How To Nail Your Fund a Need: The easy way to raise $1000s more at almost ANY nonprofit event!

If You're Unable to Attend the Live Webinar You Will Still Have Access to the Webinar Recording, Slides and Bonus Materials

Fund a Need events are called by dozens of different names - Special Appeal, Gift from the Heart, Mission Moment, Raise the Paddle - but the gist is the same. It's about inspiring guests to make a spontaneous donation to your cause. Imagine dozens of new donors enthusiastically giving to your mission!

What's best for you? The money pours straight into your bottom line in a matter of minutes. It's one of the fastest, most powerful techniques to improve your event's revenue.

This 90-minute nonprofit webinar is stuffed with photos and marketing examples of current successfully-staged Fund a Needs held at different styles of special events.

You'll learn:

• The primary reason as to why you should include a Fund a Need in your next event.
• The three approaches to designing this personal appeal, and which approach will work best, given your audience and event style.
• My secret formula! My template for writing and delivering a successful "ask" that naturally stimulates guests to participate in giving, regardless of their income level.
• The two phrases that flip on guests' "MUST DONATE NOW" switch.
• How to market this activity prior to and at your event to ensure your guests feel comfortable and the event flows seamlessly. You'll love these real-life examples!
• How to avoid pitfalls. In the last two years, nonprofits around the country have tried to alter the Fund a Need and suffered disastrous consequences. In many cases, revenue fell by 50%! I'll share practical case studies showing you what went wrong. You'll learn what NOT to change and where it's OK to adapt.
• Fund a Need trends to keep an eye on. Use them when appropriate, but not all trends work for every event.

Enjoy these BONUS materials with your webinar:

• Two templates for tracking the donations onsite. These will make it a snap to instantly total the donations given AND will encourage last-minute donations.
• Sample language to include in your event program

Presented by Sherry Truhlar, CMP, BAS, CAI
Sherry Truhlar is the voice for nonprofit auction success. She averages 50 Fund a Needs a year from the stage, and has taught hundreds of others how to write and present their own mission-centric presentations. As founder of Red Apple Auctions, her dynamic company is devoted to empowering event planners and currently has over 7500 members in her online and offline programs. Recently her advice has been covered by Florida's Sun Sentinel, The Washington Post Magazine, Town & Country Magazine, and Northern Virginia Magazine. She's a frequent guest on the popular "Nonprofit Spark" radio show and a busy speaker for conferences. As an award-winning charity auctioneer and mentor to thousands, she guides professionally-staffed and volunteer committees in how to properly stage events to achieve higher returns. How did she find herself in such an unusual career? When her hands-on auction work landed her on television programs with the likes of fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi and celebrity carpenter Andrew Dan-Jumbo, she packed up her cubicle at GE and formerly launched Red Apple Auctions.

If You're Unable to Attend the Live Webinar You Will Still Have Access to the Webinar Recording, Slides and Bonus Materials