Play Conservatory Inc

“Expenses marketing 1,041 supplies 51 meetings 374 insurance 576 bank charges 104 merchandise 2,831 finance charges 1,235 production expenses 14,091 business registration fee 145 workshop materials 130 total 20,578”

“Prepaid expenses and deferred charges 500 0 total 500 0”

“Accounts payable and accrued expenses 12,525 11,093”

“Play conservatory is an organization dedicated to providing pre- professional theatre arts training for young people and producing exciting live theatre for family audiences.”

“Workshops spring and fall 2015 play conservatory offered workshops for youth during the spring, summer and fall of 2015. These workshops covered a wide variety of theater arts skills. In the spring, we moved our workshop location to the horn family ymca facility to begin developing a partnership with the largest ymca in the greater albuquerque area. At the ymca facility we can run workshops every saturday afternoon from 12-4:30. Ymca is making a large community room available in exchange for play offering 1 hour of theater at six different sites that the y operates during the summer under the summer rec program for youth. Workshops - summer 2015 during the summer we offered 1 hour per day to youth who attended summer recreation hosted by the ymca at six different sites around albuquerque. The youth in these programs live in school districts that generally do not offer theater as one of the extracurricular activities. For many of them, it was the first time they have ever experienced the magic of theater. We also offered evening theater to youth whose families are experiencing homelessness and are enrolled in a residential program with an organization called saranam. This program gets families off the streets and into apartments in a building owned by saranam. Parents are enrolled in training to get their ged, then an associates degree, and eventually a job. Children are enrolled in school and provided with a full curriculum of homework assistance, literacy, and now, theater. Play summer program - 2015 our summer theater program was a 1-week adaptation of the wizard of oz, facilitated by the missoula childrens theater group. Thirty seven youths participated. Through a number of grant and individual donor efforts, we underfunded the program and made it available to all participants at a very reasonable cost. This approach was chosen because, during 2015, play needed to increase the total number of new (to us) kids who were exposed to theater and encourage them to become committed to being involved in plays programs. In 2015 play began marketing its summer program to more groups who work with at risk youth with the intention of moving away from competing with the private high schools for participants and giving youth who often do not have a chance to experience theater an opportunity to do so. This included reaching out to an orphanage that focuses on keeping sibling groups together, the largest agency unique and challenging working with abused children, two groups working with homeless families and one group working with women just recently released from prison and re- united with their children. Play also increased its fundraising efforts substantially knowing that our new effort to tap these markets would result in cultivating families who often do not have the funds needed to engage in our programs. End of year alumni cabaret play gathered a handful of alumni together at the end of the year and organized them to perform a cabaret fundraiser to support the memorial gift. They performed a mix of original works and well-known broadway musical tunes. This event was planned for december 26th, but a snowstorm forced us to reschedule it for january 3rd. Despite moving the date, the cabaret was a success and we plan to make it an annual event. Fundraising and income play took steps to increase its fundraising, targeting individuals who have given small amounts consistently in the past and getting many of them to increase their amount. We also identified additional known to the trustees individuals, most of whom had never given, and received first ever donations from them. Our private donor target list is growing. Play received its first ever memorial gift, in the name of a student who did a lot of theater with us and passed away in early 2015. The donors gave 2,000 in 2015 and will give 2000 every year for the next four years for a total of 10,000. The gift is not restricted to any specific activity, but is rather dedicated to creati”