Progress Report: October 25

Public Relations Event: Book Fundraiser for library at Providence Christian Academy

Overview:
Sharon and I met on Tuesday, October 23 at 9 a.m. to go over what we want to achieve this week with our public relations event. For the most part, we’ve got some creative thinking to do. Things are moving along progressively, though, and with the tweaking of some scheduling plans and artistic designs, our project will be in full swing by Monday, October 29. Book collection has begun.

Work Completed:
We have each completed sketches for our t-shirt design and we are sharing them with each other today to decide on which one will be the best to submit to the t-shirt company. We wanted to ask our class for suggestions for an event name, but we didn’t get a chance to on Tuesday, so we will do that today in class and see what we get. I thought of “Pals for Providence” and “Providence Reads” for event names, but I think Sharon and I want to come up with something more generic that can be used year after year if this event continues. We are thinking about a seasonal, Thanksgiving/give thanks-type of theme. The flyer is laid out, we just have to insert our event name and picture. An advertisement has been placed in the classified section of The Tiger newspaper. In the advertisement, readers are asked to donate book s for a good cause; our readers include students, faculty, and community members. The advertisement will continue to run throughout the end of the event. We are continuing to work on a Facebook group to solicit our campaign to our friends.

Next Steps:
Once we complete the flyer we will have it approved and begin distribution. We still have to decide on a pizza company to use for the party, but we’re thinking about Colombo’s pizza because they offer a pizza that is 30 inches in diameter for a reasonable price. We have to make sure that the date of our event suits Professor Holmevik since we want to present/have the party during class time. Sharon and I decided in our meeting on Tuesday that instead of doing a portfolio of paperwork to turn in to Professor Holmevik, we want to make a digital portfolio, including the same things in this as we would have in the binder-type proposal. We are going to compose a picture slideshow to convey during our pizza party, so we’ve got to start collecting photos and music for that. We thought it would be neat to interview someone from Providence, such as a librarian, to include in our portfolio to show the real need for books in the school’s library. Sharon had a great idea to have her son and his classmates, who attend Providence, to each write their own story and we will make a compilation of their work bound together in a book to use for display at the pizza party; we will have two copies, one for submission and one to return to the class.

Conclusion:
We have a lot of work ahead of us, but our brainstorming so far has shed fairly sufficient light on our grip on tasks ahead. We try to maintain organization and communication to effectively carry out this collection and party. We hope to receive feedback over the next week. The first week that we tried to run our advertisement in The Tiger the advertisement actually did not run, by fault of no one in particular, so now that it’s being published in the Friday, October 26, the ball for collection will start rolling.

Sorry about the length, it's a little long! :)