FAMILIES MAKE A DIFFERENCE
A Word of Thanks for Daniel Barth, head honcho at Harrison House ("The Village")
To everyone i wish to thank you all for the love & effort that you put into the event this weekend at the Village. From our standpoint, it was perfect. The kids were engaged the whole way through, the families on both sides planned well and were well prepared. We had sure leadership. We had the place grooving for the whole event - the jumpie house was key for sure. It was sooo evenly paced, real refreshing.
Minutes from the most recent Families Make a Difference Meeting
Attending:
Sally Horner
Gary Kennerly
Robin Rudy
Rachael Jackson
Mark Compton
John Carlstroem
Liz McBee
Mickey Garcia
Mary
Daniel
1) Harrison House BBQ
Lunch 1pm-1:45pm
Ambassador for event: Laura (with Harrison House)
Timing – set-up group@12pm
o Sal’s co-worker's team can come set up early.
o Lisa will be the contact when we arrive
Food Shopping/Storage
o Robin will shop; $200 from year’s past; BPC will reimburse/pay for part of event
o Daniel will meet Robin at Costco@10am to coordinate shopping list
o set up refrigerator ahead of time
o will need freezer for ice-cream
Events – who’s coordinating what & supplies
o John C. will get prizes
o Face Painting (Emerson-Tanov family)
o Donuts on a String (Mary K & Polly Lockman)
o Bubbles (Mary K)
o Nails (table needed) – Sally bringing
o Frame-making (table needed) – Natasha
o Jumpy House – Liz ordering/ HH staff will supervise 16x16 square foot space needed
o Bean Bag toss/Where The Wild Things Are – (Robin/John H. to pull out of storage)
o Friendship Bracelets (need table) (liz bringing supplies)
o Kid Corral--with chairs & caution tape (Sal will set up)
o “Fishing” for toddler area – still need coordinator
Photography
o Mark Compton offered to do the event
o we have to be sensitive to those not wanting pix taken
o photo booth set up, plus candids during event
o will drop off photos@walgreens & Daniel offered to pick up
Publicity – personal email, per Evan’s suggestion/tabling at front gate
o Tabling at the gate would be good for Friday (Steven E.)
Grilling
o We can use the BPC grill. John C. will coordinate w/JH to get it to HH.
o no schedule needed--happens organically, but John C will do some, residents will do some.
2) Hope Through Opportunity project – Rachael Jackson
o FMD would like to build an on-going relationship with HTO.
- One upcoming project is to help fill a shipping container going to Tanzania by October - concentrate on BACKPACK DRIVE. Have kids bring old backpacks on the last day of school – We'd provide paper bags for kids to put stuff in, pile of backpacks! Pictures would go to Tanzania
o Clothes needed/EVERYTHING needed
o Orphans (#400-500) don’t have anything at all, no place to hold what few belongings they may have (backpacks would be helpful)
o Good to do a day of helping organize and load container (next year)
o idea to “brand” certain events throughout the year, i.e., have folks bring an old instrument to donate at the spring concert w/FMD, or bring old sports equipment to games day
HopeThroughOpportunity.org (website is being updated)
3) Leadership for next year – who wants to co-chair? think about it!
4) Last Meeting is June 4th.
o If anybody would step-up and be a co-chair w/Liz
o What shall we do?????
o -set up 1st meetings of year
o -set up backpack drive for 1st week of school for HTO
