Event: The Junior League of San Francisco, Inc.’s 86th Annual Fashion Show Date: Friday, April 13, 2012 Chair: Schuyler Hudak Location: San Francisco Fairmont Purchase Tickets: Click here Beneficiary(ies): Community Programs: International Rescue Committee, San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center, Support for Families with Disabilities and the Janet Pomeroy Center. Additionally, The Junior League of San Francisco Enabling Funds Committee provides emergency … Continue Reading
Charitable Events, Fundraising
Vivanista has developed a new Fundraiser-In-A-Box: VivaSpellbound! WHAT IS VivaSpellbound: A charitable fundraiser similar to the Scripps National Spelling Bee yet in a fun, team format for all ages. VivaSpellbound also leverages on-line crowdsourcing fundraising for incremental pre-event revenue generation. A Spelling Bee works especially well as a school fundraiser, whether it be pre-school, elementary school, high school or even college. It … Continue Reading
Blog, Charitable Events, Events, Fundraising
Crowdsourcing. Definition: on-line fundraising platform i.e. First Giving, Crowdrise, Network For Good and Givezooks, that lets a person or nonprofit organization cultivate donations from family and friends. Used in conjunction with social media. Synonyms include on-line fundraising and social fundraising. Vivanista Founder, Layne Gray, conducted a webinar in conjunction with First Giving for over 300 … Continue Reading
Event Planning, Fundraising
Getting Serious about Planning a Comedy Night Fundraiser… New Jersey funny gal Robin Fox, self-styled “Mother of all Comedians,” makes her living by making people laugh–a lot. This veteran of the comedy circuit has won multiple awards for her silliness, and if you’re anywhere in the northeast United States, she’ll be performing at a comedy … Continue Reading
Event Planning
Tamara Mendelsohn, VP of Marketing at Eventbrite, took on the task of talking about social media, and how to effectively use it for event promotion. Her discussion could not have come a moment too soon, as the buzz word for this year’s Fundraising Summit was undoubtedly “social media”. With platforms like Twitter, and Facebook becoming … Continue Reading
Marketing and Promotion, Social Media
Soliciting corporate sponsors for any fundraising campaign can be daunting, whether in conjunction with a charitable event or as part of a crowd-sourcing effort; or, the combination of the two. In this one hour webinar, guest speaker Layne Gray outlined the strategic issues facing volunteer organizations and nonprofits in what is becoming an increasingly competitive … Continue Reading
Expert Advice
Moderator Michelle Curtis and panelists Andrew Whelan, CEO of Philanthro, Peyton Cochran, leader of the young professionals organization Bogart Museum, Laura Phenix, founder of a young professionals non-profit network in the Bay Area, and Marsha Monro, leader of the startup non-profits UCSF Partners in Care and UCSF Infusion, discussed young professionals and their relationship to … Continue Reading
Leadership, Summit-Videos, Voluntarism
After a brief break, Vivanista’s Fundraising Summit turned its attention towards the younger ranks of the Bay Area’s philanthropic community, in a discussion on engaging and cultivating teen volunteers. Perhaps it’s San Francisco’s tendencies towards social awareness and activism through programs like Youth Speaks, or the interconnectedness of the Bay Area’s many communities, but in … Continue Reading
Leadership, Summit-Videos, Voluntarism
Learn what it takes to lead and inspire your team to accomplish great things. In this one-hour session, Ethan Austin Co-founder of GiveForward shared his story and the leadership lessons he’s learned in growing GiveForward from a bootstrapped startup in 2008 to one of the most innovative fundraising platforms in the world today. You’ll walk … Continue Reading
Expert Advice, Leadership
At Vivanista we believe that everybody has a bit of philanthropist inside them, just begging to come out. Beneath the reserved, protective masks we all don in order to get by in this dog-eat-dog world, lays the innate desire to do good, that comes with every human heart. It is through a strategy like Cause … Continue Reading
Fundraising, Social Media
