Dane Low

This young college student’s passion for educating kids in the developing world is contagious. This video speaks to the impact and power that ONE person can generate. He’s already raised more than $4000 for Room to Read with plans to raise enough to build a school in Vietnam.



Here's the Facebook link:
Let's Fund a Library Through our Facebook Friends

alex from ft collins emailed saying the raffle sounds good but that they'd like to keep with their "green/recycled" theme and do we think we could get something that fits that?
which i think is a great idea but i am completely stumped as to what to have for a prize! if only we could get a prius...

this weekend i'm going to email fabric lab and polka dot and then tuesday i'm going to go to emily griffith.
baby steps.

it's a week from the last meeting and i have yet to accomplish anything on my to-do list. although ashley and i did go into fabric lab to try to talk to the owner but she wasn't there.
i supppose this is typical of me though, always waiting until the last minute. probably not the best idea.

oriental theater

estefania emailed to say that the Oriental Theater is open on September 20th and it's ours if we want it. at the meeting we were discussing another place by Invesco that might be a little bigger so we may look in to that as well but it's nice to know we have a place regardless!

CSU

CSU is open to the idea of a raffle as an additional fund-raising effort. alex replied saying they had even been thinking that themselves but how would it work?
i think it would be best if we at Room to Read got the raffle item donated and then we sold the tickets at our little information table.
yes?
yes.

meeting update

the meeting last night went well. there wasn't anyone there from the event planning part of the committee so we focused on the fashion show, sponsorships and art donation. we all left with to do lists to be completed by the next meeting.

this is mine:
-contact the following local stores about collaborating on fashion show:
fancy tiger
polka dot
fabric lab
-also contact emily griffith opportunity school about possibly having their students create fashions

sort of unrelated to this specific event we also decided that we could pull together a raffle for the CSU Recycled Fashion show so i have to contact Alex, their president, about that.

polly told us that her aunt already has a painting, a photograph and a quilt donated! i need to get pictures and artist info on them so i can post it here.

meeting tonight...

there will be 5 of us at the meeting tonight, little smaller than last time but that's ok since i know we won't have many updates.
my agenda is to bring up the Fashion Group International question about how to help us raise more money. i know that we plan to have people go to the fashion show, sort of have a presence there, and that would probably help a bit to get general Room to Read donations.
the other thing i want to bring up is that my friend eric sort of volunteered to do a live painting that we could then auction at the end of the event. he said he'd "maybe" do it so i just have to turn his maybe into a yes.
you can see his art here...Buckner