50 Free Holiday Cards From Shutterfly

Chris and I have started planning our holiday card and are super excited about the idea we have come up with. Since this is our first year sending cards out together (Chris first year ever) we have decided to to do a collegiate theme. We will each be wearing our respective school sweatshirts (Colorado and VT) and Harper will be sporting bandanas from both schools as well. We are considering doing a black and white photo on our card, but haven't decided exactly what we are going to go with. We were excited to hear about the 50 free cards from shutterfly and have been checking out the website to decide on a card theme. Check out their website here to see what they have to offer:
holiday cards to http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/holiday-cards,
Story Cards to http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/holiday-story-cards
Christmas photo cards to http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/christmas-photo-cards

We will be doing a Christmas Photo Card mostly likely. We have decide to let everyone know that we are getting married by signing the card: With Love From the Soon To Be Barnes Family...We are super excited about this years Christmas card so be on the look out for it during the Holiday season.

Best Wishes-
N

MEETING 4/9 @ 6:30PM

Just a reminder that we have a team meeting coming up on 4/9 @ 6:30pm at Drew's house on Ashland and North Ave. Please come ready to discuss the agenda items in detail. If you have any questions feel free to contact me. In other news congrats to Lanisa and Bob for their fundraising efforts at the Hair Show at Hub 51 and thanks to Scott for speaking on the A Teams behalf.
AGENDA
I. Individual Fundraising
Where is everyone at with their fundraising goal.
What does everyone need to do to meet their goal.
Does anyone need help with fundraising.
II. Raffle
How many tickets has each person sold. (Please have a number)
Has everyone deposit their money into the team account?
How can we sell more tickets.
What do we need to do to get to the $10,000 mark.
Raffle Dinner
III. Team Fundraising
What events do people have planned.
What events do we still need to plan.
IV. Training
How is everyones training going.
Training Walks
V. Team Business
T-Shirts
Signs
Walk Day

94 DAYS & WALKING...

I wanted to check in with everyone and see how the fundraising is going. First, please email me with your raffle tickets sales so far. Second, if you need help with your fundraising please let me or someone else know. I have had some success thus far and would be happy to help anyone who needs it. Finally, as the weather starts to get warmer, everyone needs to start walking. I am going to have a walker group going out every Sunday at 12pm. I anticipate walking for an hour or so along the lake. Everyone is welcome. Details will be posted on the Avon website as well as on the blog. Have a great week.
Happy Walking
Natalie

MARCH FUNDRAISING & UPDATES

I hope everyones personal fundraising is going well. To date we have raised over $3,000, which is great with a little over 100 days to go before we walk. I wanted to check in and see how everyone is doing with ticket sales. Again if you have sold tickets PLEASE begin to put the money you have earned into the Chase account. Remember to save the stubs you have sold in an envelope with you name on it. If everyone could email me when they get a chance with about how many tickets they have sold I would appreciate it.

Photos Fundraiser: We raised over $100 at the Photo's Fundraiser. We had 30 orders totalling around $420.00. So great job team.

March Fundraiser
March 20th: Franko Tricoci Spa Fundraiser(First Shift is at 9am)-If you havent emailed me with when you will participating please do so ASAP.
March 28th: Pigeon & Bob are hosting a fundraiser at Hub 51. Look for more info on this in the near future. There will be a $20 cover and $5 of every cover will go to the A Team so lets get people there.
Trivia Night Fundraiser: Info on this to come. It will be on a weeknight. If anyone has bar suggestions let Kendall, Dow or Nick know.

After speaking with some people who did the walk last year, we have decided to get dry fit type A Team Shirts in Hot Pink. We are working out the logistics of this and will be moving forward with this in the near future.

UPDATES....

THUS FAR WE HAVE RAISED $1,500...WAY TO GO TEAM!!
1. At this point everyone should have their raffles tickets and should be out there selling.
2. This Saturday from 9-5pm we will be selling raffle tickets at Lanisa's dad salon (Franco Tricoci Salon & Spa, 19830 La Grange Rd, Mokena, IL 60448, 708-478-1607). Its their one year anniversary, if you could all give this a shout out on your Facebook pages I would appreciate it. In addition to the $10,000 prize anyone who buys a ticket on Saturday at the salon gets entered to win a spa package.
3. There will be a similar event to this one in Schaumburg March 20th, I still havent heard from everyone about who will be working that day, if can you can work that day please let me know what shift you can work (9-1 or 1-5).
4. The Photo's Fundraiser is fast approaching. It is next Friday Feb. 19th and Saturday Feb. 20th. Please get those flyers out, if you need them printed please let me know. Additionally, lets try and advertise it on Facebook all next week as well.
5. Next months fundraiser is Trivia Night, Kendall, Dow and Nick are the point people for this event, so please look for emails and updates from then on how you can help.
6. In the next week I will be sending out a mock up of the T-Shirt to get everyones input. After careful consideration we have decided to go with technical t-shirt instead of standard cotton t-shirts, due to the fact that we will be walking 39.3 miles in them.
7. Anyone working the fundraiser tomorrow, please where your Avon T-Shirt.
8. A new fundraising opportunity is being put together by Lanisa and Bob. They will be hosting an event at Hub 51 on March 28th. There will be a $20.00 cover at the door, $5.00 of every cover will go to the A Team. So once we get all the details on that we need to start publicizing the event to get people there. I should have full details on this event within the next week or so.
9. Finally, if anyone needs a template for a letter to send out to friends and family with the Avon Logo on it I have created one and would be happy to share it with anyone who would like it.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY & HAPPY WALKING

THE RAFFLE TICKETS ARE IN!!!

The raffle tickets are in and that means its time to start selling. The tickets are $25.00 and the winner will receive a $10,000 prize. Everyone should be receiving their tickets in the next few days. To start out everyone was issued between 40-50 tickets, depending on location. If you need more tickets please let me know. You can sells tickets to anyone who is not a member of the team. If you have any questions about the raffle or raffle procedures please let me know.

Photos Hotdog Fundraiser
The Feburary Fundraiser will take place at Photos Hotdogs in Palatine. The deal is on whatever day we decide, 25% of the proceeds from that day will go to the team, if you mention the fundraiser when you order. I am thinking about a Friday so that AM could get all the teachers who usually go to lunch on Friday out there supporting us. My thought was the third Friday in February the 19th. Please let me know what your thoughts are on the date.
Happy Walking,
Natalie

I have been thinking about it and I really want to get everyone involved in the event planning process so everyone feels like they are part of the team. The following are events we have discussed doing. I have listed who the event planner or point person or persons for the event will be, if you do not wish to be the point person on the event listed please let me know or switch with someone else. Additionally, if you are not listed as a point person or if you are and have an event idea please let me know. The goal is one event per month but some of these events are simple and we could defiantly do more. Additionally, I am going to assign people to be the point people on the raffle. I will of course we around to help with anything anyone needs and everyone is expected to participate if they can. Finally, just because you are the point person doesnt mean you have to do everything feel free to ask for help with anything. I hope you all think this is a good way to do this, I simply cannot plan everything, so I thought this would be a good way to get everyone involved and divide everything up.

EVENT LIST
Raffle: Mego & Sketch-Drawing May 30, 2010
February: Photos Hot Dogs (Natalie)
March: Trivia Night (Kendall, Nick & Dow)
April: Bake Sale (Carrie)
April: Mastering Chicago (Scott & Drew)
May: Main Event Arlington Race Track (Drew, Scott & Amanda, Natalie)
Pigeon & Bob-Outfit Events Charity Function-Let Us Know What You Come Up With
JUNE-RACE MONTH

50/50 Raffle Fundraiser

Hello A Teamers-

I hope you all have gotten a chance to look at the new blog. I wanted to let everyone know that we are thinking of putting together a 50/50 raffle to raise money for the team. If we can pull it off we stand to raise about $25,000 in addition to what everyone else raises. That would mean raising near $50,000 to battle breast cancer which would be awesome. Raffle tickets would be $50 and we would sell 1,000 of them. Therefore everyone would be responsible for selling about 83 tickets. We would sell tickets at all the fundraiser we have and then to friends and family as well. I am looking into getting a raffle license from the Village of Rosemont and my sister is looking into designing the tickets. Leave comments as to your thoughts about this idea. Finally, we have a new team member Drew Gravitts, we are now 12 strong and Nick Shey has gotten our biggest donation to date $500, great job Nick. Hope everyone is having a good week.

Keep Walking

Natalie

The A Team Beats Breast Cancer...Now Has A Blog!!

Hello A Team....

I hope everyone had a great Christmas and a Happy New Year!! As you know in 2010 the A Team will help beat breast cancer in the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer...

I set up this blog so the team could check in and get info on events and team activities. There will also be info about the team's fundraising progress, training walks and other exciting A Team news. Please check the blog weekly for updates on events and activities. I will continue to send out emails, but the blog will be my primary source of communication with you. Additionally, if anyone else would like to post something on the blog just let me know. You guys can also leave comments below the postings, I will check these regularly.

T-Shirts

If anyone has names they would like on the shirt the deadline for submission is fast approaching. Please have all names to me by Friday January 8, 2009.

Team Meeting

I was thinking that having a team meeting would be a great way to kick off the new year and to really get the team's fundraising efforts started. Please leave a comment as to what day works best for you so we can get the meeting set up.

January Fundraising Event

I am open to suggestions. Let me know if anyone has any good ideas.

New Team Members

If you anyone knows people that would like to join let me know so we can get them signed up ASAP.

I hope you all enjoy the blog. Until next time keep walking....

Natalie