Why utilize Kenda Summers, Canada’s Premier Female Stage Hypnotist for your next fundraising activity?
- Kenda Summers provides a “Turn-Key Approach to Fundraising”
- Little advance planning necessary
- No product sales required
- Unique approach to raising money
- Fun activity that motivates your group members to work together
- Attracts large audiences
- Can be utilized year after year and never gets old
- The attendance grows each year as the performance changes annually
TIPS FOR A SUCCESSFUL FUNDRAISING EVENT
- Get several well-liked teachers/administrators and high-profile students to volunteer to get hypnotized at the performance. Advertise this school-wide
- Get several local business owners, politicians and other high-profile citizens to volunteer and advertise this prior to your event
- Have an article put in the local newspaper. If possible, have the paper interview the artist who is doing the event
- Have the local radio station(s) that cover your area do a remote interview with the artist. Get a popular DJ to volunteer to be hypnotized
- Put up posters in high-traffic areas including high schools and middle schools within a 45 minute drive of the performance location
- Play a demo video at all district schools at least a week before the event
- Sell tickets in the cafeteria during lunch at each school where you advertise the show
- Join forces with a local service group and split the profits
- Get tickets printed and pre-sell them for at least $2.00 less than you will charge at the door. Make tickets available at several locations besides where the sponsoring group is selling them
- Run a contest where the person who sells the most tickets will get a price. Solicit local businesses for this prize donation
- Create a program where you can sell sponsorships to local business and hand them out the night of the performance. Also, recognize these businesses in the introduction at the event
- Put your event in the daily school announcements
FUNDRAISING DAY/NIGHT COMBINATION
- Everything listed above under “Fundraising Night Program”
- Try to get one or two teachers/administrators to participate in the day assembly, too
- If you have a middle school or junior high in the same building or close by, invite them to the day assembly and get 1 or 2 of their teachers to volunteer for the day assembly
- If you have an auditorium that you’re using for the night assembly that doesn’t hold the entire school population, possibly do two day assemblies
- Have 4 – 6 students available to assist in setting up when the artist arrives.
Feel free to contact Kenda Summers for additional information.