If the benefit concert cost more money than it brought in, should the promoter be forced to foot the bill?
The story said the crowd was small, despite a lot of advertising. Proceeds doesn’t mean profits. It usually means SOME PART of the profits, not all of the profits. Pro fundraisers usually recover their costs, and then give a percentage of the profits.
If there were no profits, there is nothing to share.
However, if they were “passing the bucket” for donations, that should go 100% to the charity, as it was presented as a direct cash donation opportunity.
No, he should most certainly send the bill to the family. In fact, I’m surprised he didn’t. /sarc
Is it okay for the promoter to take from the donation jars to help offset costs? To take money from the sale of family-provided bracelets to cover his losses?To keep the ticket proceeds when he said all ticket proceeds would go to the family? Is it okay for the promoter to not provide accounting information?
If a promoter says all ticket proceeds will go directly to the family to help support their needs, then it would seem that the promoter is responsible to come up with other means of covering the costs to put on the benefit.