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RHA and the Syracuse Youth
Development Council:
A Partnership Proposal
A proposal created by Neha Rauf and Rachel Brown-Weinstock,
Co-Founders and Co-Presidents of the Syracuse Youth Development Council
E-Mail: sydcsyracuse@gmail.com
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To the Residence Hall Association:
Thank you for giving the Syracuse Youth Development Council (SYDC) your time in considering this proposal. We
believe a partnership between our two organizations would greatly enhance the learning and living experiences of
residents at Syracuse University, and maximize the leadership, educational, and humanizing experiences available to
them.
As you know, the SYDC is a coalition of six founding student groups (including RHA!) that perform community service
related to youth. Our mission is to build and strengthen the connection between SU students and Syracuse city youth
by combining the passion, commitment, and knowledge of a coalition of university groups that work to improve youth
lives. We will do this through three primary activities: organizing one-time commitment service opportunities for SU
students to give back to Syracuse youth, creating advocacy campaigns and events on campus to raise awareness
about youth-oriented societal problems, and supporting our individual member organizations by working together to
solve issues related to on-campus promotion, university bureaucracy, financial strain, and service delivery.
The convergence of the SYDC’s and RHA’s activities is palpable. Both organizations are focused on engaging students
in opportunities that will improve their experience at Syracuse University and will enhance their education outside of
the classroom in terms of civic engagement opportunities, leadership development, and advocacy. In this proposal,
we are asking to partner with RHA through three collaborations: an advocacy campaign collaboration, a civic
engagement collaboration, and a General Body programming collaboration.
We believe that organization partnerships are like the symbiotic relationships studied by scientists. From our
perspective, there are three primary types of symbiotic partnerships. The first is mutualism, when both groups
benefit. The second is commensalism, when one group benefits and the other is only superficially affected, so they
receive no truly substantial benefits or losses. The third is parasitism, when one organization benefits and the other is
hurt through the unrequited donation of time, energy, and resources. Far too many partnerships end up being
commensalistic at best, parasitic at worst. We strongly believe that this relationship will be mutualistic, and RHA will
truly benefit in a plethora of ways. In fact, the SYDC initiated our first conversation with your Executive Board about
this partnership by asking what resources and services youneed to fulfill your mission for this upcoming academic
year. We started with the needs of RHA in mind and worked from there to develop this proposed partnership.
We understand that you may be apprehensive about working with an organization that is not yet officially a
Registered Student Organization. However, the credentials of our individual founding member organizations are
strong and undoubtedly worthy of your trust. We are excited and thankful for your consideration.
Very Respectfully,
Rachel Brown-Weinstock and Neha Rauf
Co-Presidents of the Syracuse Youth Development Council, 2015-2016
Table of Contents
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I. Overview of the Syracuse Youth Development Council
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a.) Mission
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b.) Objectives
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c.) Executive Board and Committees
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d.) Engaging Syracuse University Students
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e.) Founding Organizations of the SYDC
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II. Our Partnership
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a.) Our need
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b.) Summary
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c.) Advocacy Campaign Collaboration
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d.) Civic Engagement Collaboration
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e.) General Body Programming Collaboration
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f.) Timeline for Partnership
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g.) Facilitation of Partnership
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Part I: Overview of the Syracuse Youth Development Council
SYDC Mission
To combine the passion, commitment, and knowledge of a coalition of university groups
devoted to improving the lives of Syracuse youth. Together, we strive to strengthen the
connection between SU students and Syracuse youth. We will do this in two primary ways.
First, by increasing the number of SU students who volunteer with Syracuse youth through the
creation of youth-issue campaigns and one-time commitment service opportunities. Second, by
supporting member organizations and working with them to improve their own efforts and
goals. We view volunteering with youth as one of the best activities for fostering vital
leadership skills within college students.
SYDC Objectives
Our two main objectives are as follows:
Objective 1: Unite and create a support system for the university’s student groups which
specialize in youth development to improve the quality of the services we provide to our youth.
We will work to solve the problems our organizations face and help them find new
opportunities for improvement.
Activities:
We will undertake the following activities to complete this objective:
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● Have group discussions at council meetings about the problems our organizations face
and create lists of solutions
● Enter partnerships which allow us to increase the visibility of our organizations on
campus
● Use each organization’s networks to promote the events of other member organizations
● Conduct research beneficial to all of our organizations
● Provide more in-depth consulting services to member organizations who have a
significant problem they wish to solve (through consultations with our Organization
Support Consultant, an E-Board position)
● Fundraise on behalf of our individual organizations
● Create an end-of-the-year publication--an impact report--which showcases the positive
changes made by our individual orgs and the council as a whole
Objective 2:Increase the number of SU students who volunteer with youth in the Syracuse
community, helping them develop their capacity as leaders in the context of volunteering.
Activities:
● Spread awareness about issues which affect youth development on campus through
advocacy campaigns, hoping to inspire more SU students to volunteer in the community
as a result. The campaign topic will be chosen by the youth served by our member
organizations. They will be surveyed and the issue which they decide most adversely
affects their lives will be the issue of our advocacy campaign for that academic year. To
spread awareness effectively, we will:
○ Place informational materials about the issue around campus, and include lists of
non-profits and other organizations on- and off-campus that SU students could
volunteer with to help ameliorate the issue in all informational materials.
○ Give presentations on the issue to SU students, with heavy focus on
presentations which directly involve the voices of youth and youth champions in
the community
○ Create unique social media campaigns
● Provide SU students with limited time commitment service opportunities to interact
with Syracuse community youth on campus and in the community. Many students are
apprehensive about or do not have the time to make a weekly commitment to working
with community youth. Practically all programs and organizations that work directly
with youth in the district require students to make a weekly commitment. We strive to
create consistent,one-time, flexible-schedule service opportunities for SU students to
work with community youth. Bimonthly , the SYDC will create an opportunity in which
SU students can sign-up for a one-time service opportunity to engage with youth at a
Syracuse community center. After working with youth at the center in structured,
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planned activities, the SU students who just volunteered will come back and debrief
about what leadership skills the experience helped them cultivate and will take part in a
leadership development workshop centered around the career skills gained through
volunteering. The one-time volunteer experience as well as subsequent leadership
development workshop are designed to:
○ Help students gain leadership skills in the context of volunteering and see
volunteering as an avenue of gaining such skills
○ Encourage students to see the benefits of volunteering and thus commit to
weekly volunteer programs which are more effective at helping them develop
their skills
○ Do something good for the youth of Syracuse
SYDC Executive Board and Committees
There are five positions on the executive board: President, Vice President, Treasurer, Campaign
Manager, and Organization Support Consultant. As Presidents, we will facilitate communication
between all member organizations and students as well as foster the partnerships with
community organizations to accomplish the council’s goals. The Vice President will head the
Service Committee and work with the council’s member organizations and community partners
to plan the service events. The Campaign Manager will head the Campaign Committee and will
work with them to plan all advocacy/informational events, and prepare any campaign materials
as well as manage online campaign efforts. The purpose of the Organization Support Consultant
will be to provide thorough assistance to member organizations. This position will entail
researching the problems experienced by the member organizations and finding resources and
opportunities for them to better serve the youth they work with and accomplish their goals.
Engaging Syracuse University Students
Target Audience:
We hope to primarily reach two demographics of students:
1.) Incoming freshman, who as of yet do not have a unified body to turn to find opportunities to
engage in community service, and who have more time to explore what activities they wish to
engage in while at SU
2.) Students who have been on campus but previously inactive in the community or
unknowledgeable about the issues being faced by youth in Syracuse
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Services to Target Audience:
The SYDC will provide SU students with opportunities to help youth learn and to learn from
youth. We will engage students in four primary ways:
1.) Through campaigns:The SYDC will create awareness campaigns including presentations,
panels, documentaries, art shows, and other such events that will raise consciousness on the
SU campus about the daily difficulties many Syracuse youth face. Students will benefit by
becoming more aware citizens of this community equipped with knowledge to thoughtfully
work within Syracuse, and we hope our campaigns will inspire them to take action.
2.) Through service events:The SYDC will create one-time commitment, bimonthly service
opportunities for SU students. A leadership development workshop in the context of
volunteering will follow. These events are designed to make volunteering with youth available
to students with less flexible schedules. We hope that some students who attend these
opportunities will see the benefit and ease of volunteering with youth and will thus transition
to weekly volunteering afterwards.
3.) By creating committees for students to become leaders in shaping youth lives:The SYDC
offers two committees for SU students to join: the Service Committee and the Campaign
Committee. Members of the Service Committee will help plan and implement our bimonthly
service events under the supervision of the Vice President. Members of the Campaign
Committee will work to research and create effective materials, presentations, and events to
spread awareness about the issue.
4.) By increasing awareness about student groups that work to improve youth lives:The SYDC
strives to increase awareness about its member organizations on campus so that more students
will learn about and volunteer with them, as they have had difficulty reaching a wider audience
from which to recruit members on the Syracuse campus.
Founding Organizations of the SYDC
M.E.S.H. (Making Expression and Scholarship Heard)
Mission:MESH is a student-run non-profit that was created to intertwine the voices of writers
and artists of Syracuse University with those in local Syracuse City School District schools. The
goals of MESH are to showcase the work of writers and artists on the SU campus and in the
SCSD, to encourage graduation, to promote the pursuit of postsecondary education, and to
raise education awareness on the SU campus. MESH strides towards these goals through
weekly creative writing workshops hosted in local schools and through the publication of a
semesterly magazine containing our students’ work. The philosophy behind M.E.S.H. is that
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poetry and creative writing are powerful tools which can be used to empower youth from
disadvantaged backgrounds; we provide them with an outlet to tell their overlooked stories and
a space to use their voices, which are all too often silenced or ignored by our discriminatory
world .
Leadership:MESH's co-presidents for the 2015-2016 year are juniors Rachel Brown-Weinstock
and Neha Rauf. Rachel is a Sociology, Policy Studies and Citizenship and Civic Engagement
major and is passionate about improving education policy and youth lives. She is a Coronat
Scholar and recently founded Glove to Glove, an alumni mentorship program in her hometown.
Neha is an International Relations and Citizenship and Civic Engagement Major with a minor in
Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises. She is also a Coronat scholar and is passionate
about international development work and would love to continue focusing on youth issues in
her future career.
History:MESH was founded in 2009, and is a growing organization that now serves students in
four schools in the Syracuse City School District: ELMS, Danforth, Ed Smith, and McCarthy at
Beard. In 2013, MESH became a registered 501(c)3. Its E-Board and General Body have
expanded tremendously over the years. They have also entered into two partnerships to
improve their services: one with Inkululeko, a South-African non-profit, and one with the
Syracuse City School District Mentoring Program.
Partnership with RHA:MESH, as one of the founding organizations of the Syracuse Youth
Development Council, is excited to continue expanding its efforts and work with youth through
the SYDC and a potential partnership with RHA. We hope to expose more SU students to the
work that we do and get them involved in improving the community around them. We feel that
we can work with RHA to greatly impact the lives of SU and SCSD students alike.
Straighten Your Crown
Mission:Straighten Your Crown (SYC) is a mentoring program centered on teaching elementary
and middle school girls to embrace their inner and outer beauty. Student leaders at Syracuse
University visit middle schools in the Syracuse City School District to teach the young ladies
invaluable life lessons in leadership, strength, and healthy living by using their experience in
etiquette and female empowerment. The student leaders also use their experience at the
university to inspire the young ladies to strive for higher education and achieve great success in
their selected career path. Once achieving a sound mind, body, and soul, the young ladies will
ultimately be molded into phenomenal women.
Leadership:Monique Witter ‘17, President of SYC, is from Atlanta, GA studying Health and
Exercise Science on a pre- physical therapy track. Witter founded SYC last fall on the Syracuse
University campus.. She is also part of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. and the
Student Association Finance Board and was a SummerStart RA for two years.
Shantel Destra ‘17, is from Brooklyn, NY double majoring in marketing and magazine in
Newhouse. Destra was an RA last year for SummerStart and the academic year and is currently
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an RA again. She also helped co-found SYC and is currently the Vice President of Straighten Your
Crown mentoring program.
History:Straighten Your Crown has been in existence since fall 2014.
Partnership with RHA:Partnering with RHA will be successful because many freshmen live in
these residence halls and exposing them to this amazing organization and the work that all our
our member organizations do with youth will not only help them get out of their comfort zones
but become leaders on campus.
‘Cuse Spot
Mission:'Cuse Spot is a student-run program that offers a variety of fun and education
programs for Syracuse City youth at Wilson Park and Syracuse Northeast Community Centers.
'Cuse Spot offers a wide variety of programs based off of the interests of SU students, who are
completely responsible for the development and implementation of these programs including
the holiday, semester-long, and February Break programming.
Leadership:Kelsey May ‘17, first started volunteering at Wilson Park Community Center in the
first few weeks of freshman year and was immediately looking for more ways to get involved
with the center. She was named Co-Director of 'Cuse Spot for the 2014-15 academic year and
was instrumental in expanding the 'Cuse Spot program to Syracuse Northeast Community
Center. She was named Director for the 2015-16 academic year and is hoping to continue to
expand 'Cuse Spot while ensuring that current 'Cuse Spot program remains sustainable.
History:'Cuse Spot was established in Spring 2010 after two Policy Studies students noticed a
lack of structured student programming at Wilson Park and other community centers. This
upcoming academic year will be the 6th year of programming.
Partnership with RHA:For years, 'Cuse Spot has relied on volunteers from its sponsoring
department, the Public Affairs Program. We would love to reach a much broader audience to
pool volunteers and those interested in poverty alleviation and civic engagement in the
Syracuse area. 'Cuse Spot is also rooted in the belief that SU students must "get off the hill" at
some point in time in their education to really understand the issues in the surrounding
community.
Project G.R.I.N.D.
Mission:The mission at Project G.R.I.N.D. is to entrust its students with the responsibility of
fulfilling a life of active citizenship. They intend to expand their scholars' perspectives on
education and community service through workshops centered on empowerment. This project
looks forward to being a stable pillar of support for its scholars, the schools they attend, and
the communities in which they live by cultivating permanent relationships with each of these
branches.We do this in many ways, including educating the students we work with about how
academics and community service correlate to success, exposing them to mentors who are
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active community members, and empowering them to seek out opportunities that embrace
academic support and community service.
Leadership:Demarquez Grissom, ‘17, is from Atlanta, GA. He is in the School of Education at
Syracuse University and is the President and a Co-Founder of Project G.R.I.N.D.
David L. Jackson ‘17, is from Miami, FL. He is currently the President of the Student
African-American Society, Basileus of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc., and Co-Vice President of
Project G.R.I.N.D.
Bilal Vaughn ‘17, is from Atlanta, GA. Bilal has claimed many positions of leadership on campus.
Not only is he Co-Vice President of Project G.R.I.N.D., but he also holds a position within the
National Society of Black Engineers as the Mentorship Coordinator.
History: Project G.R.I.N.D. became an official RSO in 2015. They have, however, been active on
campus since 2013.
Partnership with RHA: Though our own organization has a close personal connection to the
youth in Syracuse, we believe that through the Syracuse Youth Development Council’s
partnership with RHA, we can gain more exposure and support to make a greater impact in the
community.
J.U.M.P. Nation
Mission:J.U.M.P. Nation (Juvenile Urban Multicultural Program) is an organization dedicated to
mentoring at-risk middle school students, the majority being 8th
graders, and encouraging them
to pursue higher education despite the negative influences in their environment. Some services
we provide to the youth of the Syracuse community include our weekly “Real Talk” workshops,
in which we discuss the real issues they face and provide helpful options to our young students.
Some of our topics include sexual education, bullying, and gang violence.
Leadership:The President of J.U.M.P. Nation is Emelio Woodstock ‘16. He is a Coronat Scholar
and a brother of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., in which he serves as the Community Service
Chair. He has studied abroad multiple summers in Spain as well as Argentina, and is a champion
for inclusive diversity on campus.
The Vice President of J.U.M.P. Nation is Jahnay Haskin ‘17. She is a Pre-Medical student
majoring in Psychology and Neuroscience. Jahnay is the Community Service Chair for the
Student African American Society and has recently studied abroad in France through the Paris
Noir program, which enhances the experience of black culture and consciousness across the
globe.
History:J.U.M.P. Nation has existed since 1993 at SUNY Binghamton, but has recently come
into existence at Syracuse University in 2012.
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Partnership with RHA:Working with RHA would be extremely beneficial because we would
have access to a diverse body of students in residence halls that often look for, but find it
difficult to find a community service program that fits their interests.
Part II: Our Partnership
Our Need
The SYDC is a new organization with big goals. We need to have successfully met our objectives
during our first active year in order to gain credibility as an organization. In the future, we hope
to persuade the Shaw Center and Office of Community Engagement programs as well as
academic department programs that work with youth and are head by students to join the
council and work unitedly to improve youth lives. To persuade these groups, we need to prove
our impact. RHA has access to the biggest audience on campus--residents. Our main purpose in
requesting this proposal is to receive help in planning our larges-scale events and gain better
access to residents in advertising our campaigns, service opportunities, and individual member
organizations so we can make this big impact.
Summary
Under this proposal, the SYDC and RHA will work together through three primary
collaborations: an advocacy campaign collaboration, a civic engagement collaboration, and a
General Body programmig collaboration. Each collaboration was created to benefit both RHA
and the SYDC.
Advocacy Campaign Collaboration
Every year the SYDC focuses on an issue chosen by Syracuse youth as one of the most toxic
problems in their life. The issue for this year is youth violence. One of our main objectives is to
raise awareness on and tell the stories of youth who have been affected by such violence so
that SU students are more likely to get involved with community organizations and on- campus
groups which work to ameliorate this issue. Our main campaign event for the Fall semester will
be the production of a documentary about youth violence in Syracuse with interviews from
actual youth. The documentary viewing will take place during the last week of November.
What we need from RHA:Under the Advocacy Campaign Collaboration, we ask that RHA will:
1.) Collaborate with us on our youth-violence campaign. We would like the Director of
Advocacy and his/her committee to adopt the campaign as one of their advocacy initiatives so
it receives additional support. They will help us:
a.) Develop and distribute campaign materials
b.) Plan our documentary viewing event
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c.) Recruit students to come to our event
2.) Allow our Campaign Manager and Presidents to come to one of your General Body meetings
and give an interactive presentation on the campaign issue.
3.) Give us access to residence halls as platforms for our campaigns. We would like to hang and
distribute campaign materials in residence halls and host small educational events in residence
hall lounges about the issue.
4.) Assist us in approaching the Boys and Girls Clubs in Syracuse to take part in our campaigns,
allowing us to make the campaigns authentic and engaging. We would like to give them an
avenue to share their stories of bullying and youth-on-youth violence as a potential
organization to partner with to interview their youth for our documentary.
What we give to RHA: Through this collaboration, RHA would receive many benefits, including:
1.) An issue for which the Director of Advocacy and his/her committee can advocate for. Not
only would the Director of Advocacy have a meaningful topic to focus his/her efforts on, but
also a partner to produce the initiative with. Our Campaign Manager/Presidents will sit on the
Advocacy Committee to better facilitate this partnership.
2.) General Body programming. The SYDC’s Campaign Manager and Presidents will give a
presentation on the issue to your General Body, and thus will support RHA’s new initiative of
providing leadership development programming to General Body members, as the information
presented will help set them along a path to community leadership.
Civic Engagement Collaboration
Both the SYDC and RHA plan service opportunities for SU students to engage with community
youth. With this second collaboration, we will have access to each other’s resources and thus
be able to make our events more successful.
What we need from RHA:
1.) Collaboration on our one-time commitment, bimonthly service opportunities for SU
students to volunteer with youth. We want your Director of Civic Engagement to help us plan
and recruit students for these events. The Vice President of the SYDC, who plans all of our
service events, will be on the Civic Engagement Committee and will facilitate this collaboration.
2.) Your Director of Leadership to help us plan and facilitate the leadership development
workshops that occur after our bimonthly service opportunities in order to further discuss and
develop leadership skills gained through volunteering experiences.
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2.) Avenues for advertising our events. The SYDC again will advertise these bimonthly service
opportunities at General Body meetings and in residence halls. The week before each of our
events, we will come in and advertise the event to your General Body. We would also like to
hang flyers and table in residence halls to increase the number of students who will participate.
3.) Assistance in approaching the Boys and Girls Clubs of Syracuse. We will reach out to this
community organization as the location for some of our service opportunities. Your trusted
relationship with this organization will make it more likely that they will want to work with us.
What we give to RHA:Through this collaboration, RHA would receive:
1.) A greater number of service and leadership events to advertise to the General Body and
residents. The SYDC will create more opportunities for residents to participate in community
service, learn valuable leadership skills, and become more knowledgeable about the
community so they have the foundation to make greater contributions to our community and
campus as they continue their SU career.
2.) More giving to the Boys and Girls Clubs. By creating more events for SU students to interact
with Boys and Girls Club youth, you would be able to help this organization to an even greater
extent.
3.) A dedicated Civic Engagement Committee member. Fota Sall, the Vice President of the SYDC
and previous RHA General Body Member, will be a regular member of the committee and
attend all meetings.. Presidents Rachel Brown-Weinstock and Neha Rauf will come with Fota
when necessary.
4.) Use of council organizations as well as the council as an independent body when planning
Impact week and other service events. Each SYDC member organization that is an RSO will host
an event for Impact Week, as will the SYDC. Additionally, when trying to create other service
opportunities for residents, the Director of Civic Engagement can ask to collaborate with any of
our RSOs individually. We will also send him a list of all of our organizations’ contacts in the
community and can work with him to plan an event with some of our community contacts.
General Body Programming Collaboration
The SYDC seeks to find means by which our individual organizations can promote themselves
and attract new members. At the same time, RHA needs student leaders and presenters to
come into General Body Meetings and provide leadership development workshops. With this
collaboration, we hope to fulfill both of our needs by offering member organizations of the
SYDC the chance to provide these workshops to the RHA General Body.
What we need from RHA:
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1.) A new audience to which we can promote our organizations. Member organizations of the
SYDC are looking for first- and second- year students who are less likely to already be involved
in other activities on campus and in the community. They are also looking to attract a diverse
group of students. This makes the residence hall population the perfect group to advertise to.
What we give to RHA:
1.) Leadership development workshops during General Body meetings. Member organizations
of the SYDC will provide these workshops. Each member organization that wants to give a
workshop will talk about their organization and how to get involved, present the leadership
qualities learned by being part of their organizations, and give a training session which will help
General Body members develop a certain leadership skill.
2.) More opportunities for residents to grow as leaders. By learning more in-depth about the
SYDC member organizations, they are more likely to want to get involved with one of our
organizations and grow as campus leaders.
Timeline for Partnership
Fall Semester:
1.) Advocacy Campaign Collaboration
October
● Finalize partnership with community centers which allow us to interview their youth
● Find Newhouse students to help us plan and create documentary
● Go into community centers to collect interviews in a way that simultaneously generates
campaign materials and is to the benefit of youth involved
● Reserve venue for documentary screening
● Create paper campaign materials with statistics about youth violence and quotes from
interview and begin distributing on campus and in residence halls
November
● Continue to collect interviews
● Work with Newhouse students to synthesize interviews and produce documentary
● Secure food for the event
● Table about campaign and event in residence halls and in Schine the week before event
● Have documentary screening last week of November
2.) Civic Engagement Collaboration
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October
● FInalize the community center(s) at which the two service opportunities in October will
take place
● Develop the workshop curriculum for each service opportunity
● Develop the leadership workshop following the service events
● Recruit students for the service opportunities
November
The same activities will occur in November as did in October.
3.) General Body Programming Collaboration
The timeline for this collaboration will be completely determined by RHA, who will choose
when they need/want council organizations to come in and present during General Body
meetings.
Spring Semester:
We will work with RHA to develop a large campaign event for the second semester and will
develop a timeline for that event at the beginning of the second semester.
We will continue the bimonthly service opportunities as we did during the first semester.
Facilitation of Partnership
1.)Advocacy Campaign Collaboration:
We plan to have our Presidents and Campaign Manager meet with the Director of Advocacy to
distribute tasks between the SYDC and RHA for creating and promoting this campaign. The
SYDC Presidents and Campaign Manager will come to Advocacy Committee meetings to plan
the event and will invite the Director of Advocacy to SYDC E-Board meetings to continue this
planning. We will also schedule times with the Director of Advocacy when (s)he can meet to
constantly discuss how we are progressing.
2.) Civic Engagement Collaboration:
We plan to have our Presidents and Vice President meet with the Director of Civic Engagement
and Director of Leadership to distribute tasks between the the SYDC and RHA for planning and
recruiting students for our bimonthly civic-engagement opportunities and subsequent
leadership in the context of volunteering workshops. Both RHA E-Board members are welcome
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at SYDC E-Board Meetings and our Presidents and Vice President will come to Civic Engagement
and Leadership committee meetings for RHA.
3.) General Body Programming Collaboration:
We will collect the days/times of the General Body meetings during which she would like
council organizations to come in and present. We will bring this list of meetings to our General
Council meetings and send it out through the council listserv. Representatives will discuss these
dates with the E-Board of their individual organizations and will e-mail both the SYDC
Presidents and RHA President to confirm their date.
