TICKET DONORS

CATS’s mission: foster opportunities for a more equitable and inclusive community regardless of socioeconomic status. 

A audience's shared cultural experience is one of the easiest and most successful ways to accomplish this mission. 

To accomplish this mission,

ticket donors must begin looking at community outreach opportunities instead of giving away "free tickets."

HISTORY
Building on a history started in 1989 by the Bass Tickets Foundation and later the Center Stage Ticket Foundation, CATS provides to disadvantaged individuals access to arts and culture.  Through long-standing partnerships with local venues, fine arts groups, professional and collegiate sports teams, museums and aquariums, each year CATS is able to distribute tickets to nearly 60,000 people.

Today, nearly 400 social service agencies rely on CATS for access to some of the Bay Area’s most notable venues and events such as: San Francisco Giants, Disney on Ice, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, San Francisco Ballet, Monterey Bay Aquarium, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and LiveNation Motorsports – all of which partner solely with CATS to provide community outreach to thousands of less-advantaged individuals each year.  Hundreds of other cultural entities have chosen to work with CATS based not only on a successful track record but as a guaranteed avenue for community outreach.  As a result of these unparalleled partnerships, CATS is proud to boast an average attendance rate of over 90% - impressive with an annual ticket distribution of nearly 60,000. 

CATS is able to succeed by having a physical, local address and therefore, on-going, year-round relationship with venues, agencies and clients alike.  CATS has a presence at events: working with the box office, meeting clients and distributing tickets whereby ensuring that tickets are used - and used by the right people.  CATS possesses intimate knowledge of each of the partnering agencies whereby enabling ticket distribution to be well thought out, even strategic in order to achieve success for the individual as well as the ticket donor.    

What CATS is most proud of however, is the inclusion of all populations representing disadvantaged individuals: youth living in group and foster homes; veterans in need of support, those living with AIDS and HIV, adult men and women in recovery, formerly homeless individuals and families, mental health consumers, developmentally disabled and low-income or forgotten seniors.  

A PERFECT PARTNERSHIP
Ticket donors choose to partner with CATS because of the ease in donating and distributing unused or allocated tickets. CATS’s professional staff has familiarity with each donor organization as well as local venues and their ticketing procedures, creating a one-stop service that satisfies any ticket donor’s audience-development needs.

This partnership opens up the doors to those individuals without a tradition of attendance at cultural performances and venues whereby promoting community awareness, and providing cultural enrichment through sports, the performing and visual arts, and experiential learning exhibits.

AN INVITATION
CATS is committed to the revitalization and cultivation of partnerships with varied cultural entities committed to providing access to their performance, game, exhibit, aquarium, arena and other opportunities that allows for a shared cultural experience by a diversified audience.  We relish he opportunity to work with you and we invite your participation in our program.

Click here for a partial list of ticket donors.