Monthly Archive for February, 2011

My fellow Democrats,

My name is Maxwell Jordan and I will be serving as leader of our organization next year. I would like to introduce myself to you and let you know a little bit about my plans for us next year. First, I am Junior studying Political Science and I participate in several organizations on campus such as the Great Issues Committee. If you don’t know me that is because I was absent last semester due to my internship with the United States Department of State. I spend the semester working for our Mission to the United Nations Agencies in Rome, Italy. It was a tremendous experience that has validated everything I believe about our great country. I hope that we may get to know each other and build an effective political organization that can dramatically impact local and state elections. Please see below for my plan regarding how we can become a strong and resilient campus organization.

Membership

An organization is nothing without a strong and stable core of members. It is my hope that we can increase our membership and meeting attendance rates over the next year. Currently, I am exploring moving our meeting time to better accommodate our member’s schedules. Hopefully, within the next week or so I can send you a survey regarding our organization that can include this topic. Membership will be my top priority and I will not rest until we have an active membership of at least 25 people that participate in vibrant meetings. I will share more on this with you at a later date. Until then, please bring friends, coworkers, and roommates to our meetings!

Fundraising

It is my intention to explore new methods of fundraising for our organization. Some of these potential methods include developing a ActBlue page and other politically based forms of fundraising. We need to utilize our strong alumni base so that we may be able to solicit funds that can help with us with our overall organizational mission.

Voter Registration

I would like to make voter registration a significant priority for the next. People on this campus need to have the ability to exercise their constitutional rights as American citizens. It is my hope that we can partner with several organizations to create the largest voter registration drive in our school’s history.

Dynamic Events

I hope that together as an organization we can come up with a slate of dynamic events that can capture the attention of the university. We need to start early due to the school’s new speaker policy, and it is my hope to get you some preliminary information on this topic soon.

Organizational Improvements

I would like to refine our organizational practices and develop new procedures that can make our organization strong and effective. It is my hope that these new processes can be passed down in order to create continuity and institutional memory.

In the end, student organizations are purely a reflection of membership. It is my sincere hope that at the end of the 2011-2012 school year we can look back and say that it was the time we made our breakthrough.

All the best,

Max Jordan
President, Saint Louis University College Democrats