Event Logistics Planning
Event Logistics Planning
Project details
What we need
- 3-5 one hour consulting sessions covering topics like run of show, tech requirements, menu planning, etc.
- Written summary and/or notes on plans and best practices for topics discussed (e.g., a document outlining the sequence timing, content, logistics, and programming for an upcoming event)
Additional details
I'm planning a virtual celebration for the end of the summer that will consist of compiling pre-recorded content into a streaming presentation with some live (emcee maybe one performing artist) and interactive elements. I would like to help with planning the culmination event and some lead-up logistics including teasers and messaging on social media platforms. Also, the heavy-lift from my perspective will be streamlining the technology strategy, so I could use great advice there.
What we have in place
- We currently have a clear vision for the event, which should make it easy for you to get started. We also have support from directors, board, and volunteers, and the ability to provide any other information you need.
How this will help
This project will save us $1,792 , allowing us to stretch our event budget and include some paid advertising for our social media push.
2021 marks FLOW's 10-year Anniversary and the retirement of two of our key staff including our founder. As we look back to where we've been it informs our vision forward to the next decade of water protection. This event will serve to honor the past, our champions, and tell the story of the path ahead of us and how crucial it is for everyone's voice to be heard on the issue of safe, affordable, access to clean water for all! In an entertaining, educational interactive format that empowers action
Project plan
Our mission
FLOW's mission is to ensure the waters of the Great Lakes Basin are healthy, public, and protected for all.
Our mission encompasses all waters in the Basin, including groundwater, wetlands, rivers, streams, and inland lakes. We empower residents to know their rights under the public trust - an ancient and durable legal doctrine - that exists in all Great Lakes jurisdictions and provides its 40 million citizens a legal right to use these common waters for drinking, fishing, swimming, recreation, navigation, and the like.
We hold governments accountable for safeguarding our shared resources and address systemic threats to the Great Lakes Basin such as contamination, deteriorating infrastructure, and climate change.
The Great Lakes belong to all of us and they are ours to defend.
What we do
We believe access to clean water is a fundamental human right, essential for public health. Unfortunately, many communities in the Great Lakes Basin lack access to clean, safe, and affordable drinking water due to various issues, including household water shutoffs, lead contamination, failing infrastructure, emerging contaminants, and pollution of groundwater resources. Moreover, private interests are profiting from the extraction and bottling of public water, depleting Great Lakes tributaries, and endangering wildlife and personal wells. Climate change exacerbates surface water level changes, and the decaying Line 5 oil pipelines in the Straits of Mackinac continue to pose a significant threat to the Great Lakes.
Great Lakes Protection
FLOW is a leading legal and scientific voice and a founding steering committee member of Oil & Water Don't Mix, a broad-based, multi-year campaign to prevent a massive oil spill from the decaying pipelines that cross the open waters of the Straits of Mackinac.
Groundwater Protection
45% of Michigan residents drink groundwater, yet Michigan is the only U.S. state without a uniform septic code. FLOW is working to overcome more than 30 years of legislative gridlock in passing a statewide septic code that establishes a reasonable inspection schedule, ensures county health departments have sufficient resources to administer inspections and provides financial assistance to septic owners who may not be able to afford the cost of septic repairs or replacements.
In addition, FLOW is working with allies to tackle polluter pay reform. Since the repeal of polluter pay laws in Michigan in the 1990s, Michigan has amassed 11,000 contaminated "orphaned" sites for which the parties responsible for groundwater contamination are unknown.
Keeping Our Water Public
FLOW is working on solutions to address disparities in access to clean water and healthy lake ecosystems. FLOW has drafted a model state law that affirms public ownership of water and creates a Water Trust Fund using royalties derived from bottled water sales to support public health protection and infrastructure investment. FLOW is also working with allies to address water affordability concerns across the Great Lakes Basin.
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