September 8th, 2009 at 10:43 am
Hey everybody! ONE Webster got off to a fantastic start at the Webster University Involvement fair this past Wednesday. Each year Webster University hosts the Involvement Fair as a chance for students to check out organizations on campus and get involved. Of course we know the ONE Campaign was one of the best! The new members thought so too, since 93 of them signed up to make extreme poverty history!
ONE Webster was also able to network with compassionate organizations in the community such as elementary and high schools, the Red Cross, and environmental organizations.
This year we are so excited to raise the bar and make the most out of every event. The Involvement Fair was a great jump into the school year, but watch out! ONE Webster is on track!
-Kritter Keirnan, ONE Webster President
November 3rd, 2008 at 11:23 am
Several ONE volunteers from Webster University recently came to DC during their fall break to meet with their Senator’s office and discuss issues relating to extreme poverty. Nick Stevens writes:
Fall break. A time for catching up on your soaps and sleep, right? Not for me and three other Webster University students. We decided to trek halfway across the country to lobby for ONE in DC.
On Tuesday, October 21 ONE Webster members Sandra Lemenaite, Dirk Bokeloh, Michelle Overington and I met with Joshua Kremer at Senator Bond’s office next to the nation’s capitol.
We told Joshua about the importance of development aid as part of a national security strategy and thanked Senator Bond for voting in favor of PEPFAR. In May, I delivered more than 700 letters to Senator Bond’s St. Louis office asking him to support the PEPFAR Reauthorization. This legislation has helped to put more than two million African people on life-saving anti-retroviral drugs.
The meeting was the first time I had lobbied in DC. Our meetings in St. Louis were effective, but it was great to meet someone in Bond’s foreign policy department. I look forward to building the relationship from here and hope that ONE’s presence will inspire Senator Bond to co-sponsor poverty ending legislation in the future.
-Nick Stevens, ONE Webster President
December 4th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
Nick Stevens is the Regional Outreach Ambassador for Missouri, Ohio, Michigan, Utah, and Kansas. He is also President of ONE Webster, and Co-chairman of ONEstl in Saint Louis, Missouri.
While studying jazz performance for guitar at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, he developed tendonitis in both hands and decided to leave music as a career. After a couple of months of soul searching, Nick found a new passion: the fight against extreme poverty.
Nick has been volunteering with ONE for over a year, and has also volunteered with Bread for the World, Oxfam America, Microfinancing Partners in Africa, and Lokahi Outreach. As a ONE volunteer, he has lobbied congress, talked with reporters, organized events, and tabled at colleges, churches, and concerts. At Webster University, he is majoring in Public Relations, minoring in French, and pursuing an International Human Rights Certificate and a Leadership Certificate. After graduation, Nick hopes to work for a non-profit that is working to fight poverty and other social issues.
“I support the ONE Campaign because it proves that someone’s voice is just as powerful as their pocketbook in the fight against poverty. For college students like me who are surviving on spaghetti noodles and dry cereal, that’s an empowering truth. The money is already there, we just have to tell our politicians what we want done with it.”
Nick’s favorite animal: Manbearpig
If you’re a leader in one of Nick’s states, make sure to join his Facebook group:
Leaders Facebook group for MO, OH, MI, UT, and KS.
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