Though I’ve been neglecting Marketing for Good for a bit, its nice to know that others aren’t. Here’s an email I received today from fellow Dukie, Victor Jeffreys II of All Day Buffet about a very good event in NYC on the 9th of June at the Delancy:
I’ve been working on an Internet Week event with alldaybuffet and Behance called Make Good Ideas Happen. Well it’s coming up (Monday June 9th from 7-10) and it should prove to be frickin’ awesome.
We’ll be bringing together three stellar nonprofits–City Year, Starting Bloc and Sustainable South Bronx— and all the creative people in alldaybuffet’s and behance’s networks on the roof of the Delancey for a night of drinking, thinking and world shaking change.
Each nonprofit will present ideas they are pursuing to change the world. Attendants will bring their idealism and leave Action Steps with resources, connections, and next steps to help make their ideas happen.
StartingBloc, which runs an amazing social entrepreneurship education programs with help from founding partners MIT Sloan and London Business School, has an amazing alumni network of 850+ from 40 different countries. They’ll be kicking off their fundraising summer at MGIH and looking for help with growth strategies and ideas on their web presence, communications and ways to raise funds to provide training for the creative community.
Sustainable South Bronx will be launching a new consultancy headed by Majora Carter (a MacArthur winning leader in environmental justice and “greening the ghetto” ) to bring SSBX’s strategies and learnings about urban greening initiatives to other municipalities. They’ll be looking for idea and help on what that should/could look like.
And City Year, which allows young people to dedicate a year to volunteerism, will be looking for ideas on how to make the most commonly asked question of a 17 to 24 year old is “Where are you going to do your service year?”
And of course, there will be drinks and fun hanging out on a rooftop on a summer night. So it would be great if you could come to give these nonprofits some ideas and help make their amazing initiatives a reality. There’ll be more about them coming soon to the alldaybuffet.org.
If you know anyone (designers, planners, advertisers, programmers etc.) who’d be interested too, by all means, tell them to stop by. And if you want to help out, that would be amazing. We could always use help getting the word out ( if you know/are a reporter, blogger, etc) as well as help at the event (we need facilitators, door people and a photographer).
Thanks so much all! Hope you can make it–should be a really GOOD night (7-10pm, Free) June 9, 2008
Ironically, I have a meeting at Children for Children that evening SO I can’t make it. For goodness sake, perhaps one of you could go and report back.