Non-Profit Event Participation & Experience Survey
Captures how attendees discovered, experienced, and valued your fundraising or community event, plus what would bring them back or keep them away. An AI follow-up interview digs into the specific moment that shaped their overall impression, giving program teams concrete detail beyond a satisfaction score.
Sample questions
A preview of what’s in the template. Every question is editable before you launch.
How did you first hear about this event?
- Email newsletter
- Social media
- Friend or family member
- Our organization's website
- A community partner or local group
- Attended a previous event
- Other
What was your main reason for attending?
- Support the cause
- Attend with friends or family
- Networking or community connection
- Curiosity about the organization
- Entertainment or program content
- Other
Overall, how satisfied were you with the event?
Please rate the event on each of the following:
- Registration or check-in process
- Venue and logistics
- Program content or speakers
- Opportunities to connect with others
- Value for the time/money spent
How likely are you to attend another event hosted by our organization?
Rank the following in order of what matters most when deciding whether to attend a future event (most important first):
- Date and time convenience
- Location/travel distance
- Cost or ticket price
- Topic or cause relevance
- Who else is attending
- Reputation of speakers or hosts
In the last 12 months, has anything kept you from attending one of our events?
- No, nothing has kept me away
- Scheduling conflicts
- Cost
- Location or travel
- Didn't feel personally invited
- Not aware events were happening
- Other
Reconstruct the single moment or interaction at this event that most shaped the respondent's overall impression — what happened, who was involved, and why it stuck with them. If they gave a high satisfaction or likelihood-to-return score, probe what specifically would make them tell a friend to attend next time. If the score was low or middling, probe what almost kept them from having a good experience and what would need to change for them to return.
Would you be interested in volunteering or helping organize a future event?
- Yes, definitely
- Maybe, tell me more
- Not right now
- No
How long have you been connected to our organization?
- This was my first event
- Less than 1 year
- 1-3 years
- 3-5 years
- More than 5 years
- Prefer not to say
Which age range do you fall into?
- Under 18
- 18-24
- 25-34
- 35-44
- 45-54
- 55-64
- 65+
- Prefer not to say
How would you describe your gender?
- Woman
- Man
- Non-binary
- Prefer to self-describe
- Prefer not to say
Thank you for sharing your experience! Your feedback goes directly to our events team and will help shape what we plan next — we truly appreciate your time and your support.
What’s included
AI follow-ups
Adaptive probes on open-ended answers that pull out detail a static form would miss.
Attention checks
Built-in safeguards against rushed answers and low-quality respondents.
AI-drafted copy
Wording, ordering, and branching written by the AI — tuned to your research goal.
Auto report
Themes, quotes, and a plain-English summary write themselves once responses come in.
How it compares
We reviewed the closest templates from other survey tools. Here’s what they do well — and where this template goes further.
Why this template
- Includes a dedicated AI follow-up interview that reconstructs the single moment shaping the attendee's overall impression, going beyond a satisfaction score
- Combines standard quantitative measures (satisfaction scale, matrix ratings, likelihood to return, ranking of decision factors) with qualitative depth in one flow
- Captures both what draws people in (discovery channel, reason for attending) and what keeps them away, plus volunteering interest and tenure/demographic segments
- Opens and closes with warm, on-brand chat messages that can be customized per event, and generates an automated report from responses
QuestionPro
Non Profit Event Participation Survey Questions + Sample Questionnaire TemplateThis is a genuinely comparable, fielding-ready template covering non-profit event attendance and satisfaction, similar in scope to ours. It reads as a static questionnaire with fixed question sets rather than an adaptive interview, and there's no indication of AI-driven follow-up or automated quality scoring on individual responses. Reporting appears to rely on standard aggregate analytics rather than an AI-generated narrative report.
What it does well
- Purpose-built for non-profit event feedback, so questions are domain-relevant out of the box
- Backed by an established survey platform with broad distribution and analytics tooling
- Likely includes sample questions covering typical event logistics and satisfaction metrics
Where it falls short
- No adaptive AI follow-up questioning — respondents can't be probed further on a specific standout moment
- No mention of voice AI interview capability or guided screen-share tasks
- No automated per-response quality scoring or transparent prompt methodology described
Ready to launch?
Open this template in the editor. Every part is yours to change before the first respondent sees it.