GiveCamp is almost here. Do you have your laptop and snuggies ready for a great
weekend?Below is a quick message to our participants and our schedule for this
weekend.
Sponsors
Thanks to all of our great sponsors for making this year's GiveCamp happen.
Pay homage to our local
sponsors and see who threw in nationally
here.
Volunteers
If you have not received an email with details about your team, one will be
coming soon. If you are the Project Manager for your team, we
recommend an introduction email to your team and a call with your nonprofit
representative - at the least. Ideally, you will talk with your nonprofit
representative, your team and have a good idea of what you are building when you
arrive on Friday. The more prepared you are, the more your team can accomplish.
Nonprofits
We cannot wait to see you this weekend. We also cannot stress how important
it is that you come prepared. If you are rebuilding website, bring account
information for your existing website hosting, high quality images, logos and
any current marketing materials. If you are getting setup on donor tools, bring
a copy of your current donor database/excel file/list on a napkin. We will also
have some time reserved for you with specialists in IP law, social media and a
network guru.
---Schedule---
Fri 10/21
4-6pm - Registration [937 Herman St 37208]
6pm - Kick off meeting
7:00pm - Dinner
7:15ish - Speaker Kate O'Neill
11pm - You're in or you're out
Sat 10/22
8am - Breakfast
noon - Lunch from Subway
6pm - Dinner from Mafiaoza's sponsored by Robert Half
11pm - You're in or you're out
Sun 10/23
8am - Breakfast
10am - Begin wrapping up all work for projects (check if current and planned
features will make the cut)
1pm - CODE FREEZE
1pm - Lunch
1pm - Final deployments and code turn in, hand off to charities
3pm - Show & Tell
4pm - Put the Keyboard Down event at Flying Saucer
Still have questions? You can catch someone on the
Twitter account or send an email
(info@nashvillegivecamp.org).
Homestretch Update
There is still time to sign up to be a volunteer!!! We are extending the deadline to signup as a volunteer so we can help more nonprofits.
Sign up now.
One Page Info Sheets: Need more details or something you can print out and post, take to your boss or show your friends? We have one page summary sheets for
sponsors, nonprofits &
volunteers.
Event Team Meetings: Each Tuesday, 6pm at Flying Saucer (Oct 11, 18 & 25)
Still have questions? You can catch someone on the
Twitter account or send an email
(info@nashvillegivecamp.org).
Volunteer & Charity Sign ups close Oct 7
[UPDATED Oct 5] Volunteer Signups Extended!!!
October 7 is the last day to sign up as a GiveCamp Volunteer or submit a Charity proposal for consideration. Don't wait until the last minute. Start now so you can contact someone with any questions
that may arise.
Sign up to be a Volunteer so we don't have to turn away
charities in need.
Submit your Charity proposal or Contact Us if you need assistance.
PS - Next GiveCamp Event Team Meeting | 5pm on Tue 9/13 | Flying Saucer
GiveCamp Venue - Goodwill Training Center
We are excited to announce this fall's event will be at
Goodwill's David B.
Lifsey Career Solutions Center.
The center greets you with FREE PARKING, has giant open spaces, training rooms with plenty of seating, conference rooms for breakout sessions, all the A/V we could possibly need ...and (drum roll) a fiber connection to three T1 lines to keep our bits flowing all weekend.
Thanks to Matt Gloster and the team at Goodwill for letting us use this fantastic facility.
Location: 937 Herman St. 37208
Goodwill's David B. Lifsey Career Solutions Center
Event Team Meeting - Tuesday September 13
Next Meeting: Tuesday, 9/13 from 5 to 6pm at the Flying Saucer
We had a great team meeting on Tuesday, 8/30. We finalized our venue with naming a treasurer (Leah Gilliam of IT Conduit), a Sponsorship Leader (Lora Stevenson Obrotha), our Charity Coordinator (Chris McPherson of Firefly Logic) and tasked Josh Drummond
of ICV Solutions to be our utility knife/logistics/go to guy. Everyone has a list of To-Do's and a ton of energy to make GiveCamp a bigger success than our last event.
Email info@nashvillegivecamp.org to let us if you are interested in helping with Sponsorships, Charities, Volunteers or Marketing.
Event Team Meeting - 8/30
Next Meeting: Tuesday, 8/30 5 to 6pm at the Flying Saucer
Not on the event team but interested in helping out? We need help with coordinating volunteers, marketing the event and sponsorships.
Email info@nashvillegivecamp.org to let us know how you can help.
The Volunteer Challenge
We have a goal of helping TEN nonprofits this fall. To do that, we need at least 50 volunteers. If we get more than that, we will do our best to help even more deserving organizations.
To help get that number where we need it, we are putting out a challenge to area recruiting firms. You know people, right? You have people looking for opportunities and a chance to sharpen skills? We need you to reach you to reach out to your network and send volunteers our way.
Guidelines of our friendly referral competition
- Volunteers should list your firm name in the 'comments' field of the volunteer sign up form
- Your firm gets one point for every volunteer sign up mention through September 15
- The cutoff for referrals is Sept 15
- Your firm gets a bonus point for every 'early bird' volunteer sign up mention through September 2nd
- Firm with most points receives listing, link and logo on the sponsorship page (minimum of 5 points)
- The winner will be announced on Sept 16
Send folks to the volunteer sign up form and be sure those signing up put your firm's name in the comments field.
Dates Announced
Don't adjust your browser, we are preparing ANOTHER GiveCamp this fall. Block
off October 21-23.
Nashville is proud to take part in Microsoft's Second National Day of GiveCamp, where many GiveCamp's will be run across the nation simultaneously.
We are hoping to help many charities here in the Nashville area, whether it's getting their first web presence up or
improving on the technologies and processes they currently have.
Whether you represent a charity or want to volunteer your time to improve Middle
Tennessee Nonprofits, we have a place for you.
Looking for Charities and Volunteers
Are you a charity? Do you have a need that we can help with? Do you have a
website in need of a fresh coat of design, updated copy or a means to manage
your members and donors? Check out the Charities link to find out more and sign
up.
If you are a developer/designer/project manager/marketer/town crier or have any
other discernable talent, we can find a way for you to help. looking to make a difference and
use your skills to assist others, this is the place to be October 21-23, 2011!
Think you may have a project or talent we can use but want to hug it out before
signing up? Click on contact to track us down by email/phone/twitter.
