ABOUT BLACKTIE
"Just spent the last half hour on Blacktie's web site. It is wonderful! Browsed through many of the past parties and bought a few pictures. Thank you so much for continuing to make this such a wonderful addition to the community!" |
Linda Goto, Blacktie Member
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"We are fascinated with the depth and breath of the coverage. I am educating my friends around the country about your web site. Warmest thanks for the great pictures!!" |
Judi and Marvin Wolf, Blacktie Members
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"Having joined Blacktie before you were up and running left room for speculation and doubt. Those doubts have been answered in the most positive ways! The leads generated from the calendar have been outstanding and the educational advantages through your seminars have been wonderful opportunities to network, and the content has been timely. We look forward to a long affiliation." |
Maureen Brooks, President
Brooks International Speakers & Entertainment Bureau |
"It was great to pull up your premiere party page and have three of the featured parties, show the link to our vendor page. We want you to know we are extremely happy with the service. I don't know how I managed without the daily calendar update feature. It makes marketing so easy. If Maureen Brooks is going to be your Ambassador, then I want to be your Junior Ambassador!" |
Wendy Foster, Owner
TDA Design and Production |
"Thank you so much! It is so nice to have an organization like Blacktie in Denver- it is about time. I look forward to attending more seminars. What an exceptional panel." |
Helen Sedlar, Events Manager
National Sports Center for the Disabled |
"Thank you so much for the panel discussion about fundraising at the Westin. It confirmed my take on the situation for us. You truly provide a wonderful service for all of us." |
Rebecca Russell, Director of Development
Mile High Child Care |
"A scheduling conflict did not permit me to make the conference on Tuesday and I wanted to thank you for providing a summary of the meeting. After reading it, I regret missing it even more - sounds like some great information was shared. I have sent a copy of the summary to my board - contains some great
ideas! Thanks again for the sponsoring such a timely and important program!" |
Diane Dillinger
Kids Voting Colorado |
We signed up for Blacktie two weeks prior to our biggest fundraiser of the year. In that incredibly short time, we made over $2200 in online ticket sales, took RSVPs and set up tables for over 375 people, and had name tag stickers printed and ready to go for all our guests. This is amazing! The ease of use was incredible - we got master lists of all table arrangements, attendee reports, and uploads and downloads of the most current RSVP and auction item information using Microsoft Excel. Our volunteers could access all the latest payment and sign-up information from home, making our event planning "portable".
Since I am a single-person staff, I really couldn't have supervised this event without the smooth and efficient data management I got with Blacktie. The system even saved me after the event when I was able to process day-of credit card ticket purchases and auction item purchases.
The support from the Blacktie staff was flawless, even on a Saturday afternoon three hours prior to the event starting! I consider our subscription to Blacktie to be the best development investment I've made yet!
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Stacy Sawyer, Assistant Director
Lydia Dody Breast Cancer Foundation |
Thanks again for taking care of us.
The service from you is quite remarkable!
And, officially, "The RMCMA sold 86 tickets on-line through Blacktie--nearly 20% of all tickets sold-- for our fall (2003) opera, "Amahl and the Night Visitors" . We only joined in August, so this was just the second event we posted. The rsvp lists were easy to download and then add to our database, and the check came through promptly, nicely itemized. We expect to see our on-line ticket sales expand with Blacktie."
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Nancy Grimes, Development Director
Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts |
WOW! What an incredible layout!! Thank you so much for the FABULOUS coverage!
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Lisa Long
Allied Jewish Federation |
Dear Kenton,
Thanks to you and Blacktie, we welcomed a new Partner to SVP Denver last fall. Nick Hereford of Lockton Cos. heard about SVP through you,and we appreciate it very much!
Thanks again! |
Sarah Bock, Program Director
Social Venture Partners Denver/A Donor Advised Fund of the Denver Foundation |
Simplicity and customization are the fortes of Blacktie’s template. With a toolbar that looks familiar to anyone who has used Word, I can design a unique, professional website without any HTML knowledge. I would recommend this product to any web novice interested in designing a quality website.
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Kavitha Thimmaiah, Program Assistant
Institute of International Education Rocky Mountain Regional Center |
"Becoming members at Blacktie has proven to be a great investment. Although the site offers many great services, the one that initially attracted CIHAD was the electronic seating chart for planning galas and dinners. Because of it, managing all of the last-minute seating changes and additions for our Roast of Mayor Wellington Webb was a "piece of cake." It was great to have this invaluable tool at our disposal." |
Kyle Kenyon, Development Director
Colorado I Have A Dream Foundation |
Everything is great with the seating chart so far!!! It has been so great to have this software. It had been extremely useful in terms of keeping track of sponsors, guests names, etc. |
Melannie Frantz
Harrison Memorial Animal Hospital |
We LOVED using your service, dealing with rsvp’s, and seating has never been easier!!! |
Susan Burnett, Administrative Director
Art Directors Club of Denver |
"Thank you so much for covering our Secret Chef Project PAVE dinner. We raised twice as much as last year. It was a lovely evening and your coverage and photos are wonderful." |
Jill DiPasquale, Owner
Epicurean Catering |
“We at Court Appointed Special Advocates-CASA of the First Judicial District of Colorado have been successfully using Blacktie services for years. It is the only "membership" that we deem essential to our continued success with regard to non-profit fundraising. Over the course of our relationship with Blacktie we have employed not only the event listing and marketing services, but have enhanced our events with myriad of silent and live auction and on-line programs that are available to member non-profits. Our Board and Staff have engaged in the Blacktie sponsored programs and we have been very successful in utilizing Blacktie for both marketing, as well as, community networking. We strongly endorse Blacktie and routinely recommend it to other non-profit organizations without reservation. Blacktie has been, and continues to be, a tremendous asset to our program.”
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Catherine Perea, Board of Directors
Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) First Judicial District of Colorado |
Blacktie really does help non- profits and the people who support non -profits. You make it easy to post events, receive responses and make our supporters happy. Thank You for your terrific service and your great staff. |
Tammy Krause
The Gabby Krause Foundation |
“Our investment in the services of Blacktie has allowed us to expand our fund-raising activities without drastically raising our costs. We utilize Blacktie's on-line ticket purchasing capability for our benefit concerts, added their on-line donation capability to our website, and we have used their on-line Bow-tique to sell a fund-raising item. We have found the Blacktie people extremely helpful and responsive even when we didn't know the right question to ask! They have given us great ideas and helpful tips on how we might exploit their services even further.” |
Bonnie Stahlin, Board Member
The Women's Resource Center |
“Blacktie was a great service to Friendship Bridge. We were very happy with the story and photos taken by Blacktie for our special event and felt that the publicity generated from Blacktie helped our event succeed. Moreover, this as the first year we had a total sell-out and had to turn people away. We greatly appreciated the ease of the nametags printed for Friendship Bridge as they greatly facilitated the successful and streamlined registration process for our event as well as the on-line registration. The ability to have on-line payment services has definitely made it easier for our patrons to make reservations. Thank you Blacktie for your services.” |
Nancy Hiester
Friendship Bridge |
”Thank you so much for the very nice article and pictures about our 25th Anniversary Luncheon on Thursday. As Executive Director, I really appreciate the opportunity to get the word out about our organization in such a nice way. I am so glad we were able to register our event beforehand with you as well. Keep up the good work!” |
Laurie Harvey
Center for Work Education and Employment (CWEE) |
Thanks for all your help with tix sales for our American Spirit Series...we had a bumper crop of sales, and it was great to have the use of Blacktie website to assist with these sales... |
Jo Schantz, Development Director
Colorado Endowment for the Humanities |
"I want to thank you for all the hard work you've put into Blacktie. Our donors have enjoyed the site and we appreciate your support. It is a lot of fun and a great way to publicize events. You were also wonderfully kind to the young people." |
Roxane White, CEO
Urban Peak |
“In an effort to spread the word about Harrison Memorial’s upcoming events and fundraising efforts, we have found Blacktie’s email blast software to be extremely useful and effective. We love having the ability to designate categories for my email addresses so we can choose who we want to receive our blasts. Furthermore, it is helpful to see who has opened the emails and, even better, who has forwarded the emails! In fact, we received more RSVP responses for a recent event from the email blasts we sent that our hard copy invitations!! Thanks for providing this option for promoting our event!!!”
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Judy Norman and Melannie Frantz,
Harrison Memorial Animal Hospital |
Thank you for the nice article about me that you posted on Blacktie. And how appropo that the Jack Plummer Foundation is the Featured Nonprofit! You have such great services and resources for those of us working with nonprofits. Thank you for all you do in the community. |
Susan Barnhill, Community Leader
Alzheimer's Association, Colorado Chapter/Volunteers of Amercia |
One of the important goals of the Design Council is to raise acquisition funds for The Department of Architecture, Design & Graphics at the Denver Art Museum. For a very nominal cost, Blacktie provides us with the capability of ticketing larger events than we could otherwise handle. The flexible data management is also very helpful and allows us to create reports at a keystroke that would take hours to create ourselves. Thank you Blacktie. |
Gayle Landis
Design Council, Denver Art Museum |
"Blacktie has added a new dimension to our event by placing our photos on the website and giving us new recognition to folks who might not know who we are. Woofers and purrs to a job well done!" |
Nanci Suro, Executive Director and Founder
Maxfund Animal Adoption Center |
"The Western Fantasy photos turned out great! You captured so much of the fun that was happening. This is what makes folks want to attend these events. The gala raised one million dollars for VOA. One of the reasons Western Fantasy continues to raise so much money is directly attributable to our friends in the media. Your coverage of the many events makes this a high profile event that people want to be a part of year after year." |
Joni Baird, VP of Community Relations of U.S. Bank; Lynne Valencia of 9NEWS; and Tracey Ulmer of Denver Newspaper Agency
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Hey Blacktie! It's Sandra and we can't thank you enough for making another smooth registration process for us. This is our 3rd with your organization and we will be members for years to come! There is no other system like yours and we encourage others to investigate your services. Now, "that's a wrap" with a Blacktie!
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Sandra Murray
SummerToast |
Thank you very much! I am once again impressed by Blacktie - you are a great asset to Denver. Keep up the great work.
Dan Brodsky |
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