Training

5 Ways to be Agile for Fall of 2021 By Samantha Swaim and Sama Shagaga   This has been a year of transformation and adaptation. So many events were cancelled, held virtually or reimagined [...]

We joined our friends at Greater Giving for a webinar on “The Art of the Special Appeal” to help you build an effective strategy for your biggest fundraising opportunity the day of [...]

This October was the 5th annual Nonprofit Storytelling Conference, and in our 5 years of attending and participating in this event, we always walk away with big ideas and best practices to pass [...]

You’re doing the work that keeps communities together and changes the world. We believe in you, and in the power of our partnership. In our 15 years of fundraising galas, lunches, auctions and [...]

When Oprah received the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes on Sunday, January 7, 2018, she gave a speech that immediately caught fire with a national audience that has long loved and [...]

Does your fundraising event need to go to the next level? Here is your opportunity. We’re excited to announce Elevate! Join us in Portland, Oregon on June 21 + 22 for a conference dedicated [...]

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 areas of [...]

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 an [...]

Securing sponsors for your event is imperative for your fundraising success. Getting sponsors to say ‘yes’ to your proposal is just part of the work, however. Properly managing your sponsors and [...]

There are certainly a lot of ways to use raffles to increase giving, add an element of fun and create some suspense. There are many different types of raffles you could choose from for your [...]

Swaim Strategies teaches at conferences both locally and nationally. Some of those engagements are archived here as free resources for you to use to help elevate fundraising at your next event! [...]

Join us to learn the basics of how to use Greater Giving online event software. This 2-hour class will cover the following topics: Basic understanding of the vocabulary Greater Giving uses How to [...]

A successful special appeal is never an accident. At Going Places With Ride Connection, the special appeal speaker, Marja, knocked their special appeal out of the park. But this success was only [...]