In–kind Donations
[Alas,although in–kind donations seemed like a good idea, they do not seem to have been popular. The dance organizations and performers were very helpful and stepped forward with many offers and suggestions. Unfortunately they did not seem popular with the dancers themselves. With regret, we are not actively pursuing this path at the moment.]
On occasion, a dance organization can help the Dance Gypsy — at no actual dollar cost to the organization. Yes the Dance Gypsy’s primary need is funding, but dance organizations often have a unique situation: rather than contribute money directly to the Dance Gypsy, they can help to help the Dance Gypsy raise the funds it needs. In particular, an organization may donate admission tickets for their annual or special event. The Dance Gypsy can the offer these tickets as encouragement for dancers to support the Dance Gypsy.
This can be a perfect win-win situation: any action that increases donations helps the Dance Gypsy. And although many dance organizations are on their own shoestring budgets, the donation of tickets does not actually cost that organization any money. The Dance Gypsy for its part will treat the dance organization as a supporter or sponsor: listing the organizations event as a supported/sponsored event.
- All sponsoring organizations are listed on the Dance Gypsy supporter page.
- The events of supporting organizations are marked as such on the event listing pages.
- Sponsored events receive a display ad, treated just as paid ads.
Simply put the dance organizations gets essentially free publicity.
The Dance Gypsy hopefully gets increased dancer donations through the enticement of the tickets.
Other forms of donation: although it hasn't happened yet, this idea could be extended to other forms of donation. For example, CDs or subscriptions to your organizations's magazine. In short: any item that might entice dancers to donate to the Dance Gypsy.
How it works:
- Just let us know what you will donate, we do the rest.
- It is always helpful for both of us if you can provide a short description of the event, and also a graphic such as your logo.
- For determining the level of support, items are treated at their face value. Thus, for example two tickets to a festival with $50 tickets would be treated as a $100 donation.
- Issuance of the tickets can be in any form that works: actual paper tickets just giving you the names of the recipients so they can pick them up. The only requirement from the Dance Gypsy’s perspective is that there must be enough time to use them to attract donors.
