We had our first meeting this Monday! I think it went pretty well. We introduced the Beautiful Lengths program to everyone who attended and explained the event and how they could help. 

But unfortunately, we're no closer to solving the problem with CAC. And I barely know what the problem is, let alone understand it, but I'll let them handle it all since we're in no hurry because...

Last week, I attended the new student organization workshop and met Dr. Terri Hurdle, the program coordinator for student organizations. She reassured us about all of our worries with the registration process and promised to work with us to get what we needed. Huge sigh of relief after that meeting. 

And even more recently, Circle K International has officially decided to sponsor us so we can reserve the event space!!!! Yay! I'm going to wait until we meet with the President of their group next week until we actually reserve the space, but it's so nice to just know someone say "yes."

As this project will (hopefully) become an honors experience for me, I need to start focusing on developing good leadership technique. I chose to focus on a coaching leadership style because I think that it will be the best route for the development of the group and the future of this campaign at UC. Denise Zimmerman (vice-president) and I split the whole group (there's 20 people!) into three categories: marketing, fundraising, and graphic design. Because I'm officially the President, I will have my say in all three groups, but focus on directly leading the marketing team. Sara Gaugler, a key member of our team, will take charge of fundraising since she has experience in that area.

We're stuck in a bunch of red tape and it could severely hinder our event... I just found out we won't be a fully registered group with the ability to reserve a room until at least spring semester, since our adviser has to go through training and those sessions have concluded for the fall semester.

And we've learned a little more about why CAC has been hesitating. There is a problem between Pantene and American Cancer Society that I don't know much about, but CAC is working through it with their ACS staff partner. We'll see what comes of it.

And the Great Hall is already booked, which is where we had originally planned to have the event. 

Our alternative is to go to TUC 400A-C and open up the rooms, but it looks like those might be booked too.

We could go to the rec center but that's $50/hr per court, so including set-up and tear-down time... $500. We would need funding for that so that also delays our timeline for reserving a room.

I'm exploring other options now for groups to sponsor us and reserve a room for us... We'll see how it goes.

Otherwise we're really in trouble.

Submitted the application to SALD! Now, we wait...

Things aren't moving. People aren't cooperating the way I had hoped. If we keep waiting on other people, this event may never happen, which is why we have decided to become an official, independent group on campus! 

Woo!!

Except that there's a lot of work involved. I've been going through the application process, drafting a constitution and bylaws, and coming up with a roster. I'm just waiting on a couple M numbers before I submit everything.The review process will take 2-3 weeks, after which we can FINALLY reserve our event space!!! Which means we can actually start marketing. 

Plus, it'll be great in the future when we won't have to rely on anyone else for help getting started. It'll be on our own terms.

We're so close to really making things happen!