My Approach

As a Nonprofit Event Specialist, I work intimately with new and established organizations to produce impactful events that resonate with your guests on every possible level – your mission, messages, successes and challenges. My strengths are creative design, technical production and the actual event experience – three distinct skill sets I’ve combined to ensure the success of your event from inception through execution.

The core to my approach starts with three questions:

     1. What would you like your guests to know?

     2. What would you like them to take away?

     3. How would you like them to feel?

We work through these questions together and collaborate to find the most effective ways to accomplish your goals. And then we get to work!

Once your story is written and our objectives defined, I manage the myriad of production details events require, allowing your staff more time to attend to the most important detail of all–your guests. 

The key comes in working with your staff, budget, messaging and assets to develop a distinctive event experience for all who currently support your mission, as well as the next generation of donors you seek to cultivate. Every guest in the room should walk away knowing and caring more about your mission then when they entered. 

With my approach, the time and resources your nonprofit organization invests generates the maximum possible returns.

A custom-tailored package of my services and scope of work may include:

•Conception and consultation of event structure, story and objectives 

•Collaboration with the nonprofit team and committees 

•Venue research and contract negotiation 

•Event flow, design and decor 

•Creation of ground plan, run of show and script 

•Graphics production – PowerPoint, videos, signage 

•On-site direction, stage management and speaker coaching 

•Digital fundraising integration – auctions, live appeal, text-to-pledge 

•Audio, lighting and video design, installation and operation 

•Entertainment management and technical rider execution 

•Production logistics, permits, security and insurance oversight 

•Negotiation and management of third-party vendors 

•Post-event wrap meeting and consultation

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