Our next big club wide project is the crab feed fund raiser. President Elect John as Club Service Chair and I are putting it together for now. (HINT HINT!!!). Things will be a bit different this year. Most obvious change is that it is being held at the Mayfair Community Center. Since we serve the East Side of San Jose it seemed more appropriate to hold it on the East Side not to mention the capacity is for 225 people.
The food will of course be unlimited crab, salad, bread/rolls, either a pasta or potato salad and dessert. We would need to pay the Mayfair to cook for us – we are not allowed to cook there. There will be a no host bar.
In addition to the funds raised by the event tickets, we will have a live auction, a silent auction, and pastry sales. To have the live auction, we need to have at least 4 items worth at least $1000. The silent auction will use the bidding on the item technique. There will be a sheet for each item where participants will be able to write a bid beating the previous bid. Silent auction items will be any item less than $1000 in value. The pastry sales will be individual slices of whatever type of pie, cake, and baked goods that gets donated. The goal for the crab feed is to net $13,000. The ticket sales should net $8,000. We will need to net $5000 from the auctions and pastry sales to hit the goal.
Right now we have 33 members in the club. If this were San Jose Silicon Valley Rotary we would be asking that each of you bring in $1000 worth of auction items, pastry and ticket sales. They net over $20,000 last year and they bemoan the fact that the net is much lower than it has been. SJEE net $6000 last year. No, we are not setting a $1000 of combined value brought in by San Jose East/Evergreen Rotarians. However, think about what would be accomplished in the communities we serve if we each committed to bring in at a minimum $1000 of value from auction donations, ticket sales, and pastry.
Seriously, local business people are willing to participate when you ask them to donate auction items and/or buy tickets. We will be considering sponsorship opportunities for businesses and community leaders. As I mentioned, we are getting known and people will be willing to assist if asked. At some of the Facebook pages (at least 5 pages) on which I posted for the crab feed, people shared the post on their timeline.
If you sell tickets, you can offer to hand deliver them to your buyers to save the online ticket service charge. Otherwise direct them to EVENTBRITE at the following URL:
Please get in touch with PE John or myself and tell us what part you want to take the lead or participate to GET IT DONE!!!!!
The attached flyer is done using WORD. You can easily use WORD to customize the contact information which is listed as me and should be changed to you. Those of you that use Facebook should post an event about the crab feed. That will give us a much wider distribution than just the pages I posted.