FAQ: Please tell
me more about the VIP Guest of Honor experience, cost of ticket, why it is so
special, and how you can help us to reach this goal.
Answer: The cost of one regular NON VIP ticket
is $50. However if a person is fortunate enough to be chosen as a VIP Guest of
Honor the cost is only $25. And because they are allowed to buy 2
tickets (so that their spouse, significant other, or whomever they would like
to accompany them can also be a VIP) they get a $50 savings.
Wait a minute;
did you just say a $50 savings to attend what all of these people (www.ljjm.biz ) and more believe to be “One of
the Significant Cultural Events” of our time?
That is indeed
an amazing opportunity of great value. And
yes, we did say it! How great a value? After over 10 years and 800
events we have never had even one single VIP Guest of Honor be anything less
than completely satisfied.
But wait……THERE’S MORE!
In addition to this truly great value, they get to attend a
VIP meet and greet, and in MANY instances they also get free food, free
beverages, and free gifts
depending on our sponsors.
Hmmmmn…………Let
me get this straight:
1. A $50 savings to
attend one of the world’s most significant cultural events.
2. A VIP Meet and
Greet Ceremony
3. And in many
instances Free Food
4. Free Beverages
5. And even Free
gifts
All for only $25?
YES! - Not bad, right?
But wait……THERE’S MORE!
Perhaps just
as or if not even MORE important:
They get to do
all of this AND support an extremely worthy cause - YOU and your outstanding
organization.
In other
words: They not only get to attend a historic Jazz for Peace world class
cultural event at a significant discount and with all these perks, but they get
to do so knowing FOR SURE that their attendance and participation will truly help
to Make Our World Better.
That’s more than enough you say………..and
we certainly agree………
But wait……THERE’S MORE!
The VIP Guests
of Honor also help YOU by:
- Enabling you to confirm your event
in advance and with funds already raised for you.
- Helping you raise Maximum
Sustainable funds by bringing you closer to the 100% to you level (www.jazzforpeace.org/maxfunds
)
- And by confirming this event enable
our Staff and volunteers along with our list of “Unprecedented
Achievements in the Arts and Philanthropy”, proven fundraising techniques combined with personal
coaching, step by step guidance, world class cultural event planning
experience and expertise, and more, begin working right away FOR YOU and on your behalf
allowing each branch of our Empowerment Tree (www.jazzforpeace.org/tree ) to
begin to grow for your benefit.
OK Knock it off
already! – I’m SOLD!!!!
But wait……THERE’S STILL MORE!!!
It allows us,
via the names of the Board and additional members that you have added to make
up your VIP Invite Committee, to create a winning Grant Application to submit
to our Board so that this acclaimed Grant can be justly awarded to your
deserving organization.
The reason we
can't support every organization out there is not only because there are
zillions of them and not enough money in the entire world let alone in the
coffers of our foundation, but also because some organizations are the real
deal, and are really trying, and some are not. And many of the organizations
that are trying with our help are succeeding. Why? Because we help them! It is
our goal to separate the Wheat from the Chaff by showing to the public the organizations
that stand out from the rest and who are truly deserving of greater funds,
publicity, sponsors, prestigious supporters and so much more.
Got it! So what is the next step?
The next step
for your Empowerment Grant funding is to simply HELP US to show our board that YOU
are one of those special organizations.
Remember: It is OUR JOB to help you
succeed.
So should you
be having any trouble whatsoever gathering your VIP Invite Committee, or should
this Committee have any difficulty gathering their VIP’s by following our proven “2 easy steps” (Step
1 - emailing our invite to friends Step 2- and following up with a few of them
by phone or in person), let us know so
we can help!
For example - We
might need to know things like: who you
are showing this link to - www.ljjm.biz ? And what are they
saying to you when they read the letters from people such as the Prime Minister
of Kenya and the President of the
In order to
help you we need to hear your feedback so that we can look at our event history
and see how we may have already encountered that specific problem and addressed
it previously.
WAY
Cool……Now can I get a Summary?
Sure.
One of the
key elements credited in the success of our program has been to welcoming in
the NEW supporters, while at the same time thanking the old supporters, thereby
creating a unified and stronger team going forward.
To read more about this click HERE.
Using this strategy along with many
others over the past decade, our Grant Administration Dept. has helped over 800
Outstanding Causes communicate the importance of this event to their board and
to the public, assemble their VIP Invite Committee, gather their VIPs and
confirm their events with money already raised for you on the way to raising
maximum sustainable funding for their outstanding cause.
Can we do the same for you?
You
Betcha!
That is because here at our Foundation,
we don't EVER want to see a worthy cause go unfunded - and of all the quotes we have accumulated from
famous people, celebrities and World Leaders, it is this very policy that
prompted this quote that we
are as proud of as any:
"Jazz for Peace -
now THAT is the
Letter to all of our
Ground Breaking VIP Invite Committee Members
EMPOWERMENT TREE GRANTS - the worldwide
leader in cultural philanthropy.
Dear
all VIP Committee members for this truly outstanding cause,
Thanks
so much for being a part of this VIP invite committee.
Your
role is an important one in the success of this acclaimed
Grant as it enables us to get this event confirmed as quickly as possible via
these "2 easy steps".
As
I am sure you know from looking at our empowerment tree (www.jazzforpeace.org/tree), this
step of selecting the VIP guests of honor makes up the roots and for obvious
reasons this step is an essential one simply because there has never been a
tree that did not have roots.
However
if you click on branch number seven (located at the very top of the tree) you
will see a long list of letters written to us by ecstatic previous grant
recipients. And my job, not only for our board and for our donors, but most
importantly for you, is to make you and your outstanding cause every bit
as ecstatic a grant recipient as the letters that you are right now looking at
if you happened to click on branch number seven at the top of the tree.
I
have learned over the years that creating ecstatic grant recipients (a goal
that if achieved will for sure benefit you far more than it will me) is always
best done by spending as little time on the roots of the tree and conversely as
much time on the branches of the tree as possible.
So
being that each and every one of us has the exact same interests which is to
make the absolute most out of this grant opportunity to grow all of the
branches of our empowerment tree as big as possible in order to get the very
best results that we can for your outstanding cause, if I was to say one thing
to you from the bottom of my heart it would have to be this:
THANK YOU!!!
Thank
you for playing this important role to achieve the maximum success of this
event by gathering your VIP Guests immediately thereby getting the ROOTS
completed and in place so that we can spend as much time as possible growing
the all important sustainable funding branches of our Empowerment Tree.
Below
is some additional information that I am hoping will be helpful and of course I
look forward to answering any questions that you may have and assisting you
towards getting these ROOTS out of the way not only as quickly as possibly but
also as easily as possible so that your event can be every bit as
successful and hopefully just as ecstatic as well.
Thanks
so much for being a part of this wonderful opportunity to make a difference!
Sincerely,
John De Angelis – Grant Administrator – Empowerment Tree Grant
Program for Nonprofits – Changing our world one
Grant at a time….
Addition
Information and FAQ’s that may be helpful:
Dear VIP Invite Committee Member:
By now you should have already begun the process of emailing the
Jump Start Letter that you received to your 25
– 50 favorite people and following up with at least 8-10 of them by phone or in
person.
Your Jump Start Letter includes
your OWN personal VIP Confirmation Link - CLICK
HERE to RESERVE YOUR HONORARY STATUS for each VIP to simply
click on and Submit which will then send a copy of this form to your VIP
Committee Chairman (Michael).
This way your Committee Chairman (as well as Jazz for Peace)
will know that you are well on your way to spreading the word about this event.
This Confirmation link informs the VIP attendee of THREE wonderful reasons to accept this invitation.
We look forward to assisting you through the next step of confirming this event with funds already raised for you.
FAQ #7. How can we work together with our board to pre-sell the 35
pairs of discount tickets enabling us to "Jump-Start" our event with
money already raised for our Organization?(click here for answer)
7a. Please tell me more about the VIP Guest of Honor
experience, cost of ticket, why it is so special, and how you can help us to
reach this goal.(click here for answer)
7b. Is it OK to skip over the VIP part (ROOTS) and just go
straight for the General Public, Sponsors, Media and all of the other Branches
of your Empowerment Tree?(click here for answer)
8. This sounds "too good to be true". How are you able
to offer to us this incredible service? (click here for answer)
- Please tell us everything we need
to know about Venues. How to obtain a venue, what size, how many people do
you expect to buy the tickets for you to meet your target and the over all
cost, etc.
(click here for answer)
20. Please tell me everything I need to know about the VIP
Invite Committee.
How does a VIP Invite Committee Member differ
from the regular VIP’s? Who should be on this prestigious “Committee that
invites the VIP Guests”? Do you have a recent timeline for funding that we
could refer to? Can we put the VIP Committee Outreach Letter (or Jump Start
Letter) up on Facebook?(click here for answer)
21. The date we chose for our event is many months away. What are the advantages of Jumpstarting it right away? (click here for answer)
21a. Why do the very
busiest organizations always confirm their event the earliest?(click here for answer)
See
all of our FAQ’s at www.jazzforpeace.org/grant
Section C
By sharing
proven fundraising techniques combined with personal coaching, step by step
guidance, world class cultural event planning experience and expertise, and
more at no cost to you, the Jazz for Peace Grant Administration team has helped
more than 800 organizations obtain their VIP Guests of Honor on the way to
turning "Unprecedented Achievements" in the Arts and Philanthropy into maximum funding for their
outstanding cause.