Our Projects

Fall 2011 Projects Coming Soon! __________________________

Past Projects & Achievements _____________________________

2010-2011 Pennies for Peace Community Fundraising

(See About Pennies for Peace Page)

Gilhooley's Friday Night Concerts

Overman

11/12/2010

Donation Jar for: Pennies for Peace

penniesforpeace.org

Illinoise

11/19/2010

Donation Jar for: Life for the World

lifefortheworld.com

Unidos Latino Leadership, SNA & SODAH Present Global Brigade Student Speakers SAVING WATER & LIVES

Monday September 27, 3:30 pm Student Lounge Followed by Documentary Film FLOW Learn International Commercial Corporations Role in Global Water Shortage

Past Projects and Achievements

November 20, 2010 Ben and Jerry's Pennies for Peace Cross Town Ice Cream Social.

November 19, 2010 Illinoise Performance at Gilhooley's raising donations for, Life for the World, serving Haiti. Much thanks to the boys from IlliNoise!

November 12, 2010 OVERMAN Concert at Gilhooley's raising donations for Pennies for Peace. BIG THANKS to Overman! You raised one year tuition cost for nine students to attend Pennies for Peace Schools in Pakistan or Afghanistan!

October 18th 2010, World Hunger Day, Overman Concert raising donations for UNICEF. Thanks for helping Eradicate World Hunger!

October 16th-18th STAND UP Week. SNA Education Club and SODAH Jewelry Sales, Fundraising for Pennies for Peace and UNICEF. Thanks to all who participated and donated!

September 27th Global Brigades Saving Water and Lives! Thanks to Danielle, our Loyola University Brigade speaker, UNIDOS, SNA and the SXU Department of Nursing for making this event a success!

June 2010 Participated in MCN Dinner which hosted guest speaker Pamela Barnes, the former President of Pediatric AIDS Foundation at Loyola University Chicago

April 2010 Received SXU Student Group of the Year Award Thank You Campus Life!

April 2010 Co-Hosted with Fierce Anime student group the "Unforgettable Fire" Presenting the Japanese Animated Film, Grave of the Fireflies along with prints of the former Peace Museum art exhibit that inspired the U2 album of the same name.

March 2010 World Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. Presented documentary film of Alicia Keys in Africa with Keep a Child Alive, an international non porofit org battling AIDS around the world and caring for AIDS orphans. Fundraised throughout the week for KCA.

March 2010 Joined Citizen Action IL in their Clean Air Campaign

February 2010 SODAH was recruited by MCN joining forces with Student Humanitarian Organizations across the country, allowing us the ability to pool our resources and have a greater influence in achieving the UN MDG's.

November 2009 Concert for Animal Humanity hosted in SXU Student Lounge with live bands and animal rights videos. 100% of concert proceeds were donated to the Animal Legal Defense Fund, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and the Humane Society of the United States.

November 2009 Co Hosted Race in the Criminal Justice System with NAACP Student Interest Group using Amnesty International’s work shop materials which circled around the Troy Davis Case.

October 2009 FLOW the Event presented FLOW the documentary film addressing the worlds water shortage, political conflicts which result from it and what needs to be done to preserve water. Hosted guest lecturer, Jeni Servos, of Water Brigades.

April 2009 Wrote letter to SXU Executive Officers and Petitioned for SXU student signatures requesting the University invite Greg Mortenson to campus to speak.

April 2009 Fundraised on SXU campus and raised enough donations to purchase a stove for a Darfur refugee camp in Chad

March 2009 SODAH Founded

Make the SXU Spring 2011 Honduras Brigade a Reality!

Join Us SAVING WATER & LIVES Learn how your Spring Financial Aid can be applied to the cost of the trip.