Fundraising

April 7th will be the press event for the Mayor’s Proclamation. We are coordinating our efforts to make this event happen effectively. T-shirts are designed in the hands of the vendor. New posters and flyers were delivered to the club. We are starting to see engagement from outreach in registrations with a 17.2% bump this week, which is encouraging. We have secured prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place positions in the 5K and 10K from Kendra Scott.

We have started to plan for the PR event on 7th April. There is a lot to do to make this happen successfully. This is also going to be critical as we need to drive up registrations. In terms of logistics, our collateral will be delivered next week. We will then want to have members pass this out to the community. Revenues are actually tracking with last year and volunteers are tracking ahead in comparison to last year.

We have received the event permit from the City of Bellevue. We have also secured support from MOVIN and 98.9 ROCK have agreed to support event with PSA and Booths, which will boost PR. Preparations for promotional support (Mayor Proclamation/Company/Discounts) are underway. Collaterals and T-shirts ordered.

Internal skit kicked off to motivate our membership into actively promoting registrations (each member is being asked to find 2 volunteers and 22 runners). Zach Scott spoke to our club as part of his involvement with us and he confirmed that he will actively promote our race. We have made some decisions related to the logistics for the event that relate to the Race Village and our start/finish on the route.

The Mayor has agreed to make the proclamation for Autism Month at our club on 7th April. We are in process of securing our major sponsor agreements, and the work around collateral/cards will be started so we can have them ready for distribution. Reaching out to booth sponsors has also begun. We are now focused on getting started with race logistics, while pushing aggressively on registrations as we are lagging here.

We have achieved our first objective and hit our sponsorship target for the event – we now have $71,000 committed from external businesses. This achievement allows us to now focus on driving up registrations for the race and we are embarking on a number of promotional efforts to make this happen. We are making good progress on our volunteer goals and this is the most Rotarian's we have seen sign up this early, which is marvelous.

Our event has been approved by the City, so we are all systems go! We have moved much closer to our goal of $70,000 in sponsorships with our total coming in at $65,000. We have launched our promotions with the monthly discounts and the raffle prize from SHOES-N-FEET. Our registrations have seen some slight increase and this will be the primary area of focus now.

The big accomplishment is that we have locked down on the course with the City and secured their approval. We have also been able to secure our Race Village, which allows us to overcome the challenge of the construction work underway in the park. We continue to make good strides with our PR, outreach to the Autism organizations and volunteers.