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.

Jun 30
2022

What Makes a Great Event Book?

By Cyrena Hillyard What makes a great event book? Well of course it all starts with the information. You can’t have an event book full of pretty pages without any real details. Once you’ve gathered the content, and it’s likely to be a LOT of content, you will want…

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May 20
2022

PanCAN PurpleStride Recap

By: Jake Geiger For the past year, our team has been preparing to produce an unprecedented peer-to-peer event series with the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCAN) called PanCAN PurpleStride.   The goal:   Plan 59 events  Support execution for 30 of those  … Read More

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May 12
2022

Celebrate Good Times, Come On!

By: Abbie Peterson Kool & The Gang was onto something when they released the chart-topping hit “Celebration” in 1980. A song dedicated to feeling good, coming together, and taking a moment to truly “celebrate good times.” The almost five-minute song isn’t about celebrating only when it’s convenient or after…

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Apr 28
2022

Where in the World is Event 360?

Our bags are packed and we’re ready to go! We have a big weekend ahead of us as we produce and staff the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network’s PurpleStride events across the country, all on the same day, making it our largest event series in Event 360 history! We’ve been…

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Apr 22
2022

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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Mar 25
2022

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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Mar 11
2022

Our Recap: Peer-to-Peer Forum Conference 2022

Last week, our Event 360 team attended #P2PForum22 in Atlanta with industry experts from across the peer-to-peer fundraising space. This conference was the last thing we attended as a team before the world shut down in 2020 so returning to sponsor, speak, and learn was especially exciting and energizing. We……

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Feb 25
2022

#P2PForum22

If you’re a peer-to-peer event professional, chances are you or someone on your team is headed to Atlanta next week for the 2022 Peer to Peer Professional Forum Conference. Event 360 is sending our own dream team of event professionals from all corners of the country to share some great……

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Feb 18
2022

Who’s Ready for #P2PForum2022?

After two years, we’re ready to pack our bags and head to Atlanta for the biggest peer-to-peer event industry conference of 2022. If you’re interested in checking out what we’ve been up to since the last P2P Forum in Austin, be sure to attend one of these: Industry Sessions –……

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Feb 10
2022

How to Enhance Participant Engagement Via a Hybrid Event

By Jen Hagan Innovating and enhancing your participant experience with an exciting new layer of community engagement, challenges and event programming can increase the lifetime value of your participants, strengthen connection to your mission and raise fundraising performance. What does that look like in the real world as many events……

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Feb 3
2022

“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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Jan 27
2022

Are Your Communication Strategies 2022 Ready?

By Joann Collins A fundraising event is not a fundraising event without fundraisers. You need #1, People to participate and #2, Participants to fundraise. Even the most well-produced, flawless, innovative event cannot achieve those two goals completely on its own. You need to communicate to your audience to spark their……

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What Makes a Great Event Book?

By Cyrena Hillyard

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The Ride that Sparked our Pride for Events

By Abbie Peterson

After years of producing events, there is one thing we know…

A Balancing Act: Social Media Hacks for the Time-Crunched Event Professional

By Abbie Peterson and Monica Roos

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