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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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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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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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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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Narrow Your Messaging Focus for Success
Nonprofits are complex organizations that usually do work across several program areas, and often have a hard time telling their complicated story. We talk to them about how to streamline th
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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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Getting Your Conference Speakers on the Same Page
The Oregon Arts Commission recently held its annual Oregon Arts Summit in Ashland. This gathering of arts organizations, arts associations, elected officials, individual artists and arts pro
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Your Theme Can Bring Support to the Table
When you pick an event theme that has messaging attached to it versus being a platform for décor, you can really tie together the mission of your organization and increase your sphere of su
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Collaboration
It can be easy to take root in a silo. We have deadlines. People expect projects from us. And so we forge ahead, sometimes without engaging others. But often it is collaboration that creates
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