Well, we have had a very busy month! First of all, our master business application has been processed and approved and we are now licensed in the great state of Washington! Next we will be filing with the Secretary of State's Charity Program.
As for the jelly jar pies.....they now have become the jelly jar CAKES! lol The half pint jars were a little too deep to fit the crust into and get it uniformly along the bottoms. We have decided to switch to cakes, which will not only be alot easier to make, but will also be less expensive, as one box of cake mix will fill about 6 jars. While I am still open to trying the pies again next year...we will most likely use quarter pint jars instead. We had a great meeting on the 21st - and met 3 new volunteers! We finalized the serving room setup, and decided to also have a kitchen helper' who will be in charge of bringing food from the kitchen to the serving area as it is prepared. We also discussed the donation from the Marion Grange, and have decided that we will get a bank account and save the funds for Christmas gift cards for all of the kids attending the brunch. However, we cannot finalize that plan until we have all needed ingredients and materials accounted for. So far, we have only received rejection letters from the companies that we requested food donations from. Because of this, we are discussing possible alternate forms of obtaining our donations....such as setting up a table at Walmart and handing out ingredient lists to customers as they enter the store. Value Village also has suggested that we may be able to set up a donation box at their store - but we have to determine if it is a conflict of interest, since a board member works there. We are actively looking into those possibilities. We have found the baskets that we would like to use for our take-home gifts at DollarTree. They are about 8x9 inches and are in red and green for only $1 each. Our VP and I will go to DollarTree this weekend to see if they are avaiable in-store yet - as we have only seen them listed online. We will also be adding two new dates to our meetings in November and December - to accomodate decoration making and to ensure that everything is finished before the event. So far we have added Saturday, November 27th and December 23rd at 6pm to meet at the Buckley library. Since the library will not let us schedule more than two days a month - we will be scheduling the other two meetings at the Bonney Lake library. I have also contacted Foothills and Wilkeson Elementary schools about recruiting families to attend the brunch. Those schools will be putting our contact information into the November newsletters which will go out in the beginning of the month. We hope to be hearing from many families in the next few weeks and
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We have alot to discuss at this month's meeting this thursday! To start things off.....the Marion Grange has given a cash donation of $200 to help with the cost of our Christmas Brunch, as well as given us four new volunteers! Thanks so much to Stacy Nicoletta, Marion Grange Secretary, for securing both the hall and the donation for us!
I have filed our master business application with the state and should hear something by the time of our meeting. We have also changed our registered agent to Carol Yeaman, our Secretary-Treasurer, and will be signing and mailing the form to update the Secretary of State on thursday. We have our first dozen half pint jelly jars, and I am currently trying out recipes for our apple pies. I will bring a sample to the meeting on thursday so everyone can see how they will look. I have drawn 48 circles on some red gingham fabric, and bundled them up in sets of 12, for students to earn credit by cutting them out for us. So far we have 3 student volunteers, but I'm hoping for more to show up at this week's meeting. I have four bundles made up so far - but we will need to double that to have enough for all of the pies, and even more if we do cakes also. I also found some christmas-themed baskets to use for the take-home gifts at DollarTree. They are about 8x9" and are red and green for $1 each. Hopefully I will be able to grab some next saturday while we are out servicing our candy route. I've listed several different items for sale on our website, with 100% of all profits going to fund our Brunch. There is a baseball cap, coffee mug, and t-shirts all with the Our Shared Hopes logo and ranging in price from $10.00 to $20.00 for a combo. These are in addition to our candy Holiday Wreaths listed for $42.00 each. Shipping is included in all prices. At this week's meeting, we will discuss the kitchen crew's timing and setup, and start sorting volunteer's into specific positions. We would like to rotate shifts, to keep the volunteer's time to a minimum. To do this we would need at least 16 volunteers for the serving committee, including door monitor. Right now we fall quite short of that, but I'm sure that we will pick up more volunteers the closer we actually get to Christmas. |
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