StubHub Foundation Gives $75K Grant to Austin Independent School District’s Performing Arts Center to Underwrite Theater Bo...
November 10 2015 - 3:00PM
Business Wire
Austin ISD’s district-wide performing arts
center receives its first corporate sponsor
StubHub today announced a charitable partnership with the Austin
Independent School District (AISD) Performing Arts Center (PAC),
including $75,000 in grant funding to help the newly constructed
facility roll out a complete box office operation.
With the StubHub Foundation (a corporate advised fund of the
Silicon Valley Community Foundation) donation and a new world-class
box office operation, the performing arts center, which serves
nearly 85,000 students across 130 schools in the Austin area,
dramatically enhances its fundraising capabilities, future revenue
streams and most importantly, its ability to meet the needs of
students from across the Austin school district, including children
from low-income communities who face tremendous barriers to access
to quality arts experiences.
"AISD’s Performing Arts Center is dedicated to providing
the highest quality arts experience for every student,
teacher, and stakeholder in AISD by showcasing incredible talent in
a state-of-the-art, professional facility,” said Greg
Goodman, Director of Fine Arts. “Thanks to the generous grant
from StubHub, we are able to develop an online box office that is
as innovative and responsive as the facility itself. This box
office is a vital piece in enhancing how we are able to serve our
students and our community."
Opened in January 2015, the state-of-the-art AISD PAC is one of
the only educational facilities of its kind, designed specifically
to enhance the arts experience for students and teachers in the
Austin Independent School District. With a 1,200-seat main
auditorium, 250-seat Black Box Theatre, dance studio, multi-purpose
room, kiln room and individual recording studio, the complex
literally opens doors for kids to explore their dreams in a time
when arts education funding is severely limited.
StubHub partner AudienceView will provide the PAC a full online
box office solution, as well as pro bono services to help train
staff and launch the service.
“For StubHub and AudienceView, the mission of the AISD PAC fits
squarely within our collective missions to support the performing
arts industry by investing in today’s youth and specifically,
through arts education,” said Jessica Erskine, StubHub
Senior Head of Entertainment Communications. “With the combination
of financial and in-kind resources our two companies can offer,
we’re thrilled to operationalize the PAC’s box office, help it more
efficiently do business, expand access to programming for all
Austin students and ultimately, sell tickets and fundraise to
directly benefit arts programs and the students of Austin.”
StubHub and AudienceView joined forces in 2014, significantly
growing StubHub’s business in theater and the performing arts.
Since then, StubHub built its first and largest tech venture to
date, allowing AudienceView clients to seamlessly integrate with
StubHub’s ticketing technology and reach its vast audience of
performing arts ticket buyers at no additional cost, the same
platform in which the PAC will now operate.
The partnership with the PAC expands upon StubHub’s robust
charitable effort dedicated to supporting youth music education;
the Next Stage Social Good Music Program. In its second year, the
initiative is committed to putting $1 million of musical
instruments into struggling public school music education programs
this year. Partnering with music artists, the StubHub Foundation
will identify up to 30 schools in ten markets nationwide to make
donations through the support of benefit partner The Mr. Holland’s
Opus Foundation. As a part of this program, more than $99,000 in
instrument value has already been donated this year to Austin
schools Travis High School and Bedichek Middle School. In total,
the StubHub Foundation has donated more than $1 million to
arts-related causes since 2012.
About StubHub
At StubHub, our mission is simple: help fans find fun. We
connect fans with their favorite teams, shows and artists and
introduce them to the ones they'll love next. As the world's
largest ticket marketplace, we enable fans to buy and sell tickets
to tens of thousands of events, whenever they want, through our
desktop and mobile experiences, including our StubHub and StubHub
Music apps for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Android. Offering a
superior fan experience at its core, StubHub reinvented the ticket
resale market in 2000 and continues to lead it through innovation.
Our industry firsts include the introduction of the first ticketing
application, the first interactive seat mapping tool and the first
live entertainment rewards program, Fan Rewards™. Our business
partners include more than 60 teams in MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS and NCAA,
plus ESPN, AEG, AXS and Spectra Ticketing & Fan Engagement.
Throughout North America, the United Kingdom and Germany, StubHub
provides the total end-to-end event going experience.
StubHub is an eBay company (NASDAQ: EBAY). For more information
on StubHub, visit StubHub.com, StubHub Press Box or follow @StubHub
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