getting my second wind

Well, perhaps, I should have called this - “Get Fired Up - Let’s Kick Some Butt”. So the organization I work for is in the first stages of preparing its annual fundraiser. As always, this is the part I love - the thinking of the event, planning how it will be executed and how to make it even better than last year. I’m really excited about this year’s event and our theme. (A little background, this organization does a different theme every year. It’s something that everyone who attends it looks forward to. We actually have people who ask us about now what the theme is so they can start preparing what to wear. ) So, this year’s theme is to wear your favorite sport team jersey - whether it has to do with professional sports or college team (Go Buffs!) The lead-in is “Join the home team against poverty” and the subtitle is either “Be a Hero” or “Show your true colors”. I prefer show your true colors for the subheading - I think it’s a little easier to see that we want you to wear a sports jersey - but I like “be a hero” for our annual awards lead-in (Who’s your hero?).

Anyway, I’m feeling more than a little behind - a little drained. There’s the advisory committee to solidify, first meeting to be called, finishing the sponsor benefits, beginning to contact sponsors, plus finish my development plan, begin to contact major donors to start figuring out how best to market ourselves and to gain new donors, create an contact plan, redesign/update website, write newsletter and prepare for my review….

And in between all of that, try to figure out a way to create artistically. I’ve started an etsy store and am working on building a stock.

So, it’s time to get FIRED UP!

See you on the other side….

ETA: so change in titles … here’s my vision for the invite: imagine white card, outline of a jersey of some sort (or maybe not … maybe just a white card) and in plain text, justified center … Go Fight Give; open card and either here is the jersey shape, now colored red (or some other color) Phoenix Family Game Day then event info. I think I like it.