{"id":1038,"date":"2012-02-05T21:56:01","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T01:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2012-02-17T09:02:29","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T13:02:29","slug":"haiti-bound-vhp-members-revving-up-for-trip-with-creative-fundraisers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/2012\/02\/haiti-bound-vhp-members-revving-up-for-trip-with-creative-fundraisers\/","title":{"rendered":"Haiti-bound VHP members revving up for trip with creative fundraisers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>For VHP volunteers going to Haiti this spring, fundraising will be essential in the weeks leading up to the trip. Cindy Fung &#8217;14 explains some of the group&#8217;s plans for the coming month.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In exactly one month, we will be in Haiti. Even though we&#8217;ve already had two info sessions, the fact that we are going to be in Cap Haitien so soon was still hard to grasp until\u00a0today, when we had a fundraising meeting. Our plans are finally taking shape. Working together to fundraise is challenging, a little daunting, but also very exciting. In addition to sending out letters to family and friends, we are also going to have a series of on-campus fundraisers, such as selling a home cooked lunch in the College Center, delivering flowers on Valentine&#8217;s Day, and possibly having a food and drinks booth in the Student-Faculty Basketball Game. I was most impressed with everyone&#8217;s energy in the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>In 50 minutes or so we managed to turn vague ideas into concrete plans and to-do lists. With every new suggestion, someone would raise a concern or build upon it. This spontaneous check-and-balance system worked out well, and it only showed how committed everyone was in making our fundraising efforts a success. The upcoming weeks are going to hectic, but I look forward to working our way to the trip, step by step. I couldn&#8217;t be more grateful to be going with such a wonderful group of friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For VHP volunteers going to Haiti this spring, fundraising will be essential in the weeks leading up to the trip. Cindy Fung &#8217;14 explains some of the group&#8217;s plans for the coming month. In exactly one month, we will be in Haiti. Even though we&#8217;ve already had two info sessions, the fact that we are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","category-voices-from-vhp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1090,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/1090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}