This ONE thing is actually several things; systems, processes and procedures. Having processes & procedures for your event can provide clarity, ensure nothings falls through the cracks, create consistency and will help you conserve your time and energy.

Are you the leader of a nonprofit and are looking for someone to chair your next event? Maybe you’ve been asked to lead an event or are thinking about stepping into the event leadership role,

Before you start recruiting or before you say ‘yes’, learn the 7 skills or traits event leaders need.

There are three key areas where you should have firm deadlines when planning a fundraising event; sponsor deliverables, auction donations and event registration. When you don't have deadlines, or worse yet, when you don't stick to your deadlines, you're adding extra work and stress for yourself and the planning team.

Find out why these deadlines are important, why I often get pushback on them and how to kindly but gently stick to your guns on them.

Many planning teams get stuck on finding THE perfect date.  They either overthink it or just don’t know where to start.  

It doesn’t have to be that complicated.  There are 6 factors you need to take into account in order to narrow it down to find the best date options for your event.  

After listening to this episode you’ll understand what those six factors are and how they affect your date options. 

There are two big mistakes nonprofits make when it comes to planning a fundraising event. One is not leaving enough time to plan the event. Second is not having an event planning timeline. In this episode, host Alicia Baraga talks about how to avoid making these two mistakes.

Setting specific goals for your event is SO important. I’m not going to lecture you about SMART goals.  You can find tons of resources on how to do that with a simple online search.  

What I am going to talk about are FAST goals.  These are goals that should be set for any and every nonprofit fundraising or awareness-building event.  Learn about what they are and how to define those goals.

If you’ve ever worked or volunteered at a nonprofit, you’ve likely heard this statement…”We need to raise some money. We should host a_____” and then fill in the blank.

It could be a gala, 5K, golf tournament or any other type of event. And then the planning just begins. This type of planning is backwards. Find out why and what you can do about it in this episode.

Host Alicia Baraga has been planning nonprofit fundraising and awareness building events since 2010. In these short episodes she’ll give you tips, tricks, resources, best practices from her over a decade of experience planning events.

At the end of each episode, Alicia (or her guest) will give you one action item that will help you build momentum as you plan your event.