Handling Volunteer Challenges Gracefully
While volunteers are essential to making athletic charity events successful, working with them also poses unique challenges, especially if conflict arises between the volunteers. Here are some tips for preventing volunteer challenges and gracefully handling those that do arise:
Foster healthy communication. Right from the beginning of charity event planning, be sure to communicate openly and [...]
Tips for Spending Charity Event Profits
So, your athletic charity event is over and you’re thrilled with your profits. Now what? It’s time to take a good look at how much money you raised and determine exactly how you’re going to spend it. Here are a couple of planning tips for allocating and using your hard earned money:
Determine your net profit. [...]
Fostering Friendly Team Competition
Whether you plan athletic fundraising events, participate in them, or both, you know that events are more fun and successful when lots of teams are involved. Fostering some friendly competition between teams can really ramp up your fundraising results and be a lot of fun in the process.
Based on my work at the Alzheimer’s Association, [...]
New Kid on the Block: Taking Over a Fundraising Event
Have you ever found yourself in the position of inheriting a fundraising event? This can be scary and exciting at the same time. A recent article at fundraisingIP.com talked about ways to make your transition to fundraising leader a smooth one so that your first event can be successful. Here’s my take on some tips [...]
Four Reminders for Successful Athletic Charity Event Planning
March is time for spring cleaning and making sure all of our planning strategies are in order. Here are four reminders for successful athletic charity event planning:
Stay organized. Make sure your mailing lists are up-to-date and that you have a flexible but thorough system for planning your athletic charity events. Also research when other events [...]
Everybody Wins When You Say “Thank You”
I read an interesting article at fundraisingIP.com about the importance of writing thank you letters. When I ran the Southern Utah Alzheimer’s Association, I always made a point to send a thank you note within a few days of receiving a donation; admittedly, though, I used a form letter in my word processing program that [...]
Aligning Program Goals with Fundraising Goals
I had an interesting conversation recently with a friend who leads a small nonprofit agency in another part of the country. She was planning an athletic fundraising event and had run into a bit of a conundrum. An essential piece of preparing an event’s budget is determining a fundraising goal and how the funds will [...]
Volunteer Recruitment Is Easy with VolunteerSpot.com
If you have ever planned an athletic charity event, you know that you could never pull off your event without volunteers, yet the volunteer recruitment process can be one of the hardest aspects of charity event planning. For the most part, volunteers are wonderful, dedicated, and reliable helpers; but because volunteering is not employment, it [...]
Cookbook Sales Can Enhance Health-Related Athletic Charity Events
Are you planning an athletic charity event for a health-related organization? You might want to consider adding a cookbook fundraiser to the event. I recently read an interesting article at fundraisingIP.com about how cookbook fundraisers can bring in significant profits for an agency.
Why Cookbook Sales Can Work
For one thing, you can tailor the cookbook to [...]
The Manors at Hobe Sound Setting Example for Florida Memory Walk
I’ve written about the Alzheimer’s Association’s Memory Walk many times before, but it was always in reference to the Southern Utah Memory Walk. This time, I want to tell you about a Memory Walk taking place in Florida and a special team raising money for this important event.
Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to [...]
