College Students Enacting Social Change (Alana G. Strassfield)

• College students can create a non profit organization and effect social change
• Social change is established through non profit and non governmental organizations
• the founder of INVISIBLE CHILDREN was a college student when he created the non profit organization.
• target specific problems
• 5 componenets
• characteristic attributes shcuh as adaptability and determination
• utilization of resoruces in collge
• interconnectedness
• the utilization of web intermediaries and social networks
• organizaitonal skills, being able to form a plan
• 501C3 (non profit organization) (tax exemption)
• to have a profound impact on a specific part of the world (not changing the world)
• people have to change along with the world in order to be successful
• college is an extensive resource in the making of non profits
• college provides an audience for a college student
• change is made through a group effort
• INTERCONNECTEDNESS
• we live in a small, interconnected world.
• makes us more likely to partake in things that we really care about
• THE FACEBOOK EFFECT
• 500,000,000 actively using facebook 6 months ago
• 800,000,000 actively using facebook now
• 1 in every 9 people have a facebook in the world
• the audience of a college student is expanded even more
• instantaineous access to millions of people
• organize protests (social movements)
• PLAN OF ACTION
• the purpose or mission statement
• decideing how the organization's programs will be paid for
• projects the organizations wishes to accomplish
• timeline of events
• desired effect and social impact (mission statement)
• social change is important for people that want to live a life of meaning
• college students do have the power to enact social change by creating non profits and non governmental organizations
• why wait til you graduate??