April 24, 2009

The Newmark School and Newmark High School are non-profit, state-approved private schools for 135 children with learning disabilities and behavior disorders. The Art Show was attended by nearly 300 people, raised over $24,000 and featured work by the students that was sold to attendees during a wine and cheese reception and viewing.  Responsibilities included liaising with vendor for food & beverage, lighting, music, graphic design and printing, drafting correspondence and materials, including the invitation, program and solicitation and acknowledgement letters, list management and on-site management throughout the event.

This was our first year of involving an event planner for our annual art show and I am delighted with the results that Ginger Donnan produced. Ginger helped us bring our event to a whole new professional level with joy and ease. She is a consummate professional and brought excellent organization and structure to our event planning process.  She helped guide the entire process with exceptional thoroughness and brought several fresh ideas to our event. As an added unexpected bonus Ginger helped develop our parent volunteer committee and gave us a structure for calling upon them for future events.  I would highly recommend Ginger Donnan Events for any kind of event planning. – Cynthia Allman, Executive Director, Newmark Schools, April 2009