Fundraiser Event Venues

NPU Fundraiser Events

Find the Perfect Fundraiser Venue

Fundraisers carry a special kind of purpose. A cause to support. A community to bring together. Donors, sponsors, board members, volunteers, and guests all showing up for something bigger than the night itself. The right venue should help that purpose feel present without making the event feel stiff or overly formal.

NPU offers iconic fundraiser venues in Denver and San Francisco with flexible layouts, rich histories, and architecture that gives each event a stronger sense of place. All supported by an experienced team that understands the venue side of fundraising events, from room builds and vendor access to permitting, compliance, timelines, and beverage service.

Whether you are planning a charity auction, benefit gala, donor reception, fundraising dinner, or charity concert, our approach is simple: bring us the cause, and we will work with you to find the space, structure, and support to help the event feel worthy of the people in the room.

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Iconic San Francisco Event Venues

Find the perfect setting for your next event.

The Mint

The Mint gives fundraisers a more elegant setting in the heart of downtown San Francisco. Its Greek Revival columns, ornate ballrooms, gaslight chandeliers, and historic details give the venue a natural sense of occasion without making the night feel too rigid.

Inside, you will find two grand ballrooms, a large outdoor courtyard with an optional tented roof, and multiple smaller rooms that can support auctions, sponsor areas, check-in, VIP space, and private donor conversations. The original gold vaults can also be made available for groups that want to bring more of the building’s history into the experience.

52,000 SQ/FT | SAN FRANCISCO | 999 GUESTS

The Mint

Palace of Fine Arts

The Palace of Fine Arts gives fundraisers a landmark setting with built-in familiarity and real visual weight. The rotunda, lagoon, Marina District location, and Golden Gate Bridge backdrop help create the kind of atmosphere that naturally fits a major fundraising event.

Inside, the Palace gives larger fundraisers the space to build a full evening with purpose. More than 140,000 square feet of event space, a generous main floor, tall ceilings, and a large mezzanine overlooking the room. Well suited for seated dinners, live appeals, auction displays, sponsor moments, bars, lounge areas, and entertainment that all need room to feel like part of the same event.

140,000 SQ/FT | SAN FRANCISCO | 5,000 GUESTS

Palace of Fine Arts

SVN West

SVN West is a strong fit for fundraisers that need room for imagination. The building has real San Francisco music history, a central location, and a flexible blank-slate quality that gives planners space to properly transform the venue around the cause.

Across three floors, SVN West gives fundraising events a lot to work with. A legendary ballroom for dinner, speeches, entertainment, or a live appeal. Open space for auction displays, sponsor areas, bars, lounges, and donor gathering spaces. And one of the largest rooftop patios in San Francisco, offering sweeping city views and a completely different atmosphere from the rest of the event.

100,000 SQ/FT | SAN FRANCISCO | 4,500 GUESTS

SVN West
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Why Event Planners Choose NPU

More than a venue. A partner in executing exceptional events.

Iconic Spaces

Whether Historic San Francisco landmarks or distinctive industrial spaces in Denver, each of our venues has that extra something special. They are carefully curated to turn heads and create memorable guest experiences for any events within their walls

Planner-First Support

From site tour to final execution, our team of event experts works closely with you to coordinate logistics, vendors, permitting & compliance, vendor management, and more to ensure a smooth and successful execution of your fundraiser event.

Flexible Floorplans

Our venues offer highly adaptable floor plans that can be shaped around the needs of your fundraiser, whether the night calls for seated dinner service, open reception space, auction displays, sponsor areas, bars, lounges, or a stage for remarks and presentations.

We Say Yes

We Say Yes

Most fundraiser venues come with a strict set of rules around layouts, décor, and what is or is not allowed in their space. At NPU, we work with you to shape the space around your event, always pushing for what is possible and helping navigate the details so you can fully execute your vision.

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Recent Events hosted by npu

Affordability Project Gala

Affordability Project Gala

SAN FRANCISCO | THE MINT | FUNDRAISER | 250 GUESTS

A special evening that transformed San Francisco’s history of booms, busts, and reinvention into an immersive guest experience. Guests moved through defining eras of the city’s past, from the Gold Rush and 1906 earthquake to the World’s Fair, Summer of Love, dot-com era, and more. It even featured an “earthquake room” with sound and motion effects that brought one of the city’s most pivotal moments to life. The night culminated in a live auction where each donation helped reveal a projection-mapping of an actual building project, turning the act of giving into a visual call to help build San Francisco’s future through medium-income housing.

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Fundraiser Events We Help Bring to Life

Charity Auctions

Charity Auctions

Charity auctions can look different from one event to the next. A seated live auction. A silent auction display. Sponsor tables. Dinner, drinks, remarks, and a few moments that bring the cause back to the center of the room. NPU venues offer the flexibility to support those formats in spaces with enough ambiance to make the fundraiser feel special without distracting from the reason people came to give.
Galas and Dinners

Galas & Dinners

A gala or fundraising dinner has to feel worthy of the ask being made. NPU venues bring the architecture, scale, and atmosphere for seated dinners, speeches, live appeals, sponsor moments, entertainment, and the conversations that happen between courses. The room helps the evening feel generous and intentional, giving guests a memorable setting that matches the importance of what they are there to support.
Charity Concert

Charity Concerts

Our fundraiser venues offer the scale, flexibility, and character to support everything from intimate acoustic sets to full-production headliner concerts. Our spaces have plenty of room for the main performance, multiple bars, guest gathering, sponsor areas, VIP sections, post-show receptions, and more. Whether the night is built around one artist or a full lineup, our unique venue settings help the concert feel like more than just another show.
Casino Night

Casino Nights

Casino nights need more than tables and chips. They need a setting with enough character to make the theme feel worth dressing up for. NPU’s fundraiser venues bring iconic architecture, dramatic rooms, rooftop views, and flexible event spaces that can turn bars, gaming tables, entertainment, and fundraising moments into a night that gives Vegas a run for its money.
Donor Receptions

Donor Receptions

Donor receptions are part thank-you, part relationship-building. NPU venues give nonprofits, foundations, and community organizations a distinctive place to gather major donors, board members, sponsors, and VIP guests for cocktails, dinner, remarks, and conversation. The result is a thank-you that feels less like a courtesy and more like a meaningful part of the organization’s ongoing work.
Community Events

Community Benefit

Community fundraisers work especially well in spaces people already know. NPU venues have their own place in Denver and San Francisco, giving local causes a setting that feels connected to the people they are bringing together. With room for food and beverage, sponsor visibility, donation moments, and more, our venues help the event feel rooted in the community it is there to support.

How We Bring Your Event to Life

  1. 01

    Tell us about your fundraiser

    Tell us what you are planning, whether it is a gala, auction, donor reception, casino night, charity concert, or something more unexpected. Guest count, fundraising goals, program needs, sponsor requirements, catering, beverage service, entertainment, and room flow all help us understand which venue makes the most sense.

  2. 02

    Find the perfect venue

    Once we understand the event, we will help you compare the spaces that fit. We can walk through floor plan options, availability, capacity, venue features, and walkthroughs, either in person or virtual, so you can see how the fundraiser might work in the room.

  3. 03

    Shape the event plan

    With the venue now selected, our team stays involved to help you plan with confidence. That can include permitting and compliance, vendor access and organization, load-in timing, room setup, beverage service, sponsor needs, and the venue details that help the event run the way it needs to.

  4. 04

    Execute a flawless event

    When event week arrives, our production team is on-site from load-in through load-out. We help with setup, access, testing, and venue operations so the space is ready when guests arrive. During the event, our team supports beverage service and the on-site details that keep the fundraiser moving.

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Meet the team behind exceptional events

Kimberly Jaramillo

Kimberly Jaramillo

Sales Manager

Part event expert, part chaos coordinator, Kimberly Jaramillo is a toddler-mom and dog lover who believes the best events feel a little magical and a little chaotic. She’s happiest when the venue is full and the energy is high.

Heidi Larson

Heidi Larson

Sales Manager

Heidi turned decades of event management into a career in venue sales, where her creativity, connections, and knack for unforgettable experiences shine. When she’s off the clock, you’ll find her carving through the Rockies, collecting passport stamps, or unwinding with her husband and their two Boston Terriers.

Katy Sue

Katy Sue

Sales Manager

Part dream-maker, part cat mom, Katy loves helping people turn their dream events into reality. When she’s not making event magic happen, she’s probably lifting weights, cooking something delicious, finding style inspiration, or dancing her heart out at a concert.

Yesenia Russo

Yesenia Russo

Sales Coordinator

Yesenia (Yesi) has a gift for creating moments people remember, whether she’s bringing an event to life or sharing something homemade around the table. Outside of work, she’s usually in the kitchen cooking, baking pastries, testing a new recipe, or finding another reason to gather people over good food.

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