Here at Swaim Strategies, we’re focused on partnering with your team to plan engaging, impactful fundraising events that build stronger relationships with your community and raise more for your cause. Our fundraising event consultants are strategists, storytellers, and advocates who are ready to support your team with the resources you need to plan exceptional events.
Our Fundraising Event Consultant Services
Our consultants are here to help you take your events to the next level. Our services include:
Strategic Planning
We can help you problem-solve things like: deciding the best event format for your organization, how to produce a hybrid or virtual event, sponsorship solicitation strategies, how to maximize your fundraising, and how to craft your special appeal story and strategy.
Storytelling
Our fundraising event consultants help you discover the best way to tell your organization’s story through videos, scripts, program sequences, and strategic speaker coaching. We can also help connect you with experienced fundraising hosts, emcees, and auctioneers to help round out your conference schedule.
Data and Registration
Let us help you navigate software systems and giving platform solutions for your event, teach you how best to track and utilize event guest data, and help you set up easy onsite registration. Our fundraising event consultants will also provide tips and training on specific event software platforms.
Team Training
At Swaim Strategies, we believe in sharing knowledge to help nonprofits with their events. To help achieve this, our fundraising event consultants offer team training and classes for board members, staff members, and your event committee to get them up to speed on current best practices.
Teaching and Speaking
Are you looking for a fundraising event expert to speak at your next conference? We teach on the following topics:
- Fundraising events 101
- Equity in events
- Paddle raises that raise more money
- Storytelling for your event
- Producing hybrid fundraising events
We’re ready to share our knowledge and expertise to bring more value to your conference attendees.
Nonprofit Event Planning for All Event Formats
We believe in the power of bringing communities together to support a common cause, whether that’s in an in-person, virtual, or hybrid setting.
In-person
With over 20 years of experience in nonprofit events, galas, auctions, conferences, and stakeholder activations, we understand how to pick the right event style and fundraising strategy to create an engaging experience for your supporters that meets your goals and raises more money.
Virtual
Virtual events have unique planning considerations. Our team was on the front line of shifting from in-person to virtual event execution during the pandemic. The opportunities have only continued to evolve and we are experienced in managing virtual events that maximize the format to connect with your supporters.
Swaim Strategies offers dedicated resources for managing better virtual events, including a:
- Data team
- Content team
- Communications team
- Production team
With our teams and resources, Swaim Strategies’s fundraising event consultants are ready to help you make the leap into the virtual space with your next nonprofit event.
Hybrid
Hybrid events provide a wealth of opportunities for your organization to engage donors where they are and as they’d like to engage.
By combining in-person and virtual event components you can capture a broader audience and eliminate some of the barriers that solely in-person gatherings can have. Hybrid events embrace flexibility and technology to elevate your mission. Our team can help weave all of the pieces together to create an engaging program and fundraising strategy to hit your goals.
Meet Our Nonprofit Event Planners
We are activists, fundraising consultants, strategists, event planners, storytellers, data experts, and trainers all with one focus: How can we help you make the most of your event? Our goal is to bring strategy and support so you can focus on relationship cultivation and movement building.
