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
<[email protected]> 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
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