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Planning and Executing Your
Next Big Event

Free Nonprofit 911® Training Materials

(This training took place on August 9, 2011)

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Are you planning a fundraising event like an auction, gala, golf tournament, luncheon or alumni reunion? Do you want to sell tickets and sponsorships online? Do you need some tips for designing your event strategy?Join our all-star panelists of event experts to learn the ins and outs of event planning and execution and to hear how organizations just like yours are taking their events online and succeeding.

This was a 60 minute Nonprofit 911 webinar featuring Joe Fazio, Liz Glover Wilson and Rebecca Higman.

Joe Fazio, VP of Product Strategy, givezooks! is a 15 year veteran of the software industry. Prior to givezooks!, Joe was a founder and product visionary at Agile Software in San Jose, CA. Through Joe's active involvement with local nonprofits, Joe recognized that the small to mid-size nonprofits lacked the infrastructure to effectively deploy the same successful online fundraising techniques used by larger nonprofits. As a result, Joe co-founded givezooks! to provide a solution to this problem. He is responsible for product strategy and development at givezooks!.

Liz Glover Wilson, CMP, CSEP, founded Elizabeth Rose Consulting, LLC with the vision of utilizing her years of professional event planning experience, fundraising expertise, staff management and corporate savvy to make a positive impact on non-profit organizations. Her goal is to offer services that are geared towards rejuvenating fundraising efforts for local non-profits. Liz’s non-profit experience started in her church as a young girl, where she worked side by side with her parents to implement and run various community outreaches. She is Past President of the ISES New York Chapter and is a proud member of AFP, ISES and MPI. She speaks at conferences on non-profit and event management topics, has been featured in several magazine articles and interviews and is a leader in the industry. She is a CMP (Certified Meeting Planner) and CSEP (Certified Special Events Professional).

Rebecca Higman, Senior Manager of Product Marketing, Network for Good, is a speaker and writer about online fundraising, email marketing and social networking. She manages nonprofit marketing activities including new product development, website management, e-newsletter development, event marketing, business development strategy, and marketing of Network for Good’s fundraising, email marketing and online events services. Her articles have appeared in the Direct Marketing Association blog, Fundraising Success and Philanthropy Journal, and she co-authored a chapter in Nonprofit Management 101 (Jossey-Bass).