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Spring is often event season in the nonprofit world and I’ve been involved in my fair share over the past few months as a speaker at a gala, volunteer at a 5k fun run, an attendee at a “friend raiser” for a local politician and a few others in between. MORE
In case you haven’t heard yet, Thanksgiving is earlier than normal this year, … Emerging Events Event Fundraising Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Social / Mobile #GivingTuesday #nptech event fundraising fundraising Non-Profit nonprofit social media Peer to Peer Fundraising Strategy MORE
Do you have events planned as part of your end-of-year fundraising push? Read on for tips from DonorSearch 's Ryan Woroneicki on how to make prospect research part of your event planning. prospect research events MORE
The learning & development experts at Tagoras have launched a new round of their popular research on virtual events. Our aim is to assess the role of virtual conferences and similar virtual events are playing in the broader events market. MORE
Register for our monthly Event Fundraising eNewsletter to receive more practical fundraising tips like these in your inbox. The seven event fundraising techniques or “best practices&# described here emerged from analyzing data and interviewing nonprofit event and development staff. MORE
In this post, I will begin outlining the key ingredients you need and questions you should be asking to create the same culture of connectivity at your next fundraising event. How is your event perceived in the local community or on a national level? MORE
Event metrics can be great guides as we plan. In earlier posts, npENGAGE has discussed how to focus on our event fundraising analytics and how to use these metrics for success. Timeframe: Pull this report about three months before your campaign deadline (or event day). MORE
In the spirit of making New Year’s Resolutions, I wanted to suggest three … Event Fundraising Traditional Events event fundraising tips MORE
Nonprofit organizations invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in driving potential fundraising event participants to register online and use sophisticated tracking to measure which efforts produce the best results. Benchmarks & Stats Event Fundraising Traditional Events MORE
With apologies to Yogi Berra for the mangled quote, in the world of peer-to-peer fundraising, an event ain’t over, even when it’s over. Ideally, work on this year’s event transitions seamlessly into the effort to establish NEXT year’s event success. Add pictures from the event. MORE
Introducing Eventr.io , the event & sponsorship marketplace. They are part of a larger group of tradeshow and event consultants, association management experts and event tech companies, and they are eager to change your perception about how the event ecosystem can work. MORE
Direct mail and direct response, annual fund, special campaigns, major donors and event donors and participants form the back-bone of your planned gift prospect pool. Explore simple ways to engage your event donor in the planned gift conversation. MORE
This year, one of the strongest fundraising trends we’ve seen is for nonprofits to cultivate “third … Emerging Events Event Fundraising nonprofit-trends Online Fundraising Peer-to-Peer Fundraising event fundraising event fundraising tips Friends Asking Friends independent fundraising events Peer to Peer Fundraising MORE
Whether you are using TeamRaiser or Friends Asking Friends to power your event fundraising , both of these peer-to-peer solutions come with valuable tools that organizations should invest time in educating participants on, particularly the newbie participants. MORE
Focus on Event Fundraising Analytics , we looked at how peer-to-peer event metrics let us know if our event planning and execution efforts are paying off in fundraising results. Benchmarks let us know how we perform compared to our event fundraising peers. MORE
Is it online tools to help you administer your events and register participants? They are all very important pieces of any successful event. But I happen to think what matters most to event fundraisers is your participant. What was your answer? MORE
How should you get these group of newbies comfortable and acquainted with the information and tools you have shared with them after they signed up for your event? Be sure to explain how and why they should be fundraising for your event. MORE
And if you’re in the peer to peer event space , you know this to be especially true. I recently returned to Blackbaud after a 3-year stint working for a large cancer hospital where I established a brand new institutional P2P fundraising event—The Boot Walk to End Cancer. MORE
Last year, I worked with 2017 npExpert Katrina VanHuss at TurnKey P2P to build a model for walking events with no registration fee to give visibility into the future success of your walk based on the event’s current progress to date. Predictive Modeling for Fundraising Events. MORE
Are you ready to give your event a makeover? Nonprofit Fundraising crowdfundraising event fundraising peer to peerIt’s a P2P takeover! Or should I say makeover ? I have a deep love for makeovers; I can’t get enough of them, especially makeover TV shows. MORE
How do I get more out of my event donors ? However, it also seems that most have yet to put a real strategy behind engaging event donors. Some add event donors to their newsletter list. The challenge is greater with event donors because you know next to nothing about them. MORE
A great way to develop relationships is to host a cultivation event: you can invite the friends, neighbors, co-workers and/or family of a current donor or volunteer. Assign one staff member to lead the event , which will simplify the process for the host and staff. MORE
While the most common form of P2P fundraising has been associated with events like a race or bike tour, the nonprofit sector is trending toward expanding P2P fundraising beyond the paradigm of event fundraising. Jude has partnered with endurance events all over the country. MORE
You may not be thinking about your website as an acquisition piece or figuring it into your strategy for growing your event. If planning for your website is not sitting in the forefront of your program strategy, you are doing yourself and your event a huge disservice. MORE
The homepage of your P2P event is the first page that most of your participants will see before they register. This can take many forms depending on the specifics of your event: For events with multiple locations, it can be a “Find an Event” search or listing. MORE
A few weeks ago, I asked if it’s time for us to take our events back from the on slot of popular for-profit cool events. I think it’s time, but the question remained how do you compete the marketing budgets of these cool events? The Event Experience. MORE
The term peer-to-peer fundraising or P2P fundraising describes a style of fundraising where … Emerging Events Event Fundraising Peer-to-Peer Fundraising fundraising individual fundraising virtual events MORE
Just because ‘Twenty Questions’ is a good way to pass the time during road trips, does not mean the game has a place on your event registration form. These questions are your event accessories. We’re not saying cut these questions from your event entirely. MORE
million event invites are posted to Facebook. It’s crucial that you take the right steps to get the kind of exposure that you’re looking for, as not to get drowned out among the noise of all those events. Create the Event. Give Your Event a Name. MORE
With this in mind, here are tips for planning a fundraising event that is memorable, spiced up, and unique. . Instead of serving the same chicken, pasta, and fish dishes that you always do (and that every other event does), change it up. Planning Your Fall Events? MORE
Even wonder how your fundraising event is doing compared to other events in the industry? Benchmarks & Stats Event Fundraising MORE
In this post, I will begin outlining the key ingredients you need and questions you should be asking to create the same culture of connectivity at your next fundraising event. How is your event perceived in the local community or on a national level? MORE
While the most common form of social fundraising is associated with a fundraising event like a walk or bike tour, I am seeing an charitable sector trend toward expanding social fundraising beyond the paradigm of event fundraising. MORE
Fundraising events are an exciting and useful tool for exposing your mission to the community. Every event serves similar purposes: networking, increasing revenue and generating awareness. The Fundraising Event Planning Checklist: 1. Define Your Event’s Intent. MORE
Over time, we’ve isolated certain benchmarks that provide clues to the health of an event. Efforts that improve these metrics often lead to growth in revenue and vitality of an event or event series. How Do I Use Metrics with My Event? MORE
Register for our Event Fundraising eNewsletter to receive more practical fundraising tips like these in your inbox. This makes each FAF email potentially worth $15 in donations to you, if your events perform close to our statistical averages. Events Boot Camp. MORE
According to the Run Walk Ride fundraising council “The top thirty “thon” event fundraising programs generated $1.69 There are thousands of smaller nonprofits who run peer-to-peer fundraising events. Getting Started With Event Fundraising in 5 Quick Steps. MORE
Next week the Peer-to-Peer Event Fundraising Benchmark Report will be unveiled at the Run Walk Ride Conference. Benchmarks & Stats Event Fundraising benchmarks event fundraising multi-channel fundraising peer-to-peer fundraising research MORE
Nonprofit fundraising events are a great way to raise money and increase your organization’s profile at the same time. Follow these steps to make sure your event is a fundraising success rather than a financial flop. Lower-level asks like these help you get maximum value from the event. MORE
It’s the annual church carnival and volunteers are needed to make it a successful event for the community. There’s the big task of finding volunteers, then phone calls, reminders, meetings, schedule changes and much more required to plan a church-wide event. MORE
So why not think of your event metrics as your own personal P2P FitBit? So what metrics should you check out to monitor the health of your peer-to-peer fundraising event? On average, across all four event types (Endurance, Cycle, Walk and 5K), 68% of great fundraisers send emails. MORE
Walk into a coffee shop in any size town, and you will see a bulletin board chock-a-block with posters for charity walks, runs, and similar events. The charity 5K and walk is so common that municipalities struggle to schedule parks and roadways for these events every weekend. MORE
Your peer-to-peer run, cycling event, or ride has a registration fee, and now you’re feeling like you need to run a special discount promotion to increase your registration numbers. But should you really put your event on sale? Three months prior to event. $35. Day of event. $70. MORE
Event Related Topics Connection Cafe
MAY 22, 2017
Fundraising events are an exciting and useful tool for exposing your mission to the community. Every event serves similar purposes: networking, increasing revenue and generating awareness. The Fundraising Event Planning Checklist: 1. Define Your Event’s Intent.
Connection Cafe
JULY 20, 2017
While the most common form of P2P fundraising has been associated with events like a race or bike tour, the nonprofit sector is trending toward expanding P2P fundraising beyond the paradigm of event fundraising. Jude has partnered with endurance events all over the country.
Connection Cafe
APRIL 10, 2018
A great way to develop relationships is to host a cultivation event: you can invite the friends, neighbors, co-workers and/or family of a current donor or volunteer. Assign one staff member to lead the event , which will simplify the process for the host and staff.
The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters
AUGUST 28, 2018
Nonprofit fundraising events are a great way to raise money and increase your organization’s profile at the same time. Follow these steps to make sure your event is a fundraising success rather than a financial flop. Lower-level asks like these help you get maximum value from the event.
Connection Cafe
MAY 18, 2015
How do I get more out of my event donors ? However, it also seems that most have yet to put a real strategy behind engaging event donors. Some add event donors to their newsletter list. The challenge is greater with event donors because you know next to nothing about them.
Connection Cafe
JANUARY 4, 2013
In the spirit of making New Year’s Resolutions, I wanted to suggest three … Event Fundraising Traditional Events event fundraising tips
NetWits
AUGUST 11, 2011
Register for our monthly Event Fundraising eNewsletter to receive more practical fundraising tips like these in your inbox. The seven event fundraising techniques or “best practices&# described here emerged from analyzing data and interviewing nonprofit event and development staff.
Connection Cafe
APRIL 24, 2014
So why not think of your event metrics as your own personal P2P FitBit? So what metrics should you check out to monitor the health of your peer-to-peer fundraising event? On average, across all four event types (Endurance, Cycle, Walk and 5K), 68% of great fundraisers send emails.
Connection Cafe
APRIL 30, 2014
Spring is often event season in the nonprofit world and I’ve been involved in my fair share over the past few months as a speaker at a gala, volunteer at a 5k fun run, an attendee at a “friend raiser” for a local politician and a few others in between.
Connection Cafe
AUGUST 9, 2017
The homepage of your P2P event is the first page that most of your participants will see before they register. This can take many forms depending on the specifics of your event: For events with multiple locations, it can be a “Find an Event” search or listing.
VolunteerMark
OCTOBER 12, 2016
It’s the annual church carnival and volunteers are needed to make it a successful event for the community. There’s the big task of finding volunteers, then phone calls, reminders, meetings, schedule changes and much more required to plan a church-wide event.
Connection Cafe
OCTOBER 29, 2012
In case you haven’t heard yet, Thanksgiving is earlier than normal this year, … Emerging Events Event Fundraising Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Social / Mobile #GivingTuesday #nptech event fundraising fundraising Non-Profit nonprofit social media Peer to Peer Fundraising Strategy
Connection Cafe
JANUARY 4, 2017
And if you’re in the peer to peer event space , you know this to be especially true. I recently returned to Blackbaud after a 3-year stint working for a large cancer hospital where I established a brand new institutional P2P fundraising event—The Boot Walk to End Cancer.
NetWits
AUGUST 31, 2012
According to the Run Walk Ride fundraising council “The top thirty “thon” event fundraising programs generated $1.69 There are thousands of smaller nonprofits who run peer-to-peer fundraising events. Getting Started With Event Fundraising in 5 Quick Steps.
Connection Cafe
MAY 21, 2015
Just because ‘Twenty Questions’ is a good way to pass the time during road trips, does not mean the game has a place on your event registration form. These questions are your event accessories. We’re not saying cut these questions from your event entirely.
Connection Cafe
JUNE 19, 2017
Last year, I worked with 2017 npExpert Katrina VanHuss at TurnKey P2P to build a model for walking events with no registration fee to give visibility into the future success of your walk based on the event’s current progress to date. Predictive Modeling for Fundraising Events.
Connection Cafe
MARCH 7, 2013
Direct mail and direct response, annual fund, special campaigns, major donors and event donors and participants form the back-bone of your planned gift prospect pool. Explore simple ways to engage your event donor in the planned gift conversation.
Connection Cafe
MAY 19, 2015
Your peer-to-peer run, cycling event, or ride has a registration fee, and now you’re feeling like you need to run a special discount promotion to increase your registration numbers. But should you really put your event on sale? Three months prior to event. $35. Day of event. $70.
Connection Cafe
MAY 9, 2013
Over time, we’ve isolated certain benchmarks that provide clues to the health of an event. Efforts that improve these metrics often lead to growth in revenue and vitality of an event or event series. How Do I Use Metrics with My Event?
Connection Cafe
MAY 8, 2013
While the most common form of social fundraising is associated with a fundraising event like a walk or bike tour, I am seeing an charitable sector trend toward expanding social fundraising beyond the paradigm of event fundraising.
NetWits
MARCH 4, 2011
Is it online tools to help you administer your events and register participants? They are all very important pieces of any successful event. But I happen to think what matters most to event fundraisers is your participant. What was your answer?
Connection Cafe
OCTOBER 23, 2013
Nonprofit organizations invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in driving potential fundraising event participants to register online and use sophisticated tracking to measure which efforts produce the best results. Benchmarks & Stats Event Fundraising Traditional Events
Connection Cafe
AUGUST 23, 2013
Walk into a coffee shop in any size town, and you will see a bulletin board chock-a-block with posters for charity walks, runs, and similar events. The charity 5K and walk is so common that municipalities struggle to schedule parks and roadways for these events every weekend.
NetWits
OCTOBER 26, 2012
This year, one of the strongest fundraising trends we’ve seen is for nonprofits to cultivate “third … Emerging Events Event Fundraising nonprofit-trends Online Fundraising Peer-to-Peer Fundraising event fundraising event fundraising tips Friends Asking Friends independent fundraising events Peer to Peer Fundraising
NetWits
FEBRUARY 29, 2012
Register for our Event Fundraising eNewsletter to receive more practical fundraising tips like these in your inbox. This makes each FAF email potentially worth $15 in donations to you, if your events perform close to our statistical averages. Events Boot Camp.
Connection Cafe
MAY 1, 2013
How should you get these group of newbies comfortable and acquainted with the information and tools you have shared with them after they signed up for your event? Be sure to explain how and why they should be fundraising for your event.
Connection Cafe
JUNE 3, 2013
Whether you are using TeamRaiser or Friends Asking Friends to power your event fundraising , both of these peer-to-peer solutions come with valuable tools that organizations should invest time in educating participants on, particularly the newbie participants.
Connection Cafe
MARCH 4, 2013
Next week the Peer-to-Peer Event Fundraising Benchmark Report will be unveiled at the Run Walk Ride Conference. Benchmarks & Stats Event Fundraising benchmarks event fundraising multi-channel fundraising peer-to-peer fundraising research
EveryAction
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
Do you have events planned as part of your end-of-year fundraising push? Read on for tips from DonorSearch 's Ryan Woroneicki on how to make prospect research part of your event planning. prospect research events
Connection Cafe
JUNE 13, 2013
Focus on Event Fundraising Analytics , we looked at how peer-to-peer event metrics let us know if our event planning and execution efforts are paying off in fundraising results. Benchmarks let us know how we perform compared to our event fundraising peers.
Connection Cafe
JUNE 25, 2014
In this post, I will begin outlining the key ingredients you need and questions you should be asking to create the same culture of connectivity at your next fundraising event. How is your event perceived in the local community or on a national level?
Connection Cafe
MAY 28, 2013
Even wonder how your fundraising event is doing compared to other events in the industry? Benchmarks & Stats Event Fundraising
Connection Cafe
OCTOBER 31, 2013
Event metrics can be great guides as we plan. In earlier posts, npENGAGE has discussed how to focus on our event fundraising analytics and how to use these metrics for success. Timeframe: Pull this report about three months before your campaign deadline (or event day).
Connection Cafe
OCTOBER 22, 2012
The term peer-to-peer fundraising or P2P fundraising describes a style of fundraising where … Emerging Events Event Fundraising Peer-to-Peer Fundraising fundraising individual fundraising virtual events
Connection Cafe
JUNE 27, 2013
With apologies to Yogi Berra for the mangled quote, in the world of peer-to-peer fundraising, an event ain’t over, even when it’s over. Ideally, work on this year’s event transitions seamlessly into the effort to establish NEXT year’s event success. Add pictures from the event.
SocialFish
JUNE 26, 2018
The learning & development experts at Tagoras have launched a new round of their popular research on virtual events. Our aim is to assess the role of virtual conferences and similar virtual events are playing in the broader events market.
SocialFish
OCTOBER 5, 2016
Introducing Eventr.io , the event & sponsorship marketplace. They are part of a larger group of tradeshow and event consultants, association management experts and event tech companies, and they are eager to change your perception about how the event ecosystem can work.
Connection Cafe
JUNE 25, 2014
In this post, I will begin outlining the key ingredients you need and questions you should be asking to create the same culture of connectivity at your next fundraising event. How is your event perceived in the local community or on a national level?
Connection Cafe
MAY 11, 2015
Are you ready to give your event a makeover? Nonprofit Fundraising crowdfundraising event fundraising peer to peerIt’s a P2P takeover! Or should I say makeover ? I have a deep love for makeovers; I can’t get enough of them, especially makeover TV shows.
Connection Cafe
MAY 22, 2015
You may not be thinking about your website as an acquisition piece or figuring it into your strategy for growing your event. If planning for your website is not sitting in the forefront of your program strategy, you are doing yourself and your event a huge disservice.
NonProfit Hub
JULY 31, 2015
million event invites are posted to Facebook. It’s crucial that you take the right steps to get the kind of exposure that you’re looking for, as not to get drowned out among the noise of all those events. Create the Event. Give Your Event a Name.
Connection Cafe
APRIL 4, 2014
A few weeks ago, I asked if it’s time for us to take our events back from the on slot of popular for-profit cool events. I think it’s time, but the question remained how do you compete the marketing budgets of these cool events? The Event Experience.
Connection Cafe
MARCH 14, 2013
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