Spring 2011 2/15 Meeting

Sorry about the delay in the post, our meeting on February 15^th was full of a lot of new important information!

Becky is currently working with Knights Ad-Club in getting us a logo as part of a re-branding effort. This logo should be finished sometime this week along with our name change. In order to change our name from American Humanics to Nonprofit Management Student Association at UCF (NMSA at UCF) official, we need to vote as an organization on our amendments and then she need to get it approved by OSI. Unfortunately we ran out of time last class and was not able to vote, but will be doing so shortly. When she became she had a vision of where NMSA should be and she is sure making huge strides, THANKS BECKY!

Our VP, Wayne clarified some confusion about committee. Everyone should now know what committee you are in, who your committee chair is and what your responsibilities will be.

Ruth and the fundraising committee are working on some great things for our organization; they are really making an impact! We are so thrilled! They are currently working on a tee-shirt design and having them made for purchase. Also, they are working on a ton of fundraising events to assist with AHMI or our relay for life team, they are as follows:

·         A Bake on Tuesday, February 22^nd from 10am-2pm in the free speech area of UCF, by the library. They had a sign-up sheet and if you signed up to table, please make sure you are there. Perkins sponsored this fundraiser.

·         Shoe Box for Change- boxes were given out during the meeting to collect money for Relay for Life. If you took a box, you signed your name on a list. These are due back on March 15th at the next NMSA meeting.

·         Spirit night- which will be held on March 3^rd at Friendly’s from 5-8, fliers were handed out. Friendly’s was nice enough to offer us 10% of all sales without a flier. This is an awesome deal considering most fundraisers require a flier, meaning will we get 10% of anything purchases in that time frame. Please come out and tell your friends to come! Someone will be there from NMSA as a reprehensive and this is a great time for us to hang out together as an organization outside of school.

·         Office clean up- was suggested to us as a fundraising idea. In essence, we would provide a cleaning service for our professors and charge a reasonable fee. PLEASE ask your professors if this would interest them, we will find out more at the March 15^th meeting.

·         Relay for Life- as you all know, we are very excited to participate in RFL in the fight against Cancer. We hope that you will all register online or collect money in your shoe boxes and take partake in actual event. Becky showed us how to go about using the online tools that RFL have created to make fundraising easy such as emailing or using facebook to promote. Ruth has created a sponsorship proposal to hand out to local business in helping us create tee-shirts. The sponsors will be featured in the back on the tee-shirt and Ruth handed out the form at the meeting to anyone that was interested. We threw out some ideas for activities to produce during RFL, some of them were hot chocolate if we have access to a power source, face painting and arts and crafts. The general theme is “port of call” and for our team we were thinking about our theme “sea creatures” and incorporating that into our booth and outfits somehow.

The historical committee and myself have created a display board to use at events. Hopefully we will devise a system to get this display board to our events. The historical committee will be in charge of attending events and keeping a visual and written report for internal uses. I now have everyone’s email and am currently working on a template and information to send. Please stay tuned, I will be emailing this information this week!

If you would like the minutes, Lynnea (secretary) would be happy to email them to you.  Just ask her!

Membership and Rachel have now finalized a nomination form for superior member. There is more information on a blog post. See below.

Our new PR chair, Gabby is looking for branding oppurtunites and ideas. We need to get our organization more connected around UCF and in the Orlando Non-profit community so please helps is new PR efforts and feel free to email her at a.g.iriarry@knights.ucf.edu .

Christina was absent but Rebecca filed in for the community service chair. These are the upcoming volunteer events. They are also in the calander

·         Springtime at Harbor House - Fri 2/25 from 5-7

·          Pineloch Elementary- Fri 2/18 from 2:30 – 6:30

·          Games with the Elderly -Sat 2/19 from 1-3:30

·         Late Knights -2/25 from 9pm-2am

·         Quest’s Camp Thunderbird for Seminole County school - Camp will be 3/21-25 (Seminole county), 3/28-4/1 (orange county)

·         Relay for life- 4/1

o    Alana Leger (alanaleger@gmail.com) has the idea to glue different color buttons on a pin to represent a persons relation so someone they know who has battles with cancer. We voted in this and it got approved.

*We are collecting arts and craft supplies for the hospitals, Lorena is collecting the materials. Please bring to next meeting.


I know this is a lot of information, but it summarizes the meeting which contained a lot of new information. Hope you all have a great week and see you on March 15^th for the next meeting!