2009-10 Here We Come!

Though many involved in SIFE have spent many hours over the summer working on the events for this upcoming school year, others are just getting back into the swing of things. Personally, I am excited for the year ahead of us. We have a strong team, as always, and I can't wait to hear about all of the fantastic ideas that have materialized over the past few months. Watch out, world! Here comes AU SIFE!

A New and Exciting Year for AU SIFE

Hello!
Our SIFE team is excited to be starting a new year of projects and opening up new opportunities. It will be a lot of work and a lot of fun. There are many great opportunities for students across the whole campus to get involved in positively impacting the community!

As the Vice President of Competition for the 09-10 school year, I'm looking forward to the new and unique ways we will display all the wonderful projects AU SIFE has instore for the year. I can't wait to see all the planning that has taken place so far be put into action. We are all looking forward to impacting those is our community as well as across the globe!

There are ways for everyone to be involved! I can't wait to see AU students building relationships with business men and women in the community while simultaneously having a positive influence on those in our community and abroad.
It's going to be a great year!

First Impressions

This is my first year as a Sam Walton Fellow with SIFE. I have been blown away with the entire SIFE organization and with AU's SIFE program specifically. The competitions last year were my first exposure to AU's SIFE, and I was so impressed with the level of professionalism of the students and with the impact that this program makes. SIFE impacts the adults, high school students, children, non-profit organizations, and for-profit businesses in the local community in addition to international organizations. There is a huge amount of work that gets done by lots of people doing their part. AU SIFE makes a significant impact and everyone is having fun and feeling good at the same time. The relationships that come out of this group are life-long and life-changing. That may be the biggest impact of all.

Seeing the achievements of this group makes me proud to be at AU and involved in such a worthwhile organization. I'm really understanding the "Changing Lives" theme from last year. I'm looking forward to a great year this year!

Community Impact Update

Greetings,

My name is Pam. I am the 09-10 Vice President of Community Impact, and I am very excited to get this school year started and our projects into gear. I began my SIFE career with the First Steps project 3 years ago, the first year we implemented First Steps. It was a busy time trying to get everything to work together just right to make that first year a success.

So far this summer my project managers are getting materials gathered, great team members recruited and scouting some new ventures. We are looking to possibly expand First Steps to go into more schools in the Anderson area.

With Second Chance, we are just looking to gather more information together to make the people involved even more marketable in today's economy. We are currently not working towards expanding this project, but that doesn't mean we can't or won't, we just want to gather materials to give a stronger presentation and have the ability to effectively expand.

Unfortunately, Community Impact has had a little set back this summer. My project manager for the Barter Game and CYNCY projects stepped down, feeling he would not be able to give 100 percent to the projects or SIFE. This year we are wanting to combine all aspects of CYNCY and the Barter Game to help make both more effective in the community. If anyone is interested in being involved as a project manager in SIFE, feel free to contact myself or any of our other great SIFE officers.

For now, I hope everybody enjoys the last few weeks of summer before we get back into the swing of classes, homework, and different activities.


Pam Fairall
pmfairall@anderson.edu

I Corinthians 10:31

SIFE gets mention in HB article

The Herald Bulletin ran an article on the Entrepreneurship Business Camp in the Sunday paper and spoke quite favorably of SIFE. You can find the article here and the winning video from the camp here ( or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLZlhIT_ReE).