The Event 360 Blog

When our teammates aren’t producing an incredible event for our clients, they are offering advice and insights. Read some of their posts below to get a glimpse of the great minds we have on our team.

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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P2P Webinar Recap: Creating Engaging Digital Experiences

Earlier this year, we shared a blog post as part of our Collaboration Drives Innovation series that touched on engaging digital experiences. This week, we had the opportunity to dive deeper on that topic with our partners at Susan G. Komen® and our friends at the Peer… Read…

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Fundraising in the time of COVID-19

By Molly Fast It’s no secret that fundraising in light of COVID-19 is significantly challenging. We’ve all seen the devastation this pandemic has caused to the event fundraising space. During the early months – March and April – no one really knew how long we were going to be in……

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A New 5K for a New Era

“Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.” The P2P fundraising event industry is going through a time of uncertainty like never before. With mass gatherings halted in markets large and small, non-profits are scrambling to postpone, cancel, or virtualize their runs, walks, rides, and…

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Why These 3 Impactful Event Moments Matter to Me

By Molly Fast I’ve been fortunate enough to work and grow up in the events business for nearly two decades. I have witnessed some of the most touching, heart-wrenching, emotional moments while working on the events we produce at Event 360. And as a participant in and board member of……

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7 Easy Tech Tips to Make Life Simpler

By Jane Kramer Straight from the desk of one of our IT pros (and including some crowdsourced favs from colleagues), enjoy seven tips to make your work and home life more manageable. Use a password manager app. There are many apps available to help you keep your passwords safe,…

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Amp Up Your Event Energy with a Customized Playlist

by Joann Buckley Collins Music can make the mood. It can make you smile. It can make you cry. It can make drive you to dance or leap with joy. While we aren’t gathering in crowds these days, music can still bring the spirit of your event to life, whether……

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Incorporating a Youth Volunteer Program Into Your Event

By Jen Hagan While it may be daunting to think of developing a volunteer program for the younger generation with as much as they have going on these days, it is a great way for them to learn and experience being a part of giving back. Volunteering is an opportunity……

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Legal and Accounting Considerations When You Need to Pivot Your Event

Part 2: Accounting By Matt Tremback Pivoting an event date to a later day, month, or year will have some costs associated to it. But hopefully you can turn money paid to vendors and jurisdictions into credits or refunds, as opposed to them becoming sunk costs. Know where your money……

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Legal and Accounting Considerations When You Need to Pivot Your Event

Part 1: Legal by Irina Gelfand In the face of a global pandemic, your company’s or event’s operations will shift a little, right? Right. COVID-19 hit, and the world shifted for everyone. Restaurants had to rethink capacity, operations, curbside pick-up, outdoor areas and seating arrangements. CDC guidance mandated 6 feet……

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Infographic Round-Up

by Joann Buckley Collins If a picture is worth a thousand words, then surely an infographic is worth ten times that. We’ve distilled some of our blog posts into easy-to-read, single-page graphics that get the point across quickly. Check out some of our most popular: 10 Lessons… Read…

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Three Things We Learned in the First Half of 2020

By Patrick Riley Obviously, the world has changed significantly since March as we adjust to living in the age of Covid-19. We’ve all learned so many things that it feels difficult to pick only three. But here they are: Plans change. Plans may change again. It’s ok to throw out……

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Collaboration Drives Innovation: The Impact of Events

by Jillian Schranz As we wrap up our Collaboration Drives Innovation blog series, we reflect on the 2020 peer-to-peer fundraising events season that could have been, and the reality of the year we got instead. What is usually a bustling, productive spring packed with fundraising events became the season of……

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Collaboration Drives Innovation: Creating Engaging Digital Experiences

By Molly Fast Continuing our Collaboration Drives Innovation series, which looks at ways we can reinvent what we do in light of the current climate, we took a look at how we are working to create engaging digital experiences. In particular, today we’re examining our efforts to bring the…

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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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Lend Your Perspective and Input as We All Reimagine Events

As we live through a paradigm shift confronting racism, inequities, and a global pandemic, we’re still in the midst of an economic crisis of staggering proportions. Many industries have been decimated. Perhaps the hardest hit has been the event industry. As we enter the summer of 2020, our world looks a……

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Collaboration Drives Innovation: Digital Tools for Remote Productivity

Previously in our Collaboration Drives Innovation series, we asked our staff to share their advice about working from home. Since many professionals now find themselves continuing to conduct business virtually for longer than they may have originally planned, we thought we’d expand on this topic by sharing some of…

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Collaboration Drives Innovation: How to Support Constituents on Social Media

By Becky Dombrowski and Katie Zupancic Wymer Through our Collaboration Drives Innovation series, the Event 360 team is working hard to provide support to those navigating the non-profit and events spaces amidst this global crisis. After exploring working from home, participant coaching, rethinking events, and communications, we’re… Read More

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Expanding Your Mission to Include COVID-19 Care

This global pandemic affects all of us, but some are more vulnerable than others. As many of our clients have missions directly focused on health and fighting disease, COVID-19 has presented a clear and present danger to the populations they serve. We are in awe of how our clients have……

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Finding Your Next Step: FREE Consulting Sessions

During this time of uncertainty and change, we here at Event 360 have been discussing how to find a way to offer support to others in our industry. What does it mean when the information and plans we know are upside down and changing every day? As challenges rise on……

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Recent Posts

One Week Until Event Day

We are thrilled to share that we are one week away from event day. Event…

P2P Webinar Recap: Creating Engaging Digital Experiences

Earlier this year, we shared a blog post as part of our Collaboration Drives…

Collaboration Drives Innovation: The Impact of Events

by Jillian Schranz

As we wrap up our Collaboration Drives Innovation blog series, we reflect…

Collaboration Drives Innovation: Creating Engaging Digital Experiences

By Molly Fast

Continuing our Collaboration Drives Innovation series, which looks at ways we…

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