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The expert checklist for running your benefit event

292 tasks written by professionals, organized across 22 timeframes from 12+ months out to event night. Every new event starts with the whole plan already in it — grouped by when the work is due and by which team owns it. You bring the team; we bring the plan.

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Spring Benefit 2027
Riverbend Children's Foundation
292 tasks seeded
YOUR PROGRESS 34 of 292 done
Set the event date
Done by Marcus on 5/12
Shortlist and tour venues
Venue & Logistics · due in 9 days
Recruit team leads for each committee
Teams & People
292
expert-written tasks
copied into every event you create
22
timeframes
12+ months out through event night
12
teams
every task already belongs to one
THE CHECKLIST

The plan is the product

Nobody starts from a blank page. Your event opens with all 292 tasks in place, grouped by when they're due and tagged with the team that owns them. Open a timeframe and start ticking.

12 TEAMS Planning & Timeline Budget & Finance Venue & Logistics Catering Procurement Sponsorship Marketing & Promotion Ticketing & Registration Teams & People Program & Entertainment Event Night Operations Follow-up & Thank-yous
Checklists grouped by timeframe · Spring Benefit 2027
All teams
12+ months out 18 tasks · 4 done
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Confirm the fundraising goal with the board
Budget & Finance Done by Jane on 5/19
Shortlist and tour candidate venues
Venue & Logistics RGRivera G. due in 9 days
Assign to me
Recruit a Team Lead for each committee
Teams & People anyone on the event can tick this off
Book the venue
Venue & Logistics ticks itself when you record the venue in Contacts
Draft the sponsorship tiers and benefits
Sponsorship 13 more tasks in this timeframe
9 months out 21 tasks
Procurement · Sponsorship · Marketing
6 months out 24 tasks
Catering · Program · Ticketing
2 weeks out 17 tasks
Event Night Operations
Event night 14 tasks
+ 17 more timeframes

Add your own tasks, disable the ones that don't apply, and set the event date once — every “N months out” header re-anchors itself.

PROGRESS

See the whole run, not just today

Because every task carries a timeframe, the plan already knows how many should be done by any given week. Your team's line sits right on top of it — and keeps going, so you can see where you'll land before you get there.

Tasks complete over time 6 ahead of plan
Spring Benefit 2027
0 73 146 219 292 34 of 292 done plan says 28 by now TODAY 12+ mo 9 mo 6 mo 4 mo 3 mo 2 mo 1 mo 2 wk night TIMEFRAME BEFORE THE EVENT
Your team, done Where you're heading The plan's pace
By team
done / total
Planning & Timeline
9 / 24
Lead: Marcus Webb
Venue & Logistics
7 / 26
Lead: Rivera Greene
Budget & Finance
6 / 19
Lead: Jane Moreno
Procurement
8 / 31
Lead: Dana Whitfield
Sponsorship
4 / 22
No lead yet — 3 tasks due in two weeks
7 more teams
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TEAMS & PEOPLE

You bring the team. Everyone can help.

Each of the 12 teams is a slice of the checklist. Invite people into one or more teams, name a Team Lead for each, and note what each person is handling.

Anyone can mark anything done
No permission dance when someone helps out. The row records who did it and when — “Done by Jane on 5/19.”
The chair always knows
When something gets done by someone unexpected, the Event Owner and that Team Lead hear about it — no status meeting required.
A Monday digest of what's due
Every person gets one email a week: their teams' tasks due in the next two weeks, plus anything overdue. Opt out any time.
Procurement 31 tasks
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DW
Dana Whitfield
Handles donor outreach and item pickup
TEAM LEAD
JM
Jane Moreno
Also on Sponsorship
Team Member
RP
Raj Patel
r.patel@example.org
INVITED
Invite someone new to Procurement
CONTACTS

Record your venue, auctioneer, caterer once — the “book it” items tick themselves.

Your organization's address book: venue, auctioneer, AV company, caterer, photographer, printer, entertainment. Mark who you're using on this event and the matching checklist tasks complete themselves — no double entry, no arguing about whether it's booked.

USED ON THIS EVENT
Cedar Ridge Pavilion
Venue · Portland, OR
Booked
Margaret Delgado
Auctioneer
Booked
Caterer
Not recorded yet
+ Add
2 tasks completed by Contacts — “Book the venue” and “Hire a professional auctioneer.”
TRUSTED BY EVENT CHAIRS AND THEIR TEAMS
CUSTOMER QUOTE One sentence from a chair about the first event they ran on the checklist.
CUSTOMER QUOTE A Team Lead on running their slice of the list from a phone.
ORG LOGOS Three to five nonprofit marks, once we have permission to use them.

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