YOUR FOUNDATION YOUR FUTURE
Robyn Williams, CVE, IAVM Foundation Chair
IT’S 1978. THE WHO ARE ABOUT TO PLAY A SOLD OUT SHOW IN CINCINNATI.
18,348 tickets were sold; 14,770, were general admission tickets
lined up in front of the doors. The doors did not open at the sched- uled time. The crowd was becoming more agitated and impatient. The Who started a late sound check. The crowd believed the con-
opened but not the others. The entire crowd tried to surge through these doors. This caused many people to get trampled. Eleven peo- ple died. Twenty-six reported injuries. In 1980 the Cincinnati Task Force made a heartfelt request to
IAVM to develop and implement crowd management safety stan- dards. The IAVM Foundation was created to make this happen. Suddenly, the industry was made safer because of the funding for this work. This story gives me the chills every time I hear it. It was during this time that I was starting in the industry as a stagehand working rock concerts at the local arena. Festival seating was the norm in this small city venue and things could get a little dicey at entries and on - plemented in venues all over the country. I took part in the training and I can distinctly recall the relief I had knowing I had some solid information and skills to address safety issues around good crowd management. As I progressed into increasingly more responsible positions in venue management I was OH! So Glad! to know that IAVM had my back. I did not want anyone to die outside the doors of my venue. -
ting from that crowd management training. I wonder what would have happened if IAVM had not set up the IAVM Foundation to fund and make this training possible? How many people would have been hurt or killed until someone else took responsibility and tried
stepping up when the industry needed them so badly. As I look back over the course of my career I can easily see all the things that were funded by the IAVM Foundation that helped me in- - CVP and our schools-the Venue Management School, the Academy for Venue Safety and Security and the Senior Executive Symposium! The hurricanes that have caused so much tragedy recently never fail to remind me of how Foundation funding allowed the creation of Mega Shelters Best Practices, which is used by the American Red Cross and venues everywhere! These are just a few of the reasons I have donated to the IAVM
Foundation. It is why I choose to donate not only my money but my time to serve as an IAVM Foundation trustee. Today, I am very proud to serve as the Foundation chair. With the backing of a talented and dedicated board of trustees I can tell you the Foundation is stronger than ever. We have set strategic goals and developed fundraising teams to guide us on our path to raising funds so we can insure the IAVM Foundation will be there for you whenever you need it! I know there are tough issues that venues are facing every day. I
know there will be tough issues that our industry will need help to ad- dress.
Who’s going to provide the resources for us? The IAVM Foundation. Please donate and support the IAVM Foundation now.
YOUR FOUNDATION. YOUR FUTURE.
INVEST IN YOUR FOUNDATION. INVEST IN YOUR FUTURE. VISIT
WWW.IAVM.ORG/INVEST TO GIVE TO THE IAVM FOUNDATION TODAY!
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