INSPIRED EVENTS
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(If you haven’t seen my first posts on agreeing on event goals and building a rockin’ events team, check them out first.) Once you’ve got your goals clarified and your team together, take some time to do some front-end planning.
There are a few steps I take to make an event plan.
So, you’re planning an event. Where to start? Well, I always start with 3 key things. The first is getting clear, agreed upon event goals.
Read more about those here: #1: Get Consensus on Your Event Goals
#2: Build a Rockin’ Events Team
Once you’ve got your goals in place, you need to build your team. Event planning is always a collaborative endeavor, and really takes a village. Building a great team with clearly defined roles will save you SO MUCH time down the road. This team will need to work closely together and each person on it will have a distinct job.
So your organization has decided to host an event. Hooray! Events are exciting, fun ways to bring people together, engage new and continued partners, get people on board with your mission and sometimes even raise money for your cause.
They also require lots of work, advance planning and time. It can be tempting to charge ahead and start coordinating, but before you do, save yourself future scrambling by front-loading your planning.
It has been exactly four months since the fires started that changed Sonoma and Napa counties forever. The debris is still being cleared, and rebuilding will take years.
After looking out on the decimated grounds, I turn my focus inward to the flyer I am making for the event I am planning right now. It’s for a day-long gathering on Trauma, Justice and Healing, to take place at Contra Costa College in San Pablo, where faculty and staff can learn about the emotional and systemic traumas and racial injustices so many students in Richmond and San Pablo face on a daily basis.
Events can bring people together, raise funds for an organization, and engage partners more deeply in a cause. Though, they can also be a lot of work and an added burden of stress on the staff who put them together.
At Inspired Events, we love helping nonprofit organizations put on amazing events. We use systems to help make your events more strategic and less stressful.
Here are 4 steps you can follow to create a powerful event in an efficient manner:
