We’re excited to introduce this week’s Event 360 Teammate Spotlight. Enjoy a glimpse into the personal and professional life of Tisho Jessop! Position: Fundraising & Support Coach | Twin Cities & Philadelphia | Susan G. Komen 3-Day Start Year: 2016 (this time around) What job did you hold right before…
Co-Authored by Katie Zupancic Wymer, Senior Manager, Digital Marketing, Event 360, and Jamie Arneson, Account Director, Wpromote Welcome to 2019! We hope you had a wonderful holiday, but as everyone in the peer-to-peer fundraising industry knows, there is no such thing as downtime. Our teams are excited to ramp…
It’s nearing that time of year where we take a much needed break to celebrate the holidays with family and friends and look toward a New Year where anything is possible. But before we do that, we here at Event 360 want to take a moment to reflect. This year……
By Heather Snyder There are as many different attitudes and approaches to fundraising as there are individual fundraisers. Some take a methodical approach, others make an emotional appeal, and still others fundraise with a sense of fun and humor. The Coconutter Strutters, a Susan G. Komen Michigan 3-Day team, is……
By Janelle Benuska “Soldiers, when committed to a task, can’t compromise. It’s unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it’s been done.” ―John Keegan As I reflect on the first two weekends of November, I…
We’re excited to introduce this week’s Event 360 Teammate Spotlight. Enjoy a glimpse into the personal and professional life of Kaleigh Glaza! Position: Digital and Social Media Specialist Start Year: 2016 What job did you hold right before you came to work at Event 360? I did social media… Read…
Thanksgiving is our favorite time of year here at Event 360. It almost always coincides with the end of our event season and provides us the opportunity to rest and recharge before diving back into planning for 2019. This year, we’re thankful for our partners at the… Read…
Hoping for the best, but planning for the worst By Mark Dolce The planet is warming and the climate is changing, and as event production professionals—the sometimes salty Rain Dogs who work through all kinds of Stormy Weather—we plan for it, we deal with… Read More
By Robin Shapiro Whether you are planning a new event or working to improve an existing event, developing standard operating procedures (SOPs) for all of your processes is key to your event’s success. A complete SOP outlines how things get done, who does what and how results are measured. Compiling……
By Joann Collins The seasonal nature of the fundraising events business means that your communications team is usually in one of three repeating phases: Planning, Implementing, or Analyzing. Then as soon as you’re done with your analysis, it’s time to plan for the next year. During that transition period…
By Janelle Benuska On September 8-9, 2018, a mighty team of Event 360 staff members came together to support the 15th Annual Ride for AIDS Chicago for our client, Test Positive Aware Network (TPAN). The back-to-back century cycling event took riders 200 miles on… Read More
By Suzanne Mooney Waiting by the phone and hoping it will ring is no longer an activity reserved for starry-eyed romantics in the throes of a budding romance. Hardy souls on the front lines of peer-to-peer fundraising events across the country are doing a lot of waiting and hoping by……
By David Kramer Imagine planning five events for one client in an event season. Not so unusual for those of us in event planning, right? Now imagine all five of those events will happen in two back-to-back weekends… spread out in different cities across the country. It becomes a bit……
The V Foundation for Cancer Research was built on the dream that cancer can one day be defeated. On Saturday, May 19, 2018, the Event 360 team brought to life the very first Victory Ride to Cure Cancer, a new peer-to-peer fundraising event designed… Read More
By Molly Fast Welcome back! A couple weeks ago I kicked off this two-part blog post sharing about my fundraising success with Cycle for Survival. In the first blog post I shared that I’ve raised nearly $150,000 in the past six years for rare… Read More
We’re excited to introduce this week’s Event 360 Teammate Spotlight. Enjoy a glimpse into the personal and professional life of Emily Clay! Position: Event Execution Coordinator Start Year: 2017 What job did you hold right before you came to work at Event…
By Molly Fast For the past six years, I’ve participated in Cycle for Survival, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s wildly successful and popular indoor cycle event that raises money for rare cancer research. (Side note: it was also selected as the Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum’s Program of the… Read…
A note from the Event 360 Team: Our friends at Qgiv recently put together this piece about gamifying peer-to-peer fundraising events, and we thought it might be a good fit for our blog audience. If you’re not already doing these things, we hope this post inspires you to make your……
Over the years, we have covered a vast array of topics on our Event 360 Blog, giving our followers the kind of advice that can lead to safer, more successful and efficient events―events that leave your participants feeling happy and fulfilled. In case you’ve missed any of that great content,……
Since 2001, the MMRF Team for Cures 5K Walk/Run program has raised both awareness and funds for multiple myeloma research. This family-friendly series is held annually in thirteen cities and participation offers camaraderie and knowledge-sharing for patients, family members and friends of patients, members of the myeloma community, and others.…
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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