Here is a recap of MAKE IT SO SOCIAL from our Saturday, Dec 2, 2017 event.
LGBTQ & FRIEND’S first contribution to Make It So 2020 surpassed the original projections of 48 attendees:
- 56 in attendance (25 signed up on Eventbrite with credit card…guaranteed money upfront!)
- 29 MDUUC
- 27 Potential Members
Kudos to the “village” workers:
- Cynthia Krieger for setting up Eventbrite account & providing collection of the money, graphics for the flyers, 4x5 handout files and 11x17 standup sign for Welcome table.
- Michelle Paquette for all the food shopping/cooking for chicken, hummus, gluten-free chips, yummy & beautiful looking sherbet punch and fruit water (stunningly beautiful, like an art piece in the room!)
- Peggy Kern Payne for assisting Michelle lifting food out of the car and into the ovens, providing limes to add to fruit water and for covering the tables in the rainbow covers, installing MDUUC banner on game table.
- Laura Zucker for choosing sound tracks & monitoring music needs, welcoming guests and donating her latest CD set for the raffle
- Elsie Mills, Kate Newkirk, Trudy Foote and Lianne Davis at registration table taking money and giving out raffle tickets!
- Michelle Paquette, Elsie Mills, Peggy Kern Payne, Lianne Davis for kitchen clean-up
- Mary Ferrick & Peggy Kern Payne and visitors who helped Nancy with stacking chairs and rolling game tables to back wall
- Marena McGregor & Indigo Lewis for making arrangements for childcare, so Rainbow parents could attend
- Rev. Neal and Kate Newkirk as engaged members at game tables from Leadership Team
- Rev. Leslie for stopping by to say hello, despite a dislocated thumb! OUCH!
- Nancy marketed to various LGBTQ friendly organizations, printed flyers & 4x5 handouts; handled Eventbrite & Meetup attendee management; room layout/coordination with facilities; game table order/delivery/placement/pickup; registration sheets; mailing list signup sheets; raffle tickets in (6) & (10) strips; (3) “Donation/Raffle info” plexi-glass signs on registration table; set up (2) 42” side tables with name tags, raffle tickets, raffle buckets, game labels, MDUUC business cards & “What Do Unitarian Universalists Believe? cards; hand letter Beverages/Dessert/Non-Allergy Food signs; set out allergy food flags; purchased all logistic supplies & raffle prizes; last minute 4pm ice and cash run for $200 in $5’s for change (almost forgot that last one!). Now, when I do this again, I don’t have to think on my feet….I have a list!
- Special thanks to Elsie for fast thinking to show off the raffle prizes at the raffle bowl table in Bortin Hallway near the registration desk (who knew? I thought they were supposed to be a surprise!)
