400 Chicken Goal Reached!

December 22, 2008

Anderson University SIFE’s global impact project and key project for market economic, Give A Chicken, has reached its 400 chicken goal four months ahead of its original, seven month timeframe. Under the direction of Ambrosia Davidson, project manager, and Chad Schubert, Vice President for Global Impact, the Give A Chicken project is designed to provide financial sustainability for the Mulunda Miaka Orphanage in Zambia, Africa.

A goal launched in September 2008 and set to run through March 2009, has recently received a $1200 donation from Purdue University’s Organizational Leadership and Supervision (OLS) program (through a partnership with their SIFE team), under the supervision of Dr. Scott R. Homan.

The Applied Leadership course, OLS 274, is an introduction to applied leadership in the context of organizational functions, structures, and operations. The course intends to teach professional habits of mind that are critical for all organizational leaders such as a daily consumption of global business news. In a salesmanship exercise, 600 students had the opportunity to go out and sell the idea of sponsoring a chicken or portion of a chicken on the behalf of Give A Chicken. Through their hands-on promotion of the orphanage and the Give A Chicken project, students raised $1200 toward the Give A Chicken project.

This $1200 donation is in addition to a $450 donation raised by the IU Kokomo SIFE team on a two-day fundraiser earlier in the semester, and the donations of over 50 people during the first four months of the project.

In light of the early success of the project, the SIFE team has decided to expand the goals of the Give A Chicken project. What started as providing the two full batches of broiler chickens will look to provide chicken houses and layer chickens in 2009. Further details will be unveiled in mid-January of what specific goals and opportunities will be available for donors to assist the Mulunda Miaka Orphanage in Zambia, Africa.

Please visit www.giveAchicken.com for more details and for donation opportunities.