Organization Committee
Chair: Michelle Truly
Chair: Michelle Truly
The Organization Committee is charged with volunteer
recruitment and recognition, fund-raising, and long-term
vitality of Lake City DIRT.
Lake City DIRT's 2009 Year-End Report
Each committee relies on volunteers. Visit each DIRT
committee page to find out about projects and programs that
need your volunteer help!
Lake City DIRT Receives a 2009 Governor's
Award for Best Downtown Management Program
Virtual Volunteer Opportunities:
Economic Restructuring
Promotion
+ Sharing LC experiences on www.lakecityonjo.com
+ Encouraging friends and family to contact the Chamber of
Commerce for more information (1-800-569-1874)
Organization
Design
Overall DIRT Work
Lake City -based Volunteer Opportunities:
For further information or to sign up for specific tasks call
970-944-DIRT or email
recruitment and recognition, fund-raising, and long-term
vitality of Lake City DIRT.
Lake City DIRT's 2009 Year-End Report
Each committee relies on volunteers. Visit each DIRT
committee page to find out about projects and programs that
need your volunteer help!
Lake City DIRT Receives a 2009 Governor's
Award for Best Downtown Management Program
Virtual Volunteer Opportunities:
Economic Restructuring
- Research successful affordable housing models in other rural
communities. - Interview Lake City business owners and write “biographies”.
- Draft short, informative pieces on the benefits of Buying Locally
in Lake City. - Lake City has a high percentage of “senior businesses” –
businesses that have been owned for more than 25 years by the
same owner. Research the impacts of this on our future and
identify ways other communities have addressed this. - Identify additional outreach opportunities to bring teleworkers to
Lake City and further distribute DIRT’s teleworking materials. - Gather ideas from other communities for Economic
Restructuring planning meetings.
Promotion
- Solicit vendor registrations for the Third Street Market.
- Solicit vendor registrations for the 2009 Festival.
- Interview Third Street Market vendors and write paragraphs for
our website and outreach materials. - Create an artistic rendition of the 2009 art form (it’s a deer) to be
auctioned as a fundraiser for DIRT. - Be an ambassador for the Lake City area remotely by:
+ Sharing LC experiences on www.lakecityonjo.com
+ Encouraging friends and family to contact the Chamber of
Commerce for more information (1-800-569-1874)
- Gather ideas from other communities for Promotion annual
planning retreat.
Organization
- Solicit business sponsorships for the 2009 Festival.
- Identify potential businesses for sponsorship of the 2009
Festival and email contact information to DIRT. - Write grants and Letters of Intent to specific funders.
- Help gather photographs and develop layout for 2010
Engagement Calendar. - Pre-sell orders for 2010 Engagement Calendar.
- Write thank you notes to volunteers and donors.
- Gather ideas from other communities for fund-raising events,
volunteer recruitment & management, and nonprofit
management.
Design
- Identify sources of financial support to accomplish beautification
projects. - Remotely help raise funds for the Youth Corps.
- Assist with research and writing of interpretive signs, brochures,
and displays. - Gather ideas from other communities for design and historic
preservation.
Overall DIRT Work
- Assist with organizational reviews and updating documents.
- Collect & compile data for Downtown Colorado, Inc. reports.
- Assist (remotely) with marketing and outreach for the Third
Street Market, 2009 Festival, History Month, our Annual
Economic Development Summit, Art Walk, events. - Gather ideas from other Main Street communities and rural
towns for best practices.
Lake City -based Volunteer Opportunities:
- Assist with Third Street Market set-up and tear-down on
Saturdays. - Sign up to host the DIRT booth at the Third Street Market.
- Help with set-up, clean-up, and wine serving at the 2009
Festival. - Volunteer to work alongside the Youth Corps during work
projects. - Interview potential Youth Corps participants.
- Assist potential Youth Corps participants with resume writing.
- Distribute invites to the monthly Coffee & Conversation.
- Assist with business surveys and distribution of springtime
packets to all businesses. - Gather specifics for potential work projects for the Youth Corps.
- Distribute art walk and auction maps, outreach materials, and
artwork throughout the area. - Volunteer assistance is always needed with special events
(making snacks and desserts, set-up and clean-up, and
coordinating other volunteers with logistics).
For further information or to sign up for specific tasks call
970-944-DIRT or email
| Email • 970-944-DIRT (3478) PO Box 973 Lake City, CO 81235 LC DIRT BOD - Secure login |
| Join us & Dig in! Volunteer handbook Volunteer application |
| DIRT COMMITTEES DESIGN ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING ORGANIZATION PROMOTION |
| Volunteer to be a Wine Server at the Wine & Music Festival |
| 2007 Commemorative Ornament |
| 2008 Commemorative Ornament |
CLICK HERE to make a secure on line payment to DIRT! You will be forwarded to the National Trust for Historic Preservation site. |
| Annual Reports 2009 Annual Report 2008 Annual Report |
| Lake City DIRT has been identified as a contribution project in the Region 10 rural enterprise zone. This means that private contributions made to DIRT in 2009 will receive a 25% Colorado tax credit and in-kind contributions will receive a 12.5% Colorado tax credit. For more information, contact us |
| 2009 Commemorative Ornament How to Order |
| Facilitated Conversation April 2009 Chamber DIRT Marketing Board Lodging Tax Downtown Colorado Inc Dpt of Local Affairs Results |
