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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.

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Sample questions

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14 questions · ~7 min
Q01
Message

Thanks so much for joining (Replace with event name) — Template note: swap in your event's name before launching! We'd love your honest feedback on how it went. Your responses are completely confidential and anonymized. This will take about 8 minutes and helps us plan future events.

Q02
Multiple ChoiceRequired

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
Q03
Multiple ChoiceRequired

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
Q04
Opinion ScaleRequired

Overall, how satisfied were you with the event?

Scale: 1 – 7
Min:Very dissatisfiedMax:Very satisfied
Q05
MatrixRequired

Please rate the event on each of the following:

5 rows × 5 columns
  • Registration or check-in process
  • Venue and logistics
  • Program content or speakers
  • Opportunities to connect with others
  • Value for the time/money spent
Columns: Poor · Fair · Good · Very good · Excellent
Q06
Opinion ScaleRequired

How likely are you to attend another event hosted by our organization?

Scale: 0 – 10
Min:Not at all likelyMax:Extremely likely
Q07
Ranking

Rank the following in order of what matters most when deciding whether to attend a future event (most important first):

  1. Date and time convenience
  2. Location/travel distance
  3. Cost or ticket price
  4. Topic or cause relevance
  5. Who else is attending
  6. Reputation of speakers or hosts
Drag to rank
Q08
Multiple Choice

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
Q09
AI Interview

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.

Q10
Multiple Choice

Would you be interested in volunteering or helping organize a future event?

  • Yes, definitely
  • Maybe, tell me more
  • Not right now
  • No
Q11
Multiple Choice

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
Q12
Multiple Choice

Which age range do you fall into?

  • Under 18
  • 18-24
  • 25-34
  • 35-44
  • 45-54
  • 55-64
  • 65+
  • Prefer not to say
Q13
Multiple Choice

How would you describe your gender?

  • Woman
  • Man
  • Non-binary
  • Prefer to self-describe
  • Prefer not to say
Q14
Message

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

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Non Profit Event Participation Survey Questions + Sample Questionnaire Template

This 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

Frequently asked questions

What questions are in the “Non-Profit Event Participation & Experience Survey” template?

The template includes 14 ready-to-use questions, starting with: “Thanks so much for joining (Replace with event name) — Template note: swap in your event's name before launching! We'd l…” · “How did you first hear about this event?” · “What was your main reason for attending?”. The full set is previewed above, and every question is editable.

How long does this survey take to complete?

Respondents typically finish the 14 questions in about 7 minutes.

Can I customize this template?

Yes — every question, answer option, and the ordering is editable before you launch. You can add or remove questions, or ask the AI editor to rework the survey around your research goal.

Is this template free to use?

Yes. Open it in the editor and start customizing right away — no account required to try it, and the free plan covers launching your survey.

Ready to launch?

Open this template in the editor. Every part is yours to change before the first respondent sees it.

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