Meeting Minz 11/16/09

Another short and sweet meeting this week. Annie Nagy, Pitt's campus representative for the Peace Corps, stopped in to show us a really informative video about the Peace Corps and spoke a little about her own experience in Guinea. After from spending 2 years in West Africa, she has been using the French she learned abroad to work in Guadeloupe. If you're interested in working with the Peace Corps, Annie advises you to start your application your junior or senior year because the applications are looong. If you want more information, visit the Peace Corps website or speak with Annie.

Annie Nagy

Peace Corps

4400 Posvar Hall

412-648-7424

pcorps@pitt.edu

And in other SLIM bitniz, elections are coming up for 2010, so if you're interested in being an officer, email Sesi or Liz and say what position you'll be running for: Prez, Vice Prez, Treasurer, Secretary, or Events Coordinator. Elections are usually a pretty laid-back affair and you'll just give a small speech about yourself, your ambitions, experience, etc. Otherwise, that's it from us, BUT keep sponsor-hunting! If you weren't at the meeting and want more sponsors, email SLIM and I'll give you more stuff to do.

Sponsors: Places I went

Hey SLIM,
I wanted to let everyone know the places I went to ask for sponsors:

Squirrel Hill:
Taza 21 (1827 Murray)
Color Me Mine (5887 Forbes)
Probikes (5876 Forbes)
Sirani Gallery (5875 Forbes)
Gallery Christine Frechard (5871 Forbes)
Biketek (5842 Forbes)
Oliver Flower Shop (5837 Forbes)
Massage Envy (5836 Forbes) =sponsored us last year
The Chocolate Moose (5830 Forbes)
Ten Thousand Villages (5824 Forbes)***
Contemporary Concepts (5820 Forbes)


Alot of these places seemed VERY interested. (Color Me Mine donated a $25 gift certificate already, and they do not know if they can donate more.)

**Check out Christine Frechard's Gallery. Her assistant was very interested and definitely is going to race. Services they have there include: learning foreign languages through art immersion with native speakers (French, Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese and Chinese) You will be exposed to the chosen language through: Visual art, Craft, Music, Dance, and Culinary art. Check it out at www.instituteIAL.com

Ten Thousand Villages:
Fair trade nonprofit organization that sells handmade jewelry, home decor and gifts to help improve the lives of thousands of artisans in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. Ten Thousand Villages accomplishes this by establishing a sustainable market for handmade products in North America, and building long term buying relationships in places where skilled artisan partners lack opportunities for stable income. Product sales help pay for food, education, health care and housing for artisans who would otherwise be unemployed or underemployed.
-Anyway..... this Saturday Nov 7: They are having a Bag Sale. You can receive 20% off of everything you can fit into their shopping bag!! Tell them your from SLIM too and you heard about it, and maybe they would be willing to donate more merch.
http://www.tenthousandvillages.com/

Also, I am calling Dozen. I stopped in there today to buy some cupcakes and the lady told me to call the GM because they would probably be interested.

(Even though I am Team Shadyside I went to Squirrel Hill.....)

I will keep you guys updated on what they have to say!!!
Thanks,
Danielle Sorrells