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Hosted by HGA Fundraising · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 251 episodes
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The 'Hey Nonprofits!' podcast is here to help fundraisers and event professionals Raise More Money.Each week, we bring on an industry expert to highlight important tips and strategies, and you can use them effectively to grow your organization. Whether you simply need help communicating with donors or need advanced tactics with setting up live auctions and fundraising events—host Trevor Nelson is here to guide you toward success. Be sure to tune in for a new episode every Tuesday! Brought to you by HGA Fundraising.
HGA Fundraising hosts Hey Nonprofits!, a business show with 251 episodes published.
Most nonprofits think they're over-marketing their gala. They're not even close.Laurie from Auctria joins Trevor to break down what she calls the 85-Asset Rule — the number of marketing pieces one of her top-performing e
Every year it's the same fire drill - cold-calling local businesses, guessing at starting bids, and crossing your fingers that this year's silent auction table looks better than last year's. It doesn't have to be this wa
Four nonprofits in a row told Jordan Agolli the same thing about their previous auctioneer: they felt like the person with the microphone cared more about themselves than the mission.Jordan, a benefit auctioneer and MC b
Most fundraisers think of check-in as a hospitality problem. Livia Christensen and Chris O'Shea of C2 Auctions think it's a fundraising problem and they have the data to prove it.Livia and Chris manage guest lists and st
Most fundraising events are planned like logistics problems. Rick Toone plans them like Hollywood shoots them. Rick spent 20 years in Los Angeles as an art director and lighting designer for A-list clients — Ridley Scott
Most CEOs of nonprofits have opinions about boards. Christy Casey-Moore has a 100% give rate and a $1.2M gala to back hers up. Christy is the CEO of Heart Gift, a global nonprofit that brings children from other countrie
Most fundraising galas leave money on the table for reasons the people running them never see. Chris Hensley and Brett Higgins, two of the most in-demand fundraising auctioneers in the country, join Trevor to work throug
Most nonprofits spend months curating the perfect live auction lineup — and then assume their guests will figure it out when they get to the event. Claire Murad of Murad Auctions joins Trevor to make the case that this i
Most nonprofits have a storytelling problem they don't know they have. They've been so close to the mission for so long they can't see what's actually moving about it anymore. Lucas Hunt, president of Hunt Auctioneers, f
Brittany Pilcher, Director of Development at Quest Inc., joins Trevor to walk through exactly how her team added a Golden Ticket Raffle to WineQuest , a $500,000 two-night gala in Orlando and sold out 100 tickets in 72 h
Most fundraising problems aren't fundraising problems. They're board problems. Elise Woodworth — VMI alum, Air Force veteran, and author of Business Not Battle — joins Trevor to unpack why so many nonprofit boards stall
Most fundraisers treat events like the finish line. Kristen Bowles treats them like the starting point. In this episode, Trevor sits down with Kristen — a development pro who's worked across the YMCA, Boys & Girls Club,
What if the timing of your "ask" is costing your nonprofit thousands? Matt Roben — the Kilted Auctioneer, former circus performer, and police officer turned fundraising auctioneer, joins Trevor to break down the neurosci
Most nonprofits measure events by one number: how much they raised. Emily Preble thinks that's the wrong starting point.Emily is a fundraising consultant and professional auctioneer based in Austin, and in this episode s
Most nonprofits think more silent auction items = more money. Phil Sanger has spent 15+ years proving the opposite. In this episode, Phil, founder of HelloFund and an OG in the fundraising tech space since 2009, joins Tr
Rob Giardinelli has attended over 2,000 fundraising galas. In this episode, he breaks down what actually moves donors to give more, why "events are dead" is bad advice, and the guest experience details most nonprofits co
Max Wolf has spent nearly a decade auctioneering fundraising events, and he's seen the patterns that separate the galas that crush it from the ones that fall flat. In this episode, Max and Trevor get into: – How one even
Are consignment items hurting your nonprofit auction — or are you leaving serious money on the table by not using them?In this episode, Trevor Nelson sits down with fundraising auctioneer Dan Lyles to set the record stra
Most nonprofit events run too long — and it's costing you donations. In this webinar, event strategist Reggie Rivers and expert auctioneer Matt Roben break down why shorter, more focused events consistently raise more mo
Hey Nonprofits is the ONLY podcast specifically focused on event fundraising and auction strategy — because someone has to stand up for the gala. This is Part 2 of the Timed to Perfection Series — a 6-part webinar series
Trevor Nelson
Chief Gratitude Officer · HGA Fundraising
4 appearances on this show
Mallory Erickson
Creator of the Power Partners Formula™ · Practivated
1 appearance on this show
Mitch Stein
Head of Strategy · Chariot
1 appearance on this show
Chris O'Shea
C2 Auctions
1 appearance on this show
Brett Higgins
Brett Higgins
1 appearance on this show
Chris Hensley
Bid Raise
1 appearance on this show
Rob Burke
Fundraising Lab
2 appearances on this show
Shannon Eason
Everything Gala
1 appearance on this show
Nikki DeFalco
MS Society
1 appearance on this show
Jennifer Knopf
REED Charitable Foundation
1 appearance on this show
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