Our Monday Benefit Dinner Program

[available at The Elephant Walk in Waltham exclusively]

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Host a Monday Benefit Dinner at The Elephant Walk in Waltham!

Are you looking for an unusual way to raise money for a nonprofit organization you run, work for, volunteer for, or care about? Are you looking to raise awareness of that organization in the local or regional community? Are you looking to honor or to thank your staff? Your clients? Your board members? Your investors? Your donors? Are you looking to celebrate your beneficiaries?

Under our Monday Benefit Dinner Program, The Elephant Walk donates 50% of the food and beverage price of a group event at our Waltham restaurant to the organizers’ designated nonprofit organization.

Breaking bread together, you can raise funds and rally support for a cause in a uniquely satisfying way.

If your non-profit organization is seeking to host a special event built around a delicious restaurant meal, that can also serve as a fundraiser, The Elephant Walk in Waltham’s Monday Benefit Dinner Program might just be the perfect opportunity for you.

If you and your friends, or you and your business are seeking to host a special event to raise funds for a charity or nonprofit organization, a Monday Benefit Dinner is an excellent way to bring people together for your chosen cause.

We strongly encourage you to invite guest speakers and prepare audio/visual materials including Powerpoint presentations to educate, inform, and entertain your guests. Seize this opportunity to add value to the evening with topical, multi-media content.

To maximize the benefit to your chosen nonprofit, we encourage you to solicit additional donations from your attendees as well.

Food for your Monday Benefit Dinner

We will work with you to create and serve a three course prix-fixe menu tailored to your event, modeled after our standard 3 course tasting/prix-fixe menu, including coffee and tea service. 

We will strongly encourage you to choose the following, based on our extensive experience with what works well for large groups:  Starter/appetizer course should be pre-ordered and served automatically as the group is seated to “get things moving,” making sure that the hungry arrivals have something delicious to eat immediately while choosing their main and dessert courses.

We offer you the option of adding a passed hors d’oeuvres course for an additional $5 per person, bringing the per person event cost to $40. We also offer you the option of adding both passed hors d’oeuvres and a first drink [a glass of wine or a pint or bottle of beer] for an additional $10 per person. 

Beverages for your Monday Benefit Dinner: A cash bar

We’ve learned that just about everyone has different habits and preferences when it comes to choosing a beverage – and how much of it – to enjoy with a meal. Accordingly, this program requires a cash bar, where people choose and pay for their own beverages – except for coffee and tea, which are included in the food price - at the event.

The math

The Elephant Walk charges all attendees in advance for the menu chosen in advance by the event’s organizer, including tax and gratuity. We then remit to the beneficiary 50% of the total food and beverage revenue for the event [with the meals tax going to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the gratuity going to the service staff]. The numbers work out as follows:

 

3-Course Dinner

3-Course Dinner plus Hors d’Oeuvres

3-Course Dinner with Hors d’Oeuvres and First Drink

Total Cost Per Person

$35.00

$40.00

$45.00

Meal Price

$28.17

$32.19

$36.22

6.25% MA Meals Tax

$1.75

$2.01

$2.26

18% Gratuity

$5.07

$5.79

$6.52

Per Person to Beneficiary

$14.08

$16.10

$18.11

What the beneficiary receives if 50 attend [Remember: beverages will increase this amount!]

$704.00

$805.00

$905.50

DON'T FORGET: 50% of all additional beverages purchased by event attendees are added to the total donation from The Elephant Walk as well! A conservative estimate would be an average of an additional $3 per guest,

To help make your event a success…

> The Elephant Walk requires advance registration and payment, online via our online store, for all individuals attending the event. We will maintain a private list of attendees, with contact information, which the organizer[s] can access at anytime via a web browser.

> The Elephant Walk can provide basic audio-visual capability including a whiteboard easel, a lectern, a digital projector [for hooking up to your laptop], and a screen. 

How do you qualify?

Be or seek to benefit a "non-polarizing,” registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization

> A registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization will have a current listing at Guidestar.org or a more recent IRS 501(c)(3) determination letter.

> A “non-polarizing” non-profit is an organization whose cause is not a divisive social issue. We seek to support organizations that have not inspired visible enemies or active protest movements, that are not highly controversial. Why this restriction? We seek to actively avoid upsetting people and provoking them to oppose our business. Thus we will avoid donating to those causes we feel might do that.

> The Elephant Walk reserves the right either to not extend or to withdraw this Monday Benefit Dinner opportunity to any organization for any reason, at its sole discretion.

To schedule your Monday Benefit Dinner

Please download and complete a Monday Benefit Dinner Request Form [this is an Excel spreadsheet] and email it to: mondaybenefits@elephantwalk.com. Please allow at least three business days for a definitive response.

Questions?

For more information or to get questions answered, please email mondaybenefits@elephantwalk.com and a manager will get back to you soon.