A Holly-Jolly Guide
Your Pre-Event Marketing Checklist: What to Have Ready Before You Go Live Winter may slow the fairways, but it’s the ideal time to build the marketing foundation for your next event. Here’s the thing most organizers learn the hard way: when registration opens, you don’t want to be creating your marketing, you want it already […]
12 Days of Tournament Planning: A Christmas Countdown for Nonprofits
The 12-Step Holiday Countdown to Plan Next Year’s Tournament December is the perfect moment to reset, refocus, and get a head start on next year’s event. The quiet stretch around the holidays is when smart organizers do the planning that turns into spring momentum. So here’s a simple countdown: twelve sequential steps that take you […]
Giving Back Through Golf: Why Gratitude Powers Growth
Why Gratitude Is a Growth Strategy, Not Just Good Manners Every tournament tells a story of generosity, players who showed up, sponsors who believed in the cause, volunteers who gave their day. Saying thank you to those people feels like simple good manners, and it is. But gratitude is also something more strategic than most […]
How to Keep Fundraising Momentum During Winter
Winter Fundraising: How to Keep Giving Alive Between Events When the fairways frost over and tournament season ends, fundraising doesn’t have to go dormant with it. Winter is one of the most underused stretches of the year, a quiet window where nonprofits can keep their community engaged and their mission funded, even without a live […]
The Season of Giving: Year-End Fundraising for Nonprofits
The Year-End Giving Season: How Nonprofits Finish Strong and Set Up Next Year As the year winds down, generosity goes up. The final stretch of the year is one of the most important fundraising windows a nonprofit gets, the season when gratitude, holiday spirit, and tax-deductible deadlines all converge to make people more willing to […]
How Golf Tournaments Fuel Nonprofit Impact
How Golf Tournaments Raise Money: The Fundraising Engine Behind the Round A golf tournament can raise in a single day what other fundraising efforts take months of campaigns to bring in. That’s not because golfers are uniquely generous, it’s because of how a tournament is built. A well-designed event stacks multiple income streams on top […]
The Cost of Waiting on Your 2026 Golf Event
The Cost of Waiting: What Delaying Your Event Planning Really Costs “Let’s start planning in the new year.” It sounds reasonable, and it’s one of the most expensive decisions a nonprofit can make. Here’s the problem: by the time the new year arrives, your preferred course has already booked its prime dates, and corporate sponsors […]
Future-Proofing Fundraising for 2026 Sponsors
Why Fall Is the Season to Lock In Next Year’s Sponsors Most nonprofits think about sponsorships in the spring, a few months before their event. The best ones are already working on next year’s sponsors in the fall, and that head start is exactly why they land the biggest partners. The timing isn’t arbitrary: in […]
$15K From One Email
The Anatomy of a Sponsor Email That Actually Lands One of the organizers in our community recently closed $15,000 in sponsorships from a single email. No tricks, no gimmicks. Just a clean message, a clear ask, and good timing. People hear that and assume the email was magic, but it wasn’t. It worked because it […]
Inside the CUP Resource Center: Tools to Plan Any Event
The Event Planning Toolkit Every Organizer Needs Planning an event involves a hundred moving parts. The budget, the timeline, the sponsors, the marketing, the day itself. Most organizers piece it all together from scratch every single time, reinventing the wheel with each new event. They don’t have to. As the founder of Colorado Under Par, […]
