Mainline Suburban Life
“In the winter of 2006, with World Café Live’s Hal Real in full support early on, Lower Merion’s student impresario Dani Ella Yaron was able to stage several revenue-generating concerts highlighting student musicians to start the funding for an innovative teen center.
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Real very generously gave Teen Learning Community one hundred percent of gate revenue, based on the realistic expectation that people in the audience would spend a lot of money on food and drinks.
As a result of Hal Real’s business model, through three concerts, we were able to bring in over two thousand dollars to pay for insurance policies to underwrite our events and look into a broader campaign to purchase the up-for-sale Bryn Mawr Hardware Store.”
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Meet with students and ask them what they can do – their talents – and what they want to do, set a purpose, and do the work. And, of course, if you can find someone as generous as entrepreneur Hal Real of World Café Live to get you started financially, you will be in good shape.”
