Hair Cut-a-thon - June 8th

We need all of you to help spread the word about a great event for Sadie's Gift next month! Lilly MaRitza Salon and Gallery in Ellicott City is hosting a Charity Hair Cut-a-thon on Sunday, June 8th starting 11am. You can call the salon directly at 443-574-8986 to schedule your appointment. Also, if you know of a stylist that might be interested in donating their time to cut hair at the event please contact me at 410-480-2591 or amy@sadiesgift.org. All stylists are donating their time for a $25 donation made directly to Johns Hopkins Children's Center/Sadie's Gift. We will be accepting cash, checks or donations made via credit card through our webpage on site.
There will be food, drinks (including wine), drawings, and silent auction items.
Please, please, please save the date and spread the word. We hope to have ads placed in the local newspapers for the next several weeks.
Call to make your appointment today at 443-574-8986! Women and Men! ($15 for children's cuts) Walk-ins will be welcome.

Silpada Party - Willing to host a party?

I have a wonderful Silpada representative, Dana Wingert, who has offered to donate 20-25% of a party sales to Sadie's Gift. Are you willing to host a party for her? This is a great way to work toward your fundraising goal for this year. Please contact me if you are interested in hosting a party at 410-480-2591 or amy@sadiesgift.org.

-Amy

Corporate Sponsorship

We were excited to have our first Corporate Sponsorship meeting a few weeks ago. We worked on tweaking runner level benefits, discussing proposed sponsor benefits, developed basic wish list for in-kind donations and discussed a plan for a brochure.

Our first stab at a wish list includes:

- food donations for before and after the marathon;
bagels,
bananas,
coffee,
apples,
water,
Gatorade/Powerade,
ice,
Power Bars,
etc.

- t-shirt sponsors

- porta-potty sponsor

- printing services

- cash donations from corporate sponsors!

Here's where you come in! If you have a contact for any of the items above, wish to solicit items on behalf of Team Sadie, think your business or one of the places you frequent would like to be a sponsor please let us know!

This is our first year for Corporate Sponsorship, we are looking for everyone's help to develop a list of people or business who might be interested in supporting Team Sadie. Please email (rives@comcast.net) or call us (410-869-8370) with your leads or contacts or let us know what you are able to solicit.

Thanks!!!

Colleen and Jeff, Sponsorship

Group Run #2

Despite on and off again rain showers, Group Run 2 was attended by a small dedicated group. The weather was actually really nice during that 2-3 PM hour that people where at Centennial Park. The Group Run Committee has been actively emailing to try to plan out the next couple group runs so people will have ample notice of what is going on.

Michael & Stephanie Draminski
Group Run Committee Members

Marketing Update

The Marketing Team (Jill Snavely and I) met last week to discuss the first marketing flyer/brochure we hope to put together very soon. This will be an informative brochure geared towards runners, who are interested in being part of Team Sadie. The brochure will inform readers about Team Sadie, tell them how to get on board, and let them know about the web site, so that they can keep informed about events. Once the brochure is completed, we would like to have it available for distribution at upcoming races, runner events and local running stores.

2nd Group Run on Sunday April 20th

Date: Sunday April 20th

Time: 2:00 PM

Location: Centennial Park

Use Main Entrance off of RT. 108, once you turn into entrance go left to upper parking lot where bathrooms and new playground are located.

Distance: This course is around the lake, so whether you are running/walking the 5K, Relay, 1/2 or Full you can find a comfortable distance/pace for yourself!

1st Group Run :)

The first group run was well attended on what turned out to be a beautiful Saturday morning.
Walkers, joggers, babies, and dogs alike attended. Our next group run will likely be on Sunday April 20th, at Centennial Park at 2 PM. Please look for updates and we look forward to seeing more of you at the group runs.

Michael & Stephanie Draminski
Group Run Coordinators