Friday, July 24, 2009

Colorful bike for the roadtrip?

Maybe we can bike the road trip!? :-)


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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Eleven Days and Counting...

The idea of the NSU Student Foundation (NSUSF) road trip has been ratteling around in our heads and conversations since early spring. We finally got approval and funding for the road trip Friday, June 5th. Since that time it has been a whirlwind of planning and excitement.

The CASE ASAP Conference booked, Indiana University Center for Philanthropy visit finalized, hotel rooms booked, Belmont University residence hall usage scheduled, personal friends offering to allow us to stay in their homes, Georgia Tech Student Foundation visit finalized, Love Bottling donating energy drinks and sodas for the trip, so many great alumni working with us to select and schedule a location in their city to host a NSU alumni reception, and so much more.

Each day I get more and more excited about the road trip, and the enormous impact these events will have not only on the university but the students that have invested their time and energy to making the NSUSF a student philanthropy centered organization.
These students, locally and in California working summer jobs, are giving their limited free time between classes, work, and studies, to help make this trip a success.

This road trip is not a vacation for the students, but co-curricular activity that will give them up-front and personal experiences with NSU alumni. They will engage our alumni in a way that will enhance their interpersonal communication skills, presentation skills, planning and time management skills, AND on top of it all allow them to build lasting bonds with each other and other NSU alumni across the country.

These experiences that will have a lasting impact on their lives; stories they will have to tell others about NSU and the 'community' that had such a profound impact on their development and growth as future leaders, mentors, and models for the next generation of NSU alumni.

I am so excited to be a part of the beginning of this amazing dream that has become the NSU Student Foundation. As NSU moves into the next 100 years the NSUSF will be vital component to charting NSU's second century. - Penny L Moore

Monday, July 13, 2009

3 weeks and counting


We are down to three weeks for the big 'leave date.' We hae all the locations for each alumni event finalized, e-vites out, and lodging arranged. The only thing left to do is get more syched up and pack for the 2-week trek to Baltimore, MD via Indiania to visit The Center for Philanthropy then on to Washington DC to sightsee before the CASE ASAP Conference in Baltimore. Then we have our first of several alumni events in Washington DC on Sunday night, August 9th. From there we go to Charlotte, NC; Cherokee, NC; Atlanta, GA; Nashville, TN; Memphis, TN; and finally Little Rock, AR.

NSU Student Foundation ON THE ROAD!!

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Test blog entry

Friday, January 9, 2009

Update on Senior Class Gift fundraising

Fall commencement services was our last chance to raise funds for the 2008 Senior Class Gift. Thanks to Kryistal Sanders, Chris Howk, and Mike Patton for taking time out of their busy schedule to come sell T-shirts at the commencement services on Saturday.

We sold 164 T-shirts and raised $374 dollars for the Tahlequah Senior Class Gift and $189 for the Broken Arrow Senior Class Gift! Thank you to all the family and friends that bought NSU Alumni T-shirts for their GRAD!!!
Very exciting!

Here are the totals for the 2008 Senior Class Gift

Tahlequah: $988.88 - proceeds will be used to purchase statuary for the Harrell Garrison Fountain, hopefully some kind of concrete Riverhawk.

Broken Arrow: $ 309.00 - proceeds will be used to purchase a juke-box, of sorts, for the common area used by students on the Broken Arrow campus.

We will also be selling T-shirts to raise funds for the 2009 Senior Class Gift project - although the Seniors have requested a unique shirt for 2009, something like 'Centennial Senior' since it only comes around every 100 years... We will work on that this semester.