Updates!

Hey y'all-

So Nicky, Karim and I went to Marty's Entrepreneur workshop class today. They've taken it on as their project and will be helping us out with everything...and we can definitely use all the help we can get! Marty said that members of the B.E.A.T are welcome to pop by if they want to-- the class is on Tuesdays from 4-6. Ask Nicky or Karim if you wanna go probs.

Nicky and I have been working on the official business plan for Keeping the HeartB.E.A.T all evening. We're also looking up the heads of the student activities centers at other schools around Boston so we can ask them to either tell us the right clubs to contact or let all of the clubs and organizations on their campus know about the event and decide if they want to get involved. We're trying to shoot out an email to them within the next few days.

Nicky will probably be sending you our ROUGH (VERY ROUGH) draft of the business plan just so y'all know more information if you talk to anyone. PLEASE do NOT present it to anyone as its not even remotely ready and not organized or worded correctly. The plan will officially be ready for next weeks meeting. Please let us know if you can think of anything to add to it.

Keep talking to people you know at other schools!

TEAM B.E.A.T!

THE B.E.A.T. 2009-2010 overview

MISSION STATEMENT:

The Berklee Entrepreneur Action Team’s Project for the 2009-10 school year is entitled _____________. The goal of ____________ is to raise funds and awareness for a pediatric cancer foundation, through a 24-hour dance marathon. The event will involve numerous student organizations from across Boston in an additional effort to bridge the gap between Boston’s various student bodies.

NOTES:

The Gist:

-24 hour dance a thon

-open to the public

– one ticket gets you in and out as you please throughout 24 hrs

-need dancers, morale teams, open to all students

-24 hours of entertainment, bands/musical pieces/dances

–donations

-small events leading up to main event

– 4 for each club involved to raise money

-families/kids there (we want the kids to be very involved on the actual day) –“mail hour” reading letters from kids

-late March/April

-Different “Teams” for different charities if we cant get one good charity sponsor

Initiatives for dancers:

-money earned per hour dancing

-individual sponsors for dancers

•prize for person with most sponsors

-large scale sponsors

•x amount of money if x amount of dancers make it to last hour, or we could do hour markers

-energy drink sponsors?

-marker prizes- i.e. 8 hrs gets u $10 gift certificate

-dancing for specific families

Expenses:

-venue

-food/drinks

-dancer/morale team uniforms

-publicity – flyers, ect.

Possible Venues:

-Emerson arena

-YMCA

-BU Arena

-Boco? -Simmons/NEC?

-MIT

-Hynes Convention Center

-Hotels

TO DO: -Update club info -talk to the Jimmy fund -think of backup/other charities •St. Judes, Ronald McDonald -official business plan -contact venues/get rates -clubs at other schools & Berklee -Think of a NAME for the event

FOCUS: -bringing boston schools together -helping charity

Sponsors update

Hey gang

Unfortunately michael from t mobile told me at the last minute he won't be able to hook us up with the phones. I figured you guys should know asap so you don't put their logo on the flyers or get peoples hopes up. Sorry for the late notice guys. See you all on Sunday .

David

the breakdown for the Down B.E.A.T. as of 3/30 at 8 PM!!!

Ok guys, I had to wait on some things before I could post this info, but here is the most current breakdown of the Down B.E.A.T that I have for you:

* After the Bill's disaster, haha, we had to find another location. The booking guy at Great Scott was nice enough to give us Tuesday night, the 28th of April, on such short notice, but I had to decline. It would've been nice to do it, but after discussing it with some of you, I realized it wouldn't be the best think. I think we can all agree that it wouldn't be beneficial for all parties involved to have it on a Tuesday night, the week before finals, all the way in Allston. My thought is I'd rather not do it at all than do something that isn't worth it.

* That been said, we should refocus all our efforts towards the b-good show. At this point it seems like it's going to be our only show, so let's have fun with it. I think we may have to remove the unplugged from the title though. It makes sense since there is only one show now.

* The new time for the b-good show is 4 PM. Someone brought up the point that it is on a Sunday, and shops close earlier, so it makes more sense to make it earlier.

* Ian Walsh will be the 5th participant in our show. Sinc. the Management and Ali Mc. are out.

* Whoever is responsible for getting the facebook event rolling, please do it asap, and send out an invite to all of us, and make us admins, so we can send out the invite to all our friends.

* I talked to Alex, and he did me a solid, and pushed the bakesale date to this Friday, from 11 AM to 6 PM. Whoever can't make it, it's ok. We should have enough people to breakdown the schedule. At tomorrow's meeting, we can figure out the baking and sale schedules.

* Niky, how are the flyers coming along? Are you taking care of the design or printing as well? Also, not that there is no more (big show), I don't know what we should do about that. Maybe we can talk about it tomorrow night.

* David was able to score us some T-Mobile phones to give away at the show. David, great job!!!

* As soon as I post this, I will email all of you the current flyer for the b-good show that I would like everyone to print out and start spreading around the school. Please and thank you!!!

I know that things aren't going how we planned, but that's the kind of experience we're hoping to get from this whole thing, a real one!!!! Let's just enjoy it. Ok, so I think that's it for now. I'll see you all tomorrow night!!!

Spike's doubtful for sponsorship

Finally talked to the owner of Spikes about potentially sponsoring one of our two shows. He said it was doubtful it was anything they could do because of the economy this year. But if I had some printed information for him requiring specific details on what sponsorship entails he might reconsider. Just giving ya the heads up.

-Chaz

Newbury Comics

Newbury Comics shut us down, they are not interested in sponsoring the show. I got the pretty distinct feeling it was because I didn't have a lot of details, like when or where the show is taking place! 

Emily Elbert is confirmed for 4/5