Is Universal Events Inc. legit?
Yes. It is a nonprofit consulting firm with an office in San Ramon, California, a named founder, and a third-party workplace certification that anyone can look up. Below is what the company is, what the work actually involves, and how to check every part of it without taking our word for anything.
Three things you can check in a minute
People usually ask this question for a good reason. They came across the name, or a role, or someone doing outreach in their neighborhood, and they want to know who is behind it. Fair. Here is the base layer.
A real operating company
Universal Events Inc. is a nonprofit consulting firm. It works for nonprofits and mission-driven organizations on fundraising counsel, community outreach, marketing, and events.
A real office
2603 Camino Ramon, Suite 220, San Ramon, California 94583. An East Bay office address you can look up on any map before you visit it.
A named founder
Harmony Vallejo is the founder and CEO. She is named on the site, on the company LinkedIn page, and in press coverage, not hidden behind a brand.
What Universal Events Inc. is
Universal Events Inc. is a nonprofit consulting firm. Nonprofits and mission-driven organizations hire it to run the parts of their operation that are difficult to build and staff internally: fundraising counsel, community outreach, marketing, and events.
That is a real category of business, though it is not a familiar one, and unfamiliar is often what makes a company sound suspicious. Most people have never had a reason to think about who actually raises money for a charity, or who staffs the table at the community event, or who trains the person doing the talking. Those functions are frequently outsourced, and Universal Events Inc. is one of the firms that does that work.
The company describes itself the same way on its own Great Place to Work certification page: a national outsourced sales, marketing, and fundraising counsel organization that partners with nonprofit organizations and mission-driven brands, specializing in face-to-face outreach and leadership development. That page is public, and it says the same thing this page says, which is the point.
Where we are and who runs it
The office is at 2603 Camino Ramon, Suite 220, San Ramon, California 94583. San Ramon is in the East Bay area of Northern California. You can put that address into a map and look at the building yourself.
Harmony Vallejo is the founder and CEO. She is named publicly, she speaks publicly, and she is findable outside of this website. That matters more than it sounds like it should, because leadership that cannot be named is one of the honest reasons to be careful about any company. You can read about her on our founder page.
The company inbox is info@universalevents-inc.com. It is monitored by people, and a direct question gets a direct answer.
What the work actually involves
This is the part worth being blunt about, because vagueness here is exactly what makes people distrust this whole category of company.
The outreach is face to face. It is in person, not remote. It means being out in the community, in front of actual people, representing a nonprofit partner and its cause, and having the same conversation many times in a day. Some days that goes well. Some days it does not, and you go again the next day. Nobody should take a role here expecting a laptop and a home office, because that is not the job.
The day to day looks roughly like this:
- Time in the office for training and campaign briefing, so you actually know the nonprofit you are representing and what its programs do.
- Time in the field doing the outreach itself, in person, talking with members of the public about a cause and asking them to support it.
- Coaching and leadership development, because the people who run campaigns here started by running conversations, and that is how the firm builds its own management.
It suits people who like talking to strangers, who can take a no without carrying it into the next conversation, and who want responsibility earlier than a corporate ladder would give it. It genuinely does not suit everyone, and we would rather say so on our own website than have someone find out in week one. If it sounds like your kind of work, the careers page covers how the training and progression work.
What Great Place to Work certified actually means
Universal Events Inc. is Great Place to Work certified, and has been for four consecutive years. Certification badges are easy to distrust, so here is what sits behind this one.
Great Place to Work is an independent research firm. The certification is earned by surveying the company's own employees, confidentially, and the result is driven by what those employees say rather than by anything the company submits about itself. It is not a directory listing, it is not a paid award, and a company cannot write its own score.
The certification page for Universal Events Inc. is public. It lists 15 US-based employees and describes the company as a national outsourced sales, marketing, and fundraising counsel organization partnering with nonprofit organizations and mission-driven brands, specializing in face-to-face outreach and leadership development. Everything in that sentence came from the certifying body's own page, not from us.
Read it at the source rather than here. View the Great Place to Work certification page. Partner and team feedback we have collected is on our reviews page, with links out to the independent sources it came from.
Do not take our word for any of it
A company saying it is trustworthy proves nothing. What proves something is whether the claims hold up somewhere the company does not control. Each one below can be checked on a source other than this website.
Great Place to Work
The certification page is public. It lists the company as a national outsourced sales, marketing, and fundraising counsel organization with 15 US-based employees, and it exists because employees answered a confidential survey.
Open the certification pageThe company page lists leadership and current staff. Click through to individual profiles and see for yourself whether the people are real, findable, and where they say they are.
Open the LinkedIn pageCrunchbase
An independent company database entry for Universal Events Inc., useful for confirming the same organization is being described in more than one place.
Open the Crunchbase profilePress coverage
Interviews and features published by outside publications, each one linked to the original article so you can read it on the publisher's own site rather than a screenshot.
Read the press pageHow we operate
A plain-language explanation of the structure of the business, including how field work is organized and who is responsible for what.
Read how we operateAsk us directly
If something is still unclear after all of the above, email the company inbox and ask. A specific question gets a specific answer.
Email info@universalevents-inc.comQuestions people ask before they ask us
Is Universal Events Inc. a legitimate company?
Yes. Universal Events Inc. is a nonprofit consulting firm with an office at 2603 Camino Ramon, Suite 220, San Ramon, California 94583. It provides fundraising counsel, community outreach, marketing, and event management to nonprofits and mission-driven organizations. Its website is universalevents-inc.com, and its Great Place to Work certification page, LinkedIn page, and Crunchbase profile are all public and can be checked without contacting us.
What does Universal Events Inc. actually do?
Universal Events Inc. works for nonprofits and mission-driven organizations on the parts of their operation that are hard to staff internally: fundraising counsel, community outreach, marketing, and events. Its own Great Place to Work certification page describes it as a national outsourced sales, marketing, and fundraising counsel organization specializing in face-to-face outreach and leadership development.
Where is Universal Events Inc. located?
The office is at 2603 Camino Ramon, Suite 220, San Ramon, California 94583. It is a street address in the East Bay that anyone can look up on a map.
Who runs Universal Events Inc.?
Harmony Vallejo is the founder and CEO. She is named publicly on the company website, on the company LinkedIn page, and in press coverage, which is worth noting because anonymous leadership is one of the fair reasons people question a company.
Is the work remote or in person?
It is in person. The outreach is face to face, which means being out in the community talking to people rather than working from home on a laptop. That is the honest description of the job, and anyone considering a role here should decide with that in front of them.
What is the Great Place to Work certification based on?
It is based on confidential survey responses collected directly from employees by Great Place to Work, an independent research firm. It is not an award a company can buy or declare for itself. Universal Events Inc. has been certified for four consecutive years, and the certification page is public at greatplacetowork.com.
How can I verify all of this myself?
Look up the Great Place to Work certification page, the company LinkedIn page, and the Crunchbase profile. Read the press coverage listed on this site and follow each link to the publication. Then email info@universalevents-inc.com and ask anything that is still open.
Still have a question?
Ask it directly. Whether you are a nonprofit weighing a partner, someone considering a role, or a member of the public who met one of our teams, a specific question gets a specific answer.