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Throwback Thursday with Event 360

Over the years, we’ve covered all sorts of topics on our Event 360 Blog, because we want to give you the kind of advice that can lead to safer, more successful and efficient events. In case you’ve missed any of that great content, we’re bringing back our Throwback Thursday…

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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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The Ride that Sparked our Pride for Events

By Abbie Peterson After years of producing events, there is one thing we know for sure. Peer-to-peer fundraising events are magic. They allow individuals to come together as one community to grieve, honor, celebrate and fight for causes that are important to us. They give us tangible… Read…

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

By Abbie Peterson and Monica Roos Non-profit professionals are notoriously known for wearing many hats. You must be social media savvy, a fundraising expert and an event planner extraordinaire — all wrapped up in one. When it comes down to giving each aspect of your job the time it…

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Dive into Summer Events with these Helpful Tips

As we begin the summer season, outdoor events can feel like an entirely different beast compared to indoor events, when it comes to logistics. To make sure you’re fully prepared for all your summer event needs, we asked our staff to share their tried-and-true event tips to make your…

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Five Things I Learned (or Relearned) During my 10th Year Riding in Cycle for Survival

By Molly Fast In 2004, only six months after my father was diagnosed with esophageal cancer, he died. He was only 55 years old. A few years after that, I found my way to a community that helped me take action and heal. I haven’t turned back since.

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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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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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Celebrating Mother’s Day at Event 360 with our Mother/Daughter Staff Duo

In honor of Mother’s Day, we’re highlighting our very own mother/daughter duo, Staci and Monica Roos! Staci and Monica work together on the Susan G. Komen 3-Day® events—Staci as a 3-Day Coach and Monica as the Social Media Coordinator. Read on to learn more!   How… Read…

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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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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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Kicking Off the MMRF Team for Cures 5K Walk/Run Season

By Lindsay Griffin Where have the past couple of weeks gone? We’re only two weeks into event season and have three MMRF Team for Cures 5K Walk/Run events under our belt. The MMRF series kicked off in South Florida on March 20th. Florida was hot, and the first event of……

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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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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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#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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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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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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“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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