By Tifani Perez This past weekend, we were in Florida to kick off the event season with our first event of 2019: The MG Walk in Tampa Bay and Southern Florida. The MG Walk is a peer-to-peer fundraising event that raises money for research, treatment options and support programs for……
Are you attending the 2019 Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum Conference? Pack your running shoes and join us on Thursday, February 28th, for the 3rd annual Run for Good. You’ll receive a free t-shirt, make new friends, participate in one of the healthiest networking events of the week, and… Read…
Team members from Event 360 will soon board flights around the country and converge in New Orleans for the 2019 Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum Conference. Will we see you there? One of our favorite things about this annual event is connecting with YOU. Whether you’re new to the… Read…
By Cheryl Stern We recently delved into some takeaways from the two hit documentaries about Fyre Festival, the disastrous luxury music festival of 2017 that shall live in infamy. (See FYRE’D UP, Part 1.) Now that we’ve explored our thoughts on the… Read More
By Cheryl Stern If you’ve paid any attention to pop culture as of late, you’re already aware that this month brought us not one, but two documentaries about Fyre, the doomed luxury music festival of 2017. The sordid tales behind the planning and execution of the festival-gone-wrong… Read…
By Kaleigh Glaza For event companies, and nonprofits who garner much of their funding through large-scale charity events, it is key to keep our events on the minds of past and future participants all year long. Once events are in the past, the urgency of the cause lessens, and it……
By Gina Guerreso With the New Year upon us, preparations for events in 2019 are well underway. Still, we find it’s important to hit the pause button and reflect on getting to this point. We celebrate our successes, but can’t forget the challenges, the times we were pushed outside of……
We’re excited to introduce this week’s Event 360 Teammate Spotlight. Enjoy a glimpse into the personal and professional life of Tisho Jessop! Position: Fundraising & Support Coach | Twin Cities & Philadelphia | Susan G. Komen 3-Day Start Year: 2016 (this time around) What job did you hold right before…
Co-Authored by Katie Zupancic Wymer, Senior Manager, Digital Marketing, Event 360, and Jamie Arneson, Account Director, Wpromote Welcome to 2019! We hope you had a wonderful holiday, but as everyone in the peer-to-peer fundraising industry knows, there is no such thing as downtime. Our teams are excited to ramp…
It’s nearing that time of year where we take a much needed break to celebrate the holidays with family and friends and look toward a New Year where anything is possible. But before we do that, we here at Event 360 want to take a moment to reflect. This year……
By Heather Snyder There are as many different attitudes and approaches to fundraising as there are individual fundraisers. Some take a methodical approach, others make an emotional appeal, and still others fundraise with a sense of fun and humor. The Coconutter Strutters, a Susan G. Komen Michigan 3-Day team, is……
By Janelle Benuska “Soldiers, when committed to a task, can’t compromise. It’s unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it’s been done.” ―John Keegan As I reflect on the first two weekends of November, I…
We’re excited to introduce this week’s Event 360 Teammate Spotlight. Enjoy a glimpse into the personal and professional life of Kaleigh Glaza! Position: Digital and Social Media Specialist Start Year: 2016 What job did you hold right before you came to work at Event 360? I did social media… Read…
Thanksgiving is our favorite time of year here at Event 360. It almost always coincides with the end of our event season and provides us the opportunity to rest and recharge before diving back into planning for 2019. This year, we’re thankful for our partners at the… Read…
Hoping for the best, but planning for the worst By Mark Dolce The planet is warming and the climate is changing, and as event production professionals—the sometimes salty Rain Dogs who work through all kinds of Stormy Weather—we plan for it, we deal with… Read More
By Robin Shapiro Whether you are planning a new event or working to improve an existing event, developing standard operating procedures (SOPs) for all of your processes is key to your event’s success. A complete SOP outlines how things get done, who does what and how results are measured. Compiling……
By Joann Collins The seasonal nature of the fundraising events business means that your communications team is usually in one of three repeating phases: Planning, Implementing, or Analyzing. Then as soon as you’re done with your analysis, it’s time to plan for the next year. During that transition period…
By Janelle Benuska On September 8-9, 2018, a mighty team of Event 360 staff members came together to support the 15th Annual Ride for AIDS Chicago for our client, Test Positive Aware Network (TPAN). The back-to-back century cycling event took riders 200 miles on… Read More
By Suzanne Mooney Waiting by the phone and hoping it will ring is no longer an activity reserved for starry-eyed romantics in the throes of a budding romance. Hardy souls on the front lines of peer-to-peer fundraising events across the country are doing a lot of waiting and hoping by……
By David Kramer Imagine planning five events for one client in an event season. Not so unusual for those of us in event planning, right? Now imagine all five of those events will happen in two back-to-back weekends… spread out in different cities across the country. It becomes a bit……
If you attended the Run FOR GOOD at the P2PForum21, you got to…
Zip ties found in our junk drawers. Creating a run of show for mundane daily…
Like so many event professionals, I have spent less time flying in the past year…
By Joann Buckley Collins
As someone with Irish ancestors on both sides (plus among my…
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