Planning & Replanning?

So, the girls and I met up this past Sunday and we brainstormed lots of ideas for fundraising and our approach. We are a new team, so we had to start with the basics: advertising. We have to let everyone know who we are and where we come from (hmmm, that sounds like a familiar cadence) and, of course, why we are on this mission.

So, I'm excited to announce that are "uniform" arrived today! Woo-hoo! The shirts only require screenprinting our team logo, but it would appear that our pants must be exchanged. Minor setback, but we have time, so no worries. We have nearly completed our blog after a couple of widget hiccups, but a few more widgets and we're done. We are also on Twitter as YumaRackAttackSquad. We are @ YumaRacks . (FYI we are new at Twitter, too, so be patient! :))  If you would like to follow us, please use the blue 'Follow' by the blue bird and Twitter button to the right of this blog. Lastly, our business cards are arriving this evening; fingers crossed!

So, our second order of business was the first fundraiser. The garage sale fundraiser I held for my last walk was an amazing success, so we decided to start with that. We've got flyers for the garage sale ready to go and have already been passing them out and have received positive results (and donated items)! We'll be getting them out to our neighborhoods next week so they have just enough time to go through their stuff, but not enough time to forget about us (or the garage sale).

We are now looking at getting permission from local stores for bake sales, but found out we have to get food handler cards and registered with the state. Trivial obstacle, but nothing we can't handle. We also found out that fundraising for a golf tournament is much more work than anticipated. Since we are a team and have to raise significantly more money ($6,900 @ $2,300/each), we were thinking large scale fundraising. Well, large scale fundraising requires large scale planning, preparation and a finer focus. We are not intimidated, but we are having to make some adjustments. TBD, of course, and keeping you duly informed.

We have also completed our "Why we are walking" statement to present to our potential donors. If you would like to have a copy, please leave a comment with your email and I will gladly email it to you.

I should mention that we were initially only ordering team shirts for the three of us and our husbands and we thought that we might want to order some for our friends and family that have volunteered to help out at our events or prep nights. We went from ordering 12 shirts to 55! We must be very lucky to have such loyal friends, because there were so many that said they wanted to have one when they were with us. They are just as much a part of our team as the three of us who are merely registered. Thank you. Thank you making this team already successful by just being a part of it.