NOH Meeting: 7/20/05
ASU Memorial Union

Attendees: Chirag, Sonu, Ramakrishna, Ravi, Mukund, Nirmal, Guatam, Sri

Minutes:

- Volunteers for NOH
? Each volunteer to get more volunteers (even NOH specific volunteers)
? Encourage carpooling to get additional volunteers
- Wide update
? 7 chapters to host concert
? Contract almost signed
? Citibank and Sulekha deals - not pursuing
? Cleveland $100 tickets (including dinner)
- Asha AZ update
? 3pm sound check
? Concert at 5:30pm
? Stay in PHX one night
? $10k in sponsorship committed
? Seating capacity - 773
? Ticket prices - 100, 50, 30, 20 (student discount of $5 on any
ticket)
? Asha Gopal - package deal - collaboration with dance program on
peace ($5 discount on $20 and $30; $10 on $50 tickets)
? 150 business card (2 $20 tickets), 250 quarter page (2 $30 tickets),
500 half page (2 $50 tickets), 1000 full page (2 $100 tickets) -
basically equivalent of total cost of tickets in discount - Aug 20 deadline
for Ads
? Hit realtors, doctors, landlords, bosses,
? Bring NOH 2004 brochures to meeting - Nirmal
? Send denominations to Caroline for printing tickets - Chirag
? Spons
§ AZ commission of arts - $1500-$3000? Caroline
§ Send out flyer on ashaaz group - Caroline/Sonu
§ ASU - max of $400 - Mukund to check
? Invocation
§ 20 multinational kids to sing? (get NOH group's consensus if
they're available)  - Caroline
§ Check with Asha Gopal on possibility of invocation dance (need to
get NOH group's consensus if she's available) - Mukund
? Asha Presentation - Sri out of town so need to find new speaker -
Nirmal
? Meeting with Scottsdale Center for Arts on Friday - Sonu, Caroline,
Nirmal and Mukund(?)
? Publicity
§ AID concert on Aug 7 - Sri to sell tickets
§ Need to contact NPR, alternative radio stations, PBS local - Sonu
§ Local events attendance - inform Chirag: everyone
§ Hit association assignments in Excel sheet: everyone

? Next meeting Aug. 3rd at general meeting