Joint Executive and Advisory Board Meeting Russian Culture and Language Association Joint Executive and Advisory Board Meeting November 23, 2012
Benefits (NOT motivation!) Build your resume and biography Obtain rare experience, enhance soft and hard skills Networking = friends + connections References for the future, e.g. scholarship/internship Honorary awards and memberships Publicity: become famous! Free promo merchandise and traveling opportunities It is fun and feels good to give back!
Programming PR for Americans and support for “Russians” Guest speaker series with networking receptions Discuss a book, watch a movie, play games Run a survey—what the market wants? Free merchandise What else? Stammtisch (e.g. helps when homesick/lonely)
Members and participants Distribution channels: MU info, newspapers (Maneater) and Google Future: ISSS brochure, e-mails DB, TVs, posters Own newspaper and website Collaborators and partners: Russian Club Lucy’s mailing list “Russian” businessman for MBA seminar grs.missouri.edu and diversity.missouri.edu Who else?
Funding Available now: MU/ORG guest speakers primarily Next deadline is 2/8 for 2/16–6/30 budget period Later apply for: grants any events, merchandise, etc www.russkiymir.ru www.russianamericanfoundation.org research more! Future: corporate sponsors/donors, membership fees, paid events, advertisement + awards/recognition
Business intelligence Who else is there? Their members/participants Their programming Their distribution channels Their collaborators Their sources of funding e x a m p l e s www.russiansingapore.com www.russianherald.com www.ourtx.org www.aarce.org search more online
Q&A session Run one event, advertise heavily, see what happens? Advisor: values, strategy, website, history + what? Russian speakers for Americans and vice versa! Take minutes during meetings Build database, run survey, organize one event?! Step-by-step… We need YOUR ideas (with approx. budgets) We need plan a of day-to-day operations
How to obtain funding Read the guidelines Show market size and our database Show what we have done, our achieved results State what we propose to do + needed budget Travel to a networking event on the ORG’s money Solicit good references