Timeline
- Rough Draft of mission statement and goals (long term, 5 year and 1 year)
- Decide how to contact and recruit volunteers
- Devise a list of potential Directors
- Acquire potential volunteers, directors, etc. contact info
- Devise a letter to be sent to potential volunteers
- First contact with potential volunteers made (through letters, emails, phone calls, or meetings)
- Decide what to be accomplished during first meeting
- Set meeting date and time
- Reserve location for meeting
- Decide dress for first meeting
- Decide if food is to be served/ plan for this food
- Write agenda for first meeting
- Send out initial invitations for meeting and agendas
- First meeting with volunteers accomplished
- Ask people to be on the Board of Directors (should this come before or after first meeting with volunteers?)
- Devise a list of possible endorsers
- Write letter for potential endorsers
- Mail out this letter (or first contact to be made)
- Devise first marketing strategy
- (meet with a professional to work on marketing?)
- Work with a lawyer to fill out tax-exempt, 504 status
- File for tax-exempt status
- Hire a professional webmaster to make a website
- Come up with a slogan
- Devise a logo