forest foundation

Expanding our wings

Since summer the Forest Foundation has had a solid team of five students doing outreach for UCSB Hillel. After being at all the orientations, giving all the incoming freshmen welcome baskets and having a program every week of welcome week, we had to figure out what to do next. We found out that Hillel has two basic types of people: type A - people who would come no matter what was happening and type B - people who need a personal invitation, one-on-one connections and programs specifically for their personality to come to Hillel. Our mission is to reach type B, specifically students in the greek system, freshmen and males. After just a week of work, here's what we have on the table for the next two months:

- Freshmen ropes course (already 25 signed up)
- Greek dinner at Santa Barbara estate to start the Jewish Greek Council
- Three day freshmen retreat in Malibu
- Two-on-two foosball tournament (50 teams total)
- Freshmen dinner downtown

The number one lesson that the foundation is teaching me is that no matter how old someone is, if motivated and given the tools, they can do incredible work far beyond their years. By getting the guidance of established leaders like Abe and Molly Presser last night and applying it to the work of college students, we can go a long way.

Enjoy your wednesdays.

posted by forest foundation @ 3:05 PM