Hearts for the Arts Benefit
Saturday, February 24th, 2024, 5pm-10pm

Donate your own works of art or goods/services from you/your small business. Items from within our own community are always extra valued. Have an exciting, brand-new item at your house that you’d like to donate? Talk to us. Maybe it’s something that would sell well. Use the attached donation form or submit your service online at cacs.cbo.io.

Host an event, raise money and deepen your connections with our community. Some Count-Me-In ideas include: “CACS Poker Night,” “Backyard Movie Night,” “Cooking Class,” “Scavenger Hunt”. You decide the event, the date, the number of people and the cost-per-person. Get more ideas for parties!

Perhaps you want to host a Count-Me-In, but you don’t have the bandwidth to organize it all yourself, or maybe you just can’t come up with an idea. Our committee can help to pair you up with a Co-Host from CACS, or provide creative ideas for an event or party.

Did you know that you or your company can advertise in our event program? Promote your business, an upcoming event, or celebrate a student with an ad in our event program! Please submit payment with your donation form and send 300dpi, RGB color, PDF, AI or JPG format artwork to CACSBenefit@gmail.com subject line “Program Ad”

$250/Full Page (5.5”w x 8.5”h)
$150/Half Page (5.5”w x 4.25”h)

Know anyone who’d be into supporting our auction by donating beverages or food? We’d happily promote their business in any way that works for them: on our event website, in our marketing collateral, in biweekly emails to our community of over 300 families, the program at the event, and in any signage they’d like at the event. Send any ideas our way: CACSBenefit@gmail.com.

Bring in a bottle (or a few, or a case!) of your favorite wine to donate to our wine raffle. Drop them off in the office or Benefit headquarters in the back corner of the teachers’ lounge near the Kindergarten classrooms. Then, check out the great selection on the wine raffle table on Benefit night. Enter for a chance to win a ton of wine hand-selected by the CACS community.

Please submit your donations (online or via paper form) by Friday, February 2, 2024.

All physical items should be dropped to CACS by Friday, February 9, 2024.

Sign up for a volunteer shift for the event: jobs will be posted on Volunteer Tracker continually until the Benefit (including post-event jobs).

• Check back in the late fall/early winter for position postings.
  

Join the Benefit Crew
Be a part of it! Become a valued member of our Benefit committee or just help out here and there (either way, you’d be so valued). We love ideas and helpers!

Come visit us at Benefit HQ (the corner of the storage room across from the Kindergarten classrooms, by the Turk St entrance), on Fridays after drop off. We always have tons of jobs, big and small, that we can use help with (entering donations, taking or finding pictures online for donations, making follow-up calls). Drop by for an hour and see what fun we are! Or, send us an email (CACSBenefit@gmail.com) and we can hook you up with jobs you can do at home (washing wine glasses and tablecloths, stuffing envelopes, proofreading auction catalog entries).

Supporting the Annual Fund and the Benfit

As you know, state funding provides for the basics of the public school education received at Creative Arts Charter School.  The margin of excellence, our wonderful arts program, comes directly from your gifts to and participation in our two biggest fundraising initiatives: the Annual Fund and the Benefit. The cost of our program above the money we receive from the state is more than $380,000.

What does the $380,000 give you?

• Our entire arts program, which is what’s at the core of what’s valuable at this school.
  • Director of Arts
  • Visual arts teacher
  • Music teacher
  • Dance teacher
  • Middle school theater teacher
  • Visiting resident artists
• What does that money include?
  • All of these teachers and everything they need to create a full and vibrant program for our kids.

Why an Annual Fund?

The Annual Fund is where our community gets to shine and show our collective spirit of generosity. The important thing about the Annual Fund is not how much you give, but that each family participates in whatever way is meaningful to them. Your involvement generates enthusiasm and encourages others to join in. Additionally, when we reach out for foundation and corporate sponsorships our community participation rate is an indicator to them that the school is strong, valued, and worthy of support.

Why a Benefit?

Because it is so much fun! Yes, the Benefit raises vital funds for our school, but the heart of it is a chance to celebrate our community and all of the hard work that we do. It’s also a wonderful chance for us to form community: during the event, we dress up, eat, drink, shop, and bond with our fellow Creative Arts families and extended families; as we prepare for the Benefit and reach out for donations, we are forming mutually supportive relatiaonships with local businesses and professionals.

Our community is built on involvement and we thank you for all that you do.