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 < [email protected]> 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 <[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! > 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. > _______________________________________________ > Organizers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/organizers-sharedweight.net > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__lists.sharedweight.net_listinfo.cgi_organizers-2Dsharedweight.net&d=DwMFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=Zc_Ys1Trmmmt9bdeuCVabFBW6zd3qGmLegRoGFcFLc0&m=yzaSYd_1oD6hIj4gWlSgUuMIFOabmHrpDUGTy4k1BWg&s=-FAyElMbkBem7BFC0nQ2kHyKt_8-6GNoSikGLRm0hDc&e=> > _______________________________________________ > Organizers mailing list > [email protected] > > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__lists.sharedweight.net_listinfo.cgi_organizers-2Dsharedweight.net&d=DwICAg&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=Zc_Ys1Trmmmt9bdeuCVabFBW6zd3qGmLegRoGFcFLc0&m=yzaSYd_1oD6hIj4gWlSgUuMIFOabmHrpDUGTy4k1BWg&s=-FAyElMbkBem7BFC0nQ2kHyKt_8-6GNoSikGLRm0hDc&e= >
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