How to Fund a High School Improv Group

Video Transcript

"Then once they have some matches if you have more than one high school program you can have a high school play another high school. So you can have scrimmages at the high schools amongst their own team or you can have two high schools play each other like they would in football or basketball or anything else. I encourage that you let them sell tickets and I encourage that you set a price so that they can raise some funds. We have successfully be part of high school leagues in Southern California; there are two big ones in California, the Los Angles one and the San Diego one, and there’s one in Wisconsin, Central Texas. There’s a couple on the East Coast and they all have in common that the high school teams are able to raise funds themselves and then as an organization you can help them to know what that money is available for. It can be available for charitable things; it can be available to help with the development of their own team like buying the uniforms or paying the coach or a host for the show. It could fund the theatrical production of the school; maybe their school can’t afford a theater department but with the funds raised with their improv shows maybe they can. We found the average school can raise fifteen to seventeen hundred dollars with a few matches and a few exchanges with other schools. Perhaps that goes in to scholarships for the graduating seniors, book scholarships or something. There is a lot of things that you can do with the money, and you can help them to generate it. Maybe they want to sell popcorn and candy bars at the events and that would be up to them. Now in addition to having a sponsor you’re going to have the kids self manage themselves into some fliers, promotion and it ends up being sort of a cottage industry that will teach them how to manage their own interests. "