From planning to clean up, this workbook/record-keeper provides the chairperson of a successful fund-raising event with the planning guide they need. The planner will help you pick a theme that reflects your organization’s goals, set a budget, pick the subcommittees and more. Gala! tells you how, "The Gala Planner & Record-Keeper" provides the planning calendar and responsibilities for each subcommittee. Complete with sample press materials and public service ads, invitation guidelines, media contact lists and guest lists, the Gala Planner covers it all. Patti Coons is theauthor of GALA! THE SPECIAL EVENT PLANNER FOR PROFESSIONALS AND VOLUNTEERS (Capital Books, 1999). She has raised millions of dollars for groups such as the Slavation Army, the American Heart Association, and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Opera Company, and Museum of Art. In fact, she produly credits much of her success as a public relations professional to her more than twenty years as a volunteer on numerous philanthropic boards and fundraising committees. Ms. Coons lives inthe Washington, D.C. area.