Free Special Report
February 1st, 2010 | 
Author: First of all, congratulations on taking the first step toward growing your own fundraising banquet!
This report might be the most important and valuable free information you can find ANYWHERE on how to increase the income of your next fundraising banquet.
We go over, in great detail, the entire psychology and process we have used to grow our own banquet from $24,350 to $312,964 – and to help pro-life groups raise in excess of $21 MILLION.
In just 40 pages, you will learn how to:
- Plan for a successful banquet
- Exceed your banquet expenses through advanced underwriting
- Maximize your banquet attendance
- Lead attendees through a step-by-step program that gets results
- Cast the vision and instill the mission of your organization
- Raise record amounts by delivering a winning financial appeal
- Follow-through to generate donations after your banquet
And much, much more!
Download the report here (PDF document, 2 MB in size; right-click and select “save target as” to save the file to your computer):
Direct link: http://banquetsuccess.s3.amazonaws.com/7secrets.pdf
Coming Soon
This report is just the beginning! Over the coming days, we will be releasing several other fundraising banquet tools — also for FREE — including videos, case studies, and a teleseminar training class.
The innovative concepts we’ll be revealing are simple, effective and proven to work, year after year.
Be sure you are signed up to receive updates (using the “Free Banquet Tools” box in the top right corner of this page, if aren’t already signed up) and watch your e-mail inbox for more great information!
Spread the Word
The knowledge of how to conduct a highly successful fundraising banquet has richly blessed our pro-life ministry work and we have seen it bless the efforts of numerous other organizations that have utilized these same strategies.
The seven strategies discussed in this report can substantially increase your banquet income – which will ultimately result in saving the lives of innocent children in the womb, and protecting women and men from the pain of abortion. With everything that’s at stake, these can’t remain secrets any longer.
This special report has been provided to you at no charge as our way of saying thank you for the noble, life-saving work you do on a daily basis. We only have one simple request.
If this information blesses for your ministry, we simply ask that you let other organizations know – so they can also experience greater blessings. Fair enough?
Simply encourage them to download this report for free at: http://www.BanquetSuccess.com/freereport
What Do You Think?
What did you like best about this information? What more would you like to learn? Why do you feel that other ministries need to get their hands on this report?
Tell the world what you think of “The 7 Secrets of Highly Effective Fundraising Banquets” by posting your comments as a reply at the bottom of this post.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Your 7 steps is beautiful but I would like to catch more of your information, if you can translate it in french.
I am from Québec province in Canada and most of our banquets will be in french and with my 13 Centers in 9 cities, eanch of them will benefit from your experience if it’s translate in french.
We have same more than 12,000 babies in 36 years in our Centers and we want to save more of them by gaving them your secrets but most of them speak only french.
Thank you,
May God bless you !
Marc-Albert Bélanger
From Alliance Ressources Grossesse
Phone: 514-252-1984
Email: m.a.b@sympatico.ca
P.S.
Cant you respond at our request by email or by phone. Thanks !
I enjoyed your fundraising banquet tips. However a question arises.
Using the varied “streams of attendance” method instead of our last year one which was table host and sponsors only.
1. How do you write presentation letter or give people choices to either be one or all three?
2. How do you effectively sell people that do not live in our area or even same state?
Bless your dy,
Teresa Ragusa CEO
Thank You for sharing this information. I can’t wait to read it.
Blessings
Question, I work for a Right to Life organization. In your information you write about having that emotional connection to your group. I have seen this done very well at a local crises pregnancy banquet. However, our organization is such that we do not receive one on one type of visits. Our mission is to educate the “general” public on all sanctity of life issues. It is very rare when I hear of one of our billboards, radio or TV campaigns actually affecting someone. We hope to know those results when we get to heaven, but in the meantime we do not hear direct results. What would be your suggestion in this area of the presentation?
Thank you so much for this wonderful and timely information. I spent my afternoon reading over “The 7 Secrets of Highly Succesful Fundraising Banquets” since I am preparing for our upcoming Sept. banquets now. We do follow many of your suggestions but can certainly enhance many of the ways we promote attendance and get underwriters.
One concern I always have at our banquet nights (2) is every year we get a few tables of the same senior citizens who come and tend to have a “night out” of fellowship and dinner with their friends and rarely donate more than $5.00 each “if” they donate which doesn’t even cover the cost of the meal. Should I be concerned or grateful to have them?
Awww, yes, be kind. Dare I say that off the top of my head I can
think of nearly 10 great effects these “over the hill ers” will no doubt have on our world:
1) THEY WILL HAVE MUCH MORE TO TALK ABOUT THEN CARING FOR THEIR YARD, AND SHARING HEALTH PROBLEMS!
2) THEY WILL TALK ANIMATEDLY ABOUT EVERYTHING POSITIVE AND UPLIFTING THEY HEARD TO THEIR GRANDCHILDREN, NEIGHBORS AND FRIENDS.
3) BESIDES, MANY OLDSTERS STILL HOLD DOWN PRIME MINISTRIES IN THEIR CHURCHES, ETC…AND DO MOST OF THE VOLUNTEER WORK.
4) I COULD GO ON….BUT YOU GET THE PICTURE…………….
And, they really “think” they are giving a lot. You know, they can probably do more with a $5.00 bill……..s t r e t c h i n g it further than anyone under 30 ever thought of doing!
Thanks for listening, just thougnt I could make you smile.
(Besides, I’m over 65; uh, you probably guessed that huh?
I am very interested in learning your 7 secrets for a successful banquet. We are a new pregnancy center and have started from scratch, no donors and no mailing list. Our first banquet this past March generated about $20,000 which included some underwriting.
We are located in a migrant farm worker community. Most residents are very poor and the needs are great. 70% of the population is Hispanic and the goal for our first banquet was to raise enough for two part-time positions. One position was a bi-lingual staff person. We still need to raise the money for these positions and more….
I am looking forward to learning more and putting together a successful banquet next March! Thank you for being willing to share your knowledge and your desire to help in these tough financial times.
Diane,
I would say, WOW, to you for the first banquet proceeds. I remember my first banquet was $12,000 – of course that was about 8 years ago. However, I think you did very well especially considering that you are located in a farm community with many hispanics.
I know you will do better next year after learning more from others.
Blessings,
Flo
Hi DavidThank you for the “7 Secrets”! You have put so much time and effort into this information – thank you for your servants heart and being willing to share it with all of us.A few years ago we paid quite a bit for banquet training through another organization. We have had 3 somewhat successful banquets but always felt that there were gaps that needed filled in ordr to be more effective with this fundraising effort. Your “7 Secrets” appetizers really whet my appetite and am very interested in the main course…I’m wondering how to get more information on your coaching program. Thank you again – loved the “Streams of Attendance”
Thanks so much David and Shawn for your hard work in the pro-life movement and for sharing of the fruit of your labor in fund-raising for such a worthy cause. Your free sharing of how to raise money in our current economy is a God-send for our ministry to the poorest of the poor in developing countries. May God continue to bless the work of your hands! Amen.
Thank you, thank you! We will hold our first fundraising banquet in November of this year. This was sent by God. We now have a great model to follow. I’ll report the expected success.
Vicki
I think I will try to recommend this post to my friends and family, cuz it’s really helpful.
I have not been able to print Special Report. Is this a problem on my end? Is your report printable?
Sue
I am having difficulty downloading your 7 Secrets. When I go to print it, the letters change.
Dear Shawn & David,
I just downloaded your information about the banquet fundraiser help. I live and work in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Have you anyone who has attempted to apply this in second world countries such as Bosnia? Do you have any thoughts on that or, should I first go through al the material first and then formulateany questions I have?
There is no pro-life movement here at all. I was active in all phases of pro-life work in the U.S. except legislation before we came here over 10 years ago. It has always been my vision, calling and hearts desire to start a CP and Post-abortion ministry here. We now are ready to do this. We have been given a great 3 story building, renovated and with funds to cover our basic operating expense, utilities, etc. We are self-supporting so, are needs are mostly for developmental areas such as educational literature and other things to help stimulate this ministry. There is almost no resources here so that is difficult. Most people here are not volunteer minded, and are usually thinking of getting help personally rather than giving. But, we have seen some movement lately. These people need to be taught that sharing what they have starts no matter how little you have and some are finally getting it. Eileen Pressler Sarajevo
Intersting reading your blog- they’re so many awsome things, that i forget and you manage to pick them up