February 17th Noon - Online Registration CLOSED

Learn how to take your special event over goal in 2010!

If you are planning your fundraising events for this year, don't miss this session. Our panel of seasoned event professionals will share their secrets for success with every event - even in this economy. You'll discover new strategies that will help you enhance your bottom line, whether you're staging a ball, a walkathon, a golf tournament, or a dinner event.  Here's your chance to find out how local organizations right here in the Triangle are successfully meeting or exceeding their event fundraising goals. 

Our panel:

Frank McCann, Founder and Tournament Executive Director, Jimmy V Celebrity Golf Classic. Find out how this very successful and popular golf tournament touches so many people and raises so much money year after year. 

Emily Blust, Special Events Director, Leukemia Lymphoma Society.  Learn how the Light the Night Walk went way over goal this past year. Find out the secrets to their 2009 successes and learn what they did differently from other years.

Mike Blanchard, Vice President of Development, Hospice of Wake County. Hospice hosts the Summer Salute  and the The Big Bad Ball to name a few popular events.  Discover how their Annual Dinner became a huge success because of smarter planning and new marketing strategies.

Moderator, Mary Reed   Mary Reed has over thirteen years of special events experience, organizing and producing signature walks, bike tours and galas for the American Diabetes Association in New York City and the surrounding area. In the most recent past organized a very successful Stone Soup Event for Urban Ministries of Wake County in November. Planning new events for the target audience is her most rewarding challenge, while empowering boards and event committees to become involved with the fundraising.