ONE is still on the road with the Dave Matthews Band, talking to fans all across the country about fighting poverty, joining forces with our sister organization (RED) as well! We’ve spent the past two weeks going from Florida to Texas, building support along the way…
Our time in Florida started out in Gainesville, where our team of volunteers included Tricia, who had volunteered with us at the Daytona 500 NASCAR event last year, Brady, a freshman at UF who has been involved with ONE for a while but was volunteering for the first time, and Christine and Leah, UF students who definitely figured out the best way to get their fellow students on board with our work! We also had Holly and Jamie joining us, and Yee, a UF law student who was technically suppose to be volunteering for another organization, but that organization couldn’t set up and since she was already there, she joined us! They all did AMAZING – this was seriously one of the best volunteer crews we’ve worked with all year long!
ONE and (RED) got to take part in the massive show at Piedmont Park this past weekend. The show this weekend was unusual – 60,000 people in Piedmont Park, and the show was a double bill with the Allman Brothers Band – pretty chaotic, but also a lot of fun.
Unfortunately, we didn’t have much of a volunteer turn out this weekend – I think people were freaked out by the size of the show and the fact that you had to take public transport and couldn’t park. Because of that, we were extra excited to have Elaine from Birmingham join us – she was already coming to the show and volunteered to spend several hours of her time with us behind the booth. We were really grateful for her help – we were pretty busy back there, and my touring partner Joe was spending most of his time floating around getting sign ups, so I definitely needed the help! I hadn’t seen Elaine since she volunteered with us at one of the U2 shows back in the fall of 2005, so it was great to get to hang out and catch up. She is one of our super volunteers – always doing amazing work for ONE and (RED) in her community in Alabama, having been involved with the campaign since its launch three years ago.
All night long we got to meet fan after fan that was excited to be involved with ONE and (RED). In the process of talking to thousands of people, I somehow managed to become the best friend to a group of (more…)
The ONE concert outreach team has been busy the past few weeks – we just finished the Warped Tour, and are still on the road with the Dave Matthews Band.
Warped Tour proved to be as much fun as always – we talked to thousands of young people across the country about the work of ONE and what they could do to get involved and make a difference. As always, we had amazing volunteers join us throughout the course of the tour as well. The diversity of our volunteers always impresses us – we get to meet people doing amazing things for ONE in their own community, and Warped always provides us with a unique chance to get to work with young volunteers that are making poverty history in their high schools and colleges. A big thanks to all of you that joined us this summer and braved the heat and loud punk rock – we hope to see you all again next year!
Our Dave dates have proved to be a great success as well – we are very excited to have Product (RED) joining us for this tour. We kicked off this exciting collaboration in Milwaukee, where we were joined by new and veteran volunteers (a special thanks to Alyssa, our Chicago based rockstar volunteer who once got over 500 people signed up at a single show!) alike that helped us get thousands of DMB fans educated and involved.
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UF students who definitely figured out the best way to get their fellow students on board with our work! We also had Holly and Jamie joining us, and Yee, a UF law student who was technically suppose to be volunteering for another organization, but that organization couldn’t set up and since she was already there, she joined us! They all did AMAZING – this was seriously one of the best volunteer crews we’ve worked with all year long!
ONE and (RED) got to take part in the massive show at Piedmont Park this past weekend. The show this weekend was unusual – 60,000 people in Piedmont Park, and the show was a double bill with the Allman Brothers Band – pretty chaotic, but also a lot of fun.
Unfortunately, we didn’t have much of a volunteer turn out this weekend – I think people were freaked out by the size of the show and the fact that you had to take public transport and couldn’t park. Because of that, we were extra excited to have Elaine from Birmingham join us – she was already coming to the show and volunteered to spend several hours of her time with us behind the booth. We were really grateful for her help – we were pretty busy back there, and my touring partner Joe was spending most of his time floating around getting sign ups, so I definitely needed the help! I hadn’t seen Elaine since she volunteered with us at one of the U2 shows back in the fall of 2005, so it was great to get to hang out and catch up. She is one of our super volunteers – always doing amazing work for ONE and (RED) in her community in Alabama, having been involved with the campaign since its launch three years ago.
