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FUNDRAISING IDEAS:
Sell ad space in your concert program.
Establish approximately a two week period prior to one of your concerts as the fund raising time frame. Have your students sell advertising space in your concert program to local businesses. They ask businesses to buy a full page (8 ½ X 11) at $25.00, a half page (8 ½ X 5 ½) at $20.00, or a quarter of a page ad (4 ¼ X 5 ½) at $15.00. You can change the pricing to fit your community. Let the businesses know that the ads must be photo-ready and will be photocopied in black and white. You, your booster club, or one of your students can compile all of the sold ads together and photocopy them. The sheets of ads are simply stapled together and passed out at your concert with every program. As long as businesses know that this is how their ads will be distributed, they are fine with it.
At the concert, you would announce that the booklet of ads that the audience has received is full of the businesses that are supporting your music program. Encourage your audience to show their support to the businesses that have purchased the ads supporting your program.
Many businesses provide an ad with coupons or an ad similar to a yellow pages ad. Some businesses simply provide a business card to be photocopied, and I have even seen hand-written ads that say that ____________ business supports the ____High School music department. In addition to receiving the potential support and financial benefit from the advertising, businesses receive the recognition from the community as a business that supports their children, education, and school programs. It is good public relations for them.
When a student sells an ad, 100% of the money earned is credited to that student’s account. The cost of printing the photocopies usually comes from the department’s general fund. Since the expense of creating the copies is so minimal, it is easy to absorb the cost of printing and allow 100% of the money earned be credited to the individual student. I personally know students who have used this fund raiser and, in an afternoon or two, earned all of the money for their participation in a music group’s trip. Some of them have sold even more, earning their spending money for the trip as well.
I would also encourage you to provide your students a letter of introduction on letterhead to take with them when selling ads. The following is an example:
My name is __________, the band/choir director at _________High School. I want to introduce __(student’s name)__ who is selling advertising space in our concert program for our upcoming concert on __(date)__. 100% of the proceeds from the sale of these ads will be credited to the student’s account towards our upcoming trip to __(destination)__.
Ads can be purchased for $25.00 per full 8 ½ X 11 page, $20.00 per half page (8 ½ X 5 ½), and $15.00 per quarter page (4 ½ X 5 ½). Ads should be photo-ready. They will be copied in black and white and distributed at our concert on __(date)__ along with each concert program.
Your support of _____High School music is greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
__(Your Name)__
_______ High School Band/Choir director
Establish approximately a two week period prior to one of your concerts as the fund raising time frame. Have your students sell advertising space in your concert program to local businesses. They ask businesses to buy a full page (8 ½ X 11) at $25.00, a half page (8 ½ X 5 ½) at $20.00, or a quarter of a page ad (4 ¼ X 5 ½) at $15.00. You can change the pricing to fit your community. Let the businesses know that the ads must be photo-ready and will be photocopied in black and white. You, your booster club, or one of your students can compile all of the sold ads together and photocopy them. The sheets of ads are simply stapled together and passed out at your concert with every program. As long as businesses know that this is how their ads will be distributed, they are fine with it.
At the concert, you would announce that the booklet of ads that the audience has received is full of the businesses that are supporting your music program. Encourage your audience to show their support to the businesses that have purchased the ads supporting your program.
Many businesses provide an ad with coupons or an ad similar to a yellow pages ad. Some businesses simply provide a business card to be photocopied, and I have even seen hand-written ads that say that ____________ business supports the ____High School music department. In addition to receiving the potential support and financial benefit from the advertising, businesses receive the recognition from the community as a business that supports their children, education, and school programs. It is good public relations for them.
When a student sells an ad, 100% of the money earned is credited to that student’s account. The cost of printing the photocopies usually comes from the department’s general fund. Since the expense of creating the copies is so minimal, it is easy to absorb the cost of printing and allow 100% of the money earned be credited to the individual student. I personally know students who have used this fund raiser and, in an afternoon or two, earned all of the money for their participation in a music group’s trip. Some of them have sold even more, earning their spending money for the trip as well.
I would also encourage you to provide your students a letter of introduction on letterhead to take with them when selling ads. The following is an example:
My name is __________, the band/choir director at _________High School. I want to introduce __(student’s name)__ who is selling advertising space in our concert program for our upcoming concert on __(date)__. 100% of the proceeds from the sale of these ads will be credited to the student’s account towards our upcoming trip to __(destination)__.
Ads can be purchased for $25.00 per full 8 ½ X 11 page, $20.00 per half page (8 ½ X 5 ½), and $15.00 per quarter page (4 ½ X 5 ½). Ads should be photo-ready. They will be copied in black and white and distributed at our concert on __(date)__ along with each concert program.
Your support of _____High School music is greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
__(Your Name)__
_______ High School Band/Choir director
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