FAQs - For Arts Organizations
Patron Rewards is a socially responsible private company driven by a unique public service mission – ensuring that families enjoy greater access to arts and cultural opportunities.
Simply put, our goal is to increase support of the arts by making it more affordable for everyone.
For arts organizations, Patron Rewards brings together the power of cause-marketing with the proven benefits of a consumer rewards program to create a new source of long term, sustainable funding.
The program works by underwriting the cost of tickets and contributing funds to your organization when audience members dine at participating local restaurants.
Patron Rewards supports the arts by underwriting audience participation to lower the cost of tickets, subscriptions, classes and membership.
In addition, as a cause marketing program, Patron Rewards makes a direct contribution to arts organizations when its members dine out. Learn more about how we give back.
Patron Rewards is effective because everybody wins:
- Audience members benefit from earning free or discounted tickets and subscriptions;
- Businesses now have a stronger economic incentive to support the arts because we make it profitable, not just philanthropic, to provide funding;
- And arts organizations gain a new source of support to underwrite audience participation and contributions.
The program is simple: by dining out at their favorite local restaurants, audience members quickly earn Patron Points they can redeem for cash back on tickets, memberships, donations and education classes.
What’s more, when members eat out, Patron Rewards also makes a direct contribution to your organization. It’s like holding a fund raiser every time your audience eats out!
Patron Rewards is completely free for both arts organizations and their audiences. Your organization keeps 100% of the funds raised.
No! Patron Rewards is completely free for audience members. There is no charge to join or participate.
We're able to make Patron Rewards free because participating restaurants fund the program whenever audience members dine out.
No! 100% of the funds we create go toward underwriting and funding arts organizations. Restaurants do pay a small fee on each dining transactions to offset the cost of running our program.
For every 1,000 audience members who participate, Patron Rewards can generate as much as $20,000 in funding when they dine just 4 times a year.
We make a commitment to provide you with complete transparency. Participating arts organizations can go online anytime to check how much funding we created and how it was used.
No! In fact, we've taken great care to make it simple for arts organizations to participate.
Patron Rewards uses a secure hosted web application to deliver its service.
Arts and cultural organizations don’t have to use any new systems or software in order to benefit. It couldn’t be easier to participate!
Audience members earn tickets very quickly. Most members can earn a free ticket by eating out just 2-4 times, while dining out once or twice is enough to earn a substantial discount.
The exact number of dining occasions needed depends on your ticket prices, and on how much members spend at participating restaurants.
A nationwide consumer survey we conducted found that almost half of respondents would be interested in joining a free program that supports the arts and rewards them with tickets just for dining out.
