Fundraiser Cookbook Overview

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Fundraiser Cookbook Overview
Pomme de Terre Food Coop

• Cookbook Committee Chair
• Clare Strand
• strandcd_at_umn.edu

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What Is It?

• A book that will capture recipes unique to our
  community, particularly the elderly (via Service
  Learning project)
• A book that will follow predetermined formatting
  and on-line submission of materials to simplify
  the process and offer the most return for the
  dollar.

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Why are we doing this?

• To raise money for a new display freezer
• Provide an opportunity for Coop members,
  volunteers, and our community to build relations
  with one another

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What will it take?

• Collection of recipes
• Typing of recipes to file
• Selection of cover, layout, dividers etc.
• Money up front
• Patience, determination, good will

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When will it happen?

• Beginning now with this Introduction and Overview
  and go ahead from the board
• Next PDT board decides which freezer to go for
• Cookbook Committee will then be formed to start
  making basic decisions
• Collecting of recipes comes next, continues
  through ? (dependent on Argies Service Learning
  project)
• Goal will be to have cookbooks ready to sell in
  time for holiday shopping 2005

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What is required of Committee?

• Decide of recipes, of books to order
• Decide categories (could be predetermined)
• Cover design (some choices predetermined)
• Divider design (if we make our own, who will do
  it)
• Anything else to be included (cooking hints,
  index, photos, etc.)
• Soliciting recipes and typing those submitted on
  handwritten forms
• Sending text, design choices etc.to cookbook
  printing company proofing copy managing bill
  paying distributing and promoting books

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What will it cost?

• Ball park 200 books with 150 recipes, 2.35 per
  book to produce however
• There are setup fees, costs for extra stuff, type
  of binding chosen, dividers, etc.
• The less specialized the cheaper and easier to
  produce.
• (Note if we try and be too specialized then
  the project workload will become too heavy and
  no one will want to do it- including me)

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Whats next?

• Details needed by the board from Clare and/ or
  committee about the book, the process, etc.
• Decision about which freezer we plan to buy so
  that it can be part of the early promotion
• Decision about how much could be used for
  upfront costs