Happy St. patrick’S Day!!
take a Seat We’ll Get to
The Juicy Details!!!!
Time to Focus on You!
What do I get for my dues?
•GMA Nalgene bottle or coffee thermos, and
coffee thermos
•Job Representation (We take care of you!)
Questions
www.gma@msu.edu
New Projects/E-Board
Positions!!
Alumni Coordinator
•E-Board position in charge of database of all GMA Alumni
& M.S.U. Alumni
•Work with Helen Dashney of Broad Dean’s Office, Kelly
Bishop of Career Services, & Alumni Foundation.
•Ultimate Networking Experience
•Intimate Database of All G.M.A. contacts & graduate
G.M.A. members.
Mentoring Coordinator
•Program designed to Mentor Freshmen & Sophomores.
•Provide maximum opportunities to incoming Business
Students
E-Board Positions
All Positions For Next Year Are
Open
•Every position except the President positions
(Sorry Guys: Neil & I are here to stay) will be
available to any General Member.
•Applications will be posted on the site after the
NYC Trip.
•Interviews will be scheduled for those as well
and conducted in our office at N121, BCC.
President 2010-2011
Keep In Mind
•Neil & I graduate in Spring 2010
•For all you go-getters and ambitious
people with goals:
– Neil & I notice EVERYTHING!!
– Haha, j/k but we are actively looking for our
legacy to be carried on. We don’t want
G.M.A. to spiral from poor leadership again.
•So work hard and maybe you can be
President!!!
Community Service
•To The Streets: April 4th: Tentative Time:
– 9:00 am-3:00 pm
– Environmental Community Service
– Volunteer time you can!
– To The Streets: April 4th: Tentative Time:
•Lansing Food Bank Volunteers
– Sign-Up Sheet Up Front
– Email GMA if interested
– We need a rough number to move forward.
Community Service
•All community Service questions and
concerns make sure to CC in email:
•Nicole Ambrose our Community Service
Coordinator
•Contact Info:
•ambrosen@msu.edu
Monster Inkjets
Team Concept
•There is no one “Leader” of each team, everyone
decided to try out the team philosophy first.
•Finance Team
•Advertising Team
•Marketing Team
•Technology, Web, & Research Team
•Sales & Purchases Team
Website
•I started to make tabs: More Soon!
More Monster
Accounts/Invoices
•Have 5-8 accounts ready to start
•Josh Miller: Accounting Senior/Graduate Student
•Phone: 517-488-3139
•Email: mill1533@msu.edu
•Call/Email Josh if you want to assist with Invoices &
Accounting System.
Business Plan
•Anyone interested in learning how to write a business
plan or contribute see Jason after the meeting.
•Can give you part of Business Plan (1-2 pages) to work
on
Bar Crawl
This Friday March 20th
Starts at 7pm!
•Buffalo Wild Wings
•The Riv
•P.T. O’Malley’s
•Harper’s
Remember to pick up your T-shirts
before you leave tonight!
What will I be doing this semester
New York Trip
•April 15th –April 19th
•Final Roster is Set & Explanations are available
Bar Crawl
•March 20th
•THIS FRIDAY!!!
•GMA Bar Crawl T-Shirt
•If you didn’t pre-order a T-Shirt its 1st come 1st serve
“To The Streets” Community Service Project
•“Environmental Project”
•April 4th
•9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
•Participate whenever you are available this day
Food Bank Volunteering!!!
Tiers
Tier I
•Completely Expense-Free
– Dependant on Bureaucratic M.S.U. Funding
– Paperwork, Red-Tape, etc. is chapping my ass.
– Hopefully Everything Comes Through As Planned.
•Only 13 applicants
•Through-out the application process and interview
these individuals excelled and stood out.
Tier I-II
•Applicants that are all accepted!!
•Tier Level is categorized based on funding!!
Tiers Explained
Tier I-B/Tier II-A.
•30 applicants
•Through-out the application process and interview
these individuals excelled and stood out. However,
because of our limited budget and massive interest we
decided to reward a select few and assist as many
others as we could.
•Consider yourself a Tier I caliber applicant.
•The Tier system allows us to manage our budgets and
funding allocating to each student.
Tiers I-B Explained
Tier I-B
•The Tier system allows us to manage our
budgets and funding allocating to each student.
•Funding for all Tier I-B students is limited.
•We will help in every and all ways we can.
•We decided to take more students and fund
less for each student in order to make the best
possible experience!
•We are aiming to fund approximately $150.00
of your trip expenses.
Tiers II-A Explained
Tier II-A
•These are accepted applicants that we cannot
afford to pay but we WANT you to go…Uncle
Sam Style.
•We will help in every and all ways we can, after
our Tier I students are taken care of.
•We decided to take more students and fund
less for each student in order to make the best
possible experience!
Tiers II-B Explained
Tier II-B
•These are accepted applicants that we cannot
afford to pay but we WANT you to go…Uncle
Sam Style.
•We will help in every and all ways we can, after
our Tier I students are taken care of.
•This is a “Special” group of students that we
feel like has the initiative, ambition, and
character to fundraise their way to NYC.
•You can fundraise through GMA or on your
own
Tiers II-B Explained
Tier II-B
•GMA is at your disposal in terms of
successful Fundraising. There are plenty
of opportunities to do this!
•This is open to All Tiers as well….Not just
Tier II-B.
•GMA & MSU can legitimize any
Fundraising efforts you have.
Fundraising
Ideas
•Mongolian BBQ, Noodles & Company, etc
•The Rock Camp-Out
•Pledge-An-Exam
•Candy Bars
•Hungry Howies Pizza Certificates
– Available through GMA
•Anything!!!
Open to ALL TIERS!!
Fundraising Progress
Events
•In little less than two days Tier II-B students have
responded!!
•We have fundraisers set up or in the works through
Buffalo Wild Wings, Noodles & Company, Pot Belly’s,
Cosi, etc.
•This can HAPPEN for you guys!!!
•It’s all up to how much YOU want it and how much YOU
want to work for it!
•Myself and my E-Board have too much to handle to put
as much passion into this as we would like.
•We are leaning on our AWESOME members (hopefully
prospective E-Board members)!!!!
NYC Trip Requirements
Document Found On The Website!!
Signed Document Due to GMA Box, GMA
Office, or E-Board member by General
Member Meeting:
03/31/09
Read & Familiarize Yourself With The
Requirements: You are still responsible to
start fulfilling these requirements before
03/31/09
Social Events Planned So Far
Saturday March 21st
•St. Patrick’s Day Party
•Green Obviously
•1150/1148 Albert Avenue
•Facebook Event Link:
•http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/event.php?eid=623365
41569#wall_posts
Friday March 27th
•Beach/Spring Break/Hawaii Party
•Limbo Contest
•Luaha Contest
•Best Dressed Contest
•Best Couple Contest
•Pint to Winners of Each Contest (If you don’t drink we can work it out)
Social Events
Keep checking Website for all events.
Refer to Calendar at the end of this
presentation.
Please don’t email/call asking about
opportunities until you have CHECKED
FOR YOURSELF.
Reference all GMA emails and Website, and Facebook
group before being lazy and emailing us.
Next Meeting
Tuesday 03/24/09!
At 6:00pm in N103 Business College
Complex
Presenter: Jerry Sprague
E-Board: Networking Presentation #1
Based on Best Selling Author Jeffrey
Gitomer’s Little Black Book of
Connections
March 2009
15
16
17
18
St.Patty’s Day
GMA
Meeting
22
23
24
GMA
Meeting
E-Board
Meeting
Afterward
29
30
31
GMA
Meeting
19
Monster
Inkjets
Meeting
6:00 PM
Gast Business
Library Room
25
26
20
Bar Crawl
E-Board
21
NYC GMA
PARTY!!!
St. Patty’s
Theme
1150
Albert
Avenue
27NYC
28
Monster Inkjets
GMA
Meeting
PARTY!!
6:00 PM
Gast Business
Beach
Library Room
Theme/Spr
Bowling @ ing
The Union Break/Haw
aii Theme
April 2009
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1
2Monster
3
4
“To The
Streets”
GMA Event
10
11
Inkjets Meeting
6:00 PM
Gast Business
Library Room
Bowling @ The
Union
5
6
7
8
9Monster
Inkjets Meeting
6:00 PM
Gast Business
Library Room
GMA Meeting
Lugnutz Thirsty
Thursday
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
22
23Monster
24
25
Final GMA
Meeting
19
20
21