Meeting Minutes :: 1/15/08

Education

$500 will be set aside for student scholarship. This will be awarded at Bootcamp on April 5.

Kristin will write content and eligibility for scholarship. Matt Long has volunteered to put together a form that will be uploaded to the website.

Kristin will send out a direct email to the following schools:
Shippensburg
U. Baltimore
Shepherd
FCC
HCC
Kaplan
Mt. St. Mary's
McDaniel
Frostburg
Shenandoah

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Board voted to NOT pay the $1400 insurance dues in June/July. If we need event insurance we will purchase it for the single event

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Events // Calendar

Feb. 21 Neenah Paper event. Kristina has the art and will be sending a blast out soon.

March 20 (date to be confirmed by Cecilia) EU services (postage/
variable data)

April 5 Bootcamp (Someone needs to touch base with Cheri Baker to get more information)

May ?? Sagmeister--still waiting to hear from AIGA

May ?? Web event -- Troy to find out more on speaker and if this is possible.

June -- Bewery tour // Jared to find out more

July -- open

August -- Alive @ Five // Courtney to find out more

Sept -- ??

October -- Flux // Kristin to chair event

November -- ?? Create a thon??

December -- Holiday Party // Frederick Cellars

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New event // Create-a-thon
Troy -- Co-Chair of committee
Jamey -- Co-Chair

Jamey and Troy will meet to figure out more of the details. May have an update at next meeting. Public Library and Hood College are possible venues

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Membership

Total of 53 members--many people have suspended membership if we do not make any attempts to re-new members or attract new ones we will lose a lot of members in March when about 20 students membership will expire.

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To dos:

Troy/Kristina to set up blog for group to communicate in between meetings.

I would like to add that each board member should submit an agenda prior to the meeting so we can stay on topic. I will volunteer to compile the agenda prior to our monthly meeting.

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2008 Goals

#1 Goal for 2008 // Make more money at our events!
How are we going to accomplish this?
What steps are we planning to take to make this happen?

Send 4 board members to the AIGA retreat in Nebraska

Increase membership -- Professional membership not student membership
Target area studios/freelancers to join
What is the carrot? What do we have to offer?

Increase sponsorship -- new tiered approach to attract sponsors (see below)

$100 Sponsorship
-name on list
-logo + link on AIGA Blueridge site for 3 months
-materials at events

$250 Sponsorship
-name on list
-logo + link on AIGA Blueridge site for 1 year
-materials at events

$500 Sponsorship
-name on list
-logo + link on AIGA Blueridge site for 3 months
-materials at events
-option to speak or to hold event at facility

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Last but not least // Cecilia and Kristin's Birthday Bash
Saturday Feb. 16
More details to come.

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Next Meeting Tuesday Feb. 5
Text Design :: 6:30pm
Come prepared with an idea for an event in September or November.

Troy asked everyone to brainstorm a few ideas to make more money, grow membership and make our chapter even better! Also, everyone should be thinking about who to hit up for sponsorship dollars. Make a list!