Plan a more profitable, organized fundraising gala with a complete system created by Trinity Group Events. This professional nonprofit event-planning toolkit combines an editable 10-tab Excel workbook with a 19-page gala guide, reusable Word templates and a print-ready PDF.

Use it to manage your gala strategy, event budget, sponsorship pipeline, silent and live auction procurement, guest registration, event committee, vendors, volunteers, run of show, fund-a-need appeal, donor stewardship and post-event reporting.

YOUR DOWNLOAD INCLUDES

• Complete Fundraising Gala Workbook (.xlsx)

• Editable Gala Guide and Templates (.docx)

• Print-ready Gala Guide and Templates (.pdf)

• Quick-start instructions and organizational-use license

THE WORKBOOK INCLUDES

• Live gala performance dashboard

• Revenue and expense budget model

• 12-month master planning timeline

• Corporate sponsorship prospect and fulfillment tracker

• Silent and live auction item-acquisition tracker

• Guest, ticket, table and check-in management

• Committee and volunteer assignments

• Vendor contracts and payment tracking

• Minute-by-minute event-day run of show

• Post-event evaluation and renewal planning

THE GUIDE INCLUDES

• Gala strategy brief

• Committee charter and meeting agenda

• Sponsorship qualification worksheet

• Corporate sponsor request and renewal emails

• Sponsor meeting and fulfillment planner

• Auction procurement campaign plan

• Auction donation request and package-development worksheets

• Guest communication sequence

• Vendor, volunteer and event-day checklists

• Fund-a-need planning worksheet

• Post-event stewardship and debrief tools

Ideal for nonprofit executive directors, development directors, fundraising consultants, gala committees, schools, foundations and charitable organizations planning benefit galas, auctions, donor events or annual fundraisers.

Files are delivered as one ZIP package immediately after purchase. Microsoft Excel or compatible spreadsheet software is required to edit the workbook. Microsoft Word or compatible document software is required to edit the templates.

For one organization's internal fundraising use. Files may not be resold, redistributed or repackaged as templates.