the Making of Snowchella – a benefit concert to support SIC

Posted by dana on Sunday, March 7, 2010 at 6:45 pm

Want to know how to organize your own fundraising event for SIC? Take some tips from SIC alumni Taylor Ray, who organized Snowchella, a benefit concert that raised over $5000 for SIC on January 30th 2010.

The Making of Snowchella

…How did this unique event get started? Taylor Ray ’10 (SIC alumni VP3 2008) said, “I took the spearheading position in reaching out to student groups and getting sponsorships and various elements that came together, which ultimately shaped up to be this one night event. We had support and funding from the Stanford Concert Network, and a few other organizations came in to donate money to Support for International Change. It was the perfect alliance of student groups so that we could have this event that was free and open to anyone who wanted to come, but also raise money for charity and awareness in a very exciting, dynamic way.”

Ray has been the Community Service Chair in Sigma Nu for the past year. Immediately after his election to that position, he brought together the rest of team and began to brainstorm. He said, “We batted around a bunch of ideas, and one of them was that we would like to throw a charity concert. I knew that SIC would be a perfect beneficiary. The amount of money we could raise would make a huge impact but SIC also has a presence on campus and gives students the opportunity to actually get involved in the cause…”

Read more about the Snowchella partners, sponsors, performers and security debacles here in the Stanford Review.