From
Patricia Fairfield-Artman:
Once
again, this semester the CST 315 Strategic Communication class completed their
solicitation project w/great and rewarding results! As always the organizations they
chose to support were varied with many choosing to reach out and support their
home communities. I get so
excited with the results of this project and want to give you an idea of what
they did:
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A
student recruited other CPR certified students on campus and went into her
community and taught CPR to parents of a soccer team (one parent almost lost her
son last season).
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One
student collected over 100 letters to be sent to troops in
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One
student collected cases of toiletries for Joseph’s House – a facility for
homeless male teens after reading about a student who was sleeping in a HP
school; another solicited volunteers to baby-sit at a battered women’s shelter.
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One
student solicited safe toys from local businesses to give to pediatric bone
marrow transplant recipients at Duke.
She has been invited to join the NASCAR sponsor team in distributing
them.
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Boxes of
food were collected for the Urban Ministry Pantry food bank
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A
student organized persuasive strategies for his fraternity and raised $1200 for
Relay for Life; and $1000 for an African orphanage. One method used was to offer taxi
service for students partying one weekend (reciprocity)
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A
student utilized MySpace to help raise awareness and solicit donations for the
Heart Association (his girlfriend recently lost her father to heart disease)
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A
student recruited 55 female students to attend a breast cancer awareness
presentation on campus.
This is
just a sample of the results of this one time project and a tribute to students’
creativity and commitment to make a difference – much of which starts in their
SVL classes.