Budget Plan

Dear Executive Board of Wealth Gap Club,

I'm in the process of creating a budget plan for our club. We would like to get some money because after all everyone wants money, right? Okay, now jokes aside. We need funds in order for our club to move forward. So the first step toward getting funds from the Budget Committee is to come up with good reasons for getting those funds. So here is what I have come up with so far:

1. Movies
2. Protest
3. Exhibition
4. Speakers
5. Potlucks
6. Trips to visit some prominent NGOs

Let me explain first what I mean by those terms. In the last meeting, we were talking about putting on a movie for the whole campus to see. In this way, we can hope to get more attention from people to get involved in what we are striving for. In order to put on a movie, we have to pay around $500 for movie rights. The first movie that we are planning on watching will most likely be sponsored by the other clubs because they already have access to the funds and we don't. Plus, other clubs are active, so they can bring more viewers to the event, so it's actually wise to partner with other clubs. 

The second reason why we need funds is that we need money to prepare for the protest. The protest is coming up very soon in the upcoming semester. We have to buy T-shirts, wristbands, and whatever that can be useful for advertisement of the club. After all, we want to tell them who were and get across a clear message.

The third reason is that we are planning on organizing an exhibition. Our project will be called "Bringing poverty to the museum". Our project requires some art work and colorful pictures that we need to show people what poverty is all about. We will, therefore, need some money to print out the colorful pictures. 

We would also like to bring some prominent speakers to the campus. It would be interesting to see what kind of ideas they have for solving the problem of poverty. Prominent speakers, obviously, will demand some money, so  funding from the Budget Committee will be required. Apparently we could bring to the campus somebody like Paul Ryan or Muhammad Yunus.

In order to fulfill our social requirement, we need to get some funds to buy food for our potluck event. It is an ideal way to socialize and bring together people interested in wealth inequalities. 

I was also thinking about taking a trip to visit some interesting NGOs that work toward eradication of poverty. That also requires money. 

So what do you guys think? I will give an estimate of how much money we need in the next report. If you guys have any ideas regarding our budget proposal, please let me know, so that I can put everything together in a document. I will also seek advice from Bill Conover, Carol from LAPCs, and other clubs that are also interested in the problem of poverty (Peace and Justice, ONE, Model of United Nations).

Best wishes,

Minh