You, Me, and Our Community

Croots Website Redesign

We will be redesigning the website this Winter for a Spring rerelease. We will be turning what is now known as croots.org to umd.croots.org so that we can start to accomodate our other chapter at NYU. They will get nyu.croots.org. www.croots.org will act as our organization's home page and help visitors know what we're about and what's going on at our different chapters.

 

If you have any interest in participating in the redesign, even if you just want to say what you think we need to include, please let me (David) know about it. djtansey AT croots.org

NEXT C-ROOTS MEETING Thursday!! 4/24 @ 7 PM 1101 Tydings!

 

Help plan our Pool Party Cinema! Contact Rebecca at rehughes AT umd.edu to join the planning committee!

 

Committee Meetings:

Outreach:

  • McCorrmick Elem. - Mondays 2-4 pm
  • Bucklodge at McCorrmick - Tuesdays 4-6 pm
  • Words & Beats 101 - William Wirt Middle School - Tuesdays/Thursdays 4-6 pm
  • Little Terps Soccer - Fridays 2-4 pm
  • Mentoring - Ron Brown Middle School

Programs: Wed 6:30 - 7:30 pm South Campus Diner

  • C-Roots Movie Series - Contact Randall @ rbrown25 AT umd.edu

Public Relations: Tuesday 8 pm Court Yards building 2

Finance: Mondays 6 pm Montgomery Hall

C-Roots 101: Every other Wednesday Next & Last Meeting (12/5) 7:30 pm 0103 Key Hall

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To report an incident of racism or hate-based treatment by students, faculty or police please Click Here.

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COMMUNITY ROOTS is fundamentally an activist based organization that works to unite the different ethnic communities at the University of Maryland to be heard as a united voice for change. Our goal is to motivate and inspire the ethnically diverse student body of the University of Maryland to take definitive action in the face of domestic and international social injustice. In our attempt to combat social injustice we are determined to create an environment in which people from different cultural backgrounds can foster true camaraderie.

 

We meet every Thursday in 1101 Tydings Hall at 6:00 pm. All are welcome.

 

COMMITTEES:

Outreach Committee - Coordinates our various community service activities including the breakfast program, SEEDS chapters and Little Terps Soccer.

Contact: Dan Espinoza – despinoz AT umd.edu

  • Lil Terps Soccer
  • SEEDS Langley Park
  • Breakfast Program
  • Words & Beats 10
  • Washington Heights Chapter (NYC)
  • Ron Brown Middle School (NE DC)
  • Baltimore City Initiative
  • Opheli/Egypt Program Center

Finance Committee - Responsible for coordinating and organizing fundraising events such as bake sales, auctions and earning money through grants.

Contact: Araina Ford – aford3 AT umd.edu & Kaitlyn Shulman - kss114 AT umd.edu

Public Relations Committee - Responsible for promoting events to C-Roots membership, the campus community and appropriate press.

Contact: Kris Burnett – krisburnett AT gmail.com

Programs Committee – Responsible for handling the leg work for our on-campus programs including concerts, pot luck diners, parties and other large events.

Contact: Barrie Adleberg - barrie3 AT umd.edu, Samira Farah - sfarah AT umd.edu, Rebecca Hughes - rehughes AT umd.edu

C-Roots 101 – Responsible for developing leadership abilities in new members of C-Roots (especially freshmen & sophomores), providing an introduction to the fundamentals of grassroots organizing, developing the (r)evolutionary solution oriented mindset of new members to increase the knowledge base and consciousness of the organization, providing practical and applicable experience in event planning and facilitating for 101 members and encouraging 101 members take leadership roles in C-Roots and facilitate 101 the future.

Contact: Kyle Carson – karson416 AT gmail.com

Click Here to vist the facebook group

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For all updates join the Community Roots Listserver and the Community Roots Facebook group

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Note: Croots.org is undergoing a major software update. Some things might not work as expected. Please be patient. Once the update is complete, we will have several new features including:

  • chatrooms
  • committee pages
  • email notifications of events
  • the ability to login using your facebook account

 

Submitted by djtansey on Wed, 05/10/2006 - 3:00am.