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...This year total revenue stood at approximately $70,000 heading into the weekend,” Mendez says in contrast. “Our walk-up sales were far less than last year, we haven’t broken down the numbers fully as of yet, but it totalled less than...
...phones completely died on us on Sept. 11,” marvels Evening with Champions Co-Chair Kristopher M. Mendez ’02. “The second week of sales is usually the best; our second week fell on Sept...
Fortunately, with some extra work, the show managed to meet costs. The Jimmy Fund’s analysis team helped the Evening With Champions organizers understand this drop in donations. While Mendez says they have no hard feelings toward the American Red Cross, the falling funding was most certainly due to shifting loyalties. “They explained to us that people on average give a certain amount to charity per year, and the Red Cross was getting the lion’s share this year because it is such an obvious cause,” he says...
...Evening With Champions lost PBS funding in March 2001, and with news of airport security, strikes on Afghanistan and anthrax dominating the papers, a figure-skating show was not front-page material. “We couldn’t get stories written about us,” explains Mendez. “We’re an exhibition, not an athletic competition, so sports [sections didn’t] like us. Everything was backlogged...
There are typically three performances of the Evening With Champions: Friday and Saturday evening shows, and also a Saturday matinee after which Jimmy Fund kids are invited with their parents and siblings to a much-loved “Kids’ Party.” For Kris Mendez, this is the most memorable event the EWC holds since it is the most immediate. “I can still see their faces,” he said. “That’s where it struck me that this isn’t about ‘poor...