{"id":66436,"date":"2024-12-13T21:00:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T15:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-eventmanager.com\/?p=66436"},"modified":"2025-05-02T16:59:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T11:29:23","slug":"streamlined-events-holland-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-eventmanager.com\/streamlined-events-holland-home\/","title":{"rendered":"How WP Event Manager Streamlined the Events of Holland Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Company description<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Holland Home is a shelter for senior citizens that is situated in the heart of the vibrant city of Grand Rapids, Michigan. It was established in the year 1892 by reverend Adrian Kriekard of the Third Reformed Church and a group of faithful people who aimed to offer a comfortable shelter to the elderly members of their congregations. They took the first step towards the good cause by opening their doors to eight people after which the number continued to increase.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-center\" style=\"width:100%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-eventmanager.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog-images\/2024\/dec\/holland-home-case-study\/holland-home-case-study.jpg\" alt=\"holland home lifecare promise\" width=\"1080\" height=\"400\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently, Holland Home is one of Michigan&rsquo;s largest non-profit organizations serving senior citizens. It has more than 1100 employees who take care of more than 2,500 people each day. It frequently organizes events to raise funds for the well-being of these senior residents and keep them entertained. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2>The inspiration behind the project<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fundraisers that Holland Home hosts help them keep serving the senior individuals who really need help. Such events include sports, musical concerts, webinars, exhibitions, holiday markets, and more. To showcase their events list, manage registrations, sell tickets and more, they needed a systematic approach. This is what inspired them to find out the software that could help them do that.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Challenges they faced<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Holland Home was in need of an overall solution for all of their fundraisers and other events. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>The challenges they faced include the following areas:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A systematic display of events on their website.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Making events and event dates easily accessible to their audiences.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Attracting a maximum number of donations.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Handing registration and ticket sales.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conducting webinars seamlessly.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Managing attendees. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Due to these challenges, they were struggling to reach out to many people to increase funds.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>How did Holland Home find WP Event Manager? <\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To overcome the challenges they faced, they started looking for plugins that would help them fulfill their requirements. They initiated a detailed research on the internet to find the right WordPress software that carries all the qualities they want. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After reading reviews, our plugin features and testing them thoroughly they finally decided to pick us for their event requirements. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Solution<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since their website was based on WordPress, WP Event Manager offered them the best solution to their issue. They purchased the All Events Manager Pro bundle that covers everything starting from creating multiple events and adding a calendar to managing registration, ticket sales and event marketing. These additional features have strengthened their events by increasing more attendees to it. This also increases the amount of donations to their fundraisers. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Results<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-eventmanager.com\/\">WP Event Manager<\/a><\/strong> bundle has drastically improved the way <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/hollandhome.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Holland Home<\/a><\/strong> hosts its events. Here are the results that it received after adopting the All Events Manager pro bundle: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Better display of event listing.<\/span><\/li>\n<p class=\"text-center\" style=\"width:100%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-eventmanager.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog-images\/2024\/dec\/holland-home-case-study\/holland-home-events.jpg\" alt=\"holland home events\" width=\"1080\" height=\"400\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<li>Countdown timer for events.<\/li>\n<p class=\"text-center\" style=\"width:100%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-eventmanager.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog-images\/2024\/dec\/holland-home-case-study\/holland-home-event.jpg\" alt=\"holland home events\" width=\"1080\" height=\"400\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Better attendee management.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Increased audience engagement.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simplified registration and ticket sales and more.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"text-center\" style=\"width:100%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-eventmanager.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog-images\/2024\/dec\/holland-home-case-study\/registration-form.jpg\" alt=\"registration form\" width=\"1080\" height=\"400\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Holland Home team is very satisfied with the results that they received with WP Event Manager and we are also equally glad to be a part of the good cause for which the Holland Home is working. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company description Holland Home is a shelter for senior citizens that is situated in the heart of the vibrant city of Grand Rapids, Michigan. It was established in the year 1892 by reverend Adrian Kriekard of the Third Reformed Church and a group of faithful people who aimed to offer a comfortable shelter to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22770,"featured_media":66444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[379],"tags":[1422,1099,448,420,944,2319,1678,831,1868,1542,1067,2315,2316,2317,2318,1351,1368],"class_list":["post-66436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-case-study","tag-business","tag-event","tag-event-management","tag-event-manager","tag-event-marketing","tag-event-orgnizer","tag-event-planner","tag-event-planning","tag-event-plugins","tag-event-type","tag-events","tag-holland-home","tag-holland-home-case-study","tag-lifecare","tag-lifecare-promise","tag-wordpress-plugin","tag-wp-eventmanager"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-eventmanager.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-eventmanager.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-eventmanager.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-eventmanager.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22770"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-eventmanager.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp-eventmanager.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-eventmanager.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-eventmanager.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-eventmanager.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-eventmanager.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}