Nonprofit
Fundraising Tip: The Special Event is Still Not Dead
Why I still love nonprofit fundraising events.
This post is specifically for those in nonprofit fundraising who are tasked with planning an annual gala or some other type of fundraising event.
With many in our arena of nonprofit fundraising declaring the annual gala dead, I like to write about this every once in a while.
I also happen to be working with a client who is planning a huge (for them) gala coming up in May.
While in the midst of supporting the planning of the event, a lot comes up for me in regard to the best way to plan an event like this while focusing on relationship building and capacity of staff.
How can we plan an event that truly benefits our goal of having strong relationships with people and organizations that want our mission to thrive while honoring the fact that we only have so much human capacity to pull off an event like this?
These are the two big points I constantly consider while working on a special event.
The client event coming up is an annual event, special this year as it’s their 50th Anniversary. Every annual gala they have had has been a wonderful event filled with relationship building and…
