1. Joint Executive and Advisory Board Meeting
Russian Culture and Language Association
Joint Executive and Advisory Board Meeting
November 23, 2012

2. 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!

3. 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)

4. Members and participants
Distribution channels:
MU info, newspapers (Maneater) and Google
Future: ISSS brochure, s 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?

5. 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
research more!
Future: corporate sponsors/donors, membership fees, paid events, advertisement + awards/recognition

6. 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
search more online

7. 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

8. 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