Riverside

So today I was sitting and trying to come up with a vision of things I have to do in order to create this international magazine. I'm coming up with these broad (stretch) goals so that I can make them concise and fit them into smaller more manageable goals for the Riverside community.

Alex recommended that I get involved within Riverside first to research it, figure out the demographics, what Riverside is trying to accomplish, etc. This way I can learn what Riverside already has, and what it is striving to accomplish so that I can make these goals happen through the Riverside newsletter. Also, the term "newsletter" is being loosely used at the moment because I'm not sure exactly what to call it yet. It's not necessarily long enough to be a magazine, but it's not serious enough to be a newsletter either. I want it to be more fun.

Current thoughts are that I'm going to try to contact http://seizingourdestiny.wordpress.com/ because the newsletter could correlate to what they are trying to achieve, which is:

Seizing Our Destiny is Riverside, California's community-driven campaign that builds on the city’s existing strengths to create an even better place to live, work and play for future generations. Our goal is to improve quality of life, attract diverse and dynamic people, encourage innovation and work together for the common good.

This is the basic idea for right now. I'm going to try to contact other sources that I have at school to see if they can connect me to any particular groups or individuals in Riverside. I may also make a trip down to the city hall this week to see what I can find.

Empowerment Magazine

So I decided I'm going to start blogging about my Undergraduate Research Project. I'm hoping to make this an international magazine later. But that's a huge dream of mine, so we'll see how this goes.

Currently I'm the extremely beginning stages of the project. I'm going to be working within the Riverside community to create a blog/newsletter/magazine of people who are working towards changing the world. I'll elaborate on this later.

I'm in the process of taking a UGRC (undergraduate research in the community) seminar in which a group of us meet once a week to discuss the progress of our project. I feel the most behind on this, because a number of the people have been doing their project for about a year, and I am just in the process of starting mine.

I just emailed a professor who I hope accepts my offer for being a mentor for this project. By the professor being my mentor, she'll be able to help me whenever I get stuck on some type of research for this project.