Online Course: How to Plan and Implement a Community Festival
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How to Plan and Implement a Community Festival

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This course takes you step by step in the planning of a community festival. It tells you what you need, how and where to get it, and how to evaluate your results. Taking this course will guide you to a successful event.
Enroll today! This is a self-paced, online course. You have 6 months to finish. An instructor will monitor your progress and assess your body of work at course completion.
Course Cost: 6 Month Subscription
Basic Course (no certificate)   =   $79.00
Course with Online Certificate*   =   $104.00
How to Plan and Implement a Community Festival is for participants interested in planning a community festival or major event open to the general public. This is a working course. The assignments will lead you into investigating requirements, costs, and fundraising. The chief requirements aside from internet access is a telephone, telephone directory, and a desire to plan a successful festival in your community.

This course covers: 1. Deciding what kind of festival you want to hold. 2. Understanding how to best organize. 3. Investigating the requirements for holding a festival. 4. Deciding program components of your festival. 5. Determining the approximate cost of your festival. 6. Preparing a workable budget for your festival. 7. Hopefully, watching your efforts come to fruition as you hold your festival.
* Document your course completion with an online certificate (additional shipping/handling charges apply for hard copy delivery). Instantly download, print, and share your certificate and CEUs once awarded. UniversalClass™ offers many wonderful learning tools to help you get the most out of your online course, including an online portfolio service that manages all your course completions, and a Certificate Verification Service you can use so others may view and verify the authenticity of your awards.
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Course Description

Festival planning is not as easy as it seems. Festivals have become very popular in many communities. If you are interested in starting a festival in your area, or if you help plan a festival in your area, you can benefit from the advice and suggestions offered in this class. When you finish with this class, you will be able to plan and implement a successful festival in your community. This class covers how to organize, what committees you will need, how to convince people to volunteer to help you, etc. Also discussed in depth is finances - how to raise funds to put your event on, and how to attract corporate sponsors.

Course Lessons

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Lesson 1: Getting Organized - Part One

This lesson will focus on the basic requirements and lists steps you need to take to organize a community festival. From bank account to IRS to board of directors - it's all here. This lesson will help you decide if you really want to do this festival!

Lesson 2: Getting Organized Part Two - Festival Committees

This chapter explains the difference between administrative committees and program committees. Examples of the both types of committees are described and their duties are outlined.

Lesson 3: You Cannot Have a Festival Without These

Three things are key to ANY festival. This lesson explains what these three main things are and how to achieve them at nominal cost.

Lesson 4: Concessions - The Financial Backbone of Your Festival

Festival vendors are a very important part of your festival. In this lesson you will learn how to register them, how to accommodate them, and most important of all, how to keep them happy so they will continue to come back for more.

Lesson 5: Finances and Budget

An enormous amount of effort should be concentrated on finances and budget. The main reasons most organizations fail are financial. This lesson covers the basics of both.

Lesson 6: Tying It All Together

This final lesson goes in depth about Publicity, the actual festival, and follow up after the festival is over. A PR timetable, sample evaluation form, and why you need an on-site office are highlights of this lesson.

Optional Certificates Awarded

  1. Certificate of Attendance
  2. Certificate of Class Participation
  3. Certificate of Appreciation
  4. Certificate of Merit
  5. Certificate of Outstanding Achievement
  6. Certificate of Academic Excellence

Certificates awarded based on the quality of research the students performs. Budgets and other plans will be evaluated. Certificates will also be offered based on final grades. All students are eligible for Certificate of Attendance, Class Participation, and Appreciation. Final grade of 70 or above earns Certificate of Merit. Final grade of 80 or above earns Certificate of Outstanding Achievement. Final grade of 90 or above earns Certificate of Academic Excellence.

In addition to the standard Certificate of Course Completion, Merit Awards may be issued by the instructor at his/her own discretion and are based on student achievement. Merit awards also incur an additional $30.00 processing fee that covers the customization, printing, and delivery of the award, as well as access to the UniversalClass™ Portfolio Service that documents your achievements online. Official Merit Awards have a serial number that verifies the authenticity of the award (great for employers to verify your achievement).
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Course Title : How to Plan and Implement a Community Festival
CEU Value :

1.0 (Continuing Education Units)

Course Number : 9065
Course Type : How To
Course URL :

http://festival.onlineclasses.com

Course Rating : 3 Star Rating
Instructor :

Catherine Eberhart

Syllabus :

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Duration : Continuous: Enroll anytime!
Course Fee :

Basic Course: $79

   

with CEUs & Certificate: $104

NOT FOR COLLEGE CREDIT
This is a non-credit course, and is provided for your personal enrichment. This course is not intended to be a substitute for any state, government, licensing, or educational requirements.

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