Quake fund raising in Pittsburgh

From Pakistan

This is a Earthquake 10-05-Related Page

See also: main grassroots page

Contents 1 Primary Contact 2 Goals 3 Ongoing Activities 4 Activities we want to start 4.1 Candlelight vigil 4.2 Tents & Blankets drive 4.3 Mass outreach

[edit] Primary Contact

• Jahanzeb Sherwani, jsherwan+pkwiki@cs.cmu.edu, PhD student in Computer Science

Others

[edit] Goals

• Spreading awareness about the scale of the disaster
• Donations
  • Cash
  • Kind (tents/blankets)

[edit] Ongoing Activities

• Tables at the UC, moderately successful, done for 4 days so far

Need volunteers!

[edit] Activities we want to start

[edit] Candlelight vigil

• Need OK from admin
• Coordinated with more than 18 Universities in the US, including UT Austin, MIT, Harvard, Wellesley, Tufts, Brandeis, Rutgers, Columbia, Cornell, Berklee, Hampshire, Dartmouth, NYU, ...
• To be held on Family Weekend (Nov 2nd)
• Need help with:
  • Publicity - on campus, and off-campus, through as many organizations as possible
  • Logistics - need help to get space, set it up, get candles, etc.
  • Content - need short presentation on the disaster, short speeches by CMU admin speakers, interfaith speakers
  • Press coverage - need wide publicity of the event after it's happened

[edit] Tents & Blankets drive

• We will manage transport (only tents & blankets allowed)
• Urgently required in disaster area
• Need storage (admin)
• Time & place (admin)
• Publicity (admin)
• Manpower to help with collection

[edit] Mass outreach

• Email to campus:
  • Email should have summarizing information (with links to webpage) on:
    • Basic information
    • "How you can help" (tents/blankets/money)
    • URLs for online donation

• Webpage for quake: Current page needs work
  • Need webdesigner (ask admin to assign someone to work with)
  • Page should have summarized information (with links to more info) on:
    • Basic information
    • "How you can help" (tents/blankets/money)
    • URLs for online donation

• Flyers & posters:
  • Summarize the same information as above (ask admin to assign someone to work with)
  • Spread across campus and across Pittsburgh (admin, CMU organizations)

• Media coverage -- need admin support to mobilize the following
  • Pittsburgh media (print, television and radio)
  • CMU media
  • Spread awareness about the scale of the disaster
  • Spread awareness of how they can help (tents & blankets drive)
  • Use candlelight vigil as a soundbite / videobite to spread the word