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Tips for Organizing Your Event

The following to-do list is intended to help you plan and organize your tasks for each of your TeamMBA activities.

Before the Event

  • Identify your school's activity.
  • Make any necessary arrangements locally.
  • Designate a staff or faculty member to serve as the contact for GMAC.
  • Register your activity with TeamMBA.
  • Recruit participants.
  • Order TeamMBA shirts at teammba@gmac.com for your participants. Sizes available in medium, large, x-large, and xx-large.
  • Inform TeamMBA of any major developments in your plans.
  • Work with your communications department to send out a press release about your upcoming activity.
  • Remind your participants of the activity particulars (date, time, location, what to bring, phone numbers, etc.).

Day of Your Activity

  • Take lots of pictures, or even shoot video, of your participants in action. See Guidelines for Photos and Videos for tips on taking the highest-quality images.
  • Consider interviewing participants for their perspectives on social responsibility, the importance of your specific activity, and TeamMBA. The interviews can be videotaped or written for later use in a wrap-up article.
  • Have fun!

After Your Activity

Please share your experience with us so that we can share it with the graduate management education community.

  • Send your photos and videos to us for publishing on this website and in other communications about TeamMBA.
  • Submit a short article about the experience for publishing on this website. Include details such as:
    • Description of the activity
    • Who was the beneficiary
    • Why you selected that activity as TeamMBA
    • How many people participated and the breakdown (students, staff, faculty)
    • The impact ($$ raised, number of volunteer hours, people served, etc.)
  • Visit this site often to see what other schools are doing as TeamMBA.
  • Plan your next TeamMBA activity!

Submitting Photos and Articles

You may submit your photos, videos and article online or via email to teammba@gmac.com. See Guidelines for Photos and Videos for tips on taking and submitting the highest-quality images.