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Post by itrainmonkeys on Jun 3, 2009 10:48:09 GMT -5
Pretty cool story just posted today. Impressive donation.
The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival has announced that it will donate $240,000 to a variety of New Orleans non-profit groups. In their continuing effort to promote continued awareness of the rebuilding of New Orleans, festival organizers Superfly Presents and A.C. Entertainment created the "Somethin' Else - New Orleans" tent at the 2008 event. It was modelled after some of the city's most distinctive music venues and featured some of its greatest musical talent. Fans were asked to make a donation upon entering "Somethin' Else - New Orleans" throughout the weekend. The money raised from these donations will be part of the gift that the festival is making.
That's really great, although $240K is disappointingly low. I volunteered at Habitat's Musicians' Village after Katrina and it's nice to know that 'Roo is contributing toward keeping that project going.
Of course it's a matter of perspective/opinion...I'm entitled to mine, aren't I?
When you consider that this is a Superfly donation in addition to proceeds from the Something Else tent last year, the number is low. That money was always intended to go to charity and support for the tent wasn't what Superfly expected last year.
I gladly gave the donation last year and realy enjoyed the Somethin Else tent. Great music and raising money for a good cause sounded like a good idea to me. I do know that the Somethin Else did not do very well last year as most people did not like the idea of paying a cover at a festival. I believe a better idea would have been not to charge a cover and instead donate some or all of the profit from the bar inside the Somethin Else tent.
NOCCA is a tuition-free, professional arts training center located in the heart of historic New Orleans. NOCCA offers instruction in creative writing, dance, media arts, music, theatre arts, and visual arts to high school students across Louisiana through school day, after-school, weekend and summer sessions.
The NOCCA Institute provides support and advocacy for NOCCA, overseeing multiple financial aid programs, an Artist-in-Residence program, the Center Stage concert series, and other programs that enhance the educational environment for students and provide arts experiences for the general public."
shameless self-plug: i got accepted into NOCCA this upcoming school year for creative writing ;D heheheheheh
I'm with ya Sassbox. It is admittedly great that they are donating anything at all to New Orleans, but that does seem kinda low. That might help restore like one or two buildings. Considering Bonnaroo on the whole probably brings in something like $20 million (or more or less I don't really know), that seems meager. I mean hell, they are making a simple walking path in my city and the alloted budget for that is something like $1.4 million. And that's just a narrow paved trail through town.
Post by generalstore on Jun 7, 2009 12:52:07 GMT -5
lol, some of you act like they print buckets of money for putting on roo. 240k is a lot of money coming from an organization as small as superfly.
They don't get to keep all of that 20 million. Putting up that bill isn't exactly cheap ya know. Neither is renting the stages, lights, communications , and other equipment. Then you have their continuing site infrastructure costs, payment on the farm property, and nuts I can't even think of. Add in staff costs where each staff member takes up probably 50 - 120k (including benefits) and there's really not all that much money left.
Granted they have other sources of revenue, but they each have other costs of their own.
Sorry, I try not to be argumentative on this board, but saying 240k isn't a generous donation from anyone, let alone a small one like superfly, is just wrong.
lol, some of you act like they print buckets of money for putting on roo. 240k is a lot of money coming from an organization as small as superfly.
They don't get to keep all of that 20 million. Putting up that bill isn't exactly cheap ya know. Neither is renting the stages, lights, communications , and other equipment. Then you have their continuing site infrastructure costs, payment on the farm property, and nuts I can't even think of. Add in staff costs where each staff member takes up probably 50 - 120k (including benefits) and there's really not all that much money left.
Granted they have other sources of revenue, but they each have other costs of their own.
Sorry, I try not to be argumentative on this board, but saying 240k isn't a generous donation from anyone, let alone a small one like superfly, is just wrong.
Thank you. I really didn't think there'd be any negativity about this post. I thought for sure it would just make people happy...did not expect Roo to get criticized for this one lol.
Alright guys keep your shirts on, I'm not necessarily being negative about the donation, all I'm saying is that it is perhaps a little confusing to me. It's been almost four years since hurricane Katrina struck, which did total damages adding up to about $90 billion. That's a whopping 375,000 times as much as Superfly is donating. But that's irrelevant, obviously no single company could make a dent in that kind of financial crisis. Maybe part of my confusion is, why now? Why didn't they do this any of the previous four years since the tragedy? Or every year since it happened? And I wouldn't necessarily call Superfly a small business. There are local small businesses in my town that could probably easily donate that much, and they certainly don't bring together 80,000 people every year, buying expensive tickets, food, and merchandise. It's still great, I'm proud of Superfly et al for not just lining their pockets and giving something to people that need still need help after four years of questionable or downright horrible government bungling.
