Walk Times & Update
Sent email today to Eugene AllUsers (recap for those not on our email list)
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Walkers Wanted (needed) at the Relay for Life Event, July 28th-29th for the following times: Friday:12-6 pm, 8-9pm, 11-12am
Saturday: 12am-6am
- Do you have ONE hour to spare to fill in any of those times, or to backup any existing walk-times, or man our tent?
- Are you available to help set-up from 11-12pm on Friday, tear-down 12-1 pm on Saturday, or assist in making our team’s flag before the event?
Please contact Brandy- we’ve less than a month left to get ready for this big event!
<>TEAM UPDATE: <>Raffles are ending NEXT FRIDAY! Last chance to buy tickets for prizes or a parking spot are coming up! Bake sale is scheduled for next Wednesday- posters soon to come!
<>Candy sales are being discontinued in favor of other fundraisers. The 20 or so who “took now and were going to pay later,” please drop your cash into the penny jars, which are still available in all building lunchrooms, or route anonymously if need be, via intra-office mail attn: Brandy Collins. I still have faith in my coworkers’ integrity! J If you need your fix and want to support a good cause, please see the Reception desk in Bldg E, or Kyia in purchasing in Bldg J. Our team is currently in 7th place. We have the Curbing Cancer fundraiser on THURSDAY for any who want to participate- give me an email so we can coordinate. We also have our Krispy Kreme bake sale this SUNDAY at the Delta Oaks Wal*Mart, and other fundraisers coming up. We’re still in it and we still have a chance to come out #1 in the Eugene/Springfield area!!!!!!
<>We’ll be hosting a media sale mid-July. If you have books, VHS tapes, DVDs, CDs, or other media you would like to donate, just drop it by my desk in Bldg E, 3rd floor accounting or call me at x50179 and I’ll come pick it up! We’ll also be having a baby picture matching contest. I need photos in by June 30th, if you are able to submit one, so I can get everything put together. I’ll take a copy and give you your original.
More details and future activities coming soon!
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Yesterday's meeting was a blast! Ginger, Peter, Leila, Dawn, Suzanne, Cheryl and I met for lunch in bldg E and discussed fundraisers.
We decided the candy sales were over. We made back what it took to buy the candy, but the candy theft is, yes, starting to become an issue. I think if I were to do that again, I would limit it to a month at only manned areas. Kyia's desk seemed to be prime candy-selling real estate :)
I put the remainder at her desk and at reception. Once it's out, we'll be finished with that for the year.
We also discussed walk times, and using our open slots as advertising for more team members and walkers. Ideally we'd have 2 people signed up for walk times as a backup and company. So don't be offended if I've advertised your reserved walking time as "open." We can reshuffle closer to the date if we need to, and I'll be urging new signups toward completely empty time slots if at all possible. For right now, the walk times are being tracked on our yahoogroups calendar. It's not as bleak as it seems, many of our team members are waiting until the very last minute to see which times are still needed, to sign up for their walking time.
Welcome Heather L to our team! I don't have her email, so hopefully she'll be in touch soon and get signed up for our email list so we can keep in touch. I don't have Andrea H's email address yet either.
Cheryl L found a site that sells pink rubber bracelets for $1 each in packs of 10, and if you order 1 pack they give you 1 free!. She's ordered 3 packs, each a different design. I'll pay her back out of the Krispy Kreme money on Monday. We'll be selling them for $2 each prior to the event. Unfortunately Cheryl might not be able to walk with us, as her dept may have to travel on the weekend of hte 28th. We're so lucky to still have her on our team though! Thanks so much for staying Cheryl! :)
In our meeting, we also discussed NOT pricing items at the bake sale. I priced them really low, and people seemed to donate more when they didn't have a set price per item. At the bake sale on Wednesday, we won't be pricing items, we're going to let people donate as much as they can or want to and see if it turns out any better than May's $170 bake sale. The bake sale that Debbie had put together brought in more than $300. I'm hoping for the best!
Dawn taunted us with tales and dreams of Bailey's Irish Cream Cheesecake at the meeting.
Leila suggested middle of the week rather than on a weekend, so the food has a chance to sell for half price second day or something, or beginning of the week when everyone's grump and has forgotten to bring their donation or money to buy. Great thinking! So we're going to try this bake sale on a Wednesday with plenty of warning, to see how it goes.
Dawn mentioned using a groan stick (one of those plastic tuby thingies that groans when you turn it over) for our baton. That sounds like an awesome idea! She thinks she may have one in her Halloween box. Any ideas for decorations? Streamers? Stickers? A toilet seat?
Cathy E helped me compose a letter to local businesses in regard to the Banner Sponsorship. It's $250 to sponsor a banner, it's tax deductable, and thousands of people will see it- what business wouldn't want their name out there for such a cheap price?!
If anyone would like to split the area, or split the phone book, all I really need are envelopes addressed and I can get these letters mailed off. Dawn suggested a web search that finds all businesses in a certain radius. I haven't located that site yet, does anyone know about this? I can't find it on YahooMaps or Google...
Suzanne suggested we ask The Keg if they'd like to sponsor this, or even hit them up for a Keg day like we did Baja Fresh. I'm happy to call- but is anyone on personal terms with the staff that would prefer to handle this?
Suzanne also suggested Mongolian Grill, Quizno's, McDonald's, Starbucks, and Hertz. Specifically, asking Hertz if they'd be willing to ask people if they wanted to make a donation at time of rental. Great idea!!! I'll look into those asap and see what kind of giving programs they're open to or have set up.
I have a sheet of Avery tattoo stickers that I got from Cash King. Dawn suggested maybe doing those and selling them at the event. We could do anything from (tasteful) pictures, Relay symbols, to "My Reason for walking is ... (my mom, uncle, grandpa, self, cat...whatever :) ) Do you have any ideas for good tattoo sticker sayings or pictures?
We're also going to try for another bake sale and a Media Sale in July- dates to be determined. Plus the baby-picture matching thing, the prize is CASH- I can see that being a big draw :).
Dawn was wondering if the Luminaria sales counted towards our team totals. Just got an email back from Tinker:
The answer is yes and no :-) They do count towards your total team fundraising-used to determine fundraising awards, site selection for next year, etc. They do not count towards the incentive prizes-in the back of the booklets. Luminaria money is tracked/recorded separately.
Ginger is in charge of the Luminaria sales on our team. I still have some if any of you are also interested in helping Ginger sell, or would like to purchase one (or five) yourself!
A lot going on- we are absolutely still in this! I'm so excited about the things we have set up for July!!
Brandy//Team Coordinator
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