Meeting Minutes for 1/24/2009

Dreem Reality Meeting

Date: Thursday 1/24/2009 Time Start: 2:03 pm (Atlantic) Time End: 2:42pm

Location: Pasadena, Maryland

Attending: Phoenix – President; Dani – Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer

I. Welcome! This meeting is rescheduled from 1/19/2009- Martin Luther King day and Inauguration attendance.

II. Website content:

· Based on statement of purpose

· Page Brainstorm:

- About US (Org and Directors)

- Project page (Ariel, Job Sat Survey, etc)

- What is a Dreemer

- Donations page:

* How allocate funds (overhead – website, rent, utilities, etc)

*Annual Charity

*Education (for Directors and Dreemers – materials, travel, publications)

*Project funding (for materials like Ariel's lighters)

III. Youtube

· Movie maker – vids for creating projects, their progress, DR progress

· Intro video – what is DR, status, philosophy, how to donate, etc. (Work on end of next week)

IV. New Project Ideas:

· Litter removal (start trash walk week of 2/1/09) – Taking on "Community Awareness" facet now with this and volunteering. *EDIT BYLAWS*

· Financial awareness (Pum and Crystal) – RESEARCH discounts on software for non-profit that can sell on website (Quicken, Rosetta Stone, etc)

· Cafepress – start account so can have t-shirts and get our logo out there.

V. Bylaws

· Still haven't read all the way through, not a large priority. Have read within the next few weeks.

· Taking on new element of Community Awareness through volunteering and environmental awareness.

VI. Tax exempt fill ins

· Need to research most recent version and print out. Book provides 2006.

· Going to wait until meeting with SCORE to see if they help to fill it out.

VII. Ideas for next meeting

· Set up appointment with score for Wed or Thurs (831-621-3735) – have all print outs ready – Bylaws, Articles, Tax exempts

· Umbrella structure sketch of Organization

· Edit bylaws for SCORE meeting

· List of questions for SCORE