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Fall 2017 Site Visit U Colorado
- 1. IACT Presentation Winter 2017-2018 By: Lindsay Migdal University of Colorado Boulder
- 2. Outline Registration Breakdown Registration in Action Interns Goals/Improvements for Next Semester Social Media Student Spotlights/ Current & Alumni Pre Trip Programming Tracking and Measurements Struggles and Successes Swag
- 3. Registration Breakdown CU students- Friends of CU students Underclassmen- Returners- Unaffiliated-
- 5. First Time in Israel Haven't Been to Israel Affiliated vs. Unaffiliated Unaffiliated Affiliated
- 6. Registration in Action Successes: Tabling Presented at new campus orgs Presented at more fraternities and sororities than ever before Word of mouth Student involvement fair
- 7. Registration in Action Challenges: Tabling permit getting taken away towards end of the semester Overall issues with the Hillel/Israel Fellow transition Interns Summer or bust mentality General apathy and lack of motivation
- 8. Interns Intern Coordinators (2) Ryan Schafer & Amanda Kay Third year as interns Marketing/Social Media Marguerite Alberts Went winter 2015
- 9. Inters cont. Jonathan Trietsch Outreach to larger Jewish community and Greeks Went Winter 2016 Cameron Chalvin Events and outreach Going Summer 2018
- 10. Student Spotlight Kelly Lolly Both of her parents are Catholic She converted by herself when she was in middle school First real opportunity to have a Jewish community
- 11. Student Spotlight Baylee Hughes Mom is African American and converted to Judaism when she was younger. Never was involved in a community growing up and wants to have a chance to explore her Judaism in Israel
- 12. Goals For Next Semester Large pre registration numbers Extension in Ramat HaNegev Have winter/previous participants go on summer programs Continue the Greek partnership Have Nofar be involved in the Birthright process
- 13. Summer’18 Pre-Trip Programming o Meeting with Ramat HaNegev delegation while on the trip o Krav Maga lessons taught by current CU student who was a lone soldier Refer a friend events Programs on the US/Israel Relationship Social Justice programs in partnership with StandWithUs
- 14. Special Trip Programming January trip has programs focused on diversity and social justice topics in Israel Will use this as a follow up program Israeli participants for 10 days on the December bus Added extra hikes and outdoor activities for both buses Try to add as much environmental programming as possible for the trips
- 15. Pre-Trip Programming Winter’18 2 Orientations Shabbat & Tuesday Programming options Partnership city programming Lunch with Ramat HaNegev Benefits & Struggles of Living in the Negev StandWithUs Israeli Soldiers Tour Genocide and Holocaust Memorials Community Service: Hazon program Gift of Life
- 16. Social Media Used Instagram and Facebook as an outreach tool Anyone who liked a facebook or Instagram post was contacted about the trips. Got multiple sign ups from instagram messages Used facebook ads Also got a lot of pre registrants for the summer
- 18. Post Trip o Bus Reunions oHave Referred alumni to MASA/Onward/JNF oBirthright Registrations and Referral events oCoffee dates & visits while tabling oHelped us set up/present at Greek houses oBrought friends to Birthright recruitment events oAttended Shabbats, Israel programs at Hillel and general programs
- 19. Impact of IACT on Campus Large majority of Hillel attendees and board member are birthright alumni Clear change in engagement, programming and Israel atmosphere since IACT came to Boulder
- 20. Events this semester Involvement Fair Welcome Back event at Half Fast Registration Kickoff event Birthright/Israel Shabbat High Holiday Services Birthright Registration Party Shakshukah in the Sukkah Bus Reunions Jewish Studies speakers What’s Judaism got to do with it? Judaism & Immigration Ramat HaNegev Lunch Ramat HaNegev :Desert Stories StandWithUs Soldiers Tour Memorializing the Holocaust Hazon program
- 21. Tracking & Measurements Winter 2015 Numbers- 65% have already gone to 3 events or more Summer 2016 Numbers-32% Interest list for summer-128 Greeks from Summer: XO, AEPi, SAEPi, KKG, Tri Delta, AXO, SAE, Alpha Phi, Sigma Nu (about 50% of the participants) Greeks for Winter: AEPi, Sigma AEPi, ZBT, XO, Tri Delta Post trip: Shabbats & Bus Reunions ZBT’s from VFI now involved in Challah for Hunger Sigma AEPi Sorority Resetting the table Winter & Summer Alumni are the facilitators
- 22. Swag
Editor's Notes
- 56% underclassmen 48 Deposits 21 Applications without Deposits People were very clear that they wanted to go in Summer, those that submitted applications but not deposits Lindsay has preregistered for Summer since Birthright rolled out the new pre-registration initiative
- 96% Unaffiliated on Trip 4% Affiliated on Trip First Time in Israel 55% haven’t been to Israel before 45% have been to Israel before
- One alumni brought 8 people to sign up the first day of BR registration who are greek. Samson Breitbart is also on the trip
- Student issue with union, forgot to sign in and at the end of the semester had table permit taken away More drama with interns than usual. One of the best recruiters added a lot of aggression and issues with the team, but Lindsay was hesitant to fire her given the connections she has to the Boulder community and worry over backlash.
- Photo at the “Be Involved Fair”. Lindsay reserved 2 tables, one for Hillel and one for Birthright and made them the biggest presence at the fair. We able to tag team. Hillel gave away pint glasses and Birthright gave away koozies.
- Jonathan: South African Jew. BR Alumni
- From Texas. In Middle School went to a lot of Jewish events with friends and felt more involved. Converted before her Bat Mitzvah.
- Studying art history. Identifies as Jewish but wasn’t particularly involved. Her mom and grandmother are Jewish converts and raised her, but involvement in temple tapered off as Baylee got older.
- Post-Trip Programming: 2 Onward Spots available for BICAP bus participants. BICEP will subsidize the trip. This is the first year CU has been selected for BICEP. Working with AEPi Nationals to transform CU chapter. Also continuing partnership with ZBT as follow up from VFI trip Nofar is the Israel Fellow for all of the Colorado Campuses (3 sites—made it difficult). She is staffing the CU BR Bus and will be much more involved in the process next semester
- Ramat HaNegev is the Denver sister city and Boulder is working to make it a sister city as well. Nabulus is currently one of Boulder's official 7 sister cities—the Jewish community fought against this for years and it was recently just passed. Ramat HaNegev delegation talked about what it’s like to be young and living in the Negev. This was a federation program from Denver that Lindsay brought to Boulder. It was really well received and also helped on a background political level with the Boulder/Denver Jewish community.
- At Orientation: had participants write down anonymous questions on index cards and read/answered them out on the group. Last year a BR Alumni student became a Gift of Life Coordinator, organized swabbing on campus with Hillel and became a donor this summer.
- Any person who liked a social media post was immediately followed up with by an intern or Lindsay regardless of where they were in the registration process (including if they haven’t signed up at all)
- Depth and numbers of participants has drastically increased. (get number?)
- Sigma AEPi, which is a new Jewish sorority, was founded by primarily BR Alumni.
- Need picture of popscket and new BR shirt.