ideas for roomies advisory board

Fundraising

1. Dinner/Art Auction

• set date in July
• book hall or club (Petersham Bowlo? St Georges Hall? @Newtown, the Factory?)
• arrange food, music, entertainment etc
• arrange mcs, special guests and speakers
• develop an artist brief to send to artist's asap! soliciting a donation for auction
• develop an auction plan
• price tickets and develop a ticket sales plan
• get tickets sold!
• get bidders for art auction (in house and/or online)
• publicise event
• account and acquit

1. Online donations and publicity (inc gallery sales or prints?)
   

• chipin in facebook
• donate now button for blog
• google adsense account for blog
  

Grant writing and Acquittal

• Sydney Airports- for Coord salary and Artspace rent
• Marrickville Council - for CCD Art grant for Coord salary/seed grant for art classes
• Aust Council - ??
• DCITA - acquit Festivals grant
• Accessible Arts - acquit IPWD day funding
  
• CDSE - acquit Coord grant
  

Lobbying and Networking
(fine tune and focus! let's set some goals for this before starting)

• Local councillors
• Local MPs
• Ministers for the Arts
  
• Aust Council
• Accessible Arts
  
• Arts Project Australia
• Pine St Creative Arts
• Buckingham House
• House with No Steps
  
• Marrickville Council
• DADHC
• OPG
• Oxfam Australia
  
• Spirit of Soul
• Hope St Markets
• Reverse Garbage/MAD design
• Addison Rd Gallery
  

Merchandising

• find outlets for roomies t-shirts
• find outlets for roomies cards
• find outlets for roomies dolls (tony's artwork)??
• set up online gallery??
• set up online print sales??
  

Physical Labour

• build accessible ramp to entrance of artspace
• install kitchen cupboards
• fix doors and locks (especially for office)
  

Strategising

• write latest draft of Roomies Strategic Plan
• arrange regular meetings or communication between advisory board, roomies artists, boarding house project staff and nnc board and coord.