Events

Announcing the FundRaising Success 2014 Gold Awards for Fundraising Excellence. The 2014 Campaign of the Year Award winner relied heavily on powerful, consistent messaging across multiple channels.

Peer-to-peer fundraising events continue to grow in popularity across the nonprofit sector, and the most common form is the run/walk/ride event. They’re a great way to raise awareness, raise money, and actively engage participants and supporters. Plus, the participants and their friends do a large portion of the fundraising for you.

Engage P2P Advisory Board member Cassidy Richards, principal consultant at online marketing agency and a sponsor of Engage P2P Charity Dynamics, shares three ways to successfully incorporate independent fundraising events for your organization.

As fundraisers, you know what goes in to planning an event, but it's easy to overlook how time-consuming certain aspects of actually executing a special event can be. Events software can help alleviate some of those issues and take the stress off the plate of fundraisers and event managers.

This innovative challenge combines the popularity of music competitions and fan voting with donating and fundraising in a very interactive way. Plus, it encourages peer-to-peer sharing and fundraising as well, and clearly aligns with the mission to promote and support music education.

No matter how distinguished your position, when it comes to special events ... sometimes you still have to move tables.

By now, anyone in the fundraising sector knows about the St. Baldrick's Foundation and its head-shaving events to raise money for childhood cancer research.

In a little more than a month, FundRaising Success hosts its brand-new conference, Engage P2P: Redefining Peer-to-Peer Fundraising. We have a wonderful lineup of presenters and advisors, including Cassidy Richards, principal consultant at  online marketing agency and a sponsor of Engage P2P Charity Dynamics.

Here's the good, the bad and the real opportunity of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge that has taken on a life of its own and brought in more than $100 million for the ALS Association.

"Gamification" is one of those buzzwords that makes its way around the nonprofit and marketing worlds every so often. Maybe you've thought about it before. Maybe it sounds too complicated. Or, maybe you heard about it at a conference a couple years ago and dismissed it as a passing fad. Yet, gamification doesn't need to just be a buzzword, and it doesn't need to be something big and complicated. It should simply be a tool in your marketing arsenal to buoy constituent behavior through incentives.