Proposed Project

Proposed Project “Flood the Diag” Event Details Date: Wednesday, April 9th, 2014 Time: 11:00 am – 5:00 pm Location: University of Michigan Diag

I. Summary of Proposed Event “Flood the Diag” is an event created to raise awareness for HIV/AIDS. It is a collaborative event hosted by eight different Greek organizations from both the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) and Multicultural Greek Council (MGC). These Greek organizations include Delta Tau Lambda Sorority, Incorporated, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated, Chi Upsilon Sigma Sorority, Incorporated, Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority, Incorporated, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Incorporated, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated and Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Incorporated. Individuals who are partaking in the event will be wearing red shirts/hoodies that will have each participating organization’s name on it and a graphic to promote “Flood the Diag” in white. Throughout the event, brochures, pamphlets, and letters/note cards will be passed out to oncoming students, faculty, and visitors. There will be big poster boards on the diag that will list off statistics and facts, occasionally information like this will also be read off. To gain attention from the passerby’s, an impromptu unity stroll will be conducted by all eight Greek organizations towards the beginning of the event. Representatives from the HIV/AIDS Resource Center (HARC) are anticipated to set up anonymous HIV/AIDS testing for individuals and answer healthy questions we would not be able to answer. In addition to this, HARC will also be providing free safe sex materials such as condoms and lubricant. Throughout the event, we will be reading off anonymous stories from the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) of people who have been affected by HIV/AIDS in one way or another. For those who could not submit their stories to us before the event, they can write down their stories on small note cards that then get stabbed in the ground or in the posting wall that will be covered in red. For those who wish to share the stories or honor someone else that was affected by the disease they can write a name on a red balloon, at the end of the event all of the balloons will be released into the air in respect for those people. Since we will have different “stations” set up on the diag we will be using all of the space. Before the day of the event other people outside of the already participating organizations will have the opportunity to volunteer for “Flood the Diag” the day of. In an effort to further promote the event we will be providing “Flood the Diag” shirts to other individuals/organizations outside of the participating organizations to wear them leading up to the event. These organizations would include other Greek affiliates, members of BSU, members of other cultural groups, Faculty, friends, ALMA, athletes, grad students, and anyone who would be willing to contribute to the promotion of this event. Overall, “Flood the Diag” is going to be an event that will gain a lot of attention through the campus community because many different organizations are participating in it. Not only will it educate individuals on HIV/AIDS, but it will also promote diversity amongst the college campus and help bring different organizations together.

II. Project Goals Through the collective efforts of the eight Greek organizations, “Flood the Diag” is an event created to bring about awareness to HIV/AIDS. During the duration of the event, we not only wish to educate the public about this deadly disease, but we wish to also showcase the stories of those who have, unfortunately, gone through it or are going through it. We will also pass out condoms and lubricant to promote safe sex from the office of HARC. Furthermore, we wish to build long-lasting connections and relationships with the organizations that are partaking in this occasion while promoting diversity on the University of Michigan campus. Assuming all goes well this has the possibility to become an annual event put on by different multicultural organizations thus solidifying relationships across cultures and gaining more attention towards the efforts to achieve more diversity.

III. Project Evaluation In order to evaluate the success of this event, we will send out an email that will, firstly, thank everyone who came out to support the event and secondly ask for everyone’s input of the event. In the email, we will ask what was done to make the event successful and what can be improved. Lastly, we will ask what the biggest takeaway was from the event and if it is something the majority would like to see happen again. In addition to this all of the participating organizations will then meet afterwards to have a debrief and discuss whether this should be an annual event.

IV. Target Audience We encourage anyone and everyone to stop by the Diag. It does not matter who they are; if they are students, faculty, and staff, old, young, short, or tall—everyone is welcome since everyone can be affected by HIV/AIDS. Since the main objective of this event is to raise awareness about this deadly disease, the bigger of an audience we get, the better because it will be easier to get our message across. Since we will be doing it on the Diag, everyone will be wearing red, we will receive help in promoting it and will have other ways of getting attention we expect a good turnout.

V. Event Program 10:00am-11:00am- Set up 11:00am-“Flood the Diag” begins 12:00pm- 12:30pm – Flash Unity Stroll 12:30pm – 5:00pm – Education on HIV/AIDS by handing out information, talking to people passing by 2:00pm-5:00pm- Occasionally read off anonymous stories by those affected by the disease 5:00pm- Release of all the red balloons 5:15pm-6:00pm- Clean up and tear down

VI. Proposed Budget Item Unit Cost Quantity TOTAL Shirts $6 130 $780.00 Biodegradable Balloons (pack of 10) $7.00 5 $35.00 Helium Tank (Fills 50 balloons $60.00 1 $60.00 Printing $100.00 1 $100.00 Diag Reservation $0.00 0 $0.00 Electricity for the Diag $60.00 1 $60.00 AV $50.00 1 $50.00 Poster Stands $15.00 5 $75.00 Poster boards $5.00 5 $25.00 $1,185.00