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45 Nourish Chapters!

By on June 19, 2013 in Chapter Founders, Chapter Updates, Nourish Office

We are really excited to welcome new Chapters to the student movement. Nourish will start the 2013-2014 School Year with a total of 45 Chapters ready to make change on campus and abroad!

Joining the Nourish Network:

  • California State Polytechnic Institute – Pomona
  • Columbia University
  • Davidson College
  • Emory University
  • Hope College
  • Middlebury College
  • New York University
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • Syracuse University
  • University of California – Berkeley
  • University of California – Santa Cruz
  • University of Dayton
  • University of Idaho
  • University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  • University of Washington
  • University of Wisconsin – Madison
  • Virginia Tech
  • Wellesley College

If you plan to attend the Summer Institute this August, you will have the chance to meet representatives from ALL of our new Chapters. Please share your experiences with our new students to welcome them to Nourish!

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A Night in Spain Raises over $20,000 for Expansion Campaign

By on June 19, 2013 in Nourish Office, Office Updates

A Night in Spain Highlights

We want to thank everyone who attended our June 8th event, A Night in Spain, hosted by Marcia Angle and Mark Trustin in the lovely setting of Deer Chase Gardens. It was a beautiful night to be entertained with flamenco dancing, folk music, spanish wines and wonderful food prepared by Chef James Naquin.  Through your generous support, the event generated over $20,000 in donations, helping Nourish reach it’s $100,000 Expansion Campaign goal.

Thank you!

 

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Nourish Hires Laura Hayden as Development Director

By on June 19, 2013 in 2013, Newsletters, Nourish in the News, Nourish Office, Office Updates

Nourish Hires Laura Hayden as Development Director! 

Originally from Baltimore, Laura worked for, and completed her studies at, Johns Hopkins University where she got her first ‘taste’ of fundraising and special events while coordinating the Alumni Association for the Wilmer Eye Institute under the leadership of Morton Goldberg, M.D.

With a yearning to live in the desert southwest for as long as she can remember, Laura picked up and moved to Tucson, AZ where she continued her career in fundraising, working for nonprofit organizations serving people with disabilities, specifically blindness and both adult and youth homelessness.  It was in Tucson where she met and married her husband Kevin, started a family and took up full-time parenthood, until 2006 when she moved to Durham and took the position with the Museum.  Laura has been with the Museum of Life and Science for nearly seven years where she initially directed the annual fund efforts and grew the department revenue significantly, allowing her to focus specifically on growing the events program. Over the last four years Laura created new initiatives that generate over $250K in event revenue annually.

In her spare time, Laura enjoys designing and making jewelry, voice acting, DIY home improvements, volunteering with the Greater Durham Exchange Club, and spending time with her two teenage boys and husband of 17 years.

We are so glad to have Laura with us. Welcome!

 

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Day 1 Recap of Guatemala Project

By on June 18, 2013 in 2013, Guatemala, Summer Projects, UCLA

Since landing in Guatemala City this morning, our group has been thoroughly impresssed by the hospitality of Enactus Guatemala. Both Carmen and Ana Lucia greeted us at the airport with open arms and immediately drove us to breakfast before taking us grocery shopping and moving us into our lovely townhouse. We were then brought to University del Valle de Guatemala, where we were given a tour and introduced to other Enactus students, and we even got to meet the Enactus faculty advisor. The UVG students also invited us to have dinner with them at their favorite pizza parlor and ordered us the notorious “meter pizza”, which we shamefully could not finish, but this may be a goal for us to aspire to before the trip’s end. The most significant part of the day to us was indisputably when Carlos welcomed us into his home and introduced us to his entire family. At Carlos’ house, we had the pleasure of watching Enactus Guatemala practice for the 2013 Enactus World Cup, along with meeting each of the department heads and learning more about each of our upcoming projects. It has only been one day, and this is already starting to feel like home!

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Welcome New Nourish International Board Members!

By on June 17, 2013 in 2013, Nourish in the News, Nourish Office, Office Updates, Student Advisory Board

We want to welcome our new additions to the 2013 Board of Directors! Our new members have been engaged and supportive of the movement for many years and begin serving on the board this July.

Gary Hayes – Managing Director & Co-Founder of Scale Finance

Gary Hayes, CPA, is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of Scale Finance LLC; a Raleigh-based financial manageme
Garybunt services firm. He received his MBA from the University of Maryland and has been involved in the financial sector through manybusinesses and nonprofit organizations. During his time as Chief Financial Officer with Koz.com, Hayes assisted the CEO in raising $35 million in venture capital. Hayes also acted as Chief Financial Officer for Ateb Inc and served as the appointed Treasurer for Ibiliti. He has been involved in the community as a guest lecturer for the undergraduate business school at UNC and NC State. Hayes is an active member of the Nourish International Finance Committee and has been elected as Board Treasurer.

Brandon Agranovich, Miami University

Brandon Agranovich is a sophomore at Miami University and member of the Farmer School of Business Honors Program. He is

Brandon

pursuing a B.S. in Marketing with a minor in Spanish and Entrepreneurship.  In his Miami Chapter,

Brandon served as the Chapter Representative and member of the ventures committee, while also serving as the Regional Representative for his region. He hopes to bring his experience in running his own businesses for over 10 years, as well as his experience in social entrepreneurship, to help Nourish’s mission reach more people. In his spare time, Brandon enjoys golf, traveling and volunteering.

Jared Staley, Ohio State University

Jared Staley is a junior at The Ohio State University, where he is pursuing his B.S. in Architecture and a minor in Design. He has served as Marketing Director and Co-Leader for his chapter, and will be taking on the new Outreach position. In addition to Nourish, Jared is involved in SERVitecture, a service oriented organization that partners with Habitat for Humanity; Knowlton School of Architecture Student Council, University Honors & Scholars Ambassadors, a volunteer organization that works closely with incoming Honors & Scholars freshmen; and Kuhn Honors and Scholars House, promoting Honors and Scholars events and initiatives as a Student Staff Assistant. Jared’s passion for Nourish International, globalization, and alleviating poverty has propelled him to pursue future work in sustainable architecture and affordable housing. When he has free time, Jared enjoys reading, listening to new music, photography, working out, and discovering his newfound pleasure in yoga.Jared

 

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UMN: 10,000 Seedlings

By on June 17, 2013 in 2013, Kenya, Summer Projects, UMN

Hello Everyone! Sorry for the delay, our internet was down for most of the weekend!

Things have gone on well here this week as our project coordinator, Robinson, has returned to the island along with Richard the director of the Ekialo Kiona Center. With their vision we’ve been able to accomplish a lot towards our project goals and have gotten to meet more friends around the island that are partnered with us on the reforestation effort!

Mae and Kathryn left last Sunday to visit Berlin’s (their host mom) mother’s home in Homa Bay. They had a safe trip and a fun time meeting the family. They report that both Berlin and her mother are determined to marry them both to Kenyan men. They returned on Monday without any wedding plans.

While they were gone to Homa Bay I remained at EK on Monday and performed a radio broadcast with Nancy and Eric on the radio team and Nick Olambo, a farm specialist here at the center. We discussed the cultural value of forests with callers who offered their comments and questions. The radio team and Nick did a lot of translating to Dhluo to make sure that everything that we had to communicate was well understood. We’re about to do our next broadcast and I’m excited to do it with our whole team!

On Tuesday we met with the nearby Sena Mixed Secondary School to teach some of the theory behind the reforestation effort. This week the emphasis was the environmental importance of maintaining forests. Afterwards the teacher was excited to tell us that some of the topics we covered, like the water cycle and nitrogen cycle, also come up in the students’ coursework. They were so excited about this and the way we presented the material that they want to host us again for an extra lesson.

Wed, Thursday, and Friday were all spent setting up nurseries. On Wed we worked at Ramba with a wise old tree farmer there named Oguta, on Thursday at Ugina with the women’s group there, and on Friday at both the EK center and at Sena Secondary. A nursery essentially consists of a 8 x 5 ft bed of well tilled earth on which seeds are scattered, watered, and covered in some topsoil and mulch. These beds, in 2 weeks, will yield small seedlings that we can transfer to plastic tubing filled with dirt where they can grow protected for about 9 more months until they are planted in the wild. By this time next year, the center is on track to plant 10,000 seedlings around the island!

Robinson working on the nursery in Ugina

Robinson working on the nursery in Ugina

On Saturday our team and one of the other volunteers at the center made pancakes (with a really tasty banana sauce) for Mae and Kat’s host family. Afterwards we all attended church together (it was long) and then split up for the afternoon washing clothes and helping EK members set up their own facebooks! Sunday we took the first part of the day at a nearby beach with Adam and two students here from Penn, relaxing and chatting an unwinding from the busy week.

That’s all from this week, we’re excited for what’s ahead and stressing over how little time we have left! Only two weeks remain before we leave all our friends and this beautiful island, we avoid thinking about it!

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