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Reducing Your Carbon Footprint One Step at a Time

By Abbie Peterson Finding easy, eco-friendly, sustainable solutions for large-scale events can pose a challenge for non-profit professionals juggling every aspect of planning their event. When you’re managing participants, vendors and volunteers, adopting environmentally friendly policies can quickly fall to the bottom (or completely) off your ever-growing to-do list.

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Gander Residents Would Make Great Event Professionals

By Jillian Schranz With over 16 years producing peer-to-peer fundraising events, #eventlife is in my blood. And sometimes, that experience bleeds over into how I view entertainment. Last year, I wrote a blog about Home Alone and how young Kevin McCallister probably grew up to be an event professional.

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Staff Spotlight: Kayla Leibfried, Event Production Coordinator

By Abbie Peterson We are pleased to introduce one of our newest staff members, Kayla Leibfried! Kayla joined the team at Event 360 in October 2021 after searching for a new position in event production. “During the height of COVID-19, it was hard to find event jobs. Finally, when I……

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2022 Florida AIDS Walk Recap

By: Janelle Benuska Last Saturday, March 19th brought members of the Event 360 team back to the beach in Fort Lauderdale for the 16th Annual Florida AIDS Walk & Music Festival ― our first event for the 2022 season! It was an incredible weekend building and executing a safe, FUN,……

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“Safety doesn’t happen by accident”

By Meredith Parker Safety starts on your first day of event planning and is the last item to cross of your to-do list after an event concludes. This has never been more true than during the past year, when many cities and jurisdictions implemented new safety protocols that impact the……

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Introducing 360live+

With the reemergence and reinvention of live events, we are ready to provide our non-profit partners with our innovative 360-degree perspective on how to elevate peer-to-peer fundraising programs. We are very excited and proud to introduce: 360live+. Our new 360live+ suite of offerings seamlessly combines Event 360’s innovation expertise and……

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Reflecting on 2021… and Revving Up for 2022!

It is with great excitement that we share our year in review below: Event 360 By the Numbers. Read More

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Happy 18th Birthday, Event 360!

Happy birthday, mighty Event 360! As we approach our 18th birthday on November 27th, we’re excited to take a moment and reflect on this special place that so many have called “home” since its founding in 2002. Not many small businesses reach the “old enough to vote” milestone, and our……

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Top 10 Reasons Raising an Infant is like Producing an Event

2020 has been a YEAR. In the midst of a global pandemic, an election, murder hornets, and more, a bright spot for our team has been the arrival of two tiny new members of the Event 360 family. As new parents to our first kids, we have bonded over…

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We’re Ready for Live Events

Friday, October 16 was a big day for our team. It marked our return to putting on live, in-person events. What was only an idea 90 days ago became a real thing. By 7pm that Friday, the inaugural 5x5K FOR GOOD Denver was all built and ready to welcome…

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One Week Until Event Day

We are thrilled to share that we are one week away from event day. Event day. EVENT DAY. Something we were not sure would ever get to happen in 2020. Our hearts and minds are racing with the adrenaline that only a live, in-person event can bring. In this…

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Collaboration Drives Innovation: Hard Event Decisions

By Slade Thompson Spring and Summer 2020 have brought a plethora of difficult decisions to the desks of event planners around the world. Should we postpone? Should we cancel? Should we do a virtual event? You probably have tackled many of those questions already. But maybe you have not had……

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Collaboration Drives Innovation: Rethinking Events

Our Collaboration Drives Innovation series aims to provide help and advice specific to this unique moment in time. So far we’ve tackled working from home and participant coaching. This week, Account Director Janelle Benuska, shares what she has learned about rescheduling and reinventing events. “Plans are of little…

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Improve Your Event Production: How to Make Technology Work for You (& Your Event!)

By David Kramer & Kari Johnson Throughout the year, we’ll be presenting our top ten tips for improving event production. We first visited this topic in 2012, but we have learned so much since then that we have even more to say. The first tip we… Read More

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Top 10 Reasons We Are Excited for the Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum Conference!

It’s the most wonderful time of the year: time for the Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum Conference! This ain’t our first rodeo: Every February, we pack our bags, and this year, we are breaking out our cowboy boots because we’re fixin’ to giddy on up to Austin, Texas!… Read More

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The Best Lessons We’ve Learned!

We posed a question to our staff and the event industry at large via Facebook. The question was, “What is the best lesson you have learned from working events?” The answers were so compelling that we just had to share! No matter what your past experience… Read More

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Reflecting on 2019…… and Revving Up for 2020!

All throughout the year, we are energized by the here and now. We are present to the daily delights, challenges, solutions and successes. The details and momentum of event life garner our attention and carry us along. But as we enter a new year, let’s take a moment to sit……

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Let’s (Walkie) Talk About Radios

By Erin Piafsky Walkie-talkies are cool. Or at least I think they are. Maybe I was subconsciously influenced in my youth by a steady diet of movies that showed characters using two-way radios (like this one, this one, or… Read More

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The Event 360 team is proud to partner with Team RWB

The Event 360 team is proud to partner with Team RWB to produce their brand new P2P fundraising event – the Epic Eagle Challenge! After many months of concepting and planning, the new event will launch this November in two locations. We are honored and excited to be…

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Spring MMRF Event Season Wraps Up!

By Jake Geiger This past June, a small but mighty team from Event 360 wrapped up the spring season with the MMRF Team for Cures 5K walk/run at Calf Pasture Beach Park in Norwalk, CT. This was the 43rd 5K that Event 360 has produced for the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation.…

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