We have completed the first week as an organization for IST THON and the progress is really refreshing. I hope we don’t lose steam when classes end.
But first, I’ll provide some background.
After THON this year I was reflecting on how at a IST Student Government meeting Sophomore year, we talked about how we had lost our Dancers and needed to re-focus our THON initiative to start over. Approaching the end of my Junior year, I realized we had failed again as a college to raise any money for the cause. The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences cracked the Top 10 in independent organizations, why can’t we do it too?
Enter IST THON. After talking with the Student Government, it was decided that we move forward with a new THON committee, with me as its Executive Chair. After pouring over the THON website, I called for a “meeting of the minds” to talk through what we needed to do. This brings us to Monday a week ago, where we elected a Vice-Executive Chair, a Canning Chair, a Fundraising Chair, an Inspiration Chair, a Website Chair, and an Alumni Relations Chair. We also decided to get a Faculty Advisor, a website (coming soon!) and an email for FAQs (THON@ist.psu.edu) and set a goal for how much we could feasibly raise.
$10,000
So over the summer we will be preparing for action. Designing a website, facebook fan page, logo, t shirts, a whiffle ball tournament, working with interested companies and the IST Alumni Society would be a good start I think. We can’t fund raise until the fall semester is in full swing, which gives us time to prepare, to start from scratch essentially. It looks like we have the people in place to do just that.
The key to this committee isn’t succeeding this year, it is to set in place a base that future IST THON committees can draw from, improve upon, and ensure that IST doesn’t go dormant again.
So start saving up readers! I will place a link for donations when it is created. Until then, For the Kids!
THON Mission Statement
The mission of the Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon is to conquer pediatric cancer by providing outstanding emotional & financial support to the children, families, researchers, and staff of the Four Diamonds Fund.
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