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