Trading Filet Mignon for Chicken Pot Pie

In St. Louis, Stephanie Riven, executive director of the Center of Creative Arts, is known for her big events. As an incentive to prospective donors who are worried about their pocketbooks, she has now put tables for the museum’s spring fund-raiser, a 1960s theme party, “on sale” for a limited time. “If you buy your table before April 3, the price is $2,000,” she said. “If you buy it after, it’s $2,500.”