Dance Marathon Toolkit: The Resources You Need to Make Your 2021 Dance Marathon The Best Event Yet!

Check out the resources the Dance Marathon team has compiled for you below!

Those of you who joined us virtually for DMLC in summer 2020 will recognize many of these resources from sessions you may have attended. We hope that you’ll familiarize yourself with what exists and share with your executive teams, team captains, and participants as necessary to ensure your program can make the biggest impact for your local CMN Hospital and on your campus.

If there are resources you need but don’t see in the toolkit below, please reach out to your Cause Partnership Manager so the Dance Marathon team can equip you with the appropriate tools. We are always updating our available resources, so stay tuned for more great things to come.

Categories

• All Virtual Everything
• Finance & Fundraising
• DonorDrive
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
• Communication and Retention
• Leadership and management
• Advisors
• Post-Grad

All Virtual Everything (NEW resources added 1/26/2021)

• Virtual Event Guide  (NEW)
• Outdoor Event Guide (NEW)
• Live Streaming Best Practice (NEW)
• Virtual Engagement Guide (blog post)
• Virtual Transition and Leadership (YouTube)
• Effective Campaigns in a Virtual World (YouTube)

Finance & Fundraising (YouTube)

• Data for decision making
• Data Tracking to Drive Success

DonorDrive

• DonorDrive (YouTube):
  • DonorDrive 101: The Participant Experience
  • DonorDrive 202: Audience Engagement
  • DonorDrive 201: New Fundraising Features
• Active Impact (blog post)
• Milestones & Incentives (blog post)
• DM Fundraising App (blog post)

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I)

• Link to all DEI resources (blog post; contents broken out below)
• Blog Posts

• • Advisors: How to Promote Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access Within Dance Marathon
  • Inclusive Practices Within Dance Marathon

• White Paper Resources (Dropbox PDFs)
  • MNDM Diversity & Inclusivity: Language and Imagery Guide
  • Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Resource One-Pager
  • MNDM Educational Resource Guide

• DMLC 2020 Presentations (YouTube)
  • Leading with Inclusion
  • Designing Inclusive Environments for Optimal Engagement
  • Diversity and Inclusion: It’s More Than Just Checking a Box
  • Things That Make You Say “Oh”: Case Studies of Diversity and Inclusion in Dance Marathon
  • Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion: Creating an Environment for Everyone to Flourish
  • Looking Towards Inclusive Excellence
  • Opening General Session (Jump to 33:24)
  • Advisor Workshop Day 3

Communication & Retention (YouTube)

• Stewardship for Retention
• Power of Personalized Communication
• Sharing Your Mission with Effective Communication
• Stewardship of Dance Marathon Donors
• Lifecycle of a Participant
• Putting the social back in social media

Leadership & Management (YouTube)

• Organization engagement: Building Culture Inside and Out
• Leadership and Management

Advisors (YouTube)

• Providing a Meaningful Student Leadership Development Experience Through the Lens of Giving Back
• We’re all in this together

Post-Grad (YouTube)

• Leveraging Dance Marathon experience post-grad