Hello everyone!
My goodness, we are working so hard and making so much progress. Here’s a little about what’s been happening since the pilot programs ended.
Our Marketing Director, Susan Backer, and I have written various proposals, as requested, and have submitted them to the YMCA and to The Boy’s and Girls Club of Santa Rosa. Susan does incredible work creating forms that we can use again and again with minor ‘tweaks’ to fit each individual organizations and their goals. Susan was marketing director for Traditional Medicinal Tea’s and we are so lucky and honored to have her on our team!
We have a proposal, as per their request, to a family owned bank, new to California, but well-established in the mid-west, to become a corporate partner. We have been in talks for some time and look forward to the new year when this partnership will begin.
There are two Santa Rosa schools who are interested in the D5 program and I will keep you up to date when I know more about these collaborations.
The November 5th Gala is just around the corner! Yeah! Heather and Aly from notion:creative, our graphic designers, have a first draft of the invitations ready. We’re waiting for a couple items to come together before we do the final edits. You can see some basic information about the Gala on the web site. Be sure to save the date! You won’t want to miss this fun evening where we will raise so much money to help kids with their health.
More big news very soon on a possible home-base (meaning a great kitchen!) next week. Here’s a photo of the kitchen. Isn’t it wonderful?
Here is a list of what we need to keep making such great strides in building DirectionFive and helping so many kids with their health:
Money
Yes, that will pretty much do it! We need many items, of course, but mostly we need funding. We could use more volunteers (understatement) to help with the gala and other events, so if you have some time, please let us know.
Also next week, we’ll update you on various monetary gifts we are going to receive from some local service organizations to help support our work.
More soon!
All the best,
Patty