ESWStanford

Recap

Officer retreat at Armand's: Resources/Events Brainstorm (Heather)
GSC Funding
- mystery $5k!!! - Max to find out what's the deal
- requested: 2 speaker events per quarter at $200 each ($1,200 total for speakers. Nice work team!)
Publicity: Face boodk Group is up and running! nice work Yash!
- also buttons and tee shirts are being considered
- we should have a contest for the tee-shirts!
- it may be hard to fund the winner of the contest, maybe we can do a prize of some kind
- tee-shirt vendors? century graphics, Stanford Store
- newsletter, Yash is going to put together something each week on Thursday ->
  - we can hold off on large numbers of emails and do a once a week update
  - Yash to send out a test newsletter in the next day or two
- for the events next week, do we need publicity -> it needs to be posted on Grad Events
environmental leaders meeting:
- presentations by all the staff
- two ways to ask for fund:
  - Green Fund and
  - Woods Institute for the environment (requires collaboration) and must apply to the whole group
- Grace to check look up example of the earlier Woods Funding applications
- other potentials might be field trips and workshops
- first deadline is Oct 15th (Cathy is organizing - needs to set a date?)
  - we probably need at least a month to plan -> maybe mid to late november depending on days of week, availability etc.
Officer meeting time: the best was Friday @ 4:30pm

General meeting: Tues, oct14th, 6pm Tee shirts, sign ups for water comp, interest on projects (facebook)?
Sara can get food? Yes, and we have ~$200 for food
- Job is excited to meet with students, he will give a short talk
- before his talk we could give a quick set of announcements
- UC Davis started the water competition (they are jealous of the concrete canoe)
  - wastewater, stormwater, etc.
  - form teams, each teams are given a pollutant they have to remove with a set budget (~$100)
  - last year a team from Cal won it
  - Julia is interested in putting together a team
    - she wants some incentive for joining a team, winter qtr is organizing, spring is when it starts
- she's waiting to hear back on specific dates
- Green fund may be a good source for funding for this
co-host computing for Socio-economic dev: Oct 16th
Woods Institute Grant
Green Fund: Water competition? Farm Project?
- more info soon
Kiva speaker (Whit and Jess to coordinate)
- society of entreprenerus of Latin America
- women in business
- one for development
- Whit to send Jess the info and to reply to Kiva with a yes

Input for fellowships: meeting with Jeff Hawthorne (Sarah)
- issues are how Haas fellowships are structured, and they want us to publicize their fellowships
- options seem open and numerous on how to partner with them
SARAR projects update
- we have some options about which project we most want to work
GHI project status
- Heather has a draft of the project, they are waiting to hear about funding
Haas Service Learning Proposal + Prof. Greg Deierlein
- could be seed money for the class ($1,500 to $5,000)
- he would be willing to be listed as the instructor for the class
- we need to draft a proposal then go over it with Greg
- Heather also spoke with Ali, and she warned against listing him as the Prof. for the classes going forward
- TA is funded from the CEE department, the rest is a mix of other sources