Making Lists!

I am once again making lists! This time list of people to send invitations to for the event. So far this list includes inviting members of various township entities like the township board, the planning commission, and the zoning board of appeals. I am also inviting members of the local school district like the superintendent, principles and vice principles of appropriate schools, and the board of education. The Senior Center will also get an invitation. Eventually I will get around to deciding what businesses I will send invitations to.

In past weeks I have been trying to find new ways to reach teens in the community. So far I have tried to reach them through art classes in public schools, private schools, and by sending information to church youth ministries. Today I was helping a woman who homeschools her children and I asked her what sort of local organizations exist for homeschool mom's. She was able to give me the names of some yahoogroups for home schooling parents. I sent out two emails and I have already recieved a reply from the owner of one of the groups saying she will share the information with her group members. Hopefully the other group will be as welcoming.


Signing off...

Letters, letters, and more letters!

While I have been keeping a journal in a Word document as I work on this art show, I thought this might be a better way to share progress with everyone on what I am doing and what the heck is going on! This blog will start rather midway through the process, so be aware: a lot has happened to get to this point.

I spent the day going through the local Chamber of Commerce to decide which organizations I wanted to send invitations to for the actual show. As I was going through I attempted to sort the organizations into different categories. Instead of being helpful, this only gave me three random documents with lists of organization names and addresses. However, I did have the brilliant idea to send letters to church youth ministries to see if they would share the art show with their teens. I wrote a letter and sent it to 17 different local churches, plus another local youth organization, along with a copy of the art show submission form.

I really don't know if the churches will respond, but the more this art show develops the more I feel I should be as inclusive as possible. If anyone has any suggestions for other types of organizations to contact, I would be willing to send them a letter as well. As for the rest of the Chamber of Commerce list...I do have a good few organization in mind to invite to the actual show. In addition, I am tempted to contact some local business for donations to sweeten the prize pot a little. I will write more on what I decide on that front as I try to make sense of my three seperate lists.

Also, I did call the paper today and I have the email address of where I need to send our copy to for the ad to be run on May 13th. It has to be in by May 8th! I also might need to order more blue paper for submission forms and more notecards to print on...but those are my random thoughts on things I need to keep in mind.

Until next time...