Checklist:

CHECKLIST
4 WEEKS BEFORE
Recruit staff
Identify Reception Coordinator
Identify Ikebana Arranger
Prepare Email for Participant
Email Target Participants and Make NE Sangha Announcement
2 WEEKS BEFORE
Check in with Director
Check for needed supplies
Arrange house for out-of-town people
Contact lunch caterer
1 WEEK BEFORE
Check in with staff
Locate slogans and frames
Get honorarium and card
Email participants
Arrange Director Suite setup
Plan reunion
Determine who will take Director to meals
Fill out Staff Logistics Sheet
Remind staff to bring receipts
Send staff slogans, logic statements and assignments
Collect phone numbers
Do you have a key, does anyone else need one
FRIDAY NIGHT
Staff meeting
Post Staff Logistics Sheet and schedule
Set out slogans
Everything clean?
Meditation hall setup?
Director’s chair, table, flower, mike?
Registration table setup
Director’s Suite setup
Greeter on duty
Confirm which staff will handle breakfast- key?
Opening introduction/welcome
Closing announcements and introductions
End of night clean up
Remove director’s chair and table
SATURDAY AM
Setup for breakfast and registration
Check in with Director
Everyone here?
At first sitting ask participants to stay in the same seat to assist with interviews
SATURDAY PM
Does the Director want to specify participants to interviewers?
Does the Director want to give staff interviews?
Setup for interviews
Give each interviewer and escort copy of Interview Roster
Setup for tea break
During tea break setup for next talk
End of the day clean up
Water flower arrangements
Lockup
SUNDAY AM
Setup for breakfast
Check in with Director
Anyone missing?
Post “No Sitting” sign on front door before 9:00
Arrange logistics for discussion groups
Arrange for staff reimbursement of expenses.
SUNDAY PM
Everything setup for interviews
Setup for tea
During tea break setup for final talk
Setup for reception
Closing announcements
CLEAN UP, see checklist at end of document
AFTER WEEKEND
Send treasurer receipts, funds and final accounting
Update database to reflect actual roster of participants and staff