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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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Donor Cultivation Events Fundraising Program Resources Training
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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Sponsorship Training
How To: Manage Your Sponsorship Relationships

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 spon

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Events Program Training
How To Series: Raffles

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

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Training
Online Training

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 eve

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Swaim Strategies Training
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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 H

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Special Appeal Training
Getting the Special Appeal Right

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

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Events Training
Checklist for a Brand New Event

You want to add a new event into your fundraising program for the year, but you’re just not quite sure where to begin. Our new event checklist gives you all the basics you need to figu

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Donor Cultivation Special Appeal Training
Stick With Why

Congratulations to Central City Concern on another successful Working Our Way Home Luncheon last week! One of the strongest aspects of the program was how they told the story of their organi

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Sponsorship Training
Creative Sponsor Engagement

In a slowly recovering economy, sponsors—just like everyone else—are having to find alternative ways to meet their bottom lines while still giving back. Instead of this being an obstacle

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