Re: Fundraising and concert admissions

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I'm a new elementary music teacher, but I have 2 suggestions:

1) Chick-fil-A has "spirit nights" in our area, where you can
come in for 2 hours and anyone from the school who buys food
during those 2 hours, you get a portion of the funds. (In my
area, it's about $200 per spirit night.)

2) donorschoose.org is awesome. I have gotten over $1000
worth of materials from them...for free! You just post your
request and, if people fund it, you have to do 3 things:
write a letter of thanks, take pics of the students using the
resource, and have some students write thank you notes. Then
the resources are yours...for free! (I just got a free
boombox for my Making Music curriculum...)

On 11/29/12, Ohio wrote:
> Our music boosters have been charging $3/person or
> $8/family for grades 5-12 music concerts since the 1970's.
> The price has remained the same. Now, our new
> superintendent wants us to get rid of the admission fee and
> have free concerts. This worries us because we use this
> money to do lots of different things for the students.
> Fundraisers are not working...this is the only way for us
> to guarantee that we can support our program.
>
> Our boosters pay for instruments, risers, shells, pianos,
> tunings, uniforms, uniform cleanings, student scholarships
> for lessons, solo and ensemble fees, camps and workshops...
>
> What can we do to make up for this loss in funds?

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