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From ILI Project Coordinator Bob Kovar |
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Here’s what has been going on in ILI this week-
§ The big news this week is that we found out that Wisconsin Rural Partners has chosen ILI as one of Wisconsin's Top Rural Development Initiatives! This is the ninth year they have been giving out these awards and the program is designed to identify, highlight, and share innovative models, practices and programs that have a positive impact on rural Wisconsin communities. We were nominated for this award by Michele LaRock and the Wisconsin Indian Education Board of Directors-the same folks who successfully nominated us last year for the Giraffe Award we received from the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families. We are so deeply honored to be nominated by colleagues we have such high respect for and excited that we have won his recognition! We will go down to Wisconsin Rapids in early June for the awards presentation. Tchii Miigwetch Michele and WIEA!
§ On Sunday night, we gave a short thank you talk to the North Lakeland Education Foundation at their annual recognition dinner. They have supported ILI with very generous donations the past few years and they asked each grantee to say a few words this year at their dinner. It was a great event!
§ ILI staff is working on outing together an interactive cd for our proposal of expanding ILI into all of the tribes-pretty cool concept! We want folks to be able to see video, photos and more as they browse themselves to a better understanding of what we do.
§ We are ready to get our annual year-end surveys out to all ILI parents, teachers and students. We appreciate your helping get as many of these as possible back to us-good evaluation is the best strategy for improving our program. Your feedback is very important to us-thanks in advance for your help in making us better!
§ On Tuesday we attended the retirement celebration for LUHS Superintendent Mike Dailey at LUHS. It was really nice and we had a chance to publicly thank Mike for his strong advocacy and leadership over the years for getting ILI embedded into the Lakeland area-thanks Mike and we wish you all the best!
§ We received $250 this week from the Minocqua Noon Rotary Club-they have been wonderful supporters of ILI over the years-thank you!
§ ILI In the Media: Nothing to report this week.
§ Upcoming ILI sessions and events:
o Wednesday May 14: LUHS ILI Activity period. Freshman/Sophomore. 9:45am-10:15am. Multi-purpose room.
§ ILI Volunteers: We’ll be getting in touch for our year-end volunteer get-shortly- to celebrate another great year in ILI!
§ ILI Annual Fundraising: Our restructured two year budget is now $406720. Thanks to your support we have currently raised $401400 of our two year $406720 budget. Only $5320 away from our goal but getting closer. Our year-end is June 30 so if anyone out there would like to help us reach our goal we would be most appreciative!!
§ FOR
MORE
INFORMATION and the latest session calendar please
check the ILI
website at www.ilileadership.org.
Bob Kovar, Project
Director
Intercultural Leadership
Initiative
Intercultural
Leadership Initiative
AVW/LdF/MHLT/NLS Middle School Dance
LUHS Commons
5/2/08
AVW/LdF/MHLT/NLS Middle School Dance
LUHS Commons
5/2/08
ILI Dance Volunteers: Kate Kerr, Lisa Phillips, and Sonja Lane
ILI Staff: Alice McFarlane, Craig Kerr, and Matt White
On Friday night, ILI sponsored a middle school dance at Lakeland Union High School. This dance idea was conceived when LUHS ILI students said that they wanted to go to the Twin Cities to do a service project. To be able to go they were going to have to raise money. They decided that organizing a dance for middle school students would be a great way to raise the money. This is how we came to sponsor this ILI dance.
We had about 150+ middle school students attend. The first six high schoolers on the list above did a lot of the planning to make this happen. The next 4 students helped on the night of the dance. This process started with other students involved as well, but because of some bad personal choices they were not able to see the whole project through. We will be working with them to help restore them.
The dance started a 6pm and students started to arrive. The DJ—Jamz DJ—had the music going and the students were right in there dancing. When more students arrived he played a number of songs that the students knew the dance moves to, and almost everyone was out on the dance floor. It was awesome to see all the students dancing to the song and having a great time! The DJ was great and had the students engaged the whole night. Through out the dance we raffled off a number of gift certificates and other items that local businesses donated for the dance. We also had Guitar Hero III projected on a wall in the commons for students to play. This was a BIG hit!!!
The middle school students had a great time! The high school students did as well and we are very proud of them and the work that they did to put the dance together and see it to the end. The benefit raised over $500.
Bob Kovar, Project
Director
Intercultural Leadership
Initiative
Intercultural Leadership Initiative
Weekly Update
Friday May 2, 2008
Here’s what has been going on in ILI this week-
§ You’re invited! The next Lakeland Area Community Meeting will be held on Wednesday May 7 at the LdF Wellness Center from 5:30pm-8:00pm. We’ll get an agenda out next week-lots to be working on right now!
§ ILI staff met with Mike Dailey and Todd Kleinhans this week to discuss ILI in LUHS for 08-09. We had an excellent meeting discussing the ways ILI will serve LUHS next year. We’ll miss these meetings with Mike Dailey-they have always been interesting and we all get incredibly inspired and excited talking about the possibilities! Mike has been a great supporter of ILI over the years and we’ll miss him and that whiteboard that we get to scribble our dreams on! We’re continuing to shape the new look of ILI for next year.
§ ILI staff met with LUHS staff today during their “30 hour” sessions to discuss ILI, PAC and where we are going. It was an excellent opportunity to reconnect with LUHS teaching staff to discuss where we’ve been and where we are going next year-thanks to Todd Kleinhans for facilitating these meetings and all the wonderful LUHS teachers for their participation.
§ The Lyme Disease Awareness Network is hosting a free concert starring Brett and Frisk at the Ascension Lutheran Church hwy 51 south in Minocqua at 7:30 p.m. on May 3, 2008. Donations to support the Lyme Network and Jennifer Kane (of Arbor Vitae) who is struggling with chronic Lyme disease will be greatly appreciated. Have some fun and help out a great cause and a friend of ILI!
§ Thank you to the local Dairy Queen in Minocqua! We had a great turnout of ILI kids and families and community supporters for the fundraiser on Tuesday night! Because of their generosity and your support, ILI earned $108.18-thanks everybody!
§ We received $5500 this week from the Lac du Flambeau WITCAPP Coalition-a group that is doing some excellent work in the area of prevention. We sent in a proposal a few months ago and are extremely honored that they have chosen ILI as one of the projects for their support-Miigwetch!
§ We received $25 this week from the Friends of ILI campaign-thank you!
§ We completed and submitted the First Nations Development Institute Native Youth and Culture Fund that was due Monday.
§ We completed a concept paper for the Wisconsin Office of Juvenile Assistance and submitted it yesterday. Our proposal is to fund the ILI Tribal Expansion Project that Ernie has been working on.
§ We received notice this week that our application to the Peace Development Fund was denied.
§ We received news this week that we have been scheduled for a site visit by the Wisconsin Community Fund out of Madison. They will be coming here on May 21 to meet with ILI staff. They have supported ILI for a number of years and if the site visit goes well we’re hoping for their continued support.
§ ILI In the Media: Nothing to report this week.
§ Upcoming ILI sessions and events:
o Friday May 2: ILI Benefit Dance for all area 6th-8th grade students. 6pm-9pm.
§ ILI Volunteers: Elementary Sessions are over!! THANK YOU to all volunteers for their help and commitment to helping make ILI such a success for all students! We will be contacting you soon to help with putting together the packets for the year-end ILI Surveys. We’ll be also getting in touch for our year-end volunteer get-together later this spring to celebrate another great year in ILI!
§ ILI Annual Fundraising: Our restructured two year budget is now $406720. Thanks to your support we have currently raised $401150 of our two year $406720 budget. $5570 away from our goal but getting closer!!
§ FOR MORE INFORMATION and the latest session calendar please check the ILI website at www.ilileadership.org.
Bob Kovar, Project Director
Intercultural Leadership
Initiative