Hello everyone! My name is Jerome Abregana, second year EWMBA student, here to introduce the 2009 Haas EWMBAA Community Service Committee. That’s a mouthful I know so you can also call us the CSC team too. But before I get too far I wanted to caveat that this is my first attempt at maintaining a blog, so bear with me if the writing is less than witty and amusing, but I assure you at the very least it will be informative and very useful.
Ok so back to the first order of business. Please let me introduce the 2009 Community Service Committee. So drum roll please…
Executive Sponsor: Amy Daily
Co-Chairs: Monika Matthews, Sukhi Singh
Jerome Abregana
Jeremy Fong
Narayan Janakiraman
Vikas Meka
Herman Ng
The second item I’d like to cover is outlining the committee’s objectives and general plan for the year. Our primarily goal this year is quite simply to increase the level of participation of the EWMBA community with the various volunteer and community service opportunities in the area. We realize that everyone is busy with school, work, family and other commitments but we also acknowledge that our fellow students have a genuine desire to get involved and contribute to the community. Our job, as we see it, is to really simplify the process and make it easier for you to have the opportunities to volunteer and make a contribution.
So in support of this goal the committee has outlined the following broad set of objectives for the year
1) We’ll be increasing the variety of events
2) Expand the number of events that occur in the south bay
3) Work towards having a community day with multiple simultaneous events so more opportunities for everyone to find and participate in the causes that matter most to them
4) More information and general awareness about Community Fellows Program
With these broad guidelines our hope is that we’ll simplify the process in getting involved and promote events that are closer to the heart of our fellow students. One last thing before I sign-off here. Take a look at the navigation bar to the right of this passage. Those links there we’ll continually be updated to inform you of upcoming community service events as well as a calendar of other charitable events throughout the bay area. And finally we’ll have a section for volunteer profiles. So here is a chance for you to tell us about your experience and tell us about those causes that matter most to you.
Whew, alright hopefully I covered everything. So that's it for now, but please do come back and I’ll have more updates, pictures of events and announcements.
