SIFE Projects - St. Norbert College

Going Local in Brown County Project Lead, Brandon Guile

SIFE has been asked to aid Wal-Mart in an endeavor of massive proportions: Wal-Mart is looking to have local suppliers as their source of produce and other products at many of their Wisconsin locations. The SIFE team has been asked to compile a packet of information that can be used to give to potential vendors all over the country. They will be working towards finding these vendors and explaining to them the opportunities that can be found by becoming a Wal-Mart vendor.

SIFE members recently took a trip to Wal-Mart's central distribution center in Tomah, Wisconsin to see how this process works, so that they may relay this information to potential vendors. This year, we hope to create a panel of local vendors, encourage more participation, and complete a packet of simplified information.

Let's Can Hunger Project Lead, Meghan Hemmer

Let's Can Hunger is sponsored by Campbell Soup Company and it's main goal is to increase awareness about the issue of hunger. The Let's Can Hunger challenge is open to SIFE teams in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico and it is to successfully develop and execute a marketing campaign that addresses this issue. It will be measured by a) gross impressions and b) media hits.

As an update, the SIFE team has been delivering bags to houses all over the community asking people to donate non-perishable food items to be delivered to Paul's Pantry.

Leaving an Ecological FootprintProject Lead, Trang Le

The mission of the Beacon House is to provide various resources that support healing when someone has experienced a life-changing situation. "Information, programs, and services foster the discovery of joyful living, personal direction, and empowerment in the journey towards healing of body, mind, and spirit."

The Beacon House has come to SIFE so that we may help increase awareness of their organization. In order to do so, members are creating brochures to be distributed to many different churches in the area, along with an informational page to be read at the end of mass.

Green Bay Community Garden Project Leads, Keri Hodnik & Luanne Spence

Haven of Hope is a non-profit daycare located in Little Chute, Wi. The mission of Haven of Hope is to "provide a developmentally based learning environment founded upon caring, compassionate awareness of an individual's abilities and disabilities in order to guide and nurture the natural blossoming of the whole person."Last year, SIFE created a video for the day care to use as a promotional tool, increasing awareness of their services.

This year, they have come to us again in want of promotional tools for their Saturday Respite Program, a day care service offered at a time outside of their regular business hours. By doing so, family members and caregivers would have the opportunity to spend their Saturday doing whatever they may wish, whether it is running errands or relaxing. Five hundred pamphlets were created to be dispersed to those interested in this much-needed program.