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Connecting to a Statewide Campaign
Your larger work as an organization can be the perfect way to build a stronger and more connected annual event. The best way to do this is to dynamically dovetail your event with a more comp
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When Your Event Rocks Your Mission
Your mission as an organization could be the perfect opportunity to bring more authenticity to the kind of event you put on, who attends and why. This was exactly what the Regional Arts and
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Turning Up Your Special Appeal’s Impact
Your special appeal has the potential to be your largest source of fundraising income on the day of your event. The best way to harness this potential is to tell the most impactful story you
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Your Event as a Platform
Sometimes leaning into the political climate impacting your organization can bring the room together at your event. There are times when it makes sense to name the elephant in the room and i
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Pairing Your Honorees and Your Mission
The honorees at your event are a great opportunity to have someone else tell the story of your mission and champion your organization. At their Oregonians Against Discrimination Business Lea
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Using the Event Program to Share Your Traditions
Bringing donors into the traditions of your organization makes them feel a deeper connection to your work. And putting those you do the work for in the room with donors also lets them see yo
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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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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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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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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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