Welcome Veronica!
Please welcome Veronica to our Relay for Life team, if you see her!
Our team now officially consists of myself, Veronica, Andrew, Bethany, and Dawn. If you haven't signed up, please take a moment to hop over to our site and register to become an official member. It only takes a moment of your time. The link is
here, or you can find it on our
blog- right hand side of the page.
Thank you!
Brandy//Team Captain
Baja Fresh!
Our take from our Baja Fresh day is $17.23. My family made it, Cathy R came, Tab the Relay co-chair came, and someone else?
If you were that someone, thank you so much for coming and helping out!! We appreciate it :)
Our Papa's Pizza day is Tuesday April 24th, this Tuesday upcoming. Fliers will be available in the lunchrooms, online, or I can email you one if you need.
Brandy//Team Captain
Fliers vs Slips
Part of our guidelines from Global Citizenship is that we can't put fliers in peoples' mailboxes advertising fundraising events, but we can put slips in to remind them.
I erroneously thought I could shrink a flier so that 8 could fit on a page (really small) and make it a slip, but Cathy E let me know this doesn't count. It's still a flier.
So all the Baja Fresh and Papa's Pizza shrunken fliers that I made have simply been stacked in the lunchroom as we would any other flier.
Insofar as slips, we are permitted to put small pieces of paper in peoples' mailboxes with all of the information that's on the flier, and the location of the fliers, but not the fliers themselves.
I took the rest of yesterday off with a headache.
I am taking a personal day today, I have some pretty intense things in my personal life I'm trying to wade through (I have until Monday to get my Mom packed and my parents' house cleaned up and ready for sale, then 2 weeks to get it sold...)
So for fundraisers I think we are going to have to rely mostly on word of mouth. I'll be trying to set up dinner dates for Tuesday for Baja Fresh, and again for the Papa's thing with friends and family- just one idea for promoting these things if you are so inclined.
If someone is willing to make the before described slips and run them past Cathy E to put in everyone's mailbox talking about Baja Fresh and Papa's pizza, I would appreciate the help.
Brandy//Team Captain
4/10/07 Meeting Notes
MeetingAt today’s meeting we discussed our planned April recruitment meeting. Tinker and her staff have not yet been able to get a Grant Recipient Speaker to come in and discuss their research as part of a recruitment meeting.
We discussed doing the meeting as a stand-alone, and the group decided it would be best to just see if we could get 5 minutes of time at tomorrow’s All Employee meeting.
Bethany is out of town until 4/16, I’ve left a message with Cathy Erickson to see if we can hone in on the GC’s time for a brief recruitment speech (courtesy of Ginger!)
I asked Anita if we could have 5 minutes at the end, in case GC’s time is filled. She said it would be fine, but that we should be during the GC presentation. When I hear back from Cathy Erickson, I will let you know.
If it’s a go, we talked about having Danielle available in the lobby with her laptop for anyone who wants to sign up. Does anyone else have a laptop with a wireless Invitrogen connection they would be willing to share?
Regardless, we plan on distributing fliers at the meeting. Dawn suggested leaving them on peoples’ chairs as they go in. I do not know if there are any problems with this, but will check with Anita before proceeding and let the group know if there are issues with her or Cathy Erickson in doing this.
During the presentation we will mention the Suns & Moons, $5 and $1 and a raffle ticket for a parking spot with each purchase, to go through the month of April and May- spot good through June and July. I need to get the actual request in for this to Gordon to sign. I did that today and am waiting for a response.
I will forward the rough powerpoint I had sketched in the event of us having to do the presentation at a standalone meeting. Ginger says she may or may not use this. Feel free to have a look! In the middle with Amelia’s, Bill’s and Bird’s pictures, I had planned to insert more and give each member a chance to say why they participate in Relay.
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We still have a “ton” of door prizes we had socked away for our recruitment meeting. Should we do a straight-up raffle for these, if we are able to use the All-Employee meeting for recruitment?
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Pampered Chef Party is tentatively scheduled for May 12th. Gayle is working on securing a location. She says there are TONS of cute pink cancer related stuff for sale during that month, and it will be a great time for this fundraiser.
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I have called all over town, and got a bunch of discount offers on ice cream for our Ice Cream Social, but only one donation of a gallon. Gayle is working on one more last-ditch attempt at this, and is contacting the manager of our local Prince Puckler’s.
Anita had suggested, in lieu of an Ice Cream Social (since getting the ice cream isn’t working out very well) that we do an on-site garage sale during the month of June, and have a bake sale/ice cream sale at the same time. The group agreed this sounds like a great idea, and we are working on hammering out the details and getting applicable permissions. This is tentatively scheduled for the 3rd Friday of June.
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I’ve sent letters and emails to my friends and family reminding them that I am participating in Relay this year. I had “business cards” made at Vistaprint.com with my name, our team name, and our blogsite and business address where they can mail (or electronically submit) donations. If anyone is interested, I would be happy to send you a few of these cards.
If anyone would like, I would be happy to draft and mail letters for you. There is a stock letter available on the Relay Homepage for emailing friends and family your personal donation link if you need help setting it up. If you would like paper letters done, come talk to me personally, I’ll give you a form letter, you give me your address book and postage and we’ll get it done!
I also have our blogspot link in my sig file. The right-hand side of our blog has information on making donations.
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Be watching your mailboxes for a Papa’s Pizza, Baja Fresh, and possible a Hometown Buffet night to benefit our Relay for Life team! I’m still working on getting all the dates and fliers, I will email copies of the fliers as soon as they are available, in addition to sticking them in everyone’s mailbox. If anyone knows of any other local restaurant willing to donate a portion of their proceeds to our Relay for Life team in exchange for flier-advertising, please email me off list and I would be happy to call and set that up.
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Change Jars are available in each lunchroom. Danielle is helping watch the jar in C, Our Daily Bread has taken charge of the one on their counter (and have even taken a jar to set in their restaurant!), I need volunteers to watch the change jars in J, H, and E. You would just have to empty them once a week and route the change to me in an envelope, or bring it up, so I can take it in to the ACS office and turn the total in online.
Brandy//Team Captain
Raffle at the Charger's Game?
Received via email today:Eugene/Springfield Relay for Life has a GREAT fundraising opportunity this year thanks to the Eugene Chargers basketball team.
The Chargers have given us the opportunity to hold a raffle, as individual team fundraisers, for the Relay for Life at 9 of their home games this season.
The Eugene Chargers are part of the International Basketball League (IBL). Their games are played at NW Christian College's Morse Events Center (828 E. 11th Ave.)
If your team is interested in conducting one of the raffles, please email me and let me know your team name, what kind of raffle you’d like to have (50/50 raffle or raffling off a service or item)
If your team is chosen you will need to provide at least two volunteers to sell tickets at the basketball game, raffle tickets and a poster for your raffle/team. You will also need to fill out the raffle paperwork and return it to me prior to the date of the basketball game when your team is conducting its raffle.
The admission to get into the game is
Adult (18 & Over) $10
Youth (17-9) $5
Senior (Over 60) $5
8 & under admitted free
The game schedule is as follows:
Saturday, April 14th @ 7:15pm vs. Tacoma
Thursday, April 19th @ 7:15pm vs. Chico
Saturday, April 28th @ 7:15pm vs. Central Oregon
Friday, May 11th @ 7:15pm vs. Tacoma
Saturday, June 9th @ 7:15pm vs. Everett
Friday, June 15th @ 7:15pm vs. Vancouver
Saturday, June 16th @ 7:15pm vs. Lewis County
Tuesday, June 19th @ 7:15pm vs. Chicago Heights
We don't have much to raffle, but could possibly fill out the paperwork to do a 50/50 raffle. Is anybody interested in volunteering during one of these dates/times?
Brandy//Team Captain
