Looking for simple ideas of how you can make your next fundraising event an unforgettable night for your donors and make them fall even more in love with your mission? Read on!
For many organizations, their annual fundraiser serves multiple purposes. The top three that are pretty universal are:
At any given event, the emphasis on these main areas might shift, but generally speaking, these areas tend to be where most of the focus remains for many nonprofit fundraising events.
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Planning and executing a benefit event for your organization takes a lot of time, energy, and goodwill from your staff, board, volunteers, and donors. In fact, it’s one of the most time intensive ways to raise money. That’s why you want to make sure every resource you put into your event has the greatest return on investment. If you’re looking to maximize success and generate more revenue to put towards your mission and programs then be sure to follow the 3 P’s of event success
Purpose First, you need a clear purpose for the event. Events come in all shapes, sizes and flavors. There really isn’t a one size fits all answer to what is the best type of event. There are however best practices depending on what the main goal of the event is. Is the purpose of the event to raise as much money as possible? Is the emphasis on having a good party and celebration of your work? Having time to honor special guests through awards? To cultivate new donors, or deepen relationships with existing donors? Each of these priorities will represent a different approach and event night timeline and structure. Getting your board to help support your fundraising efforts isn’t always an easy task. Especially when it comes to your fundraising events. Oftentimes both staff and board members aren’t always clear about what the board should be doing or better yet what they could be doing to make the night successful.
If you’re looking for ways to get your board involved in your event outside of the decoration committee (or the all too common critique of the event committee) then read on! Here are the top three ways your board can support your fundraising event before, during and after your event. In the spring of 2019 I decided that I was going to take a sabbatical from my work as a Benefit Auctioneer so that I could spend some time plotting out an adventure of a lifetime with my husband. We were going to explore Europe in the spring of 2020 with the purpose of determining if we could move there. It was an exciting time for us as we considered the possibilities. Little did we know that the world was going to change dramatically with COVID-19 in the spring of 2020.
As the fall rolled around in 2019, I began to tell my clients that I would not be available for their events in 2020. It was a time of mixed emotions for me. On one hand I was excited about the epic journey we were going to take and the possible new life that awaited us in Europe. And on the other hand I was seriously going to miss all the amazing nonprofits that I got to work with and being a part of the magic that can happen when people join together to do good. |
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