[Imc] Retail/Fundraising Minutes 5/30/01
nancy dietrich
nancydietrich at juno.com
Fri Jun 1 03:50:19 UTC 2001
Retail/Fundraising working group met Wednesday at IMC after Space group
meeting.
A local band, "Absenth Blind" would like to sell their CD's here on
consignment. Terms: Donate 1 CD, the band keeps 80% of sales, IMC
keeps 20%. Consensus "yes" on having them sell their CD's here. Nancy
will contact.
Retail proposal: Mike Lehman's brother & his wife make organic soap.
Can they sell it here? Question: does this go with the IMC mission?
Group decided to stick with selling items that are closer to the mission
& goals of the IMC (although anyone can try the soap in the IMC bathroom
& contact Mike if they're interested:-) ). Suggested co-op as possible
alternative.
Paul R. is contacting potential wholesalers for blank minidisks & Cd's
for IMC to buy. He's contacted AK Press, a collectively-run wholesale
bookstore which provides a catalog which we can purchase books from. The
idea is to have the catalog available at the IMC for people to order
books from; perhaps purchase some for the IMC library. Good return
policy; will extend credit with a $100 purchase.
IMC has 2 tax exempt #'s: one for things purchased to use at the IMC;
another for things purchased to re-sell at the IMC. If you purchase
something for the IMC for either purpose, you can use either of these
#'s. The #'s are posted on the bulletin board. DO NOT REMOVE these
papers from the bb (the official looking ones); just copy the number
down if you're going to purchase something for the IMC.
Discussion took place on how to further promote the IMC. Sarah K.
reported that we have a booth at the Taste of Champaign; we can sell IMC
items there. Discussed the possibility of doing a trade-out with WEFT
where we could underwrite one of their shows. Other ideas: Sarah is in
the process of creating hand-painted signs to post describing what is
available at the IMC. Being open & visible during the Street Theatre
Festival & Sweet Corn Festival in downtown Urbana. During Sweet Corn
Festival, we might be able to set up internet at the corner to give us
visibility & show what/where IMC is. More promotion of IMC will be
available once print media is up & running. Suggestion of sending email
to the IMC list telling them what is going on & available at the IMC.
We now have 59 official IMC members; considerably more on the IMC email
list.
Had a request from a person named Shyla for a reduced membership fee of
$10 due to grad student status. She has staffed before, won't be able to
this summer, but indicated she would in the fall. Group OK'd this by
consensus. A few members have not yet paid. Paul K. has requested
waiver for membership fee; due to his many hours of work, group ok'd
this.
Sascha reported the following balances: $500 in the key deposit fund,
and $2000 in the IMC endowment fund. He suggested looking into 3 & 6
month certificates of deposit. Russ will research options.
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