Event Fundraising

The most powerful thing a donor can do is ask their friends to donate to your organization.

Participant fundraising leverages donor engagement but requires cultivation and stewardship. We help our clients: recruit and engage participants; engage participants in 360-day events; offer independent fundraising; and provide annual event design, set-up, and participant support. We also developed Boundless Fundraising™ for Facebook so that our event clients can extend their fundraising reach using social media. Our clients raised $10 million using Boundless Fundraising in its inaugural year.

Over more than a decade, we have helped some of the nation’s leading event fundraisers raise millions of dollars online. Our clients include The Lance Armstrong Foundation, the American Cancer Society, the Canadian Cancer Society, World Bicycle Relief, and Operation Blessing. Check out our online portfolio to see our proven results.

Recruitment and Engagement

You can increase your event performance anywhere from 12 percent to 50 percent with a robust recruitment and engagement plan. We’ll help you evaluate and get the most out of your messaging, your new participant welcome series, coaching messages, visual design, and participant surveys.

Event Implementation

The sooner you go-live with your event registration the more successful you will be. September events should be live no later than January 1. Whether you use Convio or Sphere, our experienced implementation team will get you live quickly with your current event design, event homepage, registration, and launch emails.

Independent Fundraising

While not yet as mainstream as the Relay for Life, Start! Heart Walk, or Breast Cancer 3-Day, Independent Fundraising Events (IFE’s) are an extension of major volunteer fundraising events and are gaining momentum among donors. IFE’s allow your volunteer fundraisers to raise money for your organization in a way they choose—be it through bake sales, bowling tournaments, marathons, or dinner parties. The ideas are endless and profitable. By applying the same principles of team fundraising and providing your Independent Fundraisers the tools they need to succeed, you create another stream of revenue in your fundraising portfolio.

Our team helps you with all the success elements of Independent Fundraising, including: branding, sponsorship package, marketing, entry application, participant toolkit, event kits, donor lifecycle, and recognition.

Participant Support

Participants, particularly new ones, perform better when they can get support quickly either over the phone or via email. We offer your participants a live and fast response when they have coaching, technology, fundraising, or event questions. This relatively small investment pays dividends in two ways. One, your participant is more effective this year; and two, with a good experience this year, your participant is more likely to come back next year and beyond.