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Weaving Your Program into the Event
When donors are able to connect with your program first-hand, giving increases. At your event, you have a room full of people who are showing support for your mission and the people you serv
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Revamping an Event for Greater Reach
Many organizations host events tied to programming. If you’re looking to broaden your base and acquire new supporters, there is an opportunity to redesign one of these events for larger en
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Activating Your Organization’s Partners
Because events happen in a live and dynamic space, you can utilize them to activate your organization’s sponsors and partners in engaging ways that make them known and give them unique opp
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Sponsorship Best Practices Yield Big Results
This spring all of the incredibly hard cultivation work done by Juan Carlos Gonzalez, Development Director at Centro Cultural de Washington County, paid off at their annual Gala de Cultura.
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The Momentum of Engagement
For many years Community Action has held an acquisition breakfast event. With those acquired donors in their cultivation stream, they started to look to shift their event to more deeply enga
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Guest Post: 3 Ways Your Organization Can Conduct Prospect Research
By Ryan Woroniecki Donors respond to stories. Donors respond to personal connection. Donors respond to fundraisers who know them. Whether you are searching for the right appeal speaker to re
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Acquisition Events Decoded
Community Action’s Acquisition Event: People You Should Know Are you hosting your events to cultivate current donors or to introduce new donors to your organization? Community Action has a
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Engaging Donors at Events
There are many ways to get your donors to understand what your nonprofit organization is all about. Organizational videos, personal testimonies, pamphlets, word of mouth or an online presenc
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There is a Time to Celebrate and Thank Donors
When we talk to organizations about their events we ask them to get clear on their objectives and then we help them develop a program based on those guiding principles. Most of the time the
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Focus on the Special Appeal: Pre-commits
When planning a fundraising event, it’s tempting to get caught up in the decorative details like napkin colors, centerpieces, event themes or music. But the majority of your time should ac
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