03/24/10 Minutes

Meeting starting at 8:38 Our trip to Watsons last Sunday went really well, we played a lot of duck duck goose and did a variety of different activities with the kids. We are wanting to be more and more involved with Watsons because it is always so enjoyable for us and the children. And also a reminder with Watsons, they are opening the new home in the end of April so we will be looking so a lot of volunteers who are willing to help. If you have a truck that would be great! With our small fundraiser on campus we are considering putting that on hold because the equipment rentals are hard to get a hold of and they are also expensive and out of our budget range for right now. Although we are trying to see if we can work something out so that it will be worth our time and efforts and we will still be able to pull a profit. We have a scheduled time on April 13th from 11-4 outside of the UC. We will be advertising it as sort of a "Battle of the Bands" type thing and basically it is just for amateur bands to get out there for fun and be heard. Again the winner will have the opportunity to open for our spring benefit concert the end of April at the Top Hat. It would be a lot of fun if we could get it all together, and if we can we will be working on flyers etc.right after spring break. It would also just be great for us to advertise our concert here. Moving on, right after spring break a few of us will be attending a lunch/breakfast with the different Rotaract clubs in Missoula. I think we almost have enough people but if you are really interested in coming let Nic know. We will basically just be going to introduce ourselves and explain what we have been doing and where we intend to go with our club. We will also be handing out our sponsorship forms there in case anyone is interested in donating to help our benefit concert get kicked off. ***We got our three bands locked down for the concert. We will be opening with Kung Fu Congress, then have Zeppo, and finish with Wartime Blues. It should be a really great show and we are all really excited about it. Everyone remember that it is really important that we work on getting sponsors as well as raffle prize donations. So far we have done really well on getting raffle prizes but our main focus is monetary donations! Over spring break if you can remember and try to go around and give our forms out to any business that you can think of. Kettle house donated a few cases of Cold smoke beer which we will be selling at the concert for a dollar to the first people who come and want them. We are also looking into trying to get a Vodka/Red bull sponsor. Someone just brought trying to figure out how to sell tickets online. We will be looking into that because it would be convenient and hopefully bring in more people. We just mapped out the flyers that we will be printing after spring break and figured out some of the details that will be going on the flyers. I will be posting something up on face book with all of the details so if anyone is interested with playing around with some different flyer ideas that would be great!! Everyone have a great Spring Break! Meeting Adjourned 9:32