Event Management

Imagine hosting an event where you don’t sell tickets or ask for donations—instead you simply give your top-tier prospects a night to remember. It’s an exclusive gathering, it sparks interest and, if done right, it’s a great way to revive your donor list. This type of donor-appreciation event is known as a cultivation event, an…

You probably have your own event horror stories. Unless your organization already has a prominent signature event, or a committed bunch of talented volunteers willing to do the grunt work for you, events are generally a losing proposition. ...

I love to run in the woods. A few mornings each week, I head out on a trail with my dog by my side. The rhythm of the run is my meditation and the surroundings calm my mind. This is where I do my best thinking, put things back in perspective and get energized to…

Nonprofit Tech for Good experimented with Periscope for live-streaming for the first time during the 2015 Independent Sector Conference. Like all new tools, there is a learning curve, but for nonprofit social media managers that spend a good portion of the their time on social and mobile media, Periscope is intuitive, easy to use and…

Ella Eckerson and Brent Rogers are hoping to have strangers at their wedding this weekend. The bride, 30, and groom, 32, are forgoing the traditional wedding template and instead will host a rock charity concert in front of hundreds of family, friends and, they hope, plenty of people they’ve never met. They plan to exchange…

It looks like there’s a new partnership in Hollywood, and it’s between Seth Rogen and Miley Cyrus. Not only will Cyrus appear in Rogen’s upcoming film, "The Night Before," but Cyrus will serve as the headliner at Hilarity for Charity’s Fourth Annual Variety Show: James Franco’s Bar Mitzvah. Hilarity for Charity is a movement led…

I recently remembered a talk I had with a client, Randi Corey of the Hydrocephalus Association, about her experience with surveys.