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Service Learning Proposal For National AAUW Grant
By: Lacy Stallings
Other potential group members: Abi R., Joannivette MM., Kathy S., Kelly Q., Matilda W., Megan K., Nena B., Nicole E., Nikki D., Valerie T.
February 9, 2012
Meredith Tweed
WST 3371:001
Community Partner Profile:
Community Partners: NOW Campus Action Network and AAUW
Community Partner Mission Statement:
NOW: To provide a strong feminist presence and to impact our campus, our community and our country.
AAUW: To promote equity for all women and girls, life-long education and positive societal change
Political and/or Social Basis for Organization:
NOW UCF works to provide a strong feminist presence and to impact our campus, our community and our country. Political, economic, and social forces still combine to deprive women of safety from violence, fair and equal treatment in the workplace, access to reproductive healthcare and comprehensive sex education, and much more both in this country and abroad – so it’s crucial that young feminists take initiative to raise awareness about the persisting need for women’s rights activism, as well as lead the way in taking feminist action.
The AAUW Educational Foundation provides funds to advance education, research and self-development for women and to foster equity and positive society change. The AAUW Legal Advocacy Fund provides funding and a support system for women seeking judicial redress for sex discrimination. In principle and practice, AAUW values and seeks a diverse membership. There shall be no barriers to full participation in this organization on the basis of gender, race, creed, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or class
Community Partner needs: Funds, volunteers, and supporting members.
The Proposal:
To: Meredith Tweed
From: Lacy Stallings
Date: February 09, 2012
The following is a proposal to prompt awareness of issues with concepts surrounding leadership and the lack of women in positions of leadership by raising funds to support various feminist organizations (such as NOW, AAUW) as they attempt to reach these means. The women’s studies department has already received a national AAUW grant to help stop bullying in schools. However, this is not sufficient funds to make the anti-bullying awareness day happen (without having to solicit money from the students themselves, as we do not want money or class to affect attendance). So, as a group our class members are planning other events to raise funds and awareness of the anti-bullying day for later in the semester. Some students will work with NOW to lead a campus Equal Pay Day at UCF, others will help in different facets of fundraising via a basketball tournament, and our group is working on a digital letter writing campaign.
As an individual, I plan to be a “floater” of sorts as I have interests in helping with the Equal Pay Day as well as the basketball tournament. Our group has planned a wage gap bake sale on April 17, 2012 from 10 am to 2 pm, where we will sell baked goods based on income statistics for men and women of different races. Seeing as we are not able to bake the goods ourselves, we will need to gather baked goods donations from local businesses. We have also discussed the possibility of using a certified kitchen. As Nina is looking into this, I am going to present this information to my general manager of Hard Rock Café and see if they would be willing to donate chocolate chip cookies. I plan on also helping with the organization of the bake sale, such as planning and making the visual menu. If we are in fact able to use a certified kitchen, Nina has stated that she has access to one. In this case, I would handle all the baking, including shopping for ingredients, preparing, baking, and packaging the baked goods. I will also help host the bake sale (as in working the sale the day of).
When concerning the basketball tournament, I have already begun a flyer to post at work in the employee cash out area. I can have my managers announce it at every pre-shift to other employees and hopefully this will provide us with teams and/or sponsors of Hard Rock. I will request some raffle prizes also, such as gift cards, gift shop items, meals, or concert tickets from the café as well. I intend on asking other local businesses in the Winter Park Village plaza, as it is directly across the street from my residence. In addition to these specific tasks, I plan on helping out wherever else I am needed along the way. Other group members’ tasks include:
Elizabeth: Baking, planning bake sale, graphic design, creative/craft, wage-gap bake sale blog, and tumbler-interactive.
Kathy: Write letter for digital letter campaign, help with bake sale.
Nicole: Allocation for promotional materials, write press release, Facebook event, communicate with SLAP.
Nena: Research, constructing rhetorical campaign, communication manual, wage-gap bake sale blog.
Rational for Women’s Studies: This project deeply ties with our women and leadership class, as we are each taking a leadership role, and collaborating with one another to achieve a greater goal. In a sense, we are using our awareness of issues within definitions of leadership and carrying out our own form of feminist leadership, redefining leadership hands-on. Rather than using a more hierarchical style, every group member has decided what they are best at and then we collaborate with one another to reassess and stay on track, making changes along the way as needed. We have accepted the power struggles and discomfort we can experience within ourselves and the vague, exclusive, mostly masculine (classical) styles of leadership that still exist currently. As we take further steps to examine our current understandings and assumptions of what leadership is and what it takes to be a leader by today’s definitions and standards, we challenge ourselves and create feminist space. We understand the effects of gender in leadership positions and how we ourselves fit into the system of power within the United States and globally. Through our future hands-on experiences helping with AAUW, we will have the opportunities to all be leaders and see what happens when we make waves.
Timeline:
1) Current- Various individual preparations
2) Feb 18- Slam Dunk Basketball Tournament
3) April 17- Wage Gap Bake Sale (Equal Pay Day)
4) TBA Anti bullying UCF
Word Count: 1,050
Lacy,
ReplyDeleteYou do a nice job of explaining both the project and the rationale in regards to your group's view of feminist leadership. Continue to develop the rationale at a macro level, including course texts.