Hi Everyone!
It is I, your Artful Mentor, with another thrilling weekly Tuesday night message. While I was out doing my five miles tonight, enjoying not having a cold this week unlike a week ago, I was trying to think of a clever little theme for this email, and you know, I don’t think I could think of a good one, believe it or not. Is your Artful Mentor slipping? Could it be that the accumulated miles have affected his brain? Could it be that he didn’t have much of a brain to begin with? Is it possible that the cold weather the last few days have slowed the synapses in his neural pathways? Yes, all of these things are possible, although I am kind of leaning towards the next to the last explanation as the most likely cause of this lack of creativity.
But wait – there is another, even more plausible explanation! And that would be (drum roll, please) that the importance of this week is so intense that it supersedes any desire for clever prose. And why, ask you, is it so important? Well, because it is the last week for you three Nashville people to make a major impact on fundraising prior to Monday’s recommitment. If you are Lexi or Leslie, already recommitted to Shamrock, you can relax and pretty much ignore this email. Oh, you were already ignoring it? Well, that is fine, too!
But for you other three, you fellow Nashvillers, this is truly an important week. I am filling out my recommitment papers this week – and it feels great to suddenly realize that this amazing experience is now barely two months away. Each of you needs to decide whether or not to recommit, and that is a decision that only you can make. If you are still short of the minimum of $900 to recommit, or even if you have reached that but are well short of the minimum, you need to be asking yourself how you will raise the additional money. Essentially, there are 10 weeks to go until the race weekend, actually a few days short of 10 weeks. So let’s say you have hit the $900 minimum for the sake of discussion, leaving $2,700 to go. That means that over the next 10 weeks, you have to raise an average of $270 a week. What are some things you can do to get there?
* Have you sent letters yet?
* Have you asked your employer for a corporate donation or a corporate sponsorship?
* Are there other companies you have an association with that you could ask for a corporate donation?
* Do any of your donors have a matching donation at work?
* Are there other emails you can send?
* Are you doing regular email updates?
* Do you have a friend or relative in another city who will fundraise for you?
* Can you do a fund raiser at work?
* Can you talk at church about what you are doing, and set up a table for donations after church?
* Have you looked at the fundraiser activity ideas sent previously and tried any of them?
* Could you try speaking at local clubs?
* Is there a professional group you can speak at?
I am going to contact each of the three of you by phone this week to see how it is going, and whether you have any concerns or questions. Or just call me if you want to reach me before I get to you. So far, I have talked with one of you, left a message for a second, and still need to reach out to one more.
If you have any concerns or doubts, please reach out to me, Jen, and/or Nicki and let’s see what we can come up with. How can we help?
I will see you at training Saturday – eventually we will get some nice spring weather for the spring team! So we can also talk then if you have concerns. I also would be glad to meet in person this week if you want, but please let me know ASAP if you wish to do that. I am busy Friday night for example.
OK, that will be it for this note. Good luck with fundraising and decisions this week.
Art
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