This week’s Moment of Bliss is about a truly inspiring campaign, the Betty White Challenge. What would have been the legendary Betty White’s 100th birthday on January 17th 2022 was celebrated by her many fans by meeting the #bettywhitechallenge to donate to organizations helping animals. By Friday the 21st, $12.7 Read more…
You know the old saying about “you can’t please all of the people all of the time”? Well, it’s as true about life as it is about gala planning! If you try to please everyone, there’s a good chance that no one ends up happy. Now that we’ve acknowledged the Read more…
In this new, “virtual” era of live event fundraising, we have had to take another look at the role of the professional bid spotter and auctioneer assistant. With new challenges and changes to our landscape as professional fundraisers, we need to focus on and see just how our support services Read more…
How to get it right and watch those fundraising dollars flow in… Any event, whether in-person or virtual (or somewhere in-between), needs a solid event timeline in order to run smoothly. In this blog post, we’re sharing our top tips and best practices for getting it right. Why a good Read more…
What good is a great message or idea if no one can hear it? Don’t let that happen to you! With our virtual lives becoming more and more entwined with work, we as fundraising professionals must keep up. When putting together a virtual event, you must think about the end Read more…
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” Wayne Gretzsky We don’t have to tell you how hard the past year has been on the nonprofit and fundraising industries, and we feel the pain our clients have experienced keenly. We strongly believe that organizations should be leaning on their Read more…
California Condors nearly went extinct in 1982, dropping to 22 birds on the entire planet. Through a partnership between multiple conservation groups, government agencies and nonprofits such as the Los Angeles Zoo, the 1,000th chick was born last year in 2019. That 1,000th chick as well as the chick being Read more…
When history looks back on the spring of 2020, it will have a massive trove of content to peruse to understand how those of us living through it coped, most of which will at some point mention this “unprecedented time” and how strange it all is. It seems redundant to Read more…