At our club meeting on Thursday, February 6, our club will discuss the Community Appreciation Gala we have held in May for the past couple years and talk about what one may look like this year. To allow for maximum discussion time, the format of this meeting will be a bit different. Lunch will be available directly at 12:00 PM. Once you arrive and pay, please proceed directly to get your meal, sit down, and begin eating. We will still do our 50/50 draw, but we will dispense with much of the other regular business of the weekly meeting in order to begin our discussion about the gala around 12:20 PM. Some of the questions you may consider to help shape our discussion include:
- Should our club host a community appreciation gala in May 2020?
- What is the purpose of the event?
- Is it to connect with financial supporters?
- Is it to expand our base of financial support and/or awareness in the community?
- Is it a fundraiser, in its own right?
- Is it to thank the supporters and the program delivery agencies with whom we work?
- Given the purpose(s) of the event, are the formats of the last two years appropriate?
- Our club has limited resources and can’t do everything it might want to do. What is the “opportunity cost” of hosting the gala compared to what benefit our club receives from it? Said another way, do we gain more than we give up by hosting the gala? Does that matter?
- Does our club's tentative decision to plan and host a ribfest in July impact our desire and ability to host the gala? If we think we can only pull off one of them really well, which one should we do?