Brazil Night -quick meeting

This Saturday at 1PM, Theda, Dan, Clara, Caitlin and Colin will be going to Noho for more donation requests. We already have some stuff from last time( which we'll combine into small packages), but we're looking for some big ticket items, if there's anything you can contribute with, like your family's timeshare, please let us know!

PR
-Dan has finished the brochure which will be printed soon. He's almost done with the fliers- those will be on display at the Engineering video screens. Lorraine Robideaux is printing a blurb about the event at the faculty newsletter.
-Theda has kindly volunteered to contact local radios and papers (ie. WMUA and the Advocate) about an announcement of the event.
-Caitlin is going to design invitations so we can target faculty across campus.
-The week of the event we will plaster fliers across town and selected places.

TO DO!
We are getting our things together so next week we can act. It is VITAL that everyone has their tasks done by next week so contracts and/or tax deduction forms can be filled out. Here is a reminder of what needs to be done:
Theda- Contact Papers/radio stations, jewelry update.
Caitlin- Brazil Night invitations, flight tickets.
Tom- tax deduction paper to Noho business, implementation report section on pumps.
Johnny-decorations, implementation report section, finish company list and send to Marc.
David- food, contact Noho companies.
Dan- finish flier, brochure.
Brian/Luzia- research tables+ chairs.
Patty- call businesses.
Amanda- work on video.
Diaphel- call businesses on list, bertuccis kid!, pro-e modeling.

Have a good weekend,

Clara

Meeting Notes - 3/5

Brazil Night

Name

• we need a creative, awesome, cool, catchy name for this event that “lets people know that they’re helping Brazilians with their water, and is clever at the same time”
• Thoughts??

Tasks

• Tom and Dave - list of local caterers – call and find out price
• Clara - DJ
• Prof. Soules will be making a fun Brazil trivia game

Fundraising

• we need items for the silent auction
• when asking businesses for items, include that the audience will be professors – lets them know that it will be good marketing

Ideas:

• Brazilian cooked dinner
• In home massage (Greenfield Community College)
• Big Y/Stop & Shop gift card
• free/discount tickets (STA travel)
• free Gym Membership (Gold’s Gym)
• free concert tickets (Calvin Theater)
• 1 year pass to UMass sports
• local restaurants
• local theaters (Amherst Cinema, Pleasant St. Theater)
• Six Flags
• Springfield Symphony
• Hall of Fame
• Brazilian Jewelry

- We're going to split the places that we ask for donations between Amazon Project and Kenya Project
- Barn probably holds around 20 8-foot tables