Public Relations / Meeting Minutes 2016.06.30
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Meeting Minutes 2016.06.30
Attendees
- Michele C.
- Norm M.
- Jeff C.
- Dmitry P.
- Jake P.
Next Meeting
TBD
Brainstorms
- In Sept planning on having a shop pot luck \ group dinner on Sunday around 3pm.
- Cooking Class
- Norm will have class and dates for event in September, planning won't occur earlier than Aug 22nd.
- Max 10 - 15 in class
- Depending on size of class, may want to hold it at the large kitchen at the Whitesburg \ Sparkman Rec Center (free to use, but must reserve)
- Students may have to purchase knives
- Potentially in-house screen print some aprons for the class
- Cosplay Party to raise funds for enclosing the textiles area. Looking at Oct\Nov timeframe.
- Having local restaurants give us catered food to raise money
- Nothing but noodles, pizza hut, etc.
- Contacting Panda Express
- These 10% back type fundraisers work really well if you have a large audience participating. We may not have the reach to make the effort \ return equitable.
- Contacting Popeyes for Gift Cards <- this may have a direct member benefit as well as a fundraising appeal
Action Items
- Ben T. is going to make the donation jug stand out at the pig roast
- Ben T. and Jeff are going to setup a general PSA for the shop at WLHR (not discussed at meeting, just keeping it in the action item list)
- Jeff C. to ask Ben T. if curse has door prizes \ swag for pig roast
- Michele C. is going to ask Gigaparts if they can donate a raffle prizes for our events, and potentially do a raffle at this year's pig roast.