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2019 Kickoff Dinner

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ORGANIZATION: Back 2 School Illinois

  • A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
  • 10 people are interested
Kickoff Event

We need volunteers to help us with our annual Back 2 School Kickoff Event at Galleria Marchetti (825 W. Erie Street). This event will feature a cocktail hour and silent auction from 5:30pm-7:00pm in the La Sala Perugina and La Pergola (Front and side rooms), and then all guests will move to the main room for dinner, entertainment, and college scholarship presentation.

We need volunteers for each time slot listed below. If you are available before 3pm to help us organize our materials, then please specify in your email. The venue is open to us at 3pm, which gives us slightly more than three hours to ready the venue space. To become a volunteer, email our Events Coordinator at SpencerPost@b2si.org. Please provide your name, phone number, and the time you wish to volunteer. Below is a list of volunteer times that will be assigned. If you have a job preference, or have worked our Kickoff Event before, please let us know in your email.

Dinner will be provided for all volunteers, except those who leave at 5pm. Cocktail attire is required.

3:00pm - 5:00pm (For any volunteers that wish to help before the festivities are underway)

  • Hang signage and decorations
  • Set up guest check-in and B2SI information table
  • Put together gift bags
  • Set up silent auction tables
  • Place centerpieces, donation cards and program books on each dining table

3:00pm - 9:15pm

  • All the tasks listed above as well as....
  • Guest check-in
  • Monitor silent auction
  • Assist AV technician (Will need only one person with AV experience)
  • Provide guests with info on B2SI at information table

4:30pm - 9:15pm (For volunteers that are unable to leave work early)

  • Monitor silent auction
  • Collect donation/ask cards and pens from guests
  • Pass out Thank You cards
  • Check out of silent auction
  • Pack/load B2SI materials
  • Fill in where help is needed

For any additional information on this event, visit our website at www.b2si.orgor email Spencer Post, our Events Coordinator, SpencerPost@b2si.org

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About Back 2 School Illinois

Location:

3959 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, IL 60613, US

Mission Statement

The mission of Back 2 School Illinois is to create and support educational opportunities that enrich the lives of Illinois children.

Description

We create and support educational opportunities in the state of Illinois. We have one program in which we provide high school seniors scholarships to attend college.

Our biggest endevor is our Back 2 School program that provides school supplies to deserving children. Each year we do a big summer fundraising program and then purchase and distribute hundreds fo thousands of school supplies to needy children with the help of our partner agency, the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago.

CAUSE AREAS

Children & Youth
Community
Education & Literacy
Children & Youth, Community, Education & Literacy

WHEN

Thu May 02, 2019
03:00 PM - 09:15 PM

WHERE

825 W Erie StChicago, IL 60642

(41.89313,-87.64854)
 

SKILLS

  • Critical Thinking
  • Multi-Tasking
  • Organization
  • People Skills
  • Problem Solving
  • Relationship Building

GOOD FOR

  • Group

REQUIREMENTS

  • Must be at least 18
  • 6 hours

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