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
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
Across thousands of peer to peer event fundraising sites that are optimized for mobile traffic. Looking for information on increasing peer-t0-peer event fundraising revenue? Peer-to-Peer Event Fundraising Consumer Survey. Increase Event Fundraising with Social Media. MORE
Focusing on the end goal was a difficult concept for me to grasp when I began my career in fundraising at Children’s Home + Aid , specifically when it came to special events and board relations. At the end of the day, the event is the vehicle, not the end goal. Post event follow-up. MORE
In the spirit of making New Year’s Resolutions, I wanted to suggest three … Event Fundraising Traditional Events event fundraising tips 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
Turn your Captivated Audience of Event Participants into a Social Media Army. Event day is an excellent opportunity for your organization to turn the captivated audience of event participants into a social media army for your event & your organization’s mission. 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
Pokémon Professor Program —After taking a test and proving their Pokémon knowledge, Pokémon Professors are able to work at tournaments as judges and organize large events. How did you get the idea to host an event? Was the event well attended? 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
After some data sleuthing, it turns out that I was being suppressed for two reasons: I was an event participant, and therefore was suppressed from direct response solicitations. If your organization isn’t soliciting event donors, you better believe that another organization will. MORE
Are you promoting fundraising events online? Targeted Facebook ads are an ideal way to reach people who are most likely to share and attend your event. In this article I’ll show you how Facebook ads increase exposure, engagement and registrations for your event. MORE
Read the story of David, an event manager, who was able to maximize his annual conference's registrations and attendance using membership management software. David events event management event-manager MORE
This interview was initially published in our monthly eNewsletter – Strategies, Tips and Best Practices for Event Fundraising Professionals. Tell us a little about your event. Patti: Our event is Hope in Motion Walk, Run Ride. It is the 16th annual event. MORE
Register for our Event Fundraising eNewsletter to receive more practical fundraising tips like these in your inbox. Click Here to Sign-Up and get 5 FREE Event Fundraising Whitepapers! Charity Dynamics’ Donna Wilkins will help you beef up your event communication. MORE
Your nonprofit’s next event, big or small, will likely be announced and hyped up using social media. The truth is, there are certain things your nonprofit can do to increase your chances of getting noticed, and getting more people out to your event. Before the event. MORE
The biggest hurdle many nonprofits face in raising more money from their peer-to-peer event is a lack of time—there isn’t enough time to engage team captains, cultivate top fundraisers, organize volunteers, or segment communications. But what if I told you that the best addition you could make to your event staff won’t cost you a dime? Your event participants. That’s right—participants and volunteers had taken partial ownership of the event. 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
If you’re looking to raise more money and make managing your events easier, here’s a list of 29 event management software tools that can help you out. star tools software planning nonprofit management event best MORE
Register for our Event Fundraising eNewsletter to receive more practical fundraising tips like these in your inbox. Many summer peer-to-peer fundraising events will be opening registration in the upcoming months (hopefully, yours included). Captains are the lifeblood of your event. MORE
If your non-profit hosts events, using social media to promote them can be a powerful tool to gain exposure. Whether it’s a conference, fundraiser or fun run, social media can help spread the word and encourage people to attend your event. The post 4 Ways To Promote Your Events Through Social Media appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology. 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
Are you asking the right questions in your P2P post event surveys? . This Thursday Jennifer Ashbaugh from Big Brothers Big Sisters will help answer this very important question “ are you asking the right questions in your post event survey ?”. 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
Streaming from events is an obvious fit for Periscope, but site visits and interviews with communities served, that’s where the real power of Periscope will unfold. Have a two-person team for streaming interviews, site visits, and events. 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
After some data sleuthing, it turns out that I was being suppressed for two reasons: I was an event participant, and therefore was suppressed from direct response solicitations. If your organization isn’t soliciting event donors, you better believe that another organization will. 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
Marketing your fundraising event is arguably one of the most important aspects of holding a fundraiser. If you don’t promote your event, how will people know about it? Your focus must be on properly marketing your fundraising event to avoid empty seats and […]. 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
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
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
Another form of real-time communications is using mobile and social media to report live from your events and conferences. To do so effectively, you’ll need a staff person whose sole purpose is tweet, post, share, blog, photograph, record, and interview during the event. 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
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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
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
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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.
Connection Cafe
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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?
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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.
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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.
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After some data sleuthing, it turns out that I was being suppressed for two reasons: I was an event participant, and therefore was suppressed from direct response solicitations. If your organization isn’t soliciting event donors, you better believe that another organization will.
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?
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JANUARY 25, 2012
Register for our Event Fundraising eNewsletter to receive more practical fundraising tips like these in your inbox. Many summer peer-to-peer fundraising events will be opening registration in the upcoming months (hopefully, yours included). Captains are the lifeblood of your event.
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.
NetWits
JUNE 1, 2011
Across thousands of peer to peer event fundraising sites that are optimized for mobile traffic. Looking for information on increasing peer-t0-peer event fundraising revenue? Peer-to-Peer Event Fundraising Consumer Survey. Increase Event Fundraising with Social Media.
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
AUGUST 5, 2015
Focusing on the end goal was a difficult concept for me to grasp when I began my career in fundraising at Children’s Home + Aid , specifically when it came to special events and board relations. At the end of the day, the event is the vehicle, not the end goal. Post event follow-up.
TechImpact
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Your nonprofit’s next event, big or small, will likely be announced and hyped up using social media. The truth is, there are certain things your nonprofit can do to increase your chances of getting noticed, and getting more people out to your event. Before the event.
Connection Cafe
JULY 19, 2016
The biggest hurdle many nonprofits face in raising more money from their peer-to-peer event is a lack of time—there isn’t enough time to engage team captains, cultivate top fundraisers, organize volunteers, or segment communications. But what if I told you that the best addition you could make to your event staff won’t cost you a dime? Your event participants. That’s right—participants and volunteers had taken partial ownership of the event.
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.
Connection Cafe
AUGUST 5, 2016
Pokémon Professor Program —After taking a test and proving their Pokémon knowledge, Pokémon Professors are able to work at tournaments as judges and organize large events. How did you get the idea to host an event? Was the event well attended?
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
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 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.
Wild Apricot Blog
JANUARY 19, 2017
If you’re looking to raise more money and make managing your events easier, here’s a list of 29 event management software tools that can help you out. star tools software planning nonprofit management event best
NetWits
NOVEMBER 22, 2011
Register for our Event Fundraising eNewsletter to receive more practical fundraising tips like these in your inbox. Click Here to Sign-Up and get 5 FREE Event Fundraising Whitepapers! Charity Dynamics’ Donna Wilkins will help you beef up your event communication.
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
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 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 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?
NetWits
JUNE 5, 2012
Are you asking the right questions in your P2P post event surveys? . This Thursday Jennifer Ashbaugh from Big Brothers Big Sisters will help answer this very important question “ are you asking the right questions in your post event survey ?”.
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.
TechImpact
MARCH 16, 2015
If your non-profit hosts events, using social media to promote them can be a powerful tool to gain exposure. Whether it’s a conference, fundraiser or fun run, social media can help spread the word and encourage people to attend your event. The post 4 Ways To Promote Your Events Through Social Media appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology.
NetWits
MARCH 24, 2011
This interview was initially published in our monthly eNewsletter – Strategies, Tips and Best Practices for Event Fundraising Professionals. Tell us a little about your event. Patti: Our event is Hope in Motion Walk, Run Ride. It is the 16th annual event.
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.
John Haydon
MAY 16, 2017
Marketing your fundraising event is arguably one of the most important aspects of holding a fundraiser. If you don’t promote your event, how will people know about it? Your focus must be on properly marketing your fundraising event to avoid empty seats and […].
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.
John Haydon
MAY 5, 2015
Are you promoting fundraising events online? Targeted Facebook ads are an ideal way to reach people who are most likely to share and attend your event. In this article I’ll show you how Facebook ads increase exposure, engagement and registrations for your event.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
NOVEMBER 13, 2015
Streaming from events is an obvious fit for Periscope, but site visits and interviews with communities served, that’s where the real power of Periscope will unfold. Have a two-person team for streaming interviews, site visits, and events.
Wild Apricot Blog
NOVEMBER 7, 2016
Read the story of David, an event manager, who was able to maximize his annual conference's registrations and attendance using membership management software. David events event management event-manager
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MAY 4, 2014
Another form of real-time communications is using mobile and social media to report live from your events and conferences. To do so effectively, you’ll need a staff person whose sole purpose is tweet, post, share, blog, photograph, record, and interview during the event.
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
Connection Cafe
FEBRUARY 7, 2012
Turn your Captivated Audience of Event Participants into a Social Media Army. Event day is an excellent opportunity for your organization to turn the captivated audience of event participants into a social media army for your event & your organization’s mission.
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?
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