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FUNDRAISING 101: STRATEGIES TO FUND YOUR PROJECT Workshop

Play Cafe invites you to an on-line workshop presented by Tracy Held on Sunday, July 19th, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Pacific Time.

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ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:

Do you have a story to produce, but need to raise the money to put it on stage or on screen? This workshop will help you understand your fundraising options so you can be strategic about choosing a fundraising campaign that will help you choose a practical and effective strategy for raising money. This workshop is especially geared for artists who are producing their own work and who are new to fundraising or have fundraised in the past but either struggled to successfully raise their goal amount or felt overwhelmed by the process. Tracy will help you identify a fundraising approach that will make it easier for you to fund your own projects.

In this workshop, you will gain a high level understanding of the primary approaches to fundraising: individual donor solicitation, crowdfunding, grant writing, and hosting events. You will then have an opportunity to perform a self-assessment to determine which strategies are right for your next project. By the end of the workshop, you should be able to identify an approach that is most likely to be successful for you as well as next steps for implementing your fundraising campaign.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:

Tracy Held (she/they) is a multi-racial Chinese/Eastern European American writer, producer, and fundraising consultant. She works closely with artists and nonprofits to run successful crowdfunding campaigns, win grant awards, and coordinate individual donor campaigns. Many clients are delighted by how fun raising money is with Tracy! She is a Co-Founder of Erosion films, Founder of All Terrain Theater, formerly served as Executive Director of Play Cafe, and acts as Vice-Chair of the WGA Asian American Writers Committee. She has an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon University and was just named a 2026 CMU Tartans on the Rise honoree. tracyheld.com

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REGISTRATION: The fee to participate is $18 for Play Cafe members and $28 for non-members. Play Cafe Members, write to programs@playcafe.org to request the discount code. Closer to the date, registrants will be sent an email with Zoom instructions from programs@playcafe.org  It might land in a spam folder.