Benefit Concert

compmom
Sat, 13 Oct 2012 07:44:36 +0000

Applying for 501c3 status is very cumbersome.

Is this a very local, small event?

Kids in our town have done benefits and just taken cash at the door. A separate bank account is not a bad idea. But our kids kept it really simple: the cash at the door was taken to the bank the next day, converted to a cashier’s check, and sent to the charity.

I certainly hope the copy attached to the cashier’s check was kept. I don’t know how bookkeeping was handled: my kid was not in charge, and just performed. But I do know that overall, they just kept it simple.

If the benefit is in a city, or is raising a great deal of money, then that would be different, but I guess the kids in our town did it almost like a lemonade stand. A church donated space. I do think they raised something like $1,000 back when Katrina hit New Orleans.