| You can call it by different names but a fundraiser | | | | discuss the menu. St. Patrick's Day without corned |
| gala has an elegant ring to it, doesn’t it? | | | | beef and cabbage is like Thanksgiving without |
| But in essence you can hold a fundraiser gala for | | | | turkey. |
| just about any cause or purpose you believe in. It | | | | The point is that when you add the word gala to |
| just takes a little more planning than a typical | | | | the word fundraiser people expect to attend a |
| fundraising dinner. Just calling it a gala gives people | | | | very special event that is supporting a wonderful |
| the expectation that they are attending a special | | | | cause. So, before planning your next fundraising |
| event. | | | | event take stock of your organization and why it |
| When you think of a fundraiser gala, you might | | | | is raising money. Is it a cause many people relate |
| think of this, which was in Sun Herald on March 5, | | | | to? Are there people well known in your |
| 2006: | | | | community that share a passion for your cause? |
| Tickets are now available for Walter Anderson | | | | Can you get them to attend your event as |
| Museum of Art's Gala XVI spring fundraiser on | | | | celebrity guests? Can you put together an |
| April 7 at the museum in Ocean Springs. The | | | | informative yet entertaining program about your |
| annual event will celebrate the resilience of the | | | | fundraising cause? |
| community, the artists and the museum, which | | | | If you can answer yes to those questions you |
| opened in spring 1991 and is beginning its 15th | | | | may be the right kind of group to hold a |
| year of operation. | | | | fundraiser gala. It just takes a little imagination to |
| Or you might imagine this published in the Denver | | | | turn a fundraising dinner that will generate some |
| Post on March 16, 2006: | | | | decent fundraising proceeds into a large scale |
| For its biggest fundraiser of the year, Catholic | | | | fundraiser gala that can raise much, much more |
| Charities of Colorado Springs holds a gala on the | | | | money for your group. You decide which way to |
| feast of St. Patrick. There's never much need to | | | | go. |