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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Venues for a gala should not actually cost money. I know at least one brew pub offered it's space for free to a dcps... Although not its beer. Still, a cash bar isn't the worst thing.

If you are having trouble breaking even on your expenses for your gala, you are doing it wrong. Last time I helped organize one, we found a lot of restaurants to donate food, drink, dessert--a band to donate their time, and so on.[/quote]

I would be very interested to hear how you got all of those businesses to donate food and drink.  We tried and were turned down.  It appeared that you needed some type of connections that we didn't have.  Also, we were asking the same business that are being asked by all the other area schools to donate.  Sorry we did it "wrong" but we are volunteers and no one gave us anything for free.[/quote]

It is naïve of the original pp to think that just because one school could get something, every school could.  Obviously you need connections, especially if you are not a neighborhood school.  I highly recommend that you search your parent body to see who may have connections, even slight ones could help.  Cold calls are hard for the reasons you note.[/quote]

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