Committee Planning Report

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**Type of report being submitted: Committee Planning Report

**Date: 11/22/2019

**Committee Name: NMRT Annual Conference Professional Development Attendance Award Committee

**Supervising Board Member:  Kimberly Redd

**Chair, Co-Chairs, Assistant Chairs: Athanasia Fitos      

**Committee members: 

Kayla Kuni

Jillian Hayes

Kathleen Wheeler

Ariana Santiago

Lavoris Martin

**Committee Charge:

Choose two recipients of the Annual Conference Professional Development Attendance Award and provide each winner with one ticket to the event of their choice ($100 value or less) at the Annual Conference.

**Project Description / Goals: 

• Publicize availability of the award and solicit applications.
• Select recipients.
• Notify recipients as well as applicants who were not selected.

**Specific Objectives (numbers, tangible end-products): 

• Publicize availability of the award and solicit applications.
• Select recipients.
• Notify recipients as well as applicants who were not selected.

Financial Report Section:

1. Vendor support planned or anticipated for the year (either money or in-kind gifts), list here:

1. Vendor support requested: (From the above list, what, if any, has been requested from the Exhibitor Contact and Relations Committee?)

Not Applicable at this time

1. Vendor support received: (From the above list, what if any, has been received?)

Not Applicable at this time

Specific Needs/Support (non-financial): (For the categories below, please include approximate date service needed)

1. Web Support (help with webpage creation, web form creation, web database, web database, scripting, etc): Not Applicable

1. On-site conference volunteers: (include estimated numbers needed and brief job description)

Not Applicable

1. Publicity planned for the committee (posting to other discussion lists, official press release for webpage, etc.):

Committee will be meeting in coming weeks/months to plan publicity and marketing of award announcement and inclusion in any other press releases for offering participant support to attend the conference. Committee has done introductions via email, and a brief orientation to the charge of the committee. Work for this committee begins shortly in preparation for release of application.

**Report submitted by: 

Athanasia Fitos

**Email address:  fitosa@mdpls.org