Ideas for anti-genocide student group?

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<p>I'm on the e-board for my college's STAND chapter. We're the anti-genocide group on campus and right now we're focusing on Burma, conflict minerals (primarily in the DRC), and the souther Sudan independence vote. We desperately need more students to join our group. (Anyone have any advice for recruitment?)</p>

<p>I think the problem is that we don't retain the people that show up for one or two meetings. I want our meetings to be more interesting (right now they're a lot of lecturing and watching 60 Minutes clips and pertinent YouTube videos). </p>

<p>The Invisible Children chapter at our school has a school or village or something that they raise money for and I think it's very powerful to actually have a tangible thing like that to work for. But I don't know if that type of thing is available in areas affected by genocide. </p>

<p>I'm basically just wondering if anyone knows how we can improve our general body meetings (right now I think we focus too much on planning bigger events that don't always draw the big crowds that we hope for). I want them to be something that makes people want to come back every week. </p>

<p>Thanks :)</p>

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<p>Nobody wants to come to a meeting and just sit. You need discussions and actual activities. With my student org, focused on promoting justice for people with disabilities, planning big events is what gets people in.</p>

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<p>What does an anti-genocide group do? Have debates with pro-genocide groups?</p>

<p>It seems as if this group is more about genocide awareness.</p>

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<p>That’s exactly what we’re about-- awareness. We do have great discussions sometimes, but sometimes the new members are too hesitant to jump in and whatnot. We also do action-items like writing letters to Congress and the president and filming videos for a campaign that was going on last year. We play Jeopardy! once a semester which is always a highlight. I just feel like there’s something more we could be doing :/</p>