2006 Banquet Report
 AAF's Third Annual Fundraising Banquet Bolsters Treasury!
We didn't have people lined up at the door to help make the 3rd annual event a success, but we "got
er done" in spite of the sparse number of volunteers...quality, not quantity was the word of the day!
I'll suggest it's a tough time for fundraising in the
non-profit conservation world right now. While people will readily buy a raffle ticket about anytime, for anything, generally folks seem to be tapped out on banquets. There is about one or two per
week from January to August! So in spite of best laid plans, we had two other large events impacting our numbers again this year. That issue, coupled with folks that are "through" with
banquets, those that only want to attend one per year, those that simply do not want to help, and the time of the year, made our event "challenging" to
say the least. So there's the back drop...what happened?
-The El Zaribah Shrine, aka Shirley Howard, put on probably the finest buffet dinner most folks
have ever had there! Kudos to Shirley and her staff!
-We sold more tickets this year compared to last year, and made money on the banquet tickets in the process.
- -We doubled our Balloon money.
- -The Ladies Raffle was once again a hit.
- -The Tent Package and Hussey "500" did well too.
- -The Silent Auction was successful.
- -The Live Auction was a hit, and Brad Smith again did a great job!
- -The Bucket and General Raffles, while popular, could again be considered loss leaders.
- -The Hat "Blitz" and Pick A Prize again generated a lot of excitement. (we have a lot of hats
left!)
- -The Commission's Special Antelope Tag went for $61,000!
- -Master of Ceremonies Doug Stancill was in fine form!
While we fell short by about 40 people in comparing the number of banquet attendees at the 1st
one, we moved up again in the all important "income/attendee" category compared to what happened at the 2nd one. On a net basis, we should exceed $220 per person, adding well over
$50K to our AAF Treasury for 2006...by any measure, making our 3rd Annual Fundraising Banquet a Success!
Thank you very much for the dedicated volunteers who helped make it happen, and to all the folks that found time and some extra cash in their wallet to come out, have some fun and help out
Arizona's antelope in the process!
Jim Unmacht
2006 AAF Banquet Chair
Click here to see a list of 2006 Banquet Donors.
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