Philanthropy Day Freeze

As you saw earlier, we were preparing for Philanthropy Day. This video is of volunteers who were willing to help think outside of the box to create more awareness. At 11:17 AM people froze on Philanthropy Day. The "freeze" part is when people stop whatever they are doing for a full 2 minutes. There was a huge contrast between those who are frozen and those walking to class. The frozen people also wore signs with information about S2S and quotes about why people give. It was huge success! Many people were asking questions like "What is S2S?" and the signs had answers. Philanthropy Day came and we had a booth for donations. However, it was all preparatory for the launch of S2S Week. Yes, Student to Student week! It's a wonderful campaign and will definitely be worthwhile. The spirit of comradery and giving is growing!

By the way, I edited this movie with the help of Bryan Spratt :) And the video footage came from Kameron Dearing and Jeri Allphin.

Prep for Philanthropy

Student Engagement and Philanthropy Day was on Feb. 27, 2014. To help create awareness, we went around campus and interviewed people asking them a series of questions. This is a rough compilation of what we found.

"What is Philanthropy?"

"What is S2S?"

"Who is a Philanthropy Superhero?"

"How do you feel when you give?"

and

"Will you give when it's time for S2S?"

Turns out, not too many people know what Philanthropy is, or what S2S is. Luckily, we helped create some awareness. There's a lot of good going on at UVU and the more people know about it, the easier it'll be for people to help.

So, what is Philanthropy? 

Donations of time, money, or resources for a social purpose.

What is S2S?

It stands for Student 2 Student. It's philanthropy for students. Students give money, and then it's given to students in need in form of a scholarship.

This is put on by UVU's Student Alumni Association.