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.