Current Projects

Now that the introduction is out of the way, I want to jabber on a bit about what projects are presently in the works for Dreem Reality.


I. CREATION

Firstly, we have to make this thing official. As of today (December 23rd, 2008) we are not yet a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. We've got the Nolo book on how TO do it, and we've even gotten the Articles of Incorporation written. It's just a matter of putting the rest of the pieces of the puzzle in place and then sending the forms out to the appropriate offices. Also, we're wanting to wait until the new year and ultimately new TAX year. I don't want to have to file some silly taxes based on two weeks of operation in 2008...nooooo thank you!

Also part of the creation of Dreem Reality is THIS! The blog. Oh, and on December 17th we purchased the domain name for our in-the-works website: www.DreemReality.org (presently it wont show you anything, but hopefully by the time someone actually stumbles across this blog it will have some goodies on it!). I'll keep an update on it's progress as well.


II. Ariel Coatney

Ariel is an incredible musician that just so happens to be our 17 year old roommate. I'd have to say we are her most dedicated fan club and border on obsession over her angelic voice and acoustical skills (she is recording her newest song in her room now as I type). Recently she had an opening gig with a local band at 99 Bottles, a pleasant bar in Downtown Santa Cruz. Dreem Reality jumped into action to help create a Ariel-style marketing technique. We brainstormed and finally came up with the idea to create business-card-lighters. Then we created labels with her contact information and pretty picture to stick to lighters. I'm happy to say that we were able to hand out every single lighter at her gig on December 18th, 2008 - hopefully in the least her myspace and youtube accounts will get many more hits! It's a start at least! (Never be afraid to start small, that's where everything has to begin.)

If you'd like to check out Ariel, PLEASE do! I'm sure you'll be impressed:

Myspace: www.myspace.com/arielcoatneymusic
Youtube: ArielCoatney
Email: ArielCoatney@yahoo.com


III. Job Satisfaction Survey

When not writing blog after blog about Dreem Reality, I work at a beautiful, privately owned restaurant in Santa Cruz, California. As I had mentioned in the Introduction blog, my formal educational interests have to do with Job Satisfaction and Motivation. I have a strong belief that if we choose to work for a living that it is of extreme importance that we are happy with the work we do. After all, we usually are spending a large portion of our waking hours there and one could argue that our sense of self as well as our health and well being is directly influenced by the work we do. All important concepts to Dreem Reality.

So, I've decided to conduct a job satisfaction survey here. I just had the project approved by the owner last week and have set to work mass-printing the surveys. I had done this project once before at my previous place of work and the results were extremely intriguing and educational. I hope to improve upon my last attempt and perhaps have a real impact on the work environment.

One way I hope to do this is by having a Spanish version of the survey. A large portion of the employees there are primarily Spanish speaking, and every one of their opinions is extremely important. I am presently looking for someone to volunteer an hour or so of their time to translate this survey. If you or someone you know would be willing to do this, email us at DreemReality@gmail.com. (I'll even give you props on our project page, once we get that going!)

I'll keep you updated with how the project is going. I plan to launch the first batch of surveys tonight when I go in to work!

Those are the major projects for now, and we haven't even officially started yet! I'd say we were taking donations to help with things like buying the business-card-lighters and paper/ink for the surveys...but I don't think we can legally accept donations yet. So, just save those dollars up for the new year. It's our hope to have a paypal account up and running to accept those tax-exempt donations soon.

~Dani