[Organizers] Ideas for revenue BEYOND the door entry price

[Mac Mckeever]

 Both of our dance weekends and our NYE dance provide nice profits to help our weekly eventsSeveral times a year dances will sponsor a dance for a special occasion - which, iin effect, costs us money - they cover all the expenses and everyone gets in free - but they are usually on dates where the dance would have provided a profitWe got grants for 25 years - but they cut us off this year - will try again and other grant possibilities.  From discussion on the grant review - I may need to change the way I describe our mission.  We look like all the other dance clubs to the reviewers - so I am going to try stating our mission is community building using historic dance as the tool to accomplish that - it lets me say a whole lot of unique and positive things
Mac McKeeverSt Louis
    On Tuesday, December 4, 2018, 10:24:36 AM CST, Emily Addison via Organizers <organizers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:  
 
 Hi fellow shared weight organizers :)
Wearing my CDSS hat, I'm wondering ----> Does your dance have sources of revenue BEYOND the door entry price???
A few great ideas were shared at the October CDSS Executive community meeting in Toronto and we're looking for more! Do you have successful experience with:
   
   - sponsorships (individual/company/other)   

   - grants   

   - donations (collected at the dance OR one-off/ongoing donor programs)   

   - other fundraising (e.g., pie/cake sales anyone?)   

   - membership   

   - merch … that make money?   

   - special events … that make money?   

   - other?   

I'm pulling together a curated collection of success stories on this subject for CDSS that will then be shared back out early in the new year. I would love to hear your ideas and if you know of someone I should talk to about this, please let me know. 
Thanks!EmilyPS -  I asked shared weight about posters/flyers last month and so wanted to update you that that collection will be available in January.  I'm just waiting on a few more contributions._______________________________________________
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