JMC Charleston

Fundraising Events – New Events bring on Stress about Goals, Expectations & Setting Standards

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JMC Charleston is often brought in to help not-for-profit organizations craft a great event that actually makes money! We can quickly put together a spreadsheet of what it costs to make an event happen and help guide our clients what areas can be underwritten, done in-house or donated. The real key though is using the products of our locally based Blackaud Corporation to identify who your customer is and how you can keep them.

Blackbaud’s Razor Edge and other software programs are really cutting edge in this industry and continues to analyze internationally what percentage of clients stay with a new event after the first year, how many fall off, and what is left in the middle. This certainly gives clients ahead of time the knowledge of STRESSING at the event that this is THE FIRST ANNUAL and that the second one is planned. They can announce the date that night and have it printed and ready to go.

We are so fortunate to have Blackbaud in Charleston. CLICK on the Blackbaud line below to see a short video on the subject.

Blackbaud Fundraising

Local Palette Magazine – “El Conductor” – Artful Advice from Master Event Planner Mitchell Crosby

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YOU TUBE – An Interview with Mitchell Crosby – “Entertaining Charleston Style”

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Local real estate agent and amazing gal around town Caroline Ragsdale stopped in while we were setting up the first KREWE OF CHARLESTON party (thus the beads!) to ask a few questions about entertaining in Charleston!

U Cook! with Chef Bob Waggoner features Mitchell Crosby

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Episode 112 of Chef Bob Waggoner’s new cooking show features Mitchell Crosby, assisting in the kitchen with his former colleague from the Charleston Place Hotel days!

http://ucookwithchefbob.com/episodes/episode-112/

VICTORIAN HOMES Magazine – Mitchell Crosby produces a Victorian Christmas Luncheon at the Governor William Aiken House (10 pages)

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Producing a Christmas shoot in April is not too challenging, as long as you know someone in the Christmas Tree business! Our friends at the William Aiken House, one of our very favorite event facilities in the lowcountry, were kind to partner with us on this shoot by offering up the prettiest green room for a shoot that needed a red decorated tree. Can you get more Christmas than that? And, all the silver got polished!

Mitchell Crosby named Entertainment-Style Editor of CHARLESTON AND CHARLESTON HOME Magazines

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Exciting News for JMC Charleston. We love our friends at Charleston and Charleston Home Magazine. It is a pleasure to be affiliated and to be able to partner with them!

Charleston Magazine “Spring Fling” – Celebrating the Season with Party Planner Extraordinaire Mitchell Crosby

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2010 Advertisement in the Charleston CVB Meeting Planners Guide

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With the dip in the economy in 2009 and 2010 , JMC Charleston proactively offered clients events that would satisfy their goals, but did not read “expensive.” We took that mantra right down to the advertising!

Charleston HOME Magazine – “Bella Tuscany” Entertaining in Mitchell Crosby’s Italian Garden Room

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Mitchell’s collection of Italian Pottery and love for Italian food lead to this story in Charleston HOME Magazine.

The Italians are Coming! JMC Charleston hosts Donnavventura at Crosby’s Dock!

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Donnavventura is an Italian Television series committed to adventure and outdoor travel exclusively for women. The six girls of Donnavventura are selected from over 65,000 applicants throughout Italy. They tour the world for 100 days, acting as ‘travel reporters’ for important Italian magazines, and the wildly successful Donnavventura TV Show, as well as Italian radio, and the Internet. The tours are all about adventure, natural wonders, memories, cultural experiences, and most of all the unforgettable people they have met and introduced to the people of Italy through the TV series.

When Donnavventura American Grand Raid came to Charleston, the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation & Tourism (SCPRT) asked Mitchell Crosby of JMC Charleston to come up with a unique way to show the girls Charleston and the Low country.The 2009 Expedition is called the American Grand Raid, featuring a “Stars and Stripes” itinerary. The tour started in the Caribbean and wound its way to Florida, up the east coast, visiting both large cities and fascinating locations along the way. Their tour will end in Quebec where the girls will search for white bear. The four month long adventure will cover history, culture and traditions in what Donnavventura calls “the most renowned country in the world.”

Mitchell Crosby collaborated with Justin Croxall and Paul Cheney of Frogmore Catering to give the cast and crew of Donnavventura a real taste of the Low country on Crosby’s Dock. Cameras rolled as the girls got to see firsthand how the shrimp and fish come off the boat; then Chef Justin taught them to devein shrimp, fry Wild American Shrimp, and make hushpuppies. Paul Cheney made his specialty—Frogmore Stew along with Johns Island corn and tomatoes. Everyone was given Crosby’s Dock T-shirts (now spotted in 48 states and six foreign countries). The show airs in January.

“This was a great way to give the girls of Donnaventura a little taste of the Low country,” said Mitchell Crosby of JMC Charle

The producers of Donnavventura chose Charleston as their South Carolina destination at the recommendation of SCPRT. The agency’s international sales team met the producers at a trade show several months ago and discussed the great outdoor opportunities along the coast of the Palmetto State. Once that decision was made, SCPRT’s public relations team set about finding unique experiences in Charleston for Donnavventura. The final itinerary included horseback riding at Seabrook Island, the Crosby Dock experience, a ghost walk led by Bulldog Tours and a good night’s sleep at Market Pavilion Hotel.ston, “It was such a pleasure to be a part of their experience; and it just proves that there are no language barriers when you are having a good time.”