2011 Agenda
Friday:
9:00 am - 12:00 pm - Registration
11:30 am - 12:30 pm - Welcome Ceremony
12:30 pm - 1:45 pm - Lunch
2:00 pm - 3:45 pm - Keynote Speaker
3:45 pm - 5:30 pm - Opportunities and Action Fair
5:45 pm - 7:15 pm - Faces of Homelessness Panel
Saturday:
10:00 am - 11:15 am - Workshop Session 1
11:30 am - 1:00 pm - Lunch
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm - Resolve to Fight Poverty Regional Session
2:45 pm - 4:00 pm - Workshop Session 2
4:15 pm - 5:30 pm - Workshop Session 3
5:45 pm - 6:45 pm - Perspective on Poverty Panel
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm - Hunger Banquet
Sunday:
10:00 am - 11:30 am - Resolve to Fight Poverty Regional Sessions
11:45 am - 12:45 pm - Closing Ceremony
*Workshops are small sessions during which organizations and schools give presentations about their programs and campaigns.
All workshop and plenary sessions addressed 4 issue tracks: Hunger and Food Distribution, Housing and Homelessness, Humanitarian and Disaster Relief Efforts, and Economic Development and Trade.
Past Workshops
Here are a few of the workshops from past conference agendas, to give you an idea of what to expect this year.
Ending Childhood Hunger by 2015
Etienne Melcher, FRAC Legislative Associate
During his campaign, President Obama pledged to end childhood hunger by 2015. Since taking office, President Obama, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, and other members of the Administration have reiterated that commitment. The Food Research and Action Center has set out seven essential strategies in meeting this goal. Come to this workshop to see how you can join the effort.
Organizing the Hunger Cleanup
Natalie Holtzinger, National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness
Large community service events are a great way to mobilize students and make a significant impact in your community. The Annual Hunger Cleanup is a one-day community service work-a-thon that will do just that! Through the Cleanup, students volunteer at community service agencies, while raising funds to support local, national, and international hunger relief efforts. Learn how to organize all aspects of this amazing event; volunteer recruitment, fundraising campaigns, and coalition building.
Farmworker Poverty, Food Industry Profits... and You
Meghan Cohorst, Student Farmworker Alliance
Romeo, Member of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Join members of the Student/Farmworker Alliance and Coalition of Immokalee Workers to learn about the exploitation of farmworkers, how the corporate food industry profits from this exploitation, and how students and youth across the country are taking action to end these abuses.
Making a BIG Impact on Smaller Campuses
Dr. Lyn Huxford, McKendree University
Kaitlyne Motl, McKendree University
Small colleges - we're tiny tadpoles in the social justice pond. How can we make a difference when we're just SO DARN LITTLE? In this workshop, we cover how to implement service-learning courses, weekly volunteer programs, large-scale advocacy campaigns, institutionalization of service centers, and other BIG ideas that you, too, can bring to your smaller campus.
Make the Meeting: Lobbying
Allison Cairo, U.S. PIRG
Take all the great service, education and awareness work to the next level by meeting politicians to get your point across. Learn the step-by-step process of getting a meeting with your legislator and then how to effectively lobby for your issue.
Microcredit: Empowering Women, Empowering Families
Lisa Marchal, RESULTS Global Grassroots Associate
Cynthia Changyit Levin, RESULTS group leader and board member
We will explore the basic model of microcredit, its successes in empowering and bettering the lives women and families, and the ways students can advocate for the prioritization of microcredit worldwide.
International Debt Cancellation as a Tool to Fight Global Poverty
Dan McGuire, Jubilee USA
Come to a forum on international debt relief as a tool to fight global poverty. Learn about the benefits that our southern neighbors have reaped as a result of debt cancellation and also background on the human costs that international debt has on southern countries.
Food Not Bombs: Feeding the Hungry for 30 Years
Keith McHenry, Food Not Bombs Co-Founder
Food Not Bombs cofounder Keith McHenry shares the principles, current actions and the history of creative direct action from the first "Bake Sale to Buy a B-1 Bomber" to the "Battle Of Seattle", to organizing the food relief effort after Hurricane Katrina, and the weekly sharing of free vegetarian meals in over 1,000 cities around the world. Food Not Bombs pioneered a "do it yourself" culture with the creation of Indymedia to Homes Not Jails squats to Food Not Lawns community gardens. Find out how you can participate in the Food Not Bombs movement.
Oxfam America's CHANGE training
Paula Bui, Oxfam Loyola Co-President
Learn about opportunities to get involved more deeply in social justice through different conferences...for FREE - with a special focus on Oxfam America's CHANGE training.
Inspiring and Persuading an Audience: Being a Good Public Speaker
Megan Fitzgerald, Student PIRGs
While most find public speaking scarier than zombies, vampires and clowns put together, public speaking is incredibly important to being a skilled leader. This workshop will go over how to put together a great presentation, tips for handling a crowd and how-to's for effective public speaking.
The ONE Campus Challenge
Stephanie Parrish, ONE Campus Outreach Ambassador
Nick Stevens, ONE Campus Outreach Ambassador
ONE launched the ONE Campus Challenge in 2007 to mobilize students nationwide. We work on our campuses to raise awareness and educate students about the Millennium Development Goals and current policy initiatives going through congress. Come learn about current international development issues and what we as students can do about them. We will walk you through some of our most recent campaigns: the Water for the World Act and the Foreign Assistance Revitalization and Accountability Act and how students mobilized around them nationwide.