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Donor Cultivation Events Fundraising Program Sponsorship Swaim Strategies
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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Events Fundraising Program Special Appeal Swaim Strategies
Making Your Clients Your Event Program

Likely no one is going to better convey the impact of your programs than those benefitting from them. Getting those voices on stage at your event brings the narrative from third person to fi

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Events Fundraising Program Swaim Strategies
Use Events as a Way for Donors to Experience Your Work

There can be a layer of remove between the work you do and your donors’ ability to experience it. Often the work of the organization is governed by confidentiality and other mechanisms tha

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Donor Cultivation Events Fundraising Sponsorship Swaim Strategies
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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Events Fundraising Program Resources Special Appeal Swaim Strategies
Adding a Paddle Raise at Your Lunch

One of the biggest differences you can make in your appeal is to move it from a passive ask to an active one. With breakfast and lunch events—which don’t usually have some form of live a

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Events Fundraising Program
Splitting Your Event + Tailoring It to Your Audience

More isn’t always more. More guests don’t automatically increase your fundraising potential. Having the right people in the room is what does. You want your biggest supporters who will h

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Events Fundraising Sponsorship
Putting the Creativity in Creative Partnerships

Regional Arts + Culture Council held its annual breakfast with a slightly different thematic twist this year to capture the energy and creativity of collaboration. Called Juice: Fueling Inno

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Events Fundraising Sponsorship Swaim Strategies
What a Difference Three Years Can Make

For the last three years, we have had the distinct honor to work on the Grimm Gala, a benefit for Doernbecher Children’s Hospital. This event was the brainchild of Sasha Roiz, who plays Ca

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Events Fundraising Program Resources Training
Check out our NEW services

You asked, and we’re proud to offer some new levels of support for your next event. In addition to full service, we now have several menu options that you can use to customize the ar

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Events Fundraising Sponsorship
The Value of Strong Corporate Support

Sponsorships for your event are fundamental to its success. They are the largest potential source of event funding for your organization, and if done strategically, they can make it so that

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