Mother's Ball: Promenade in Pink

In the midst of getting our information out there for people to know about us and the excellent service we provide, we ended up sending our "schpeel" to savvyplanners.com, a full service, free thinking, creative and trailblazing GLBT wedding and event plannig and Concierge firm. Shortly after sending the "Schpeel", we get a call from the CEO, MW Savant, who by the way is as fabulous as fabulous gets. I can literally talk to him FOREVER!!! But he was in the middle of a crisis, and wondered if we would be able to help.

Sister's Network of Central New Jersey, a non profit organization for African American breast cancer survivors had recently purchased a new facility in Somerset New Jersey. In order to raise money to help pay for this new facility, they decided they would host a gala on May 2nd, 2008. So they contact savvyplanners.com to help put the whole event together. The problem was, the event was 44days way, and the organization had NO MONEY.

Luckily, the Hyatt Regency in New Brunswick, NJ, had agreed to host the event, but that was all they had. No decor, no sponsors, no entertainment, NOTHING!!! So, when MW explained his situation to me, I could completely understand why he was stressing out. MW luckily, with his contacts in the industry, was able to pull some strings to get some top line entertainment for the gala, but there was still the problem of no money for decor and no volunteers to work the event. And in order to have a fabulous event, you know some beautiful decor was going to be needed.

So when MW contacted us, we signed on immediately. This was our opportunity to show what we've been saying we could do for the corporate community. Immediately, we started putting a sponsorship package together, and started contacting our contacts in the media. MW's creativity, combined with ours, as well as both our work ethic is really showing us that we will be able to pull off this event. Some sponsors have come onboard...thanks to MW's efforts, and we're awaiting many more. I'm really thinking we are going to blow the minds of these breast cancer survivors when they see what we have in store for them. So we're really excited because they are deserving of having something nice done for them. The've been through so much already.

So, at this point, we're 39 days away and counting, but I believe we're going to pull it off. These are the kinds of opportunity that we look forward to because they make it all worthwhile. It's going to be a great event. We'll keep you updated on the progress we're making with getting people to come on board.

In the meantime...check us out on our website: www.rnbspecialevents.com.

For more information on SNCNJ, please visit:
www.sncnj.org
Phone: 732-246-8300
Fax: 732-246-3535
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