Great news from Denmark.  With some tremendous effort, the Denmark branch of team Crossways has been promised that 127 posters will be set up at 7 different libraries, 2 hospitals, 1 airport, the mayors office, 3 sports facilities, 2 swimming facilities and  1 university. These posters will be posted around these Danish locations within the next couple of days.  We are hoping that this will bring some Danish traffic to our Crossways Heifer International Registry.

If you are reading this post from Denmark, please keep your eyes peeled – you may see one of our posters near you soon!

The short answer is a lot!

The purpose of this blog is to keep you informed on our fund raising efforts - how we are progressing, ways in which we are raising funds and our thoughts on the journey so far.  We have established ourselves as a team and stated our mission.  The difficult part is making the mission a reality.  If you have any feedback, suggestions or words of encouragement please leave us some in the comments section of our posts.

After much rumination and discussion on which organization to support, team Crossways are on a mission to raise funds for Heifer International.

Heifer International is a global organization with a great reputation which focuses on building sustainable communities.  Here is an excerpt from Heifer International’s initiative as explained on their website:

Heifer has learned over the years that a holistic approach is necessary in order to build sustainable communities. So we’ve developed a set of global initiatives – areas of emphasis that must be addressed if we’re to meet our mission of ending world hunger and poverty and caring for the earth.

-Agroecology

-Animal Well-Being

-Gender Equity

-HIV-AIDS

-Microenterprise

-Urban Agriculture

-Young People’s Initiative

For more information on Heifer International and to read their initiative in full, please visit their website by clicking here.

(i) Growing into a successful team.

(ii) Prospering in life.

(iii) Transforming our world into a better one with the knowledge acquired.

“Key to this challenge is to 1) identify a need; and 2) do something to help minimize it. You may donate your labor and time or raise money for a group or cause.”

Crossways is a team of six students participating in an organizational behavior class at Harvard University.  The team consists of students located geographically on opposite corners of the globe – our team hails from Canada, Denmark, United States and the United Kingdom.  We function across both time zones and borders which lends itself to our team slogan:

“Hands across the water, heads across the sky.”

The team was formed in January 2009 at the beginning of the Spring Semester and have been working collaboratively ever since.  Over the past four months, the team has worked together on numerous group assignments.  We have created a team name (Crossways), designed a logo (featured above), established our identity as a working unit and through combining our skills have tackled some challenging tasks.  We have given class presentations, recorded and mercilessly edited educational videos, discussed cultural differences and even had the pleasure of being stranded in a scorching desert with limited supplies through a simulated team work exercise.

We are now working on our fourth and final assignment of this semester.  This is our most important assignment where we get to raise money for a charitable cause and make a significant contribution to society.  Ultimately, is it more important important to us than a class assignment, it is a personal mission for us to raise funds for a cause that we believe in.  Our goal is to accomplish great things, benefit the recipients and importantly make a difference.

In our next blog post, we will disuss our assignment.  In the mean time, enjoy the ‘Halloween’ version of our team logo below.