September 25, 2006

Mass Meeting

Start: 4:35 pm - End: 5:37 pm

Present: Ramy, Zeshahn, Majed Afana, Hany, Awais Alam, Rania, Amal Hassan, Ayman, Maher, Kenan Katranji, Shan, Sakina Alam, Nousseiba, Abrar Founas, Amna Karim, Hodhaifa, Asmaa Awad, Aisha Farooqi and sister, Shafi Ahmed, Adnan Ahmad, Samad Mohammad, Nabila Ikram

1. Opening Du'a by Ayman

Take a few seconds to renew intentions for the MSA and the Unity Dinner.

2. Education

§ Sheik Abdul Walid – topic unknown

§ Try to find out topics

§ Make a check list for someone to follow so that nothing is left behind

3. Outreach

§ Sheik Abdul Walid

§ Start trying to get khatibs planned 3 weeks in advance

§ Attendance in the past was 20-30 people

4. On Campus

§ Community Service

· Went well. 17 people attended, 7 new people came

· November will try to do Habitat for Humanity

¨ Next community service will be the 3^rd Saturday

§ Social

· Eid Social – November 9, want to cosponsor with TMA

· October 28 sisters Eid Party and brothers will do something else

5. Ramadan

§ For setting up get other people

§ Send out an e-mail to the list asking for volunteers and donations

6. Unity in Diversity

§ Advertising for Unity

· Printed 5,000 fliers and 25 posters

· Masjid Fliers

¨ Canton, Toledo, and IAGD are taken care of

¨ Tahweed Center – Asmaa

¨ Unity Center – Taken care of

¨ Franklin – Ayman

¨ ICD – Suhaib Hanooti

¨ ICA – Al-saadi

¨ Dix

¨ Brownstown – Amal

¨ Lansing – taken care of

¨ Tawheed (Warren) – Awais

· Campuses

¨ OU covered

¨ Ann Arbor – covered

¨ Wayne – Amna

· Posters need to put up by Wednesday. That gives us 2 weeks to advertise

· Have 2 Jummahs till the dinner – stick the fliers in peoples windshields or Tarawih

¨ Prefer to put on peoples car

· Fliers

¨ IAGD – Shafi

¨ Ann Arbor – Sakina

¨ Unity Center – Abrar

¨ Franklin – Asmaa

¨ Canton – Amna

¨ Brownstown – Amal

¨ Wayne State – Amna

· Emails

¨ Shan – Every Sunday in the weekly announcements

¨ Maher – September 28, October 5^th and October 12^th

· Suhaib will be sending it to the lists and on websites

· Rania put the popup on website

· Mailing out invitations to all the members – Abrar. Should be completed by end of this week

· Shan hang up banner in the UC, talk to Randy

· Talk about it at the Day Sale lottery on September 28^th and promotional table October 10^th

§ Sponsorship

· Unity Center – Asmaa talked to them and they are interested in it. Will get back with their response by end of this week. Rice Krispy will contact. Try to have them do an iftar instead

· Contracts need to be turned in by Friday as well as money.

· For Platinum and Gold Sponsorship

¨ Find out how many VIPS, the names, and how many are coming

¨ Let platinum know about the 2 minute speak they are allowed

· Sponsorship Banners

· Receipts

§ Speaker

· All 3 speakers are confirmed

· Chancellor Little is confirmed. Michael Hoovey, Gail Cated and Imam Salia

· Tell the speakers to come in a bit later

§ Food

· Shan contact Duria and set up meeting time to check out facilitiers

· Menu

¨ Rice

¨ Chicken

¨ Meat dish

¨ Vegetarian dish

¨ Hummus

¨ Pasta

§ Decorations

· Colors

¨ Red and Gold (4 votes)

¨ Maroon and Silver (1)

¨ Silver and Green (6)

¨ Silver and Turquoise (5)

¨ White and Black

¨ Black, White and Red (8)

¨ Salmon and Beige (6)

¨ Silver and Baby Blue (6)

¨ Pink and White

7. MISC

§ Next Meeting – finalize program

§ Aisha Farooqi

· November 18

· Siraj Wahab – talk about Marriage

· Kamran – talk about youth problems we face

· In Dearborn FCS, maybe charge $5-$10

· Have a week to let Aisha know if MSA is interested in cosponsoring it

· Would want MSA  to introduce the speakers, advertising, possibly raising some funds

8. Closing Du'a by Shafi

Zeshahn Humayun