SERVICES
Background & Services
She has provided planning, management, and development for organizations and programs such as the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Final 4 Men’s Basketball Championship, the Vatican’s World Youth Day, the U.S. Figure Skating Association’s National Championships and Skate With U.S. program, the original national product roll-out of K.C. Masterpiece Barbecue Sauce, the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., along with planning and facilitating hundreds of community and people-based programs throughout the United States. She has been President/CEO of SEAFAIR, Seattle's premiere festival of Northwest lifestyle. She has served as Director of Events for the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation at Taliesin West in Scottsdale, AZ. As an independent contractor, she has served as director of the Tempe Festivals of the Arts, the Fantasy of Lights Parade and Fantasy of Lights Boat Parade, and currently works as Sponsorship Manager for all Downtown Tempe Authority public events in Tempe, AZ.
Kate has consulted multiple downtowns throughout Arizona and served the Colorado Small Business Administration by offering marketing workshops in small, rural communities. She has presented marketing and promotion classes at Regis University Nonprofit Leadership Management School, the University of Colorado School of Business, and Arizona State University School of Community Resources and Development.
Kate Hastings helps organizations, municipalities, and communities find clarity and inspiration, developing action plans that meet their individualized needs.
Her world-class background includes prestigious and diverse projects requiring the ability to manage large-scale fast growth in a context of high-risk performance, funding, and deadlines.
Her direct, practical experience in promotional programming began with downtown development and marketing as promotion manager for Downtown Council of Kansas City, Missouri. She was Vice President of Marketing for Downtown Denver Partnership in Denver, Colorado, during Denver's downtown revitalization and the redevelopment of Lower Downtown (LoDo).
She has been Vice President of Marketing for Downtown Tempe Community in Tempe, Arizona; and, served as Interim Executive Director of Downtown Mesa Association in Mesa, Arizona with strategic planning, budgeting, marketing, fundraising, promotion, events, clean and safe, parking, and executive search responsibilities.
PRICING & REFERENCES
Kate Hastings & Associates
Using her own unique process, Kate helps downtowns, communities, and municipalities envision the future and build the basic foundation on which successful signature festivals and events find support to flourish; and, where destination foot traffic and economic growth can take root. Based on three decades of hands-on performance, the process includes research, interviews, group facilitation, mentoring, training, and collaboration that results in designing authentic and powerful promotions, festivals, and events that build community vibrancy and excellence.
Consulting Services
Certified BoardSource Nonprofit Board
Development Training
Strategic Planning Facilitation
Business Development Strategies
BID/ESD Management
Public Programming & Events
Public Promotion Development
Public Event Design & Production
Signature Event Design and Production
Public Space Activation Programming
Programming for Historic Places
Strategic Event Overview Development
Sponsorship Development
Program/Event Benefit Inventories
Sponsor Return On Investment Analysis
Sponsorship Packaging & Negotiation
Sponsorship Proposal Development
Proposals and pricing are individually developed based on your needs. References are available upon request.