Galas–the dying gasp of poor fundraising?

by | Dec 12, 2006 | Events

The end of the year is rapidly approaching, so I thought I’d keep this issue of Extreme Fundraising light-hearted. Read this posting from Amy Kincaid and her Fundraising Breakthroughs blog gave me the fodder for this riff. This was posted on her blog: Quotable...

More on non-events

by | Sep 22, 2006 | Events

Cher Hersrud of the The Resource Center in Fargo, ND posted these ideas to the CharityChannel CharityTalk list. (Posted with her permission.) A couple of examples of the non-event from North Dakota: a theatre sold tickets for a Dark Night – people stayed home,...

Have you thought of a non-event?

by | Aug 25, 2006 | Events

We’ve had an interesting discussion on the AHP email list on holding “non-events,” events that raise money but don’t have any real event. Rodger Wetzel from ND gave these great suggestions: One example: A Non-event Send out invitations that say...