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Quote terrys Replybullet Posted: 1/17/07 at 7:11am
Jenn:
I love the "Best Seat in the House" idea.  I'm going to try a version of that for our Fall Production.
Thanks for sharing.
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Quote bhctexec Replybullet Posted: 4/25/07 at 4:30pm
Richard Young,
I just came across this site doing a search for fundraising ideas.  One of the things our board just approved was sending out a second letter to our past donors.  I liked your idea of the humorous approach, but I am fresh out of ideas.  I know I am asking alot, but is there anyway you would be willing to pass along samples of your letters?  Time is short and new  ideas are even shorter.  If this isn't stepping to far over the line, you could send samples to executive@bhct.org
 
Thanks.  This is a great site.
 
 
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Quote Nanette Replybullet Posted: 8/17/07 at 7:17am
We just finished our first big fund raising event and it was really successful.  At our town's annual "event" (parade, music, food, etc.) we had a silent auction booth.  The items were donated locally from business and families of the kids in the theatre ... we had everything from birthday baskets, alteration services, and pizza certificates to babysitting, housecleaning, and "I'll take you out for dinner".  All we had to do was set up a tent and encourage people to come in and bid.  We ended up making over $1000 in less than 8 hours.
 
We've also done the "Best Seat in the House" which went over really well.  We'll be doing that again this year.
 
Our next fund raiser is "flocking".  I'll update everyone on how well this one comes out.
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Quote JohnnyOneNote Replybullet Posted: 8/26/07 at 7:42am
We just finished a fundraiser yesterday -
Breakfast With The Cast Of GREASE!
The local Applebee's sponsored the benefit from 7am to 11am.
We set up a small sound system and all the cast was there in costume and waited on the tables. There was one plate. Scrambled eggs, bacon and pancakes. Plus juice, coffee and tea.
 
We pre-sold tickets for $5 each (should have been $10 but oh well)
and had about 30 available at the door for stragglers. :)
 
We also had a raffle and had sponsors for items, such as a two night stay for two at the Hilton Hot tub Room, A Dinner for two at a very swanky country club, Bottles of fine wine, Dinner at Applebees (of course), plus a Pink Ladies Jacket and a Leather Jacket autographed by the cast and tickets to the show.
 
If someone wanted to hear a song from the show, we asked that they would tip the DJ (Vince Fontaine of course)
 
We also invited a local Classic Car group to come and had about 15 - 40 to 50's cars in the parking lot.
And sold rides for a dollar in 'GREASED LIGHTENING" a Red 1957 Chevy.
Most paid more than a dollar so they could ride longer. :)
 
It was a fantastic fundraiser! Our cost for food (which we paid Applebees) was $280 the Pink Ladies jacket and Leather jacket were $50 bucks each
Selling the raffle tickets for $5 or 5 for $50 we raised over $1200
With tips from the DJ and the tables we made over $500
Ticket sales (sold out 300 tickets) was $1500
Total made througout the day was over $3500
PLUS we sold Memberships to our season and sold over 20 of those!
 
It was easy to set up, and easy to do and was a great time, the cast and crew had a fantastic time! And we gained a lot of support from the community.
 
 
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Quote Gaafa Replybullet Posted: 8/27/07 at 1:25am
Bewdy JonO that's great stuff, using what your all about to turn a cion.
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Quote TotoToo Theatre Replybullet Posted: 8/31/07 at 12:22pm
Last weekend our theatre group (TotoToo Theatre) organized a unique fundraiser with the help of our local media (Capital Xtra).  They have been highly supportive of our group so we asked them to use their cover as a "mock" event cover for our fundraiser at last weekend's Pride Festival. 

We took photos of partiers and printed them on an 8x10 "mock cover" of our community newspaper for a $15 donation.  Photos were shown and printed on site so visitors could go home with a great memento of the day's events.   Very successful!  (The cover also "happened to" promoted our next production - Jigsaw Confession.)


This is a sample of one of the "mock covers" we sold.  Everyone was thrilled with the fundraiser from the event organizers, the newspaper and the theatre group.  Pictures cost us $3 to print and the photographer volunteered the time and equipment.

   
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Quote TotoToo Theatre Replybullet Posted: 8/31/07 at 12:38pm
Hi Jenn,

After reading your "Best Seat in the House" idea I sent out a note to our theatre board.  You got the wheels turning here!  What a brilliant idea!
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Quote Nanette Replybullet Posted: 9/01/07 at 12:34am
We had our first "flocking" tonight at 10pm (scared the b'Jesus out of their 13-year old home alone w/ a friend) ... we got a call from the victim at 11:10pm (Please call the Flamingo Rescue Hotline ... ) for a deflocking.  Also got a new target, AND I think they're purchasing insurance.  Let's see .... $15 for removal and naming the next target + $25 for insurance = $40 for 5 minutes worth of  (FUN) work.  Not bad!
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Quote Theatrestation Replybullet Posted: 9/01/07 at 1:20am
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We had our first "flocking" tonight at 10pm (scared the b'Jesus out of their 13-year old home alone w/ a friend) ... we got a call from the victim at 11:10pm (Please call the Flamingo Rescue Hotline ... ) for a deflocking.  Also got a new target, AND I think they're purchasing insurance.  Let's see .... $15 for removal and naming the next target + $25 for insurance = $40 for 5 minutes worth of  (FUN) work.  Not bad!
 
Most people in our attendance area don't have the money to spend on a night out at the theatre let alone for something like this.  
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Quote Nanette Replybullet Posted: 9/01/07 at 7:55am
We've planned for that, too.  At the bottom we have directions for free removal if they're not able or willing to participate.
 
Since our program is for the area kids, we don't seem to have a lot of problem with the townspeople taking part in fund raising events of this sort.
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