| Gala!: The Special Event Planner for Professionals and Volunteers (Capital Ideas) (Capital Ideas) | 
 enlarge | Author: Patti Coons
Publisher: Capital Books
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 150786
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 120
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.4
ISBN: 1892123134
Dewey Decimal Number: 394.2068
EAN: 9781892123138
ASIN: 1892123134
Publication Date: December 20, 1999
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Product Description
If you are responsible for your organization's next big event - whether it is a black tie dinner, a political barbecue, a charity walk-a-thon, a celebrity speech, a school auction, a capital campaign, or a business launch to benefit your favorite cause - everything you need to know and do is in this easy-to-use book. From this handy check-listed guide, you'll learn how to select an event to fit the cause, set your fund-raising goals, plan and execute the entire event using a month-by-month event calendar and checklists, develop an effective charity team to assist you all along the way with the duties of each defined, get media attention using sample public service announcements and great new promotion ideas, build contacts and network with the community and other organizations, find sponsors, prepare inviting invitations and programs, and critique your event and maintain support for the future.
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 Not a good resource for General Event Planning May 22, 2005
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Too specific to charity. Not generalized enough to perform in a "normal" situation. Was disappointed with the read.
 Great! April 23, 2004
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I highly recomment Gala! not only for its content, but also because it gives a great framwork on how to put together an event. Personally, it helped me preparing an 100 people event and I truly can say it great because it showed me how to pull all the elements together.
What's different from other books, it's that Patti Coons explains how important are details while preparing your event.
I great book overall!!!!
 not worth the money January 29, 2003
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
I suppose if you had never planned any kind of event, this book might be helpful. Once you've planned even a kids' birthday party, this book becomes obsolete. The lists are ridiculous; the same information and "hints" are reworded throughout the book to appear "new". For example, there's a monthly list of tasks to accomplish in a year-long planning scenario, and then the same tasks are redistributed and reworded for the shorter scenario; it fills up the book, but one would have to be brain-dead not to be able to condense the year-long format into a shorter list. All in all, it was a waste of money and a waste of time.
It's for fundraisers! Not events! Just fundraisers! August 2, 2001
25 out of 27 found this review helpful
When I bought this book I thought it was about planning different kinds of events, fundraisers included. Turns out it's all about fundraisers. Which is fine, but I wish they'd said so ON THE COVER so I wouldn't wasted my money. The info is good for fundraisers, but pretty much irrelevant for any other kind of big event.
The cover needs correcting! June 25, 2001
12 out of 20 found this review helpful
OH my. Gala just arrived and as usual the first thing I did was to peruse the cover. The front cover is smashing. The back cover, however, is riddled with typos and awkwardly worded sentences. Apparently, Ms Coons' editor wasn't paying attention during this very special event. If I had been inside of a bookstore, where I could have captured the mistakes, BEFORE I headed to the checkout line, I would have never purchased this book. But alas, I haven't even opened the covers yet to see what's inside. If it's good quality I'll let you know.
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