Wendell Full Moon Coffeehouse

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Welcome to the Wendell Full Moon Coffee House

We are happy to provide your organization with the opportunity to benefit from the Full Moon Coffeehouse.

You receive total receipts from all food and drinks sold at the baking table.

We provide coffee, tea, sugar, honey, paper goods, utensils, and a coffeemaker.

You provide the following:

  1. At least 12 quality baked goods (muffins, cookies, brownies, cakes, pies, tortes, etc). Chocolate and Pop corn sells!
  2. Bring a supply of paper plates, spoons and forks.
  3. In smaller quantities, quiches, spring rolls, other non-sweet foods often sell to hungrier people not wanting dessert.
  4. l gal. milk, 1-2 quarts half & half.
  5. Any cold beverages you will sell (no alcohol, no small glass bottles). Suggested beverage, cider, other juices. Totaling a couple of gallons.
  6. $25 in change in quarters and dollars to operate your concession.
  7. At least 4 workers to:
  1. On the average, the bake sale at the Full Moon Coffee House nets $100 - $200, on occasion more, depending on attendance plus amount, quality and price of goods. Average pricing is 2/$1 for cookies (or more if large or gourmet), $1 for brownies, up to a $1.50 (sometimes more) for more extravagant desserts or large portions. Ask Coffee Person for assistance in determining prices.
  2. In addition, you will receive 40% of the gate after fixed expenses are deducted.
  3. Admission to the coffeehouse is $6 - $15. Attendance is unpredictable. Maximum audience for a sit-down performance is 96. Maximum audience for a stand-up act is 145. Anything over 75 people is considered a good audience. The beneficiary group can bring in up to five people with free admission, this is to cover the people who are working the bake sale. Other members of the beneficiary group are welcome to attend, but should make a donation like any other audience member.
  4. It is a good opportunity to sell items, have a raffle, hand out promotional material.
  5. Local newspapers are interested in reporting the coffeehouse and your organization, so a concerted effort on your part will increase your visibility and give you a chance to promote your work.
  6. Ideally, your publicity efforts could result in a third of the audience or more. Also, supports of benefit groups are likely to pay the higher end of sliding scale.
  7. We PSA's to newspapers and radio stations and post 75 posters. A master copy of the poster is included in this package. Further copies on more attractive paper stock can be generated, and your efforts in postering can only help. Please reproduce and distribute as many more as you can. Your participation in promoting the event is essential to maximizing fund-raising potential. Please invite your membership and friends.

The Full Moon Coffeehouse is organized and supervised by a volunteer committee who annually renew their individual commitments to work to benefit local environmental and progressive organizations and to promote the performing arts. The committee is pleased to be working with you. We always enjoy our efforts and inevitably experience each coffeehouse as special. We're sure you will feel the same. We are receptive to your comments and suggestions. If you have any questions, the following committee members can help:

Beneficiary Coordinator - Kathy Becker 1-978-544-5557 beneficiary@wendellfullmoon.org

Recommended Flier Posting Locations

The following locations should be postered by the combined efforts of the beneficiary and the Full Moon Coffee House committee. The committee will design and make a limited number of copies. The beneficiary will make their own copies from the original and poster outside of the immediate Town of Wendell. Here is a partial list of areas that the committee does not reach. This list is by no means complete. Feel free to poster elsewhere.

We poster Wendell, parts of Amherst, Northampton, Leverett, Montague, Greenfield, New Salem, Orange, Shelburne Falls. Other areas include:

  1. Wendell: Library, Wendell Country Store, Transfer Station (WRATS)
  2. New Salem: New Salem Country Store
  3. Leverett: Post office, library, Village Coop, Leverett Crafts and Arts (LCA)
  4. Shutesbury: Elementary school, Post Office, Library
  5. Montague: Bookmill, Market
  6. Amherst: Blacksheep Deli, Bueno Y Sano, Newbury Comics, Collective Copies, Jones Library, Mystery Train, For the Record, Henions Bakery, Barts, Panda East
  7. Brattleboro: Common Ground, MORE??????
  8. Northampton: We poster several places, including, Thornes (several places), Dynamite Records, State Street Market, Haymarket, Forbes Library, Bart's, Beyond Words, Realty Co. next to Silver Scape Design, Cha Cha Cha. There are other places in NoHo that can be postered.
  9. Sunderland: Java Hut
  10. Greenfield: Library (need to get stamped), Greenfield Savings Bank, Bead Store (Main St.), Mesa Verde, Greenfield Market, Cafe Koko, Greenfield Community College (2 boards, need to get stamped), About Music, Video to Go, Greenfield Books (Federal St.)

**** There are many other, high visibility areas that we do not get to that you could take care of. We don’t bother with the colleges because the return is negligible.

If you would like to be a beneficiary, please fill out the form below. The Wendell Full Moon Coffeehouse only benefits non-profit local environmental and service organizations. We support beneficiaries that are non-profit volunteer organizations whose work benefits the quality of life of this region. Please be sure to read our Mission Statement.

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