Football Story

I was not in class Thursday so I did not write a sports story. After reading my email, I still was not sure exactly what our assignment was and if we were to cover a specific football game. Therefore, I do not have a story to revise. However, after class today there are some mistakes I'm sure I would have made.
1. I would have to correct my dateline. I understand now a dateline means you wrote the story from that location.
2. I would probably have to correct the time element and move it closer to the verb.
3. I would probably have spelling errors to look up and correct.
4. I know I would have said "their" referring to East Carolina University
I am sure there would have been several more mistakes too.

2 United Way

Emily Vassiliou
Jmc201
14 October 2010
United Way 2
The United Way of the River Cities Executive Director said Thursday, The United Way is taking a new approach for in fundraising.
Laura Gilliam, The United Way of the River Cities Executive Director, was invited by Marshall University’s SGA and faculty senate to come speak. The speech was at noon, in the John Marshall Room of the Student Center.
Gilliam said the organization looked deep into why they thought problems such as: substance abuse, unemployment, and high school dropout rates are still around. Then they categorized them into four categories. Learning and Earning, Family and Children, Help the Wellness and Basic needs are the categories. The United Way came up with a plan to raise money, administer it, and spit it back out to the community to those who really need it. This way the organization could provide basic spelling safety net needs (food, shelter, medication, clothing, etc.) and help those who are close to being at that low point before they fall into a similar situation.
There are many ways to make donations. The work place campaign is where the bulk of the funds used to come from. The work place campaign was simply when the organization would go to businesses and offices and ask for a pledge. Gilliam said, before people of this generation will give you their money they want to know what their money is being used for exactly. This is changing funding all together. She says, however, “this is a good thing; it leads to loyal contributors of at least 10 years or more.”
There are three partnerships. Gilliam said all must work collaboratively in order to reach the goal. The three partnerships include: Success by Six (early learning), Cabell County Substance Abuse Partnership and Financial Stability Partnership.
Gilliam ended the presentation by answering all the questions of the students. Also, she passed out additional pamphlets and papers.

Nonprofit organization (Goodwill Industries)

Five questions I plan to ask:
-What are you doing to partner with United Way?
-What are the outcomes you are looking for to partner with United way?
-What methods have you used to reduce your budget?
-What is your main source of fundraising?
-What is your goal for this year?/ How often have you meet your goal in the last five years?

Three websites I plan to visit for research are:
-www.guidestar.org
-www.goodwillhunting.org
-www.sos.wv.gov

Three kinds of documents I plan to get:
-tax returns
-tax exempt letter
-brochures/handouts