Will You Help Us?

The 20th Annual Fred Paxton Challenge for Charities!

As we move closer to the opening night for the 58th Signature Series season, we also draw ever so close to the end of the 20th Annual Fred Paxton Challenge for Charities. Thank you to our faithful friends who have already given during this epic fundraising challenge and a gentle reminder that there’s still time if you’ve just been too busy to make a gift.

What IS all the fuss?

The Fred Paxton Challenge for Charities helps Market House Theatre in two important ways. First, it creates immediate revenue for the Theatre during a time of year that we typically don’t have the opportunity to earn much income. Though camps and classes keep our campus hopping during the summer, we don’t produce any big shows over the summer, so that means no ticket revenue.

Monies raised through the Paxton Challenge come in just in time for our Signature Season opening and the kickoff of our new semester of youth education programming and go to work immediately at a time when it is needed. You might help pay for new bulbs in the main theatre, costume refurbishing for our Theatre in Schools programming, scholarships for a new crop of Footlights students, or even props for that silly old bear, Winnie the Pooh. No matter how big or how small, your gifts do great work at Market House Theatre!

The other great thing the Challenge does is helps ensures the future of Market House Theatre because the Fred and Peggy Paxton Endowment Fund will match every dollar you give up to $10,000. That money goes straight into our endowment fund, providing us income for generations and generations to come. WHOA!

What’s the fine print?

Well, like anything else, the Paxton Challenge doesn’t last forever. For your donation to count, it MUST be received by the Community Foundation of West Kentucky before 5 p.m. on Tuesday, August 31st.

There’s not much time left!

Decide your amount and either download this required pledge form and mail your check, payable to the Community Foundation, to P. O. Box 7; Paducah, KY 42002, or you can click here to make your gift safely and securely online.

Still have questions? Email Development Director Ronda Gibson, or call at 270.444.6828 x 103.