Reminder - i picked up one of those pop-ups for *free* for mickaboo from freecycle. It is in my basement in SF Sent from my Peek - Pam ------------------------------------- Michelle Yesney wrote: Good idea.  this is not an event that I think we have to do a lot of prep for -- unlike our own adoption fairs.  I'm wondering if we can find someone with one of those portable gazebos with a canvas top.  Something to keep direct sun, or rain, or wind off the birds and the volunteers. Michelle --- On Mon, 3/16/09, Ailsa wrote: From: Ailsa Subject: Re: [Leadershipgroup] Adoptathon 2009 To: "Heather Hohlowski" Cc: leadershipgroup@mickaboo.org Date: Monday, March 16, 2009, 9:17 PM 2009/3/16 Heather Hohlowski I'm on the fence. My experience at the Blessing of the Animals thing in SF a couple of years ago was that most people are there for the cats and dogs. It gets us a little publicity (assuming it's well-attended), but since we don't adopt animals out on the spot, i think the most we get is maybe a few applications afterwards. Not to discount that, but it's probably a lot of work for little return. What if we were to accept applications on the spot so that we could follow up with people afterwards?  Someone who could send an email to the PA afterwards to thank them for their application, to give them more info about the next step in taking a class, and give them that reminder that might get them to the website and looking at birds? One more thing for someone to do ... but if we did decide to do the event, it might make it a bit more "profitable" on teh backend? ~ Ailsa _______________________________________________ Leadershipgroup mailing list Leadershipgroup@mickaboo.org https://mickaboo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/leadershipgroup _______________________________________________ Leadershipgroup mailing list Leadershipgroup@mickaboo.org https://mickaboo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/leadershipgroup