Earthquake 10-05-Related Page |
See also: main grassroots page
Primary Contact[]
- Jahanzeb Sherwani, jsherwan+pkwiki@cs.cmu.edu, PhD student in Computer Science
Goals[]
- Spreading awareness about the scale of the disaster
- Donations
- Cash
- Kind (tents/blankets)
Ongoing Activities[]
- Tables at the UC, moderately successful, done for 4 days so far
- Need volunteers!
Activities we want to start[]
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
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
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
- Email should have summarizing information (with links to webpage) on:
- 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