At this time, we are putting together our first committee. This group will be coordinating with our fund raising members of the board to locate and secure sponsors for the tournament. The board members will only assist in determining which businesses can be contacted based on their history with MMWH. Committee members will use their strengths to suggest, locate and call/write businesses in the local and national community to sponsor a page in part or whole in our tournament brochure to start. Those businesses may also provide a raffle, food or goodie bag item at a later date. As this process is handled in steps, the initial step you would participate in is the identifying of sponsors and initiating contact.

We need IDEA people and CONTACT people and, well, PEOPLE people! The idea people to determine best businesses and put together ideas to propose to businesses. The contact people to contact those businesses. The people people to follow up with the contacts and share the enthusiasm. This committee needs to be organized with follow-up. You do not need to have "all" these skills to be a part of this committee - any one of them is useful as the committee will be deciding "who does what." Use of Google docs spreadsheets is recommended. Sound like a "job" description? Yes, but it is a one to two month position and only more if you choose.

This committee is expected to do the majority of the phase one work in November and December. Some follow-up will be done in January. Members can choose to stay committed and work phase two in February thru April working with many of the same businesses who determined they would prefer to provide a raffle or food item. We need 3-5 people to work on both committees. They will need to work together either via email, phone calls or in person with one another via whatever method works best for them. This phase 1 committee needs to begin their work the beginning of November 2011. Most of the initial contacts need to be made by the end of November with follow-up thru December. The second team (or those who desire to continue) will do follow-up in February thru April with the same businesses and more for donations of food and raffle items.

Sound interesting? Is this something that fits into what you LOVE doing? Contact tournament director Peggy Makurat at pmakurat@sbcglobal.net.

Let's hear from some excited members of our group who want to make this year's tournament a success!