[Organizers] Ideas for revenue BEYOND the door entry price

[Carol Geisler]

Hi Mac,
Where do you get grants from?
What type of grants?
Thanks,
Carol

On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 12:44 PM Mac Mckeever via Organizers <
organizers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

> Both of our dance weekends and our NYE dance provide nice profits to help
> our weekly events
> Several 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 profit
> We 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 McKeever
> St 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!
> Emily
> PS -  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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