Promotion of Purposeful Penny Initiative during Dr. Finkel's World Development and Poverty Class

With a grateful offer of Dr. Muge Finkel, Jonathan, the President of Purposeful Penny, made a brief presentation introducing and promoting the initiative in her class, World Development Poverty. Most of the students are majoring in international development, which means they share common ground with our group, Purposeful Penny.

After the presentation, Jonathan distributed the brochures and coin collectors to the students. Dr. Finkel and the students donated their money right at the place. Hope to gain more purposeful penny members as well as collect more coins through this presentation.

Purposeful Penny appreciate Dr. Finkel's strong support for our initiative.

Jonathan
President of Purposeful Penny

Brief report of the fundraising event on April 1st

Dear Purposeful Penny members,

Most of all, I appreciate all your support for and commitment to today's fundraising event. We did an excellent job today. The video address of Dr. Brooke White and the presentation of Dr. Picard and Dr. Pauline Greenlick were inspiring enough to motivate us to keep our initiative.

Through today's event, Purposeful Penny gained 23 additional members and collected additional $ 326.37 by making the accumulated total amount of money of $867.75. We will post a finalized financial report with more details on our blog soon.

Donors and new members of Purposeful Penny,
I appreciate all new members and donors who joined our initiative today. I hope that you learned much about our group Purposeful Penny and the Bright Kids Uganda. Without your interest and help, today's event might have not been that much successful. You may visit our blog and website for more information about Purposeful Penny and Bright Kids Uganda.

Best regards,
Jonathan
President of Purposeful Penny

Event Evaluation Meeting and PP General Meeting

Dear Purposeful Penny members,

On April 1st, after the fundraising and awareness raising event, we will have a wrapping up meeting for the event, which include counting coins, evaluation of the event and discussion of general agenda for the month.

Time: Thursday, April 1st 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location: GSPIA Student Lounge

Please join the event evaluation & PP general member meeting after the event. Please do not forget bring your coins either during the event or evaluation meeting.

I look forward to seeing you all at the event and the member meeting.

Yours,
Jonathan

PP General Member Meeting

This month's PP general member meeting will be held on Thursday, March 25th.

Location: WPU Room 538
Time: Thursday, March 25 at 8:00 pm.

The main agenda is as follows.

1) Checking up and preparation for the fundraising event
2) Making coin collectors for distributing on the event day

* Members are required to bring their coffee cups they collected so far, and scissors and glue sticks for making cups at the member meeting.

** We will take a group picture to be used for brochure which will be distributed in a week
and afterward. So please join this upcoming general member meeting on March 25th.

The date of fundraising event shifted to April 1st

The date of fundraising event shifted to April 1st in order to bring the President of Bright Kids-Uganda into the meeting through online connection and a guest speaker from Bright Kids Foundation to address a speech for the GSPIA community.

The event day schedule will be on Thursday, April 1st, 10:00 am until 4:00 pm. in the hallway in front of the entrance of Dean's office.

The main session will be 12:00 - 1:30 pm in the room 3600.

1) Introduction of Purposeful Penny (Jonathan)
2) Introduction of Bright Kids Uganda, president of Bright Kids
Uganda, and guest speaker (Dr. Picard)
3) Address of the President of Bright Kids Uganda
4) Pauline Greenlick, Bright Kids Foundation, "A Window of Hope
through a Child's Drawings- A Uganda Perspective."

ID division will provide lunch for PP's fundraising event.

Coin collector located at GSPIA student lounge

On March 1st, 2010, Purposeful Penny located our coin collector at GSPIA student lounge. The coin collector was made during the last general member meeting. I appreciate Alla, Aya, Alona, and Taka for joining in the production of coin collectors and distributors.

We, Purposeful Penny, appreciate student cabinet for allowing us to place our coin collector at student lounge. Especially, we are grateful to Jonathan Livingston and Ian for helping us locate our coin collector at the lounge.