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BAT’s economic impact on Burien – 2017

Community Fundraiser News June 30, 2017 0Likes 0Comments

The University of Washington’s Foster School of Business came to Burien to take a look at BAT’s economic impact on Burien.

BAT produces four MainStage shows a year. The audiences for these performances came from Burien and the region, including a few from Vancouver, Canada. Many of BAT’s audience spend money in Burien. Not everyone, of course, but enough people that their spending makes a difference to the City of Burien. Plus BAT spends money in Burien.

Theater is great entertainment. It is also a business, and theater helps the community it is located in grow.

The national average theater goer spends $23.44 in the community where the theater is located.

The Foster School of Business came to see how BAT’s audience compared to the national average. The top line of the Foster School of Business’ report is that BAT brings an additional $141,000 into the City of Burien. (Not bad, for just four productions a year.) Each BAT participant spends an average of $22.27 per production, which is very close to the National average.

Looking back at BAT’s tax and other records, for the years 2013-16, the Foster School of Business found BAT averaged 777 audience members per production. Adding the cast and crew, BAT brings about 3,109 people to Burien per year. Over those same years, approximately 1,500 of the audience members filled out questionaires which asked if they ate before, the show or planned to eat right afterward. (This is a large enough sample to be statistically significant.)

The surveys showed that 57% of BAT’s audience members ate before or after the show. Of those who ate before of after the show, 94% ate at a restaurant in Burien. (BAT has recently added a list of the restaurants in Burien (156) to BAT’s website to make finding just the right place to eat that much easier. LINK

Foster then looked at where these audience members came from. Most were from outside Burien. Surveys show that 31% of BAT’s audience comes from Burien. That means 69% of BAT’s audience comes from outside Burien. The numbers of audience members from outside of Burien was confirmed by comparing BAT’s online ticket sales, which showed that just 22% of online ticket sales came from Burien.

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Fun with Foster

Community Help BAT May 31, 2017 0Likes 1Comment

I am starting this post while I wait for BAT’s final meeting with the student at the Foster School of Business at the UW.

Due to a rather odd set of occurrences, BAT was able to join forces with the Foster School of Business to see if we could get a handle on BAT’s economic impact on the City of Burien. It has been a very interesting trip. I have had the opportunity to get to know a handful of students and their corporate consultants. My faith has been renewed for the future of business.

This was the students’ first exposure to the odd world of non-profits and the especially odd world of non-profit theater. I was often asked questions like people — fill in the blank — (actors, designers, directors, stage managers) work for THAT amount of money? I would always explain, BAT would like to pay more, but with a 94 seat house and no trust fund, that is the most we can pay. Nevertheless, the students were impressed and their eyes were opened to the idea that not everything one does is for the money. A good lesson for those at a school of business.

The students came to see a show and were very impressed with the whole experience, from the production values to the kindness of BAT’s volunteers. (Plus they liked the cocktails designed for the show.) Again, a good lesson on what you can do on next to nothing with great people volunteering to help.

For my part, I was very impressed with how bright the students were. It has been a long time since I studied statistics and data analysis, but these students had it down, and then some.

I have not yet seen the final report, and don’t really have a good idea what BAT’s economic impact is on Burien, but I am very confident what these students find will be very accurate. As I said, the amount of work that went into this study was very impressive.

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Amazon Smile makes BAT smile

Donations Help BAT July 8, 2015 0Likes 0Comments

BAT is part of Amazon Smile. (Check HERE for answers to the most asked questions about Amazon Smile.) Today, Amazon Smile made a deposit to BAT’s checking account. So, how does that work?

If you shop on Amazon, whether you are a Prime member or not, you can join Amazon Smile. To join go to smile.amazon.com. Once there, follow the instructions, choose a charity (Burien Actors Theatre) and shop. Every time you purchase a qualifying item through the Amazon Smile site BAT receives 0.5% of the purchase price. There is no additional charge to you, and lot and lots of items qualify.

If you shop on Amazon, there is only one tiny drawback that I can see. The donation to BAT comes from The AmazonSmile Foundation and not from you directly. Therefore, you do not get a tax deduction for the donation to BAT. But since there is no added cost to you to make the purchase that you would have made anyway, all is good.

BAT is a 501(c)(3), that is, a non-profit recognized by the IRS. If you would like to make a tax deductible donation to BAT in any amount, or a donation every week, month, quarter or annually, please use THIS SECURE DONATION PAGE. You will be emailed a receipt, and that donation is tax deductible to the full extent of the law.

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