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Collaboration Drives Innovation: Communications

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…

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Collaboration Drives Innovation: Rethinking Events

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…

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Collaboration Drives Innovation: Participant Coaching

Our Collaboration Drives Innovation series aims to provide help and advice specific to this unique moment in time. Last week we talked about working from home, collecting input from several teammates in a variety of roles here at Event 360. This week, our Director of Local Operations, Molly Fast,…

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Collaboration Drives Innovation: Working from Home

Just like you, our Event 360 team is made up of people of action. During this time of uncertainty and change, our team has been discussing how to find a way to offer support to others in our industry, including our clients in the non-profit space. What does this mean……

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Event 360 Teammate Spotlight: Meet Jonathan Madrigal!

Name: Jonathan “JAM” Madrigal Position: Event Production Manager – MuckFest/Muck FOR GOOD Start Year: Officially, I think it would be 2011 but I took a break from 2014 to 2015, then came back in 2016. How did your life path bring you to Event 360?… Read…

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Improve Your Event Production: How to Make Technology Work for You (& Your Event!)

By David Kramer & Kari Johnson Throughout the year, we’ll be presenting our top ten tips for improving event production. We first visited this topic in 2012, but we have learned so much since then that we have even more to say. The first tip we… Read More

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Top 10 Reasons We Are Excited for the Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum Conference!

It’s the most wonderful time of the year: time for the Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum Conference! This ain’t our first rodeo: Every February, we pack our bags, and this year, we are breaking out our cowboy boots because we’re fixin’ to giddy on up to Austin, Texas!… Read More

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The Best Lessons We’ve Learned!

We posed a question to our staff and the event industry at large via Facebook. The question was, “What is the best lesson you have learned from working events?” The answers were so compelling that we just had to share! No matter what your past experience… Read More

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Building A Great Team!

By Rene Tamayo Last month, our event team completed the final Susan G. Komen 3-Day of the 2019 season. As always at the end of an event season, it provides a moment to reflect on what we have accomplished and evaluate what contributed to the success… Read More

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Putting Words in Someone Else’s Mouth: Writing Speeches for your Presenters or Executives

By Joann Collins Most non-profits don’t have the budget for a professional speechwriter or a corporate speaking coach. But what tactics can you take from those professionals to use as you are drafting speeches for your executives, representatives and participants? Most events begin with a welcome or opening ceremony of……

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Don’t Rain on My Parade…or My Event!

By Rene Tamayo Weather, whether good or bad, plays a major role in determining how successful your event will be. When weather is perfect, it almost seems like nothing can go wrong —everything falls into place and we can focus on giving participants a wonderful time doing good for their……

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People and Puppies: Event 360 Loves Both!

By Gayla Cruikshank My husband and I just celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary and we are empty nesters. I selfishly wanted to find a way to volunteer that wouldn’t take too much time away from home, since we love enjoying quiet time on our back porch with dinner and wine.…

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How Our Staff Gets Engaged Beyond Events: Board Membership

By Molly Fast I’ve been fortunate enough to work with non-profit organizations for nearly my entire career (that blip doing high-tech PR right as the dot com industry was plummeting barely counts). I’m equally as fortunate to have been able to put roots down at Event… Read More

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The Susan G. Komen 3-Day Event Season Kicked Off in Michigan!

This past weekend, a large contingency of our Event 360 staff found ourselves in Michigan to produce the first event of the 2019 Susan G. Komen 3-Day season. We have been working behind the scenes for the past 12 months, and despite the long hours and sweaty weather, it was……

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Special Circumstances on Event

By Jake Geiger Over the years, we’ve dealt with a plethora of special circumstances on event. This past year was no exception. We added some new ones to the archive and were also visited by some old friends, the uninvited kind. Here is one of our favorites from 2018. I……

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My 9-Step Formula to Fundraising Success (Part 2)

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

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My 9-Step Formula to Fundraising Success (Part 1)

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…

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Meet Checkmate, the dog (and recruiter!) who helped a job-seeker nail his next gig.

By Alyssa Curran Most of the world loves dogs, but how many people can say their dog helped them get a job? Will B. of Chicago can. And he has Checkmate―a spry black Labrador pit bull mix, a ‘shelter special’―to thank for it. Will was looking to make a career……

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How to Keep Things Fresh with Your Staff

By Molly Fast I’ve had the pleasure of working at Event 360 for 13 years. Here and there tasks have been added and taken away. My job title has changed. And I’ve fielded enough curve balls to play for a professional baseball team. But for the… Read More

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Event 360 Recommends: Pokkirito/RakiRaki Ramen – San Diego, CA

At Event 360 we work hard and play hard. We travel the country going from one event to the next, and in the process we tumble upon some really great places in the cities we work. Be it a restaurant, music venue or book store (to name a few),…

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