Golf & Tennis Outing

Golf & Tennis Outing/Annual Fundraiser
Chairs: Rob Shiff

The Committee divides its work into two parts:1) Soliciting donations from the greater Ann Arbor Community, including Club members, in support of the Club's designated Community Service Project(s), and 2) Staging the Golf Outing and/or other event selected to be associated with the fundraising.

The fundraising work involves helping to select the beneficiary projects, preparing the promotional materials, preparing the solicitation list and making the asks. The event work involves selecting the venue, date and type of event, doing the detailed planning of all the tasks involved to stage the event and executing the tasks both before and the day of the event.

The fundraising involves contact with a broad cross section of potential donors, and the event work requires contact with various interfaces at the venue and with organizations /individuals who may provide auction items for the event. The time commitment is directly proportional to the specific tasks a committee member agrees to carry out. The overall effort takes substantial resources requiring many planners and volunteer workers.

It is hands on work. The planning of next year's campaign starts shortly after the prior year's event with lesson's learned, etc. Big decisions on type of event, date, venue and beneficiary Club projects need to be made by early in the calendar year. Fundraising starts late in the first quarter and runs till mid summer. Event planning, once the event type and date have been decided, usually needs about six months lead time; and the work intensifies as the date draws near. However, summer vacation schedules need to be factored in based on our practice of an early September date for the event.

There is a core leadership group that works the entire year and averages about five from year to year. About a dozen or so members form the core of the fundraising effort, but more solicitors are needed. The event planning and execution group starts at about a dozen and grows to about twenty five to thirty who actually work the day of the event.