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.
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……
“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…
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……
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,…
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……
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……
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……
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……
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…
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……
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……
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…
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……
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……
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…
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
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……
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……
By Cheryl Stern (with an assist from Joann Collins) Continuing our Collaboration Drives Innovation series and our goal to provide real, practical help to organizations navigating the non-profit and events spaces amidst this global crisis, Brand Manager Cheryl Stern talks out our approach to managing communication. Previously we’ve tackled…
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…
by Jillian Schranz
As we wrap up our Collaboration Drives Innovation blog series, we reflect…
By Molly Fast
Continuing our Collaboration Drives Innovation series, which looks at ways we…
By Slade Thompson
Spring and Summer 2020 have brought a plethora of difficult decisions to…
As we live through a paradigm shift confronting racism, inequities, and a global pandemic, we’re…
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