Program+Checklist


 * How we set workshop fees:**

An Affinity Group or Commission predicts MINIMUM attendance. Then its planners sum all predicted cash costs - for site, services, food (where there's a meal, that is usually the quoted per-head cost times the projected minimum attendance, including staff and other extras), cost of presenter, etc. (be sure to include speaker expenses as well as honorarium!). Next, they add in any "profit" the group wants to earn if it plans to fund other projects in the **same** budget year (i.e., like a program that might have a higher than normal presenter costs or a year-end dinner meeting for the group).

And then, if the Group wants to do more than one mailing or plans a jazzy printed flier or plans other unusual marketing or ancillary expenses, these are added. To the above, we add 20% to cover CAIS overhead (staff time, phone, etc.). The total of all the above becomes budgeted expense. Then we divide this total by the minimum attendance already figured (i.e., an attendance number below which you would feel the event should be called off)., and round that number up to the next $5 level. This becomes the per person registration fee.