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Response 3 C: C Mat strategies will you useto assist in nerketing all of [, lUitas County as a tourist destination with your Measuring Results * event/project funding request? We will have links on our website for other related organizations wthin Kittitas County. The two logos, My.Ellensburg and Live Life in Color will be included in all our mailings and printed advertising/promotions. 2500 character lirrit Application Questions: Part 3 41 Collaboration If your organization collaborates or has created partnerships with other organizations, groups, or other events, how is this accomplished? Collaboration * We collaborate with many organizations including other NW rodeo's (there are 27 in all), and with events that are rodeo related like roping events, barrel racing events, Bares and Broncs, John Wayne Wagon Trail rides, Washington State Horse Park and local sponsors like CWU, Ellensburg Rodeo, Kittitas County Chamber of Commerce, displays at Pasta Company, the Windrow Hotel, the Kittitas Valley Events Center, the Spirit of the West. We have relationships with Heritage Distillery in Roslyn, the Farmers Market both in Ellensburg and Roslyn. We will nurture relationship with the Kittitas County Historical Museum and the Cle Elum Museum along with events held in Upper County like Pioneer Days. We are part of the Alliance for the Western Culture and Art Center. This all is accomplished by our volunteer board of directors using personal contact and providing brochures, posters, ads and invitations to our events. We will be sending out and delivering brochures to many other rodeos and to Chambers of Commerce in selected cities nationwide. See attached lists of sponsors and artists currently associated with ERHOF. 2500 character lirrit 51 Future Plans Please explain what plans exist to allow this project to become self-sustaining. Include any plans for ticket sales, event sponsors, and other cost -recovery models. Future Plans* Future Plans: For the past eight years our major fundraiser has been held at the CWU Ballroom during our annual Induction Banquet and Art Auction on Thursday of Rodeo Weekend. We hold a live art auction supported by the donations of 20 to 30 artists that create a western themed item each year to sell. The Banquet is attended by 300+ supporters that have helped us raise over $400,000 in the past 8 years. This year with the anticipation of our new building needing remodeling we raised $21,000 with a fund -a -need raise the paddle request. With good communication to these many supporters we will continue to keep their interest and provide them with a sense of community in preserving the history that is so important to them. ERHOF holds a Whiskey Tasting, now in its 3rd year, where we sell Heritage Distillery's products with a generous profit margin and have raised $3,000 each of the first two years. We have a raffle item during and preceding rodeo until Labor Day that has netted at least $1,000 each year. Westar Roping Event has donated the proceeds from their gate in exchange for our volunteers assisting in producing and running the annual event. This has brought in anywhere from $2,000 to $4,000 each year for the last 5 years. We consistently use on line marketing with our Facebook page and Community Connect to continue the success of these events. We are developing more avenues to raise funds with our board of directors and create events now that we have a space to hold these events. We will use the county logo and the appropriate city logo in all our advertising. 2500 character lirrit A