ISSUE 2 | WINTER 2019
IN THIS ISSUE ¥ Fall ODI Recap ¥ Governance and Management ¥ Sustainer News ¥ Fund Development ¥ Welcome New Members ¥ Bylaws Changes ¥ Gifford Grant Announcement ¥ Sectionals ¥ Condolences and Congratulations ¥ Membership Renewal
Valentine’s Tea Party ¥ February 17, 2019 • 9:30 am ¥ Philanthropy Center Ballroom Sectionals: Paint & Sip Night ¥ February 21, 2019 ¥ 6:30 pm ¥ Philanthropy Center Ballroom Sectionals: Family Fun & Games ¥ February 24, 2019 • 2:00 pm ¥ Philanthropy Center Ballroom March GMM ¥ March 12, 2019 • 6:00 pm social/6:30 pm meeting ¥ Philanthropy Center Ballroom Check the member’s website for full registration and event details.
HOLIDAY SHOPPES Holiday Shoppes 2018 is a wrap! We would like to thank all our members, both Active and Sustaining, who volunteered their time and energy to help make this a successful event. The committee worked hard this year, meeting several times a month, to organize and plan Holiday Shoppes. Our merchant cochairs Courtney Jones and Jessica Pease did a great job at soliciting new merchants and managing all merchant needs and requests throughout the planning process. Many of these new merchants already plan to return for our 2019 show (a great addition to our list of veteran merchants). Amy Slivka was a tour-de-force again this year on tickets and staffing; we are so thankful she was part of the committee. Marie Norkett and the Fund Development team did a fantastic job securing sponsors and coordinating print media for the weekend, ensuring that our sponsors were well recognized. You may have noticed a different feel to our advertising this year – the committee had many new ideas and Julie Palmer spent countless hours taking them from our meetings and putting them into place. She and
Whitney Browne worked hard on press releases, billboard designs, print advertising and securing media spots. (We hope everyone saw President Elect Audra Mueller’s and Merchant Co-chair Courtney Jones’ fantastic appearance on Bridge Street. They gave an informative interview about the Junior League of Syracuse while promoting Holiday Shoppes.) Karen Fejta jumped in feet first, creating a beautiful and very well managed/ organized raffle display. Thank you to everyone who helped secure donations to our grand raffle. We received items from Stickley, Audi & Co., Syracuse Food Tours, Mirbeau Inn & Spa and Cazenovia Jewelers, just to name a few. Rachel Nelson changed up our merchant hospitality suite this year – we have received nothing but positive feedback on her hard work. She secured a sponsorship from Chick-Fil-A, which we were able to partially use for the merchant hospitality room and Marie secured daily food donations from Original Grain – both were met with excitement and enthusiasm from our merchants. Another new item this year was our “Socks for a Cause” booth. We partnered with We Help Two to sell packs of funky socks. For every pack sold We Help Two sent us a pair of warm winter socks to
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