Archive for the ‘Events’ Category

Wild Woman Fundraising Book Reading June 8th at Bookwoman in Austin!

May 23rd, 2011Posted by Mazarine

Do you live in or around Austin, TX? Want to come out and meet me, ask a burning question and get a burning answer? Come out to BookWoman, the best Feminist bookstore in Austin, TX, on June 8th, at 6pm. I’ll be signing books, talking about how to fundraise for your cause, and answering any [...]

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May 18th Webinar: How to get Mega-Sponsorships!

May 6th, 2011Posted by Mazarine

I did a webinar on May 5th for CharityHowTo, and it was SO POPULAR that I thought I’d offer it again here, for you! How to get mega-sponsorships A step-by-step guide to raising money via corporate sponsorships Wednesday May 18th Start Time: 1:00 PM  End Time: 2:30 PM (Eastern Standard Time) Only $49.99 How do [...]

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How do you turn an accidental donor into an ally? Part 2

May 3rd, 2011Posted by Mazarine

Donors crave recognition and attention, most of all, AMIRITE?

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Wildly Successful Events: How to get sponsorships (A webinar in one act)

April 21st, 2011Posted by Mazarine

Do you want sponsorships? I’m giving a webinar with CharityHowto.com this May, and I wanted to let you know about it! Here’s the skinny. Wildly Successful Events: How to get sponsorships A step-by-step guide to raising money via corporate sponsorships Wednesday May 5th Start Time: 1:00 PM  End Time: 2:30 PM (Eastern Standard Time) Only [...]

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Want a new nonprofit job? Get some free online training from me, April 14th!

April 7th, 2011Posted by Mazarine

Did you miss the free online training today? I’m doing another webinar on Thursday, April 14th. 1-1:30pm CST. Click here to sign up! This next online training will be about acing the interview, and how to get the right questions asked. Why am I offering this? Have you looked at the statistics lately? People say [...]

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HATE your job? You are not alone. Join us on April 7th, 1pm CST.

April 3rd, 2011Posted by Mazarine

ATTENTION: Webinar is at 1pm CST today! Sorry for the confusion! I was having this conversation with someone on twitter And I realized it had been a long time since I talked about jobs that you hate, bad bosses and rankism on here. And there are like, SO MANY things to say about this! So, [...]

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Are you coming to my free webinar today? What do you mean you wanted more notice?

March 31st, 2011Posted by Mazarine

So I’m doing a webinar today! You can totally come! It’s free!

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Reader Questions: Fundraising for a park-How can you identify visitors?

March 15th, 2011Posted by Mazarine

Hey Mazarine, The issues I’m finding toughest to crack right now are around squeezing the most out of small budgets while making the most of new channels. To some extent, thus my recent Twitter learning experiment! We have more than 800,000 people coming to our parks and events every year, but mostly we don’t know [...]

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Unrelated Sunday!

February 27th, 2011Posted by Mazarine

I fell into the willamette river once. True story.

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When you’re organizing an event, what three things guarantee success?

November 23rd, 2010Posted by Mazarine

In the last several years, I’ve raised hundreds of thousands with events. For example, with one event I organized in 2007, I raised $75,000 with a gala and auction event that had raised $65,000 the year before. In 2008, with the same event format, I raised $101,000. In the latter part of 2008, I raised [...]

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