Daily Writing April 28th

What would you need to do to create this information? What would you need to say? What technologies would you need? Begin drafting this presentation.

We would need the poster to create this information.

Names of presenters- Just introduce yourselves


Create note cards that say this information. We can pick this information out of the poster and final report.
Board: Explain what it is
Critical Needs: Explain how we chose homelessness
Winner: Say how we used the scoring rubric
How They Met Their Needs: Say how bus passes relieve the stress of the homeless and help them get the care that they need.

Congratulations: Write up something like: "Congratulations Directions. We wish you the best of luck succeeding in your "Roadblock to Health Care" program.
Present Checks

-The only technology that we would need is a microphone.

Results Poster

Yesterday we worked on our poster. I was nervous because I liked the layout, but didn't know how to change the dimensions. However, I ended up recreating the layout that I liked with the bigger poster template. Also, a couple people from my group came to help with the revisions. We changed the scoring process and also added a critical needs column and a column about our winning proposal and what Directions plans to do. I added graphs and pictures as well to make it more interesting. Hopefully, our instructors will like it this time and we won't have to make any more changes.

Conference

Today I had my conference and I have mixed feelings. I am happy that I got feedback on how to make my work better and instruction on things that I have not done yet, like the self assessments for the posters. However, I'm still super stressed about the amount of work because I know this week is going to be crazy to get it all done and now that I have feedback on the poster and final self assessment, I have to fix those which adds more work on what we already have. I feel like if I stay really focused until friday, when the portfolio and leadership projects are due, I will accomplish all of my goals of completing the assignments and ending up with a good grade on them.

Sunday Funday!

Today I took a break from homework. It probably wasn't the most responsible move, but I've been working all day on homework for weeks and it's exhausting. Today, I woke up and went to church. I love going because it helps me relax when I am super stressed. Then, I went to the Rays game at 1:40 with some friends. I haven't been to one yet this season, so it was a lot of fun. We had decent seats and the boys paid for us, which was great. I've always loved baseball but I've been a Tigers fan. However, now I'm starting to convert to the Rays. I really like BJ Upton. We ended up winning, and it was a great day. I came home and napped and have just relaxed. I really needed a day like today!

Drag Show

Last night, I attended the drag show in the Coquina Cafe. It started at 7, but was running late and actually didn't start until 730-8. They had a real drag being the MC and a Dj playing the music. It was very interesting. At first, I was a little uncomfortable because I have never been confronted with this type of experience, and it was a little awkward. It was REALLY weird seeing some of my friends and how believable they looked being drags. My favorite performance was my friend Chuck or Madame Merlot. He performed to Bad Romance by Lady Gaga, and actually won the whole show. I also liked the real drag that started off with a ballerina performance and moved on to be hardcore with punky girl songs. Overall, it was a very interesting experience.

Today

Today I have a lot to do. I have to finish my creativity project for my leadership class. Also, I have to get my portfolio together. I need to write my self assessments for the various assignments as well as edit my old self assessments. I need to learn how to include my graphical representation as well as our posters. I should also finish the results poster. I also need to do everything on the course calender and make sure that I understand the assignments and when they are due. Overall, I have a lot to get done today.

Undergraduate Research Symposium

Today I got up extra early and went to the research symposium. We were one of the first people to set up. We first got our name tags, program, and tacks to hang up our poster. We then hung around for a while waiting for people to come around. Me and Derek were there for about an hour and a half. It was actually really dead for the first hour. Around 11, more people began showing up. However, not many people asked questions about our poster. They just looked at it, and moved on to the next one. More of our group came at 1130, and we all attended at 1215, right before class. My overall impression, not to be negative, but was that the symposium was not very beneficial to me. I did not get much out of it. When I was there, everyone just walked by our poster and didn't seem interested in it. I think that changing the color of the poster worked well, because it was more appealing to the audience. I probably would have been embarrassed if we did not change the color because it wouldn't have looked professional compared to the other posters. The thing that I would change about it would be marketing for the event. Maybe it was just because I was there early, but there definitely were not many people there, which made it feel like our hard work was almost a waste. I enjoyed looking at our poster and realizing that we did accomplish something this year. I liked that ours proved we actually made a difference, rather than just displaying information. I learned how to illustrate a process efficiently on a poster, keeping in mind rhetorical situation of audience and purpose.

Awards Ceremony

Today I went to the leadership awards ceremony in the Campus Activities Center. It opened with Dr. Calso speaking about the budget cuts in the school, and the ability for the programs to continue to grow in economic hardship. There were many awards given to programs, students, and mentors/instructors. I like that it acknowledged different students that usually do not get any recognition. I really appreciated the new program award, which was awarded to the Residence Hall Assoc. They have been very involved on the campus, so I'm glad they were recognized. I also like that Brian Adkins was awarded. He has always been a person people can go to talk to. He is very reasonable, understanding and an overall trustworthy person. He is a prime example of a leader and I'm glad that he was winner. Overall, it was cool to see the people behind the programs and to hang out with friends for the reception.

Daily Writing April 21st

We have three class meetings left in the semester before the final portfolio is due. What needs to happen in each of those class meetings so that you can have the best possible portfolios?

I have completed all of my individual work for the portfolio. I've made my resume, graphic representation and the final self assessment. As a group, we need to revise the poster and final report, create the results poster and finalize the civic agency profiles. I think that because each board is at different spots, we should just have work time for the next 3 class days.

Renewal

Today in leadership we discussed how organizations must be renewed every once in while. I think now would be the perfect time to renew our NOFO group. We each have been stressed and starting are starting to slack on the work. Both the poster and final report had a lot of comments and issues. I feel that we must learn from this and work to make our final results poster amazing. We each need to take a breath, divide the work and get it done. We also have to do our leadership project, which is overwhelming as well. I am working on the powerpoint, which will hopefully be done by the end of today. We are beginning to get work done, and it is exciting to be able to move on. It's time to renew ourselves individually and as a team, so that we can finish the year successfully.

Hmmm.

Today me and my room mate went to look for apartments! We found two that we realllllly love on 4th street. They're 15 minutes from the school and 15 minutes from downtown Tampa, so we would get the best of both worlds. Both of them are two bedrooms, two baths, and have washer/dryers, stainless steel appliances and walk in closets. The one apartment is $100 more a month, but we both liked it more and it has a fireplace and has more square feet. However, the other one is still very nice and has a younger average age of residency, so we might fit in more there. This is a really huge decision, and I hope we make the right one!

Quote of the day!

“In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.”

I have been taking on the world lately and have even been getting sick from always being stressed. It's hard not to be when I have so many assignments and not enough time. However, I've been scratching off my english to do list and starting my leadership projects as well. I've been taking my quizes in Geography and studying for pre-calc. In addition to school work I have to file for residency (which is a super long process), scheduling for classes, verifying my FAFSA and dealing with personal stresses such as being a bridesmaid for 2 weddings the same year and helping the brides with all their planning! It's been exhausting. But today my whole attitude has changed. I can only do my best, and I will keep trying to do just that. I will continue to work hard, instead of giving up and get good grades, cheaper tuition and pull off two bridal showers, bachelorette parties and weddings! I have a feeling, everything will turn out great. Things are looking up!

What we need to fix on the poster

I want the overall design of our poster to be more legit and professional looking. I think that we need to change the colors, fonts, and columns. Also, we need graphics to make it look better as well. A lot of the text does not make sense so we do need to fix the wording of the poster and possibly move things from different columns to fix formatting and context problems. Our group needs to get on the same page to be more successful.

Weekenddd

Over the weekend I went to visit my family in Port Charlotte. It was a lot of fun! Friday I went to my brothers house for dinner and then back to my mother's and watched Criminal Minds with her. Saturday I learned to Skim Board and it was fabulous! I fell down a lot though..ha. Sunday I helped my sister with wedding plans. She's getting married in April of next year and we looked up venues and wedding colors, but nothing is decided yet. Then I drove home and did homeworkkk! Overall-relaxing weekend!

Posterrr

Today I finished the rest of my portion of the poster. I am in charge of the introduction part. I Decided to do a question/answer format.I discussed what learn serve America is as well as defining student philanthropy board and NOFO. I mentioned the process, but not go into too much detail, because it will be later on in the poster. The poster group will meet tomorrow, read and edit each others parts and then fix them by hopefully Wednesday to have the final draft ready to show the rest of our board and have it ready for printing by Friday.

Ventinggggggg

I am sooooo stressed out in this class. We have so much work to do and not enough time. It is very difficult to get all of it done. Its hard to get my whole board together to meet at the same time because we all have such different schedules. Also, everything takes longer in a group because we all have to agree on each portion, and my group hardly comes to a consensus on anything. We also have individual work that im frustrated about. I love how we wait until the last week to realize we havent commented on any blogs. Also, I have an additional 10 blogs to create to meet the requirements, on top of all our other individual group. I feel that the resume is pointless because I will never use it again. Also, the self reflections of everything are as well, because it does not help me as a student. I know my strengths and weaknesses and writing them down every couple months in this course is repetitive and annoying. Also, we are doing a lot of the same stuff in Morrins class so its just adding to repeating the same information numerous times. We have to grade our groups and reflect on the NOFO process, which we've already done in here. Overall im super agitated.

Daily Writing April 9th

This class period would be best used to split into our boards and work on our projects. My group would split into the poster group and the final report group. I am in the poster group, so we will work on our individual sections. I am in charge of the introduction and will need to add more details to make it longer. Also, we will probably decide on the layout and find the graphics and pictures that will be added. I also need to do my individual work such as my resume composing process and final assessment.

Daily Writing April 7th

In addition to what is currently on the agenda for today, what are the most important tasks for you and your board colleagues to accomplish in class today? Who is responsible for what and how will you make sure the job gets done? the most important task

* Revised Proposals
* Timeline
* Work Plan Proposal Template
* Notes regarding SPB Work Plans
* Boards will work in small groups to revise Work Plan by 11:55pm tonight

-We need to decide on the proposal and do the work for the posters and final report. We have already divided the work. We have split into three groups of three. Joe, Ky-Shon and Tiffany are doing the intro. of the final report. Carmit, Jen and Derek will be doing the procedures and me, Julianne and Megan will do the reflection. Everyone will do parts of the poster and Julianne, Megan and myself are responsible for the design, while Joe will work on the editing of grammar. The rest will do more information on the poster.

Daily Writing March 31

Now that you have a clearer idea of what the next few weeks and the next few projects will be about, how do you see yourself and your SBP working together to complete these tasks. What needs to happen in class, what needs to happen out of class? What do you need to write? What do you need to compose? How will you get all your work completed with the level of quality and leadership you want to showcase in your portfolio?

Now that I understand the projects, my group and myself will have to come together again to bring our ideas of the NOFO process for the poster. We will also have to divide the work between us. We will have to have meetings outside of class in order to get the process done. We will have to write reflections, resume, the composing process, a poster, a report and civic agency profiles. My portfolio will be better now because from my midterm, I learned what needs to be changed to be more successful.

Daily Writing St. Pattys Day

You are working on a scoring guide for your NOFO evaluation rubric so that others will know exactly how you determined the score that you give each of the incoming proposals that your SPB will receive on next week. Reflect on the following questions:

* How effectively have I explained in my scoring guide the criteria that we will use to evaluate these proposals fairly and ethically? What information do I still need to add so that another reader would be able to draw the same evaluation and assign the same number of points as I would in my evaluation rubric?

I've explained my scoring guide very effectively to be fair and ethical. I still need to add more details to the part about the budget plan worksheet.

Now, read the Writer's Workshop on p. 446. Look back at your scoring guide and mark any words that you think have evaluative and/or judgmental connotations. Have you used these terms appropriately? What words do you need to look up? What words do you need to explain further? What words do you need to change to be more specific and/or appropriate to the writing situation?

I do not think that any words have judgmental connotations. I've used the terms appropriately to have an unbiased tone.

finally, answer these two questions:

* If outsider readers read my scoring guide, would they be able to score the proposals in concert the the expectations of my SPB?
* If the proposers read my scoring guide, would they consider it fair and appropriate to make evaluations and judgment of their proposals in the context of all the proposals my SPB receives?

I believe an outside reader would be able to use my scoring guide. They would also consider it fair and appropriate because it has a very neutral tone.

Daily Writing March 5th

What are some of the responsibilities that you have as an evaluator of the proposals written in response to the NOFO you have just released? What are some of the implications of the decisions you make? How can you demonstrate to all the stakeholders--community partners, teachers, university committees, and your colleagues on the SPBs--how seriously you take this responsibility?

The responsibilities are that we must read each proposal and judge whether we will be considering it or not. We will be comparing the different proposals to find which one will be most effective. I will demonstrate how seriously i take this responsibility by completing each task with determination and drive.

Now, reflect on the qualities of effective evaluative writing that are important to evaluating the forthcoming proposals--clearly defined and explained criteria; comparisons based on the criteria; evidence that supports claims; evaluation of visual elements—in terms of how you will report out your evaluations of each of the proposals your SBP receives. Look at the above qualities and the criteria from your evaluation rubric and write a bullet-point list of key qualities that you will use to evaluate the proposals you receive.

-Do they clearly define their mission statement
-How does their mission statement compare to others
-Do they have evidence such as statistics
-How do visual elements support their claim

Daily Writing March 3

At this point how would you evaluate your midterm portfolio? What is strongest? What is weakest? Score your portfolio according to the midterm portfolio rubric. Then offer a rationale for your score.


I would evaluate my midterm as pretty strong. I've completed all of my assignments to the best of my abilities and did my best to upload each of them as well. I gave myself a 36 from the rubric. I feel that I scored lower on some parts because the things in the rubric were not all on the outline I looked at when writing my paper. I feel that my strongest part is the composing process while my weakest is knowledge of conventions.

Daily Writing Feb. 24th

What is the status of your NOFO? What kinds of changes have you been making over time? What have you contributed to the writing of the NOFO? What has been your single biggest contribution to the process?
--Our NOFO is in the last revision process. I feel that we are almost at the final copy with very little revisions. We have changed almost everything in our NOFO. The biggest change was narrowing the issue down to medical and psychological needs of the homeless, which was actually my biggest contribution. I also helped with finding statistics and doing the research.


You are also working on your graphical representation of your SPB's writing process. What is the status of that work? What do you need to do in order to complete it? What does the group as a whole need to do to be able to complete it? What has been your single biggest contribution to the graphical representation?
--We have ideas for our graphical representation, but are not very far along on this process. We need to get together, take pictures of our group doing the process and compose a document including these photos. I need to take part in this group effort. I believe that we all contributed the same. I drew pictures, representing the process but the group has decided to take actual photos instead so, so far I have not contributed too much but I plan to when we actually do the assignment.

Daily Writing Feb 17th

Imagine that you are volunteering at a USFSP community partner dialogue and find yourself in conversation with the executive director of the Pinellas County branch of Volunteer Match. In this conversation, you are asked to describe the Student Philanthropy Boards and the NOFO process, which you do. You are then asked to describe the current NOFOs that will be made available to the public on 26 February. In this daily writing, describe that conversation. Be sure that you include brief descriptions of each of the 4 NOFOs being offered by SPBs 1-4.

I would describe the Student Philanthropy Board as a part of our Leadership program. I would describe how we discover and research the issues in the Pinellas and Hillsborough community. We then narrow down the issues to furthermore find a specific critical need of the community. The issue must be able to be solved or helped with our government grant of $5000. The NOFO process is fist deciding our issue. Then we narrowed it down to the specific critical need. We write a problem statement by researching the issue and declaring how it effects our community. Then we decide what the program should entail to create a solution. We must look at the different factors such as sustainability, proposal requirements from the different organizations and provide restrictions for these.

The first SPB worked on homelessness. They want to help provide a place for homeless people to regain their lives and overall positively impact their well being. They will maintain an existing program by helping it stay alive and will also include programs that will help with their success in the working world.

SPB 2 also wants to help the homeless. They want to give them the skills needed for a career, such as increasing their knowledge in technology. They also discussed transportation to get to these jobs and a place to keep clean.

SPB 3 worked with domestic violence. They want a safe place for women that are being abused and a place for their children as well. They want to have a place for women ages 18-30 to go to learn to be independent.

SPB 4 wants to clean the environment and focus on the litter. They discussed creating a program to keep the community beautiful by picking up litter and educating the people about recycling and maintaining the health of the environment.

Daily Writing Feb. 12

Based on your work as a student board (in both classes) how can you work toegether as a team today to get your draft written. Consider such aspects as research, statistics, writing styles, writing expertise, editing skills, listening skills, connections between categories for evlauation and problem statement and leadership. How will you help to facilitate this process? What can you do to contribute to your board today? In what areas do you need others to contribute to balance off your strengths and weaknesses?

We can work together as a group to finish the NOFOs by compromising. If we each find statistics and facts we can compile it together into one. ALso, if we chose the strongest writer than they can word it professionally. I will help by bringing up ideas and points to discuss. In order to balance my strengths and weaknesses, I need people to come to decisions because I am very indecisive in this process.

After Lunch

I thought that this lunch was very informational and productive for narrowing down our issues. I learned about Keeping Pinellas Beautiful, ASAP, Angels on Call, and the Center for Victims Rights. This made me even more supportive of homelessness because I did not realize how prominent it is in our community. I learned more about the issues in the community and what we can do to help. Overall it was very helpful.

Sources for NOFO

http://www.cafelaw.com/domvio.html

http://www.acadv.org/facts.html

Before Lunch With Organizations

From this lunch I hope to find out the issue that affects our community most.I want to know statistics about each issue to have a deeper understanding of each issue so that I can be more passionate about one and hopefully focus on one issue. I think is is very important to find out what is being done about the problem already and what needs to be done. I would also like to narrow down the issue so that funding a smaller issue within the problem will actually create an solution.

Some questions that I still need answers are:
-What are the narrower problems within the main issues?
-What makes this issue important to our community?
-Who is being affected by this issue and the solution?
-etc.

Daily Writing Feb. 5

Outside of writing classes, we don't often see writing that is purely one genre; typically, writing draws on qualities from different types of writing, juxtaposes them, and creates a specialized genre for the "work" the writing is doing. Constructing the NOFO/Request for Proposals requires that we bring together writing traits from the explanation of cause and effect, evaluative, and problem/solution writing. Looking back at the qualities of effective writing for all of these types of writing, first, list the qualities you think are most important to include and then explain how you see these qualities working together in a way to create a new genre.


Most important qualities:
-Clearly stated claim of relationship of cause and effect.
-Sufficient evidence
-Clear logical thinking.
-clearly defined problem
-Well explained/convincing solution
-Documentation
-Clearly defined and explained criteria
-Comparisons based on the criteria.
-Evidence that supports your claim.

These qualities work together to create our NOFO because discussing the negative cause and effect of a situation introduces the problem. We evaluate this relationship and compare based on our criteria. Using evidence and logical thinking about the problem can help declare a convincing solution. Therefore, we will create a different genre from evaluating cause and effect and furthermore solving a problem.

Ch. 9 Evaluation Writing:

Qualities:
-Clearly defined and explained criteria
-Comparisons based on the criteria.
-Evidence that supports your claim.
-An analysis and explanation of how any visual elements affect your evaluation.
-Clearly stated judgment.

Rhetorical Knowledge:
-Audience: who needs to make decisions about the subject of evaluation?
-Purpose: Convince reader to agree w. judgment.
-Rhet. Situation: Consider many factors that affect where you stand.
-Voice&tone: dont be a know it all
-context, medium, genre: Present evaluation best. (Graphs, charts, tables)

Critical Thinking, reading and writing:
-Learning: Observe subject of evaluation to gain deeper understanding.
-Responsibility: Consider all aspects of the item.
-Reading and Research: Examine in detail.

Writing Process:
-Invention: brainstorming, listing, clustering.
-Organize ideas: think about various aspects
-Revising: Read work w. critical eye
-Work w. peers

Conventions:
-editing: effective word choice.
-Genres
-Documentation

Daily Writing February 2nd

Choose a story from today's St. Petersburg Times that focuses on a problem where you can begin to think about causes and effects. Write a brief summary of the article. What is the main issue? Then talk about how the writer establishes cause and effect and clarifies this relationship. Include quotations from the article.

Given the sports section, the only problem I have discovered was USF's basketball team's fight to be recognized as a contender in the Big East and the overall nation. In summary, the article focuses on Dominique Jones, who is quoted as being possibly "the nation's best shooting guard," yet he is still not satisfied. The writer discusses how his determination inspires him to be better, and therefore increasing his averaging points per game. Jones states that from all his hard work, an effect will be taking his team to the NCAA tournament and leaving with USF basketball being "a winning program where (they'll) always be a contender in the Big East and the nation." Working hard in college basketball, may result in him achieving his main goal of being an NBA allstar.

Daily Writing Jan. 29th

My ideas have not changed for my two topics. Although Carmit makes some excellent points about environmental, I feel more passionate about violence against women. My peers arguments have made me more understanding about the environment and its huge role , but I am not convinced to change my mind yet. Tiffany described some great cause on effects for the environment such as trash effecting the water quality. Julianne also describes a great cause and effect for homelessness by saying if we help them, their overall quality of life will improve. Overall, each person in my group had great arguments. However, I agree on homelessness as an important issue as well as violence against women.

Cause and Effect

I would like to focus on homelessness and violence against women. I chose these two, because I feel very helpless about each issue, and I would love to make a difference. Seeing the people walking down the streets without homes, food, and any sort of income is very saddening and I hate that I can't afford to help. By helping them with these issues, we will be creating a positive effect; they will create a better life. Also, violence of women is a huge issue. Many women are being verbally and and physically abused and are not getting help. A lot of this is because they are too scared to live on their own. Giving them shelter, and help with children would allow these women to escape violence.

Questions that I will be asking are:

Homelessness:
1. What is the statistic of number of homeless people in st. pete?
2. How is this number compared to the national average?
3. What is the impact of homelessness?
4. How do people become homeless?
5. What is needed to help fix this issue?
6. What is being done already to fix the issue?
7. What gender is more common to be homeless?
8. The stereotype of homeless are that they are drug users and alcoholics. Is this proven true?

Violence Against Women:
1. What is the statistics of women being abused?
2. How is the number compared in st. pete, to the national average?
3. How does this abuse impact women?
4. Why don't women leave abusive relationships?
5. How does these relationships effect their kids?
6. What is needed to fix this issue?
7. What is being done already to fix the issue?
8. Is there are profile of men that abuse these women? Does it have anything to do with genetics?

Daily Writing Jan. 27th

At this point, what have you completed on your Civic Agency Profile project? What is working well? What is more challenging? What parts of the project do you still need to complete? How will you go about completing this work for the Friday deadline? How can you and your partner best address multiple tasks without overlapping?

I have done a couple profiles for various agencies. Using the websites are helping well. However my communication with my group and overall team could be improved. We did not divide the organizations so that we would not have multiple profiles for the same agency. I will get with my group over the next few days to better communicate which organizations we should do for the final copy and hopefully it will help address multiple tasks without overlapping by dividing the work evenly.

Daily Writing.

1.) Homelessness: Poverty and homelessness has been much more popular now that the economy is in financial hardship. I feel very bad for these people and would love to help. Working with soup kitchens, shelters and organizations helping the homeless would make a great change in the world. If we could get some people a place to stay and food to eat, it would change their lives.

3.) Protecting the environment: The environment has been negatively affected by how humans live. Global climate change is a big issue today, because the ice caps are melting. We are decreasing the diversity of plants and animals with our way of life. I believe that by cleaning the community of waste and litter, we will dramatically help with the health of the environment. Also, if we educate others and get more involvement, we will help as well.

2.) Ending Violence against women: Violence against women is a huge issue in society. Many battered women stay around the oppressor because they would have nowhere to go and feel that they are not independent enough. I believe that by giving these women and their children a safe place and counseling then they could walk away from the violence. We could help local shelters and provide the money for their living expenses as well as grief counseling.

Civic Engagement Fair

I learned many things from the civic engagement fair. I spoke with the Young Adult Ministry, Sierra Club, and Keep Pinellas Beautiful. The Young Adult Ministry works with other non profit organizations to meet the various needs of the community such as working with Salvation Army to help the less fortunate. They focus on Bible study and youth outreach and involvement as their mission. The agency represents young, faithful adults trying to make a difference. They are self-funded and also helped financially from their church. They seemed very nice, and I liked this organization. I also got information on the Sierra Club. Their mission is to protect the environment. They feel it is a need of the community to have a healthy environment to live in, so they plan outings and events to do so. They also do things like hiking and camping events to teach people about the environment. It seems like a really great group, but I feel that while teaching others about the problems is great, doing something is better so I would rather fund another organization. Lastly, I spoke with Keep Pinellas Beautiful. This organization is very fascinating. They administer litter cleanups such as adopt a shore, pond, etc. They have hotlines where people can call to report a littering problem in their area. They then do assessment of these areas and find someone to adopt them and take care of the problem four times a year. They are a subcontractor. They feel that it is a need of the community to have healthy, clean areas without litter. I thought this agency was very well informed, and interesting to hear about.

There is still more information that I would want to know. Although these organizations are fabulous, they don't attract me enough to want to fund their needs. I really want to help with something closer to my heart. I just want to feel more passionate about this experience. Also throughout the leadership program I have been working with Ocean Conservation, along with many other students participating in the program. Environmental agencies are great, but I want to do something different.

Organizations that I would love to get more information on are charities dealing with critical human needs, such as homelessness, cancer, or drunk driving. I have never seen more homeless people, until I came to downtown St. Petersburg. I am not financially stable enough to help them directly, but being able to donate to organizations that can means a lot to me. Also, everyone knows someone that has been affected by cancer, and I feel that it would be a really amazing experience to help them. Lastly, ending drunk driving is a critical need to the community because so many people get hurt if not killed by drunk drivers, and it really needs to stop. I would request for proposal to help this problem by discussing the problem and what the organization does to fix it. I would use their history on how they have affected the issue.

Moving Forward

In the past week, I have created the foundation that I will be needing for the leadership philanthropy board. In our leadership class, I wrote a paper about who I am, what I believe in, and how I am a leader. This has helped because in order to be a leader, I need to build a deep relationship with myself. Also, today I attended the Civic Engagement Fair. I have discussed with numerous non profit organizations about their purpose, how they are meeting their mission, how they are funded, and what they need to meet the needs of the community. I have considered some that I am interested in and also dismissed others. I have determined my area of interests already with realizing that I feel more passion towards helping humans than the environment. I know that I want to help with the health, happiness, and overall well being of the people in my community.

Semester 2

What are your expectations of the Civic Engagement Fair?
-My expectations of the fair is that there will be booths of many different non profit organizations. Representatives will be discussing their purpose and the main charity events. They will be encouraging others to help with their organization.

What do you hope to learn from this fair? What are some of the questions you need to ask the organizations at the fair?
-I hope to learn about the different non profit organizations in the st. pete community. I want to learn what issues are most significant to em, and what we can do to help. I need to ask the organizations what social issue they correspond with, whats their purpose, how they are helping, and what they need from the community to do so.