What good educators hope for...

This week a “Teacher Leader” will be facilitating and leading a community meeting with parents and community members. Really, it’s a fact-finding time for school organizers in their lower-income school district. Topics will range from anti-bullying...

Fundraising Idea 1.3 – The Audienc...

So this will be a brief post, but I wanted to sort of dive deeper into the audience interaction part of the dinner theater (please see previous posts to catch up!). I mentioned how every audience member receives a character name and their character is somehow connected with the major players of the play. (Hope I’m making sense here.) It can be extremely successful including audience participation for this event, however, not at the expense of their dignity! What I’m saying is that you want to have a little interaction with audience members and major characters...

Bleh!...

I think I’ll post my final thoughts on the ‘dinner theater’ fundraising stuff tomorrow. It’s Sunday and my mind is everywhere but here! In the meantime, you can check out this website for some Do It Yourself fundraising ideas. And here is their latest newsletter. (By the way, their site design is horrible.. just a warning, but there are some legit ideas there!!) Until...

Fundraising Idea #1.2 – The deets...

So yesterday I posted about doing a dinner theater play to help raise funds for your not-for-profit. I included a portion from a script I wrote a while back & some videos that my husband had shot and edited for the event. In this post I hope to dive deeper into the logistics and give you some helpful details for actually putting this fund raising together. If you want more ideas for the actual play, just ask. I’ve got lots of scripts and ideas for new ones! Taken from "SuperCon 2009." This play depicted a super-hero conference gone wrong. In the early...

Fund Raising Idea #1 – Theatrical ...

I’ve written and directed a fair share of dinner theater plays that have raised tens of thousands of dollars for non profits. (Not sure why!! They’re silly!!) The ‘dinner and a show’ format is a TON of hard work to pull off. You need lots of committed people too. But the pay off can be huge not only in raising funds, but in getting the word out to your community about your local (or international!) not-for-profit. I like to incorporate A LOT of ‘delusional humor’ (as my husband calls it) into these ‘mystery’ plays. So today...