I think last night's meeting was incredibly successful. I spent a lot of time preparing, and that really helped. We set a date and time for a bake sale and for an information session, and even started planning who was going to bring what to the bake sale. I passed out fliers for people to put up around campus, and today, I finally put up our fliers on all of the elevators in Schneider. 

We're planning an exec meeting soon to get the budget sorted out, and then I'll make sure to stop by the funding board office to have them answer some questions.

So far, my unconventional tactic of going up to people I know and asking them if they want to donate their hair is working surprisingly well. Hopefully people will start signing up soon!

My leadership technique has been evolving since the beginning of this project. My intention was to coach someone so that they could take over relatively easily in my absence, but I don't really feel like that's working very well, especially since I'm learning and/or making it up as I go. I prefer planning the meetings and being a leadership figure, while at the same time always consulting with the people in my group who are just as invested in the event's success as I am. I never do anything alone. Together, we can come up with much better ideas and be more successful than I ever could if I just ordered everyone around. 

WHEN: 
Sunday, March 10
1 PM - 4 PM

WHERE:
Tangeman University Center (TUC)
Room: 400 ABC
2766 UC Main Street
Cincinnati, OH 45221

Hair must be...

1. At minimum 8 inches in length.
2. Free of permanent dyes, bleaches, or chemicals (ask if you have any questions about this!).
3. No more than 5% gray.

Download the flier by clicking the link below:

And two seconds after I wrote that last post, Mitchell's sent me another email saying 6 stylists have signed up!

Mitchell's got back to me... it turns out only one stylist is interested in volunteering, and one other is maybe interested. Not exactly the news I was hoping for... 

It's very disappointing because now we have to go recruit stylists again, and we're running out of time. Not to mention, only three people have signed up to donate hair, and they're the ones helping me plan the event! 

We've got our work cut out for us.

After winter break, I started classes again and picked up again with Beautiful Lengths stuff. I hadn't managed to get in contact with the P&G rep from last year until this week, when she responded to my second email (the first was sent over her holiday vacation... who can blame her for not reading it?) and she's very excited about us becoming a student organization and is fully supportive of whatever we need to be successful. She has ordered tshirts and samples for us to give to donors as a thank you, and will be passing along artwork for us to use to make posters to hang around campus! 

Tonight we're going to have a quick meeting to make some announcements and then start passing out fliers to all the dorms! Denise made amazing fliers to advertise the event, so I printed out 100 copies with my free engineering prints. We can't get funding until mid-February, which means either we fundraise for nice, color prints, or we wait until then. Or I just figure out how to use those operational funds...

I put in a request to advertise on the windows of Steger in the 1-2 weeks leading up to the event, and if that's available, that'll be huge for us. I'll be asking people to take on the responsibility of talking to different marketing connections on campus.