ASB Benefit Concert Raises $300 for Third Trip to New Orleans
JAMISHA PURDY
Issue date: 2/25/08 Section: Campus
Hurricane Katrina-ravaged areas of New Orleans will receive another year of aid from Howard University students on its annual Alternative Spring Break (ASB) trip. But before applicants board the bus on March 15, more funds need to be raised.
A night filled with musical selections from the Howard University Community Choir, liturgical dance by the Rankin Chapel Liturgical Dance Ministry and spoken word by various artists put the ASB committee one step closer to its goal.
Friday's Second Annual Benefit Concert raised about $300, but concert coordinator Naa Kooshie Mills said the concert was not just for monetary gain.
"It was for publicity and just to get the word out about ASB and what we're trying to do," said Mills, a freshman political science major.
Gabrielle Ward, a senior international business major and ASB fundraising chair, agreed with Mills. Ward said the event was to "welcome the Howard University community, students and faculty into Alternative Spring Break's efforts to raise funds."
The committee has adopted other ways to get funds for the mid-March trip that include sponsorship letters to companies and local churches. ASB participants also received sponsorship letters to send to family and friends.
The estimated cost for each student, about $500, includes transportation, meals and housing and is funded completely by the ASB planning committees' fundraising efforts.
This is Howard's third year traveling to New Orleans and students are ready to, as host Teneasha Pierson put it, "finish unfinished business."
"We're going back this year because we have work to do," Pierson, a senior marketing major, told the audience.
The trip will be a four-day effort where students will work on different post-Katrina rebuilding efforts in New Orleans. This year, ASB has become a popular Spring Break choice among students. Since the first ASB trip to New Orleans, the number of applicants has doubled.
"So far there are 798 applicants, including the law school students and other graduate students," said Gerald Ashby, ASB coordinator.
A night filled with musical selections from the Howard University Community Choir, liturgical dance by the Rankin Chapel Liturgical Dance Ministry and spoken word by various artists put the ASB committee one step closer to its goal.
Friday's Second Annual Benefit Concert raised about $300, but concert coordinator Naa Kooshie Mills said the concert was not just for monetary gain.
"It was for publicity and just to get the word out about ASB and what we're trying to do," said Mills, a freshman political science major.
Gabrielle Ward, a senior international business major and ASB fundraising chair, agreed with Mills. Ward said the event was to "welcome the Howard University community, students and faculty into Alternative Spring Break's efforts to raise funds."
The committee has adopted other ways to get funds for the mid-March trip that include sponsorship letters to companies and local churches. ASB participants also received sponsorship letters to send to family and friends.
The estimated cost for each student, about $500, includes transportation, meals and housing and is funded completely by the ASB planning committees' fundraising efforts.
This is Howard's third year traveling to New Orleans and students are ready to, as host Teneasha Pierson put it, "finish unfinished business."
"We're going back this year because we have work to do," Pierson, a senior marketing major, told the audience.
The trip will be a four-day effort where students will work on different post-Katrina rebuilding efforts in New Orleans. This year, ASB has become a popular Spring Break choice among students. Since the first ASB trip to New Orleans, the number of applicants has doubled.
"So far there are 798 applicants, including the law school students and other graduate students," said Gerald Ashby, ASB coordinator.
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