Genius at Work
[The Synchronicity Blog]
Picking Your Perfect Venue
To find the perfect fit, you need to agree on what you need from your venue BEFORE you start the search.
A Year Defined by Joy: Our 2025 Reflection
As we close out 2025, we want to pause and extend our sincere gratitude to our Synchronicity clients, partners, collaborators, and communities. This year challenged many of us—but it also clarified something essential.
Easy Fixes
When you’ve planned well over 1,000 events … it means you have also sat through over 1,000 wrap up meetings. What gets bad feedback? And more importantly, how to fix it?
Hot Trend: Live Event Captions
We’re setting up a record number of open captioning systems this season, and it’s no wonder – this is one of the easiest ways to increase your event’s accessibility to folks with hearing loss or language comprehension worries.
Your Best Event Ever
What would your Best Event Ever look and feel like? Have you taken a moment to really imagine it? And more importantly, how would you know if you pulled it off?
Interactions by Design
Your guests have invested their time, energy, and dollars to make it to your in-person event. What’s the best way to be sure that it feels like a huge win for them? Make INTERACTIONS a big part of your plan.
Education for Event Planners = Everyone Wins!
At Synchronicity, we love digging into design, strategy, planning and production so that our clients have truly awesome events. However, our greater intention is that nonprofit organizations (yes, all of them) are able to lift their events up to the next level. Lately, we’ve been trying harder than ever to give away all our secrets, and to create places and spaces where event planners can gather, network, and share their winning strategies, so everyone can win!
2024 Highlights: Connections Matter Most
What was special about Synchronicity’s work in 2024? As the year winds to a close, the answer seems clear: it’s the connections between people.
Let’s GO BIG with Visual Design
We’ve had a lot of fun this year helping our clients find the pitch-perfect expression of their event theme and brand. Grand entryways, fun and memorable stage backdrops, stand-out table centerpieces ... Let’s go!
Beating the Budget Blues
Turn tight budgets into creative opportunities! Discover smart, practical hacks in our latest blog to stretch every dollar and make your event budget work for you.
Case Study: Bites & Brews Block Party
What do you get when you combine 600 guests, 2 rockin’ bands, 2 city blocks, 17 local breweries, 15 local restaurants and food purveyors, and one amazing organization on a sunny August day? Pure event magic!
Winning the Game in Your Post-Event Season
The spring fundraising event season is over, time to collect feedback and clean up your documents … then, celebrate!
How to Fundraise With (or without) Booze!
Controversial opinion: serving more booze at your fundraising event will NOT make you more revenue.
Cultivate healthy and caring donor relationships by being mindful of how you serve alcohol at your fundraising event. How do we make our parties awesome for every guest (whether they choose to drink alcohol or not)? Easy – we use our event design superpowers!!
“Break Out of Boring”; Performances with Purpose
Let’s explore how you can bring deeper meaning to your event by incorporating artists into the program. At Synchronicity, we set ourselves apart in the industry by taking things one step deeper, working with artists with a truly meaningful connection to the event’s purpose.
Engaging Your Event Team
We love collaborating with our clients to build the dream event team. Wondering who should be on yours? Read on to find out who should be involved in your nonprofit fundraiser, and the ideal timing for each role.
2023 - That’s a Wrap!!
Looking back, it’s clear that the overall theme of our events this beautiful year was ENERGY!
How We Do It: Event Planning
What’s the process that takes great ideas and turns them into magical event moments that actually happen? We call that PLANNING
Live Performances
Worried that live performances are too risky for your live event? Or too expensive and “not worth the fuss”? We’d like to assure you that this isn’t the case!
Help Your Planner Win
At Synchronicity, we love collaborating. Whether you’re working with us, or any other event planner, check out a few of our top tips to help us help you!