The Shimmer Sparkle Shine Project wanted to combine efforts with Cans for Hope to create events and fundraising Through the process I wanted to focus on Working Collaboratively With Others and Engaging an Issue of Global Importance.
One thing Barb (director of Cans for Hope) stressed was that to have a strong community all groups and organization need to work together. We may have different missions but some part of our message overlaps together, but overall we have one goal; improve our community. Strong alliances contribute to this, so we must work together. By working with Barb , we decided to organize a can drive and speggatti dinner. The spegetti dinner is in late June and the can drive is in April. With the can drive we want to use Cans for Hope's resources and our mission to donate to the Yellow Ribbon Project. The Yellow Ribbon Project is an organization that helps with suicide prevention because the organization was started from a victim's parents. Our 3 message go together, only engaging in an issue of global importance. Cans for Hope's wants to decrease the number of sex traffickers and help rehabilitate victims of sex trafficking. The Shimmer Sparkle Shine Project wants to raise the sense of self worth among girls. Victims of sex trafficking are induced with a low sense of worth, and a low sense of worth can lead to dramatic decisions such as committing suicide (incorporating the Yellow Ribbon Project's mission). This shows how we have different missions but we can still work together to help the overall issue of global importance to build a stronger community.
Our spegatti dinner in partnered with Cans for Hope will be a combined fundraiser for both of our organizations. The theme will be independence, and since the dinner will take place around the 4rth of July the theme couldn't be more perfect. The focus won't only be on independence of our country, but independence from others control over our thoughts and choices. This provides lead-way for both organization's messages. Planning this together has already been an interesting process as we have to make sure no organization oversteps the other. We also have different connections and different networks that we can and are bringing forth to create the most successful fundraiser we can.
Sunday, March 17, 2013
SSS Class Ending Reflection
Trying to establish classes for the Shimmer Sparkle Shine Project raised itself to be a larger challenge than intended, only further enhancing the learning process for the chosen learning outcome of Consider the Ethical Implications of Actions Taken. We first tried scheduling our classes at a local home business, but as we planned and devolved the classes and schedules we got a feeling that the location wasn't the proper location. The ideas of the shop are ones that I don't personally have a problem with, but parents may be uncomfortable with having their daughters attend our classes there. I decided that to reach our audience we needed to choose a new location because it wouldn't cause possible interference with our message. This was such a hard choice because we had to really think about the overall focus of ethics, and the generous offer we had received and the ethics of having parents comfortable with us to help their daughters.
We later made an agreement with the Boys and Girls club and we went into their Smart Girls group located in Commerce City. This area is a lower economic region and it provided us with girls who have difficult home circumstances. The audience was great for our message, and they really benefited from it! They opened up to us about how their race and backgrounds contribute to the problems they have faced that helped them become who they are today. It was a really great enviroment to really have our message connect to their individual needs. It honestly also gave great insight to how to have them take our message home with them, but still respect their culture. Ethics became a huge part of it as we helped them take our message with their own cultural backgrounds.
In the end we realized that an hour to spread our message and do a class was not enough time. We felt rushed, and we had so much more we wanted to share with them. We decided that if we do classes again we want to make it a series of classes so we can cover everything.
We later made an agreement with the Boys and Girls club and we went into their Smart Girls group located in Commerce City. This area is a lower economic region and it provided us with girls who have difficult home circumstances. The audience was great for our message, and they really benefited from it! They opened up to us about how their race and backgrounds contribute to the problems they have faced that helped them become who they are today. It was a really great enviroment to really have our message connect to their individual needs. It honestly also gave great insight to how to have them take our message home with them, but still respect their culture. Ethics became a huge part of it as we helped them take our message with their own cultural backgrounds.
In the end we realized that an hour to spread our message and do a class was not enough time. We felt rushed, and we had so much more we wanted to share with them. We decided that if we do classes again we want to make it a series of classes so we can cover everything.
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