Congratulations to the NCEES grant team for the recent submission of an application to The National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying Engineering Award. If accepted, the award will support implementation of the EWB-UWS water project, bringing a potable water system to the Bolivian community of Piriquina.

We would like to give a special thank you to the Grant Team Lead, Lara Pracht for her hard work, dedication and leadership in completing this grant and display board.

To view the poster, click here — NCEES Grant Poster

Congratulations to the SIF grant team for the recent submission of a grant for the Seattle International Foundation’s Global program. If accepted, the grant will support implementation of EWB-UWS designed roofs and stoves in 63 homes in the Bolivian community of Taconi.

We would like to recognize the following members for their hard work over the past year:

Congratulations to the Jenzabar Grant Writing Team for their excellent work on the Jenzabar Grant, which was recently submitted on behalf of EWB-UW for funding for this the 2011 Piriquina water project.

We would like to recognize and thank the members of the team for their hard work over the past year:

Grant team lead: Mark Ullery

Grant writers:
Jeff Yang
Kevin Kronvall
Jason Au-Yeung
Jocelyn Chang

Anti-Bottle Fundraiser -- 0.5 L Anti-Bottle

EWB will be hosting three exhibits representing its Bolivia projects at the UW College of Engineering’s Discovery Days and holding an Anti-Bottle Fundraiser on April 22nd (Friday) and April 23rd (Saturday).

On Friday April 22, the exhibits will be catered towards grades 4-8:

“Re-create EWB’s Bolivia projects with your own hands — build gabions to prevent a landslide, design a system to bring drinking water from a mountain to a village, and make a structure that stands up to earthquake and wind.”

On Saturday April 23, the exhibits will be tailored towards high school, community college, and pre-engineering students.

See you at Discovery Days!

Thank you so much to everyone who came to our 6th Annual Dessert & Wine Fundraiser. It was a great success, and we sincerely appreciate your generosity in supporting EWBUW

Here are some pictures of the event, taken by Dean Chahim:

Serving desserts.

Black Forest Cake.

A big thanks to Yoni, the Dessert Lead, and all of the volunteers who came in on Saturday and Sunday to make desserts! It was a lot of fun, and everything went smoothly.

Here are some pictures from the first baking day, taken by our secretary, Elaine Chao:

Preparing the criss-cross for the pie.

Three finished pies.

(Photo credit: Dean Chahim)

Check out UW Today‘s article on EWBUW’s approaching Dessert & Wine Fundraiser!

>> Engineers Without Borders hosts dessert and wine fundraiser, silent auction

Remember, the fundraiser is this Monday, January 31st, 6 – 9pm at the UW Tower (click here for more information). We hope to see you there!

If you missed the meeting, take a look at the PDF of the presentation detailing the volunteer opportunities for THREE design projects and Dessert & Wine.

We will have design team meetings starting next week, so keep your eyes open for those announcements.

Also, don’t forget to stop by the CDM booth tomorrow from 1-4 at the career fair in the Gould Hall commons. CDM will donate $0.50 to our chapter for every EWB member who stops by and drops a token in their fish bowl! Feel free to distribute the attached CDM flier.

Finally, if you have not done so already, please volunteer to help in some capacity with the Dessert and Wine fundraiser. This is the most important fundraising event for our chapter and we cannot support our projects without funding! Volunteer opportunities and contact information are listed in the presentation pdf.

Your holiday gift-giving will have twice the impact, thanks to matching funds from Google, Turner Construction, CDM, CH2M HILL and the EWB-USA Board of Directors, thus maximizing year-end donations!

Beginning November 24, 2010, all donations to an EWB-USA Chapter’s General Fund or the EWB-USA General Fund through the website http://www.ewb-usa.org/2010giving or the official EWB-USA year-end mail solicitation piece (mailed out by EWB-USA) will be matched until funds are depleted.

EWB-USA will match all donations from 11/24 -12/31 2010 dollar for dollar up to $10,000 per chapter or until the matching funds ($150,000) are depleted. For every dollar a donor contributes (either to EWB-USA or to an EWB-USA chapter) 50 cents will follow the donation and 50 cents will go to the EWB-USA General Fund (see this PDF to see how your funds will be matched).

Thank you for your generosity!

“One donation. Twice the support. Help us change the world.” – EWB-USA