Well, yeah, there is that whenchy aspect of it, but then I ALSO want to be paid for all the prep time to teach, for the money I've invested in equipment, for the driving to get there, for the coordination time in advance to set it all up, for helping peiople see how to use what I know in their own setting, and so forth, because it's not just the tradition I would pass on in my workshops...

I have been thinking about it this way-- how much would I expect to pay, to attend a workshop like I envision? And then how many people would be the right size crowd to do it for? And then how much of that should the church pay, and how much should they pass along to the participants? Cuz they could ask the participants to help defray the cost.

Hardi explained it to me like this-- the money might not be in the budget already, but every rector knows which parishioners can be asked to support new things that become possible, and if four people each kick in a twenty, and the church does too, well there's the hundred. I guess if I want more, or travel & other expenses, they could have to add participant fees to it. In fact if they use what I do, in order to do outreach serving the community, then they may actually make money for the church AND pay me.

AZt the Folk College I recently attended (see thread), we briefly covered the basics of the all the business aspects of folk music gigging. The point that emerged was one I already knew from other marketing successes I have engineered in other fields-- it all comes down to seeing the product from the eye of the recipient, and marketing to that. I just had not seen all the possibilities until I made myself think about it, and heard how it has worked for other.

I still want to know what kind of rates some of you are getting for working with schools. What kind of money do they put into their grant proposals?

~Susan