Events
These tested virtual event ideas are sure to help you connect with your supporters and raise awareness about your cause. Here are my top four virtual event ideas to add to your fundraising calendar...
Drew Scanlon is better known as “The Blinking Guy” in the viral GIF and meme, but he is now using that notoriety for a good cause...
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In this episode of The NonProfit Voice Tech Series, host Mark Becker is joined by Logan Foote, education and development manager at GolfStatus.org, to learn more about how nonprofits of all sizes can improve their next golf fundraiser by streamlining and coordinating all aspects of the event to maximize fundraising...
We thought events were the point and that the event’s success would drive our success. Doing our business that way means we have to acquire 75% of participants each year. That path means we don’t retain many donors. In effect, we are letting our prospective constituents use the community clubhouse for a party, but we’re not making sure they move into the community...
As the executive director of a nonprofit, I’ve seen firsthand the devastating effects the pandemic had on organizations like ours and philanthropic efforts in general. Recovering from our own internal setbacks while focusing on the acute needs of those we serve, my peers and I are now taking stock of lessons learned and reexamining how to move forward collectively...
It became clear that the remaining cycling rides couldn’t go on as planned across the country in 2020, so the organization turned to an online peer-to-peer fundraising platform to help it pivot to hybrid and then virtual events. Utilizing the Sweet! by Blue Sky platform from Blue Sky Collaborative, Marlborough, Massachusetts, Bike to the Beach transformed its events and raised a total of $1 million in 2020...
Country superstar Alan Jackson wanted to raise money for tornado disaster relief that devastated his hometown, so he teamed up with two corporate sponsors for his first in-person concert in more than a year. The sold-out benefit concert, Where I Come From: Tornado Benefit Featuring Alan Jackson, raised a total of $2 million dollars for local relief efforts. It also was live streamed on Facebook and available to watch for a few additional days, reaching an additional 1 million fans worldwide for an additional fundraising impact...
Social giving experiences were some of the most drastically impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. As we emerge from an extended period of social distancing, it’s important to reexamine how giving experiences and expectations have changed and what lessons we can learn from virtual fundraising...