Fundraiser event ideas

[Anthony Mendoza]

Hi all!

I was thinking about Movember and thought it would be great to hold some sort of fundraising event with the proceeds either being added to the whole groups donation total or divided equally to the donation accounts of those that participate in the particular event. Here are a few ideas I had:

Movember beer crawl- could be a simple Mo themed beer crawl or we could provide live music at various stops

Battle of the bands- this could get money in two ways: we could charge the bands a fee to join and split the pot between the winning band and us and we could also charge a cover to spectators.

Guest bartenders- I remember Ed Adkins mentioning that he was a guest bartender at the Undergroud. we could find a bar that would allow us to be guest bartenders and all our tips could go to movember. I'm not sure if there are legal limitations to this or not. just throwing out the idea

Theater preformance- I preform improv with a group from TMCC and the director is Mary Bennett who runs Bruka Theater. I am talking to her about possible doing some sort of improv preformance (murder mystery, harold (a type of long form), game show ala "whose line is it anyways?") and the proceeds going to the group.

just thought I would throw out those ideas and see if anyone even wanted to do a larger type event and get ideas flowing.

let me know what you guys think. If the preformance sounds like something we would want to do I need to know fairly soon so we (the improv group and bruka) and begin preping it.

talk to you all soon,
Anthony

[Nico]

Anthony,

Great ideas!

Here's what I think about them:

-Movember crawl... we'll probably do the Virginia City visit at the end of the MOnth, and that'll be our crawl. It doesn't have to be official, but hopefully we can make it half-official and get a lot of people involved.

- Battle of bands: I have no clue. I don't know what it takes to plan such a thing, or how much time in advance this kind of thing is planned. But if it happened, I'd be a supported!

- Guest bartending sounds fun to me, I'll ask around :)

- Theatre/improv: cool idea! I say run with it, yo! Also: get all the males to grow a Mo and register online :)

-Nico

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[RoguePixie]

Should be Battle of the Rock Bands!!! Oh yeah, mustache melting action!! 

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[Anthony Mendoza]

I talked to my improv class and we are going to develop a troupe and perform a Movember benifit show. The troupe will consist of members from the class as well as Mary Bennett from Bruka theater (RN&R best local actor 2009.) What I need from the rest of my mo-bros and sitas is 3 things:

#1 a venue: we need a place to perform. Our 2 stages are taken all month. A bar would be a good spot and a bar w/ a stage would be the best. 3 places I thought of would be studio on 4th, Seven on West or the underground. Can anyone make some phone calls, pull some strings and get a list of avaliable dates? We don't have a date yet as a troupe but if I can get a variety of dates we can surly do one of them. It doesn't have to be on a Weekend but that would most likely get the best turnout.

#2 I will need a lot of help promoting this. All the proceedes will go to The City of Remo. We can make fliers and post them everywhere, try and get it promoted on radio shows, local mags, blogs and any other form of plublicty.

#3 I will need help from everyone in setting up/organizing the event. My intention in this is to make it a group event where we can make a dent in our goal of $5,000. 

If you guys have any questions or ideas, post it to the group. If the whole group pitches in, we have a high potential to raise a lot of $ for Movember and Mens health.

Thanks,

Anthony