Fundraising Is a Team Sport: How to Staff Your Nonprofit Gala

Here's event night at a lot of organizations. The development director is fixing a guest who isn't on the list, rounding up speakers for mic checks, and answering "where do I pay?" at 9:45PM. Rewind six weeks. Same person, rewriting auction item descriptions at midnight and resizing sponsor logos. It's not a people problem. It's a staffing structure problem, and it pulls your team away from the one job nobody else can do: building relationships with the people in the room. Jordan Johnson, founder of GOAT Events, joins Trevor to break down what it looks like when your team is actually supported, from the online auction catalog to the last guest out the door. What you'll walk away with: What your staff should be doing on event night, and the tasks quietly stealing that time The check-in miss that leaves guests without a paddle number before the auction even starts What "donor-ready" auction items look like on a phone, and why most catalogs fall short The raw materials you already have, and what it takes to turn them into something bidders want to scroll