Stanford First-Generation Low Income Partnership (FLIP)

08/13/2020

Given the new information released today about fall quarter housing plans, FLIP wants to know how we can best support the FLI community in our programming and advocacy. We know that this decision will have a heavy impact on the FLI community at Stanford, and we want you to know that we are here with you. What events would you like to see? Any workshops that would be helpful? Concerns that we can hold a panel about? Please let us know at bit.ly/housing-fall

08/04/2020

The organizers of Stanford Mutual Aid* want to check in to make sure its resources are accessible to all Stanford community members that need it. We want to ensure our possible redesign of Stanford Mutual Aid meets community needs and reduces possible inequities caused by our previous models and communications.

We need your help! We're looking for input from undergrads, grad students, and other community members to help provide input to this process.

To help out and be part of the conversation,
please attend our Aug 4 Town Hall TODAY from 5-6 pm PDT RSVP: https://bit.ly/SMAtownhall or fill out our Community Survey here: https://bit.ly/smajulyfeedback

Please share with anyone you may know who is interested in mutual aid or has used mutual aid from Stanford organizers in the past! We look forward to seeing you there.

*Stanford Mutual Aid is one of the student run resources that was created in response to COVID-19 (Stanford Mutual Aid website: https://sites.google.com/view/stanfordstudenthelpsite/home). While Stanford continues to fail in helping us meet our basic needs as students, Stanford Mutual Aid and other groups continue to maintain emergency funds and resources to help students through these times.

08/02/2020

Do you want to start investing but don’t know how or where to start? 💵 Join Stanford FLAN and David Barson, CEO of Barson Financial Planning, for a beginner’s guide to investing. From David’s presentation, you will learn what investing is, where to invest, the importance of investing, how to manage risks and gain confidence in investing.

💰 Thursday, August 6th
4-5pm PDT via Zoom
RSVP: tinyurl.com/FLANinvesting

🎓This event is featured in our AlumFLI series for graduating FLI students/recent grads and is another installment in our FLI-nancial Literacy initiative. All students and alumni are welcome.

07/06/2020

FLIP wants to know what your thoughts, concerns, and questions are relating to housing for the upcoming fall and school year. This will help us to better advocate and prepare for the upcoming year! Link at bit.ly/housingthoughts

06/24/2020

Join FLIP and FLAN (Stanford First Gen and/or Low Income Alumni Network) for a fun afternoon of games and good times with recent FLI graduates, alumni, and current students!

This Saturday (6/27) at 1pm PDT, we will be having a fun kickoff to the summer where we will play games and have some fun in the sun (or the comfort of your home, office, etc…)

RSVP at bit.ly/FLIsocialnight and join us in the fun! This is open to all FLI students and alumni, whether you just graduated, you’ve been in a career for ten years, or you’re still suffering through undergrad… We want to see you!

06/18/2020

06/16/2020

"I want to say to the class of 2020: Congratulations. We need you more than ever. You are our future and the future is yours. And anything you want to do and anything you want to accomplish, you can do that. Even in the face of defeat, be determined, muster up your courage and be tenacious, because the world needs you"
- Sehin Belew, fabulous recipient of our Faculty/Staff FLI Community Award 2020

For those of you that missed it, below are links to recordings (plus transcript), opening slides, and program from our FLI Family Gathering event for graduating students! Highly recommend checking out Sydney Osifeso's incredible speech to fellow grads (starting at 25:55) and all our other wonderful speakers including Adriena Brown, Lourdes Andrade, and Jenn Rolen

Video Recording: https://youtu.be/8hwc-T5emcc

Transcript for the video: https://bit.ly/2B6MPtn

Opening Slides: https://bit.ly/FLIGradOpening

Program: https://bit.ly/FLIGradProgram

Congrats 2020 FLI Grads everywhere! You did it! 🥳

Presented by First-generation and/or Low-Income Partnership (FLIP) in collaboration with FLAN and the FLI Office (June 13, 2020) Love and gratitude to all th...

06/09/2020

In light of national uprisings and global disgust with the unacceptable violence against Black people in the US, we call upon ourselves to use our Stanford voices where they hold the most weight: here at Stanford itself. We seek to use our voices to uproot a disgraceful instance of the continued dismissal of Black voices and Black history right on our own campus and within this institution we are all connected to.

Take action at bit.ly/StandWithKing and/or share this post to your Stanford networks. This campaign was started by a group of Graduating Students in the Class of 2020.

Today we are helping to launch the campaign at Stanford University to pressure university leadership to prioritize funding the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, which houses the King Papers Project and serves as a leading educational resource for those seeking to learn more about Dr. King’s vision for a more just and peaceful world.

We are calling on this year's graduating students to chip in $20.20 to the King Institute to demonstrate to the university that we believe Dr. King’s legacy is worth financially supporting. For those who are not graduating, we welcome you to join us and donate $20.20 in honor of a graduate, or to donate any other monetary amount that you are able to.

As ongoing financial hardship may limit our community's ability to participate in this, we ask that you share this post and post like these to any and all Stanford networks who share this responsibility towards holding Stanford accountable.

We hope to show the university that students and the community at large believe in the mission of the King Institute and demand that the university strengthen its commitment to the Institute and the Black community by making the King Institute a fundraising priority and growing the Institute's endowment.

On Tuesday, June 9, 2020, a group of graduating students in the Class of 2020 launched the campaign at Stanford University to pressure university leadership to prioritize funding the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, which houses the King Papers Project and ser...

06/09/2020

Alumni Interested in attending our FLI Family Gathering (a FLI Grad celebration!) please rsvp using this link: https://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/events/details?event_id=32768

Also, all graduating students: Today is your last day to RSVP and get a grad gift in the mail!! RSVP by June 9, 11:59 PM at the latest in order to receive a gift in the mail.

RSVP Here! https://bit.ly/FLIGrad20

Celebrate our FLI grads, Gather as a Community, and Find Strength from Within @
FLIP's FLI Family Gathering
June 13th from 2 - 3:30 PM PDT
Featuring FLI Alum Sydney Osifeso as our Guest Speaker!

06/06/2020

In a time of massive social upheaval and a global pandemic, we have decided to look inwards for some much needed love and unity in a chaotic state of hate and disunity.

In a time of deep anxiety for FLI students, we turn to one of our own to be truly seen, heard, and understood.

Today, we are incredibly excited to welcome back Sydney Osifeso '17 as our special guest speaker at our upcoming FLI Family Gathering graduation event!

Celebrate our FLI grads, gather as a community, and find strength from within @ FLIP's FLI Family Gathering on June 13th from 2 - 3:30 PM PDT

Open to all FLI community members (students, staff, faculty, family, and allies)

RSVP Here! https://bit.ly/FLIGrad20

*Graduating FLI Undergrad and Grad students: RSVP by June 9 11:59 PM (at the latest) in order to receive a gift in the mail courtesy of Stanford FLAN (FLI Alumni Network)