{"id":12659,"date":"2013-05-19T14:39:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T21:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=12659"},"modified":"2013-05-19T14:39:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T21:39:26","slug":"is-orchestra-fundraising-in-the-stone-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/19\/is-orchestra-fundraising-in-the-stone-age\/","title":{"rendered":"is orchestra fundraising in the stone age?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Ron Spiegelman at Sticks and Drones<\/a>:<\/p>\n

One of our catch cries is \u201cticket sales only account for a 33% of our income\u201d, we use that day in day out but what I learned at the conference is almost everyone else in the fundraising world has to raise 100% of their income.\u00a0 They only wish they could count on that third!\u00a0 It turns out that they have something very powerful though which translates into success, and that is the power of emotion in fundraising and an up to date and progressive approach.\u00a0 The arts are good at emotion and being progressive on stage, and we think that it is enough to sell itself.\u00a0 Quite clearly it isn\u2019t, we need it off stage also which was the overriding message at the conference.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Ron Spiegelman at Sticks and Drones: One of our catch cries is \u201cticket sales only account for a 33% of our income\u201d, we use that day in day out but what I learned at the conference is almost everyone else in the fundraising world has to raise 100% of their income.\u00a0 They only wish […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1783,103,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administration-the-orchestra-world-music","category-fundraising","category-the-orchestra-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-3ib","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2565,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/21\/more-cuts-as-orchestras-attempt-to-stabilize\/","url_meta":{"origin":12659,"position":0},"title":"more cuts as orchestras attempt to stabilize","author":"Charles Noble","date":"May 21, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's some more news from around the orchestra world as organizations attempt to stem the tide of red ink as contributed and earned income continue to fall across the nation: Phoenix cuts all salaries 17% across the board. 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