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breathe Corina! and lets look at this from another way.
what NBO needs first and formost (in my opinion) is ORGANIZATION. Not everything should be left up to you to decide. Thats why GLO's have an executive council. Its to delegate responsibilties to other people, so everyone has time to themselves.
INMHO, this is what i think needs to happen:
1. Raise dues. If they want to spend $100 on flyers, tshirts, or anything else that is not about sisterhood, there should be a lump some of money going into that account. It should remain seperate from sister hood activities. Plus, if you want to have a good rush, then you need to get some cash flow going. I think (and this is just what i have seen and heard from my campus) normal dues ran from about $250-$400 a semester. and thats per person. (however that does include what we would pay to nationals, but you eventually would have to do that anyway).
2. Get an ANAL RETENTIVE TREASURER. That person will be the person who disperses the money. Only the president and she should have access to any finances. If she thinks $100 flyers are a really bad investment, she doesnt have to give them a check unless you approve it. In my GLO we have to have both the presidents signature and the treasurers signature on each purchase order and check.
3. Have an executive council meeting once a week, on top of your regular meetings. This would be just to review some issues that may come up.
4. Have the other exsisting members make up councils....like the social council (which would also include risk management issues), the recruitment council (they would form ideas to get the ball rolling for rush), the new member/education council (they would come up with ideas for the new members once they get in), ect.
Then have each of these councils report to different individuals on the executive council.
Does that make any sense???? anyway, thats just how my chapter of AZD did things. and it worked extremely well!
-Maggie
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