As the Texas Renaissance Festival prepares for its 41st season, 15 Magnolia groups and nonprofit organizations are racing to sell as many tickets as possible before the festival’s opening day on Oct. 10. The groups will receive 40 percent of the ticket proceeds to use on local projects throughout the year. The Magnolia Community Foundation held its fourth annual nonprofit summit on Sept. 9 to narrow down the applications and name the organizations picked to sell discounted tickets for the festival. Tickets bought through the selected groups will be reduced from the adult door price of $26 to $19 and discounted from the child door price of $12 to $9. Magnolia Community Foundation President Deborah Rose Miller said the promotion is a way to help different local organizations raise money in a single fundraiser, rather than holding several events throughout the year. Miller also said the foundation will increase the amount of grant money it gives this year from $5,000 to $15,0000. “We want to act like an umbrella group for all the nonprofits so we can come together and do better than maybe one can do by themselves,” Miller said. “Our biggest goal is to raise enough money so that [local nonprofit groups] don’t have to keep going to businesses and knocking on doors and selling candy and gift wraps. The organizations selected at the summit are permitted to sell the discounted festival tickets through Sept 24. Miller said through the TRF ticket fundraiser, local organizations raised more than $20,000 in 2014. This year, organizations with shared Magnolia ISD schools or similar goals were allowed to team up and create 15 teams featuring more than 20 organizations. Teams for the 2015 Texas Renaissance Festival ticket promotion include: -Magnolia High School Swim and Dive -Magnolia ISD Career and Technical Education, Magnolia High School debate, Magnolia West High School Health, Magnolia West High School Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA) -Zoi’s Animal Rescue, Exotic Bird Association -Keep Magnolia Beautiful, Keep Montgomery County Beautiful -Nichols Sawmill Elementary Parent Teacher Organization -Magnolia West High School Band and Color Guard -Small Feet, Great Strides; Raj Hope Foundation -Magnolia High School Texas Stars -Williams Elementary School PTO -J.L. Lyons Elementary School PTO -Magnolia Elementary School PTO -Boy Scout Troops Nos. 1114 and 1488 -Adapt and Overcome -Bear Branch Junior High School fine arts -Magnolia West High School Fillies Proceed checks will be awarded to each organization at the Stroll Through the Renaissance event on Sept. 25 at the Magnolia Stroll.