many have not have not even heard of the atrocities committed in Uganda. Invisible Inc. sought to raise global awareness to educate the masses about this injustice and join the cause in solidarity by April 20 2012 through its aggressive Facebook campaign and YouTube video.

The Arab Spring. The Arab Spring's relevance and awareness was generated heavily on social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter to organize and share with the world about was going on in Egypt.

 Syrian uprising – since YouTube was blocked by the Syrian army civilians and protesters relied on social media platforms, especially Twitter to document the injustices going on in Syria.

Occupy Wall Street 2014 – Only 1% of the American population are elite and privileged in American society while the rest of society the 99%, are subject to inequality. The 99% of American protesters camped outside of New York in 2014 to advocate for equality against hegemonic oppression and social stratification in society ever widening economic gap between the rich and the rest of Americans. The occupy movement relied on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to shed awareness about the cause.

Hashtag activism (in response to Stephen Colbert’s racist slurs against Asians on his show) Suey Park a 23 year old freelance writer from the United States devised the hashtag #CancelColbert as a means to end the racism and white privilege that the show was endorsing . That hashtag launched 500,000 comments in over 60 countries and gained a Twitter following of over 100, 000.

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