Club Suggestions

Raising Funds

  • Consider hosting a fundraising dinner, dance, performance, or exhibition with funds earmarked for a special agency (orphanage, hunger relief, etc.) in a country associated with your clubs mission and outreach.
  • When seeking co-sponsorship, consider other community resources, for example ND Downtown, local international restaurants and businesses, local fraternal organizations, embassies and consulates, NAFSA and other national/international organizations that sponsor student initiatives, etc. (Consult Student Activities for the guidelines and suggestions on collaboration and permission to seek funds.)
  • Remember the Multicultural Commissioners, Hall Councils, SUB, Student Government, CCC, International Alumni Cl`2ubs office, etc They have funds for international events.
  • Keep in mind other grants and fund like the Rector Fund: http://www.nd.edu/~theshirt/about.htm and the Arts and Letters " Undergraduate Intellectual Initiative Program."

Publicizing

  • In addition to posters and table tents, and listservs like ISSA, MSPS, consider  getting the word out through residence hall “stall notes”, etc. University Village can send out phone reminders. Departments can send to their majors. Request that the Observer, Scholastic, etc. cover your event, not just advertise through paid notices. Ask other clubs to spread the word.
  • Keep your Web site up to date and refer people to the details online.
  • Use all of the University calendars, including Under the Dome, department/institute calendars, residence hall calendars, the Observer’s second page calendar notes, etc.
  • Working together with other Departments /Institutes /Resources for Events from a New Angle
  • Consider hosting, for example, a career night with panels or resources that assist your members in exploring career options.
  • Work together with the CSC to plan a service event or outing.
  • Work with RecSports, or other clubs to organize a tournament/demonstration of international sports and games like cricket, capoiera, rugby, curling, etc….there is also a movement afoot to get an international sports channel hook-up on campus. Stay tuned!
  • Work with Food Services to get international items on the menu.
  • Co-sponsor a lecture or workshop with a department or working group that helps you highlight issues such as economic trends, scientific developments, architecture, the arts, etc. associated with the cultural/national group you represent.
  • Team up with Academic and Multicultural Hall Commissioners to get in-hall programs to include international issues and concerns

Spiritual Aspects

  • Host an Evening of Prayer from Around the World that provides the cultural background for various rituals/services and that allows others to experience an aspect of a faith or creed more authentically.
  • Celebrate a mass in another language or cultural tradition.

Networking

  • Consider co-hosting an event with a club that shares your mission and outreach from St. Mary’s Holy Cross, IUSB, Bethel, etc.
  • Encourage your club members to attend student conferences that focus on cultural exchange, dialogue, leadership, etc. Plan your own conference and host it here at Notre Dame, inviting other colleges and universities to send representatives.
  • Encourage club members to go out into the community and make presentations at schools, churches, Robinson Community Learning Center, etc.
  • Plan to attend a international roundtable!

Keep in Touch with Student Activities, ISSA, etc

  • Remember to work with Student Activities to secure performance rights for film screenings, venues, outside food service, fundraising approval, transportation, general guidance, etc.
  • Please keep in touch with ISSA so that we can support and promote your activities, and send targeted emails to interested internationals in addition to the general listserv notices.