[Rotary] Future Rotary Fundraisers ... Notes / Recommendations from the Fundraising Committee

[Cornelia]

I agree with Pete that the potential of Casino Night has not been fully realized. 

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On Sep 8, 2014, at 11:39 AM, "Pete Rose " <peterose at mcn.org> wrote:

> I still feel getting behind the casino party with more ads and advertising
> and more frawing etc will be a way to generate more monies pete
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> From: rotary-bounces at lists.mcn.org [mailto:rotary-bounces at lists.mcn.org] On
> Behalf Of jkk at mcn.org
> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2014 11:06 AM
> To: Bruce Lewis
> Cc: Rotary Club of Mendocino
> Subject: Re: [Rotary] Future Rotary Fundraisers ... Notes / Recommendations
> from the Fundraising Committee
> 
> Bruce,
> 
> Thank you for an excellent Fundraising Committee Report.  Sorry I was not
> there.  Below are my comments.
> 
> FYI: Our fundraising income and expenditures for the last two years is as
> follows:
> 
>                  2012/13             2013/14
> Art Auction         20.8                21.3
> Golf Tournament      4.1                 5.5
> 4th of July          1.0                 2.0
> Casino Night         8.7                 7.6
> 
> TOTAL               34.6                36.4
> 
> Service Club Exp.   11.6                16.8
> Rotary Park           0                 20.1
> 
> Our Income over the last few years has remained fairly constant in the
> mid-30's.  We have historically spent this amount on the various Club
> Services.  This has not been true the last 2 years.  The club should make a
> determination on how much the Service areas are going to receive in the
> future.  There has been some discussion that rather than donations to the
> various non-profits, we would help them with work projects.  That should be
> explored and time for these projects budgeted.
> 
> My comments on the suggested fundraisers are as follows:
> 
> Golf Tournament:  Keep as is.  $5000
> 
> Casino Night:  I do not believe a raffle attached to this event will replace
> the Art Raffle Income.  Your estimated budget is $9000-$12,000 is possible.
> 
> July 4th:  As stated by others this was never a major fundraising event. 
> It is an excellent venue for exposure to the public of Rotary and combined
> with future events at Rotary Park.  The food sales could be moved to Rotary
> Park but involves additional expenses.  It probably should be maintained at
> the firehouse.  $2000
> 
> Theater event:  Was never a big fundraiser.  Perhaps about $3000.  It was
> designed as a "fun"raising event for Rotarians and the public.
> 
> Hands On Projects:  Make no money, but do help the community.  If we do
> these they MUST be promoted to the public so show our Rotary benefits the
> community, since that is one of our goals.  No Income
> 
> Rotary Park:  Rotary sponsored events to date have not been fundraisers. 
> For this to change we need to come up with some profitable ideas.  A major
> use of the park was to offer it to other non-profits for a venue for their
> fundraisers.  Examples:  MAC for an "Art in the Park" event; MTC for a
> Theater in the Round performance; MMF for a musical event during the day
> during the Festival; Collection site for the Food Bank for donations: Site
> for the Humane Society's MPA program (already being done on Saturday
> mornings).  Sponsored Rotary events: Easter Egg hunt on Easter Sunday (held
> in2014 and planned for 2015); Christmas tree lighting and possibly Santa
> Claus day in December; a Halloween event;  A Mother and Fathers Day
> celebration.  We will also have fundraising income from the sale of paving
> stones, but the net income is not known at this time.  Income ??
> 
> Estimated Fundraising Income from the above events is between $20,000 to
> $25,000.  This is short of the income generated by our past events, but
> certainly acceptable.
> 
> One of goals of the club was not only to raise money for our local
> non-profits, but to come together as a club.  We now have more members than
> we ever have had and getting together for "hand-on" projects should be
> successful and hopefully a "fun"raising event.
> 
>     Jerry
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