Product Description

If you are responsible for your organization's next big event - whether it is a black tie dinner, a political barbecue, a charity walk-a-thon, a celebrity speech, a school auction, a capital campaign, or a business launch to benefit your favorite cause - everything you need to know and do is in this easy-to-use book.

From this handy check-listed guide, you'll learn how to select an event to fit the cause, set your fund-raising goals, plan and execute the entire event using a month-by-month event calendar and checklists, develop an effective charity team to assist you all along the way with the duties of each defined, get media attention using sample public service announcements and great new promotion ideas, build contacts and network with the community and other organizations, find sponsors, prepare inviting invitations and programs, and critique your event and maintain support for the future.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #518901 in Books
• Published on: 1999-12-01
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .36" h x 5.93" w x 8.95" l, .42 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 120 pages

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About the Author
Patti Coons is the author of "Gala! The Special Event Planner" and is the senior Vice President of Decorating Den Interiors. She has raised millions of dollars for such groups as the Salvation Army, the American Heart Association, and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Opera Company, and Museum of Art. She is listed in Who's Who in Professional and Executive Women and Who's Who in America. Ms. Coons lives near Washington, D.C.