January 2010 Archives

2009 Year in Review

The Bridges program gave 82 presentations in 2009 reaching over 2400 students and others. Each presentation has been logged in the Bridges Rapport database which includes a description of how the presentations went during that visit to the school. 2009's presentations break down like this:

9 Middle school presentations

61 High school presentations

9 College presentations

1 for TLOV

1 Adult Learning class

1 Senior Center presentation

We received many outstanding compliments from students and teachers, many of whom have expressed an interest in veganism as well. We also followed up with students who had criticisms to better explain our perspective and better understand their concerns.

In addition, Bridges gave away a couple of thousand food samples and materials during the presentations, held four training sessions (including the one at TLOV), sent a mass email gaining several new teachers, and participated in the Go Green Expo to hand out just about another thousand food samples. We were briefly interviewed there.

 

I just spoke to a Star Tribune writer, and there will probably be an article written about me and my 'healthy lifestyle habits' including veganism and bike commuting. A mutual friend introduced us. I will hopefully tie CAA in. You can see her last article here.

We're working on the annual report. See the 2008 one here. Tisha, a new volunteer, is working on it.

We completed some year-end fund raising phone calls. This is the first time we did this. We called people who donated a bunch in 2008, but hadn't donated in 2009.