Dear HHS Band Parents and Students,
I’m excited to announce a new and exciting fundraiser our HHS Music Booster Club is sponsoring. The proceeds from the fundraiser will go to support the music program, as well as those of you who wish to fundraise part or all of your travel costs toward this year’s Spring Performance Tour to Honolulu, Hawaii!
This year, we will be printing up FULL COLOR PROGRAMS for all of our band concerts. In addition to listing the pieces to be performed at the concert, the programs will feature information on the band ranging from current band members to past awards, and be laid out similar to the wonderful programs put out by many of our school’s sports teams such as football and basketball.
In order to make these programs a fundraiser, we need to sell advertising in the programs. Please download and print this letter and order form and distribute it to any businesses (in the forms of advertisements) or individuals (in the form of tribute ads) who wish to appear in our program. Make sure your name is on the “SOLD BY (Student Name)” line so that you receive credit for the advertisement. The boosters will keep a record of your businesses/individuals who pay for an advertisement and apply the proceeds to the cost of your trip. If you are not going on the trip, you can choose to bank the proceeds for a future trip or band cost, donate your proceeds to another student traveling on the trip, or donate your proceeds to the booster program to benefit all students. The exact amount that you receive will depend on the total number of ads sold, but expect somewhere in the neighborhood of about 75% of what you sell coming back to you. We must receive payment and graphics/artwork no later than October 5, but many businesses are already getting hit up by other school organizations for donations so we need to start now.
There is also a spot for businesses/individuals to commit to donating an item for our annual HHS MUSIC BOOSTER BENEFIT DINNER, CONCERT, AND AUCTION. Because we will not know how much the donation will bring in the auction until the auction is over and because the auction happens after the deadline for being paid in full for the Hawaii trip these items may NOT go to support an individual’s travel costs to Hawaii. However, the proceeds will go to support the music program in terms of covering other costs such as sheet music, instrument repair/maintenance, etc.
In addition, businesses/individuals will have an opportunity to support the band by advertising in this year’s FOOTBALL PROGRAM. Please download and print this football program advertisement order form to distribute along with the letter and order form for the concert program. Please note that any proceeds from ad sales for the football program may NOT be applied to individual trip costs due to the way the proceeds will be split amongst band and football. They will go to cover overall program costs. The football program ads and payments must be received by August 20, as the first football game is 9/11.
In order to make these fundraisers profitable and worth our time, I expect that every band member, whether going to Hawaii or not this year, find AT LEAST ONE business/individual to advertise or donate, with more being STRONGLY recommended. This should not be a difficult minimum to meet, and as long as everyone holds up their end of the deal this will be a great fundraiser. Keep in mind that fundraisers such as these are the reason why you do not have to sell nickel and dime items such as candy bars, beef jerky, etc. Our focus right now is on the concert programs. We want these to be as professional and as profitable as possible, and mediocre ad sales are the quickest way to kill this project.
Please remember as you solicit businesses for advertisements that you are representing the HHS Band. Be respectful and polite. Also, we are asking that you NOT solicit the following businesses, due to the fact that these businesses donated to the benefit dinner last year. Our booster officers already have (or will shortly be) requesting donations and concert program advertisements from these businesses and we do not want to annoy these businesses by hitting them up multiple times.
- McGrath’s Fish House
- Brewed Awakening
- Parkrose Hardware
- Juliano’s
- Papa Murphy’s Pizza
- Firstenburg
- Waste Connections
- Hockinson Market
- Hearth Coffee
- Blazers
- Olive Garden
- Northwood
- Extra Mile
- G6 Air Park
- McFarlene’s
- Les Schwab
- Winco
- Fred Meyers
- Burgerville
- Pied Piper
- H and H Recycling
- First Choice Market
- Big Al’s
- Stardust Diner
- IHOP
- Battle Ground Theatre
- OMSI
- Music World
- Beacock’s
If you have any questions about these fundraisers, or if any of the businesses or individuals you ask have any questions, please feel free to shoot me an email.
I hope you’re having a wonderful summer and I look forward to seeing you in August for BAND CAMP (August 17-21 from 9 to 4, plus August 14 for drumline). If you did not receive a phone call from our band council officers last week about band camp, or if they left you a voicemail, please be sure to email me back ASAP to let me know you will be attending camp.
Thanks!
Corey McEnry
Director of Bands
Hockinson High School
16819 NE 159th Street
Brush Prairie, WA 98606
(360) 448-6450 x5594
corey.mcenry@hocksd.org
http://www.hockinsonmusic.com