A ticket donation program through the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center allows community members a way to give back with ease.
Season ticket holders, individual ticket holders, and anyone who’s purchased a package to see shows at the Fox Cities P.A.C. now have the option to donate tickets through the FoxCitiesPAC app or by visting foxcitiespac.com/donate-my-tickets/.
If, for any reason, ticketholders know they will be unable to attend a show for which they have already purchased tickets, a few taps on a screen or clicks of a mouse are enough to ensure someone else in the community gets to benefit. A missed performance is suddenly transformed into a special memory for someone in the community who wouldn’t have had that experience without the patron’s help.
Patrons who donate a ticket will receive a receipt for their donation, allowing them to claim the value of the ticket as a charitable gift.
One notable organization that helps coordinate recipients of the Ticket Donation Program is the Northeast Wisconsin Chinese Association. NEWCA Executive Director Fanni Xie said sometimes ticket purchasing is difficult for Chinese/Asian community members because of a language barrier.
“These tickets actually serve as a bridge,” said Xie. “First of all to break the language barrier, and second of all is that it breaks the intergenerational barrier. Because some of the parents actually born in China… did not have the chance to appreciate the Western art or the theater art that happens here [in the United States], but all the kids growing up here learn how to appreciate both cultures. So, the parents and kids coming over to see the show actually helps them, through the intercultural and intergenerational connection.”
Other organizations partnered with this program are NEW Hmong Professionals, Boys and Girls Clubs of the Fox Valley, Youth Go, and Casa Hispana.
“I know from experience that attending a [Fox Cities] P.A.C. event is most pleasurable, if not thrilling to be a part of, and so it’s a really good feeling to know that someone else is going to have that same feeling, that same pleasure, by my donation,” said Bill Henry, a ticket donor from earlier this year and longtime patron of the center.
