May SBSA Happy Hour, hosted by Columbia
Place: Still Liquor (Seattle): stillliquor.com (map)
Date: 19 May 2010
Time: 5:30-7:30p
Address: 1524 Minor Ave., Seattle, WA 98101 - Minor Avenue between Pike and Pine Streets on Capitol Hill (this is one block east of Boren Avenue and two blocks east of I-5)

Columbia Business School is happy to host a joint SBSA/Columbia University Happy Hour on Wednesday, May 19th at Still Liquor at 1524 Minor Ave., Seattle, WA 98101 (www.stillliquor.com).

See the Events Calendar for more upcoming events

Objectives

• Provide and promote events of interest for the benefit of each club’s membership
• Increase alumni involvement in each member school’s club by offering a diversity of activities and events that each respective club may not be able to offer and provide on its own
• Share the efforts, expenses and benefits of co-sponsored events with other business school clubs
• Sponsor events that will increase the visibility, awareness and reputation of SBSA member clubs within the Puget Sound region
• Sponsor and promote events that provide continuing education opportunities for alliance members and networking opportunities between alumni of member schools and prominent business leaders

Operating Parameters

• Hold bi-monthly Board meetings (6 per year)
• Hold regular networking gatherings, with goal of 1 event per month and alternating locations between downtown and the Eastside
• Maintain a website and distribution lists to communicate calendar of events to member schools and other key contacts
• Each member school must sponsor or co-sponsor a minimum of one event per year (happy hour, speaker, panel, seminar, etc.), with the event being open to attendance by alumni of all member schools
• Monthly communication of upcoming activities will be broadcasted to Board members and in turn to each club’s membership
• Each member school shall designate one representative to the SBSA Board of Directors
• Board members must attend 80% of board meetings (5 of 6) per year
• Executive Director will be nominated and elected for one-year term each calendar year
• Target membership is 10-20 school clubs with membership reviewed annually and decisions on additions and/or reductions made by the Board of Directors
• Decisions are made by majority rule