On Tuesday we had a WTW Board meeting and three people were available and made it to the meeting: Joanne Franzene, Connie McChain, and Phill Klamm.
At the meeting we discussed a little about the book, The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier, and how his vision for helping poverty across the world matches with our project. I will do a post on the book at a later time.
We also talked about fundraising, throwing out ideas for reaching the large hotel companies such as Hilton, Hyatt, Ramada, and Best Western, talked about fundraising dinners at the Cactus Club, Rocky Rococo's, and Fin's. We also overwhelmingly agreed to develop an "in process" informational booklet to give to our fundraisers. We will be working on this on Thursday, June 26th at 1pm at the MECAS Alternative School in Milton, WI anyone available is invited to come.
God Bless
Phill
Showing posts with label Fundraising. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fundraising. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
1st Trip/Kenya Project Meeting
Monday, June 16th 5:00pm @ W8059 Bay View Dr, Whitewater, WI
In attendance: Connie McChain, Joanne Franzene, Willie Myers, Sheri Myers, Paul Johnson, Bobbi Johnson, Jodie Klamm, and Phill Klamm
Topics covered (include but not limited to)
In attendance: Connie McChain, Joanne Franzene, Willie Myers, Sheri Myers, Paul Johnson, Bobbi Johnson, Jodie Klamm, and Phill Klamm
Topics covered (include but not limited to)
- Fundraising: Band Concerts and Food, Winter Golf Outing, Community Service Day, Time Share Sales, Fun Run and Walk, Personal, Group, and Corporate Sponsorships
- Project Costs and Purposes: Costs located on this blog, purposes can be found in Vitalices emails may include but not limited to: providing jobs, providing tourism services training, bringing electricity to the area, increasing water supply, increasing visibility of the area which may include government sponsored roads, increasing market options, providing low cost voluntourism options for international travelers, setting up a prototype for Wrestling the World International Villages elsewhere in the world ie. Sri Lanka, Dominican Republic, etc.
- Summer 2009 Trip Details: Mid June to early August travel window, possibility of multiple trips of anywhere from 10-17 days being orchestrated in that window.
- Next Meeting Time, Date, and Place: Wednesday, July 9th at 6:00pm @ W8059 Bay View Dr, Whitewater, WI
- Concerns: Government support, concerns about Government confiscating finished property, correct licensing and permits, management of finished property
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Dream Stock
Here is an example of what a "dream stock" might look like. I am figuring something around 11x17 that would like sweet in a frame. I have no art talent...but quickly laid something out for people to look at. Let me know what you think.
Monday, June 2, 2008
What would the "Trip" look like?
With our email list growing I have been fielding some questions in regards to traveling to Africa in the Summer of 2009. While I currently have...um...yes...I have exactly 0...zero answers; I can add some insight with experience from our previous trips.
Caveat: This is all speculation and I cannot make any promises in this regard, this is meant to be a dream building process to get people thinking about challenging their comfort zones to make a difference in another part of the world!
What would we do?
- Fly to Nairobi
- Travel the "one of a kind" African roads
- Game Drive (I highly recommend Masai Mara) Note: Picture to the right is of Shelley and Joanne at Masai Mara on the Kenyan/Tanzanian border.
Visit and volunteer at Hopewell Jr. Academy. Note: Picture on the left is a picture of the Hopewell Jr Academy...think pre-school.- Eat lots of interesting food!
- Meet lots of great people!
- Celebrate the grand opening of WTW's International Village-Hopewell, and hopefully be the first guests during our stay.
How long would we stay?
- Probably anywhere from 10-17 days; remember travel to and from takes a "few" hours :)!
- There is at least one person who is considering staying a longer time ie. from Mid-June through the end of July/early August.
What would we need to do to make this happen for ourselves?
- First, you have to have a dream and align this with your priorities. Most people never make a decision to go...you are elite!
- Next, make a decision, make a commitment, and just do it!
- Passport...if you don't have a valid passport you will need one...head over to the Post Office today and get an application...what's it going to hurt?
- Shots! Close your eyes, grin, and bear it! Really, they are not that bad. Everyone will need to call the travel clinic and schedule the shots they need to travel safely.
- Money...everyone knew this is coming...and for those couples out there, get out your calculators because you will need to do some multiplying. Some guesses would be about $2000 for airfare and probably another $1000 for everything else. Now this is just a guess...so please don't hold me to it. These costs may rise and they may fall depending on everything that is going on.
- Participate...get active! You know, read your email, check the blog, comment on it...attend fundraisers, take some responsibility, etc. You can do it!
That's all I can do for now...Ill post more later.
Fundraising
Fundraising…The Big Question?
Here are some thoughts on Fundraising…as many of us know fundraising for anything is often tedious and a lot of work. In my mind that is why we need to follow the rule of SIBKIS (See it Big Keep it Simple).
Large amounts of fundraising dollars are a challenge to get as people will initially get excited and than the excitement will fade. At WTW we have been very blessed by some partnerships and large dollar donors who have always helped us to “get over the top”…while we can pray these can continue to be there, in my mind we should plan as if they are not coming and than be pleasantly surprised when they do.
ONE BIG WEEKEND!
After a fantastic weekend with the McChain and Roselle families over the Memorial Day Weekend at a fu
n little festival in a tiny little town called Boltonville…I believe I may have the start to our fundraising questions. What I would like to do is get a couple of bands…hint…hint…anyone who knows a band or DJ start schmoozing! There are a few bands who have told us they would help in the past: Goodtime Dutchmen (sweet polka), Copperbox (sweet ecletic polka mix…wait till you see this group live), and I am sure we can locate some others…I have a friend that is playing in an up and coming country band. I say we tour with these bands for the weekend. Find 3 areas that are WTW friendly areas (Walworth/Fontana? Whitewater? Waunakee? West Bend? Kewaskum? Burlington? Edgerton? Milton?) set up for a night and just do it…Think food, music, 50/50 raffle and more. Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday afternoon
The Next Step…
Obviously we all need to sit down and finalize this process…but I believe that we roll out this at the ONE BIG WEEKEND celebration. I havn’t figured it out yet…but how about selling “Dream Stock”? What we are building is WTW’s first International Village a place where anyone in the world can go and stay…think charitable timeshare! Each stock would be numbered 1-1000 as there will only be 1000 stocks. We could have them done up really nice and totally frameable with a picture of preliminary drawing and a spot to put a picture of the final completed project. Obviously the stock would have to be “not legal tender” and have “no monetary value” however we can make the stock worth a week at IV-Hopewell…and maybe that would encourage our “stockholders” to make a trip and plan it. I know 1000 is a lot of stocks…but what if we made each stock worth $100 and got out there to our friends and family, media outlets, at the ONE BIG WEEKEND celebration, etc.
With these two steps completed…we should be far on our way having purchased our land and possibly more. I am hoping by this point we are at least 50% funded with the ONE BIG WEEKEND celebration and the stock sale. Which than sets off what I will call…THE FINAL PUSH!
THE FINAL PUSH…
The final push would be a timed and carefully orchestrated plan of media attack. With members of our group slotted at different Rotarys, Kiwanis, Lions Clubs, Churches, Schools, and other Community organizations…with the right media mix of hometown newspapers, large city newspapers, tv, radio, and more. We would promote group partnerships and sponsorships of our project. We would also continue to promote the stock sale to individuals and promote the final news conference and banquet. (Another fundraiser…but we would do it with an international phonecall from our partners on the ground at IV-Hopewell and include video footage and pictures of the work in progress. This would than be capped off with the projected outlook of the people we are going to help by doing this either by jobs, with water, increased tourism, etc. Also at THE FINAL PUSH would be details of our CLEAN CITY campaign that we will be doing while on the ground at Hopewell and our advertising push to get international visitors to stay in our IV-Hopewell.
Thoughts?
Here are some thoughts on Fundraising…as many of us know fundraising for anything is often tedious and a lot of work. In my mind that is why we need to follow the rule of SIBKIS (See it Big Keep it Simple).
Large amounts of fundraising dollars are a challenge to get as people will initially get excited and than the excitement will fade. At WTW we have been very blessed by some partnerships and large dollar donors who have always helped us to “get over the top”…while we can pray these can continue to be there, in my mind we should plan as if they are not coming and than be pleasantly surprised when they do.
ONE BIG WEEKEND!
After a fantastic weekend with the McChain and Roselle families over the Memorial Day Weekend at a fu
n little festival in a tiny little town called Boltonville…I believe I may have the start to our fundraising questions. What I would like to do is get a couple of bands…hint…hint…anyone who knows a band or DJ start schmoozing! There are a few bands who have told us they would help in the past: Goodtime Dutchmen (sweet polka), Copperbox (sweet ecletic polka mix…wait till you see this group live), and I am sure we can locate some others…I have a friend that is playing in an up and coming country band. I say we tour with these bands for the weekend. Find 3 areas that are WTW friendly areas (Walworth/Fontana? Whitewater? Waunakee? West Bend? Kewaskum? Burlington? Edgerton? Milton?) set up for a night and just do it…Think food, music, 50/50 raffle and more. Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday afternoonThe Next Step…
Obviously we all need to sit down and finalize this process…but I believe that we roll out this at the ONE BIG WEEKEND celebration. I havn’t figured it out yet…but how about selling “Dream Stock”? What we are building is WTW’s first International Village a place where anyone in the world can go and stay…think charitable timeshare! Each stock would be numbered 1-1000 as there will only be 1000 stocks. We could have them done up really nice and totally frameable with a picture of preliminary drawing and a spot to put a picture of the final completed project. Obviously the stock would have to be “not legal tender” and have “no monetary value” however we can make the stock worth a week at IV-Hopewell…and maybe that would encourage our “stockholders” to make a trip and plan it. I know 1000 is a lot of stocks…but what if we made each stock worth $100 and got out there to our friends and family, media outlets, at the ONE BIG WEEKEND celebration, etc.
With these two steps completed…we should be far on our way having purchased our land and possibly more. I am hoping by this point we are at least 50% funded with the ONE BIG WEEKEND celebration and the stock sale. Which than sets off what I will call…THE FINAL PUSH!
THE FINAL PUSH…
The final push would be a timed and carefully orchestrated plan of media attack. With members of our group slotted at different Rotarys, Kiwanis, Lions Clubs, Churches, Schools, and other Community organizations…with the right media mix of hometown newspapers, large city newspapers, tv, radio, and more. We would promote group partnerships and sponsorships of our project. We would also continue to promote the stock sale to individuals and promote the final news conference and banquet. (Another fundraiser…but we would do it with an international phonecall from our partners on the ground at IV-Hopewell and include video footage and pictures of the work in progress. This would than be capped off with the projected outlook of the people we are going to help by doing this either by jobs, with water, increased tourism, etc. Also at THE FINAL PUSH would be details of our CLEAN CITY campaign that we will be doing while on the ground at Hopewell and our advertising push to get international visitors to stay in our IV-Hopewell.
Thoughts?
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