College Students Enacting Social Change

• A college student has the ability to establish a non governmental organization and use it to enable social change
• social change - making a difference in how people interact with each other in society
• establish a non profit organization to change the system to which we live in
• if you see something that you want to change in the world you have to act upon that impulse
• five components to bring about social change through non profit organization
• one - characteristic attributes such as adaptibility and determination.  willingness to start, fail, and start over
• as college students, we might be more willing to start this as we are still exploring - take a risk
• two - utilizing resources in college- advise of professors and faculty.  allows the opportunity to work your interests into your program and your courses.  college is a receptive audience
• three - interconnectedness - we can experience things in a first hand way.  our generation allows us to participate in ways that other generations could not.  Google Alerts.  amplifies a students' audience and resources
• four - facebook effect - when people utilize the power of facebook properly it can make a difference.  it is our news outlet. 800 million people have facebooks.  1 in every 9 people are connected
• five - organizational skills
• college student needs legal guidance and support for a non profit organization
• start a club on campus, get funding and programming help, utilize the audience
• the plan of action - 1. the prupose or mission statement 2.  decide how it will be paid for 3.  projects the organization wants to accomplish  4. timeline of events
• organizational skills are very important
• two conclusions:
• one - social change is very important to live a life of meaning, knowing that you made a difference to someone in the world
• two - things do not happen overnight, but if they have the dedication and the motivational drive it is possible to start a movement of social change.  have a profound impact on a part of the world