They even have a Believe-o-Matic app that kids can use to make their own Christmas cards. Finally, we have a big retail chain that’s sticking its flag in the ground and saying MERRY CHRISTMAS instead of happy holidays. These cause promotions top my Christmas list. MORE
Other Possibly Related posts: Merry Christmas from the Pitman Family! This afternoon, I was working on my “ List of 100 Things to do in 2012.” ” While doing it, I asked my 12 year old son, “If there were one thing you and I could do together in 2012, what would it be?” MORE
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For our fifth Christmas, we urge you to get into a mirthful holiday mood by listening to this unforgettable rendition of O Holy Night. Here is The Agitator’s most enduring (only?) tradition. Tom is especially fond of this performance, as it takes him back to Midnight Mass and his Catholic grammar school choir days. We guarantee this performance will leave you smiling well into the New Year. But you must listen to the entire performance to feel its full power. No irreverence intended. MORE
Take this email I received from Make It Work (MIW) just a few days before Christmas. Frantically searching Amazon to see how fast that gift for your mom can be delivered, your boss calling you at 4pm on Christmas Eve, all of your kids simultaneously catching the flu. MORE
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For us, it’s Christmas carols. For our sixth Christmas, and into our seventh year, we urge you to get into a mirthful holiday spirit by enjoying to this unforgettable rendition of O Holy Night. Yesterday we posted on the power of visual content. Today it’s music. For some it’s the Yule Log. For others, mistletoe, For still others, mincemeat pie. Here is The Agitator’s most enduring tradition. MORE
Only 167 shopping days until Christmas. We’ll make sure there’s something under your tree – a Christmas Agitator Raise. Yesterday I noted the frightening lack of concern in our trade over the importance of paying attention to messaging. I then went on to promise some mid-year recommendations that, if acted upon now, should help your bottom line six months down the line. MORE
I hope you’re enjoying your holiday - and that you know the coming days are not a time to take a vacation from fundraising. Sorry, but it’s true! Late December is the season of philanthropic procrastinators who want to get in their donations by the end of the tax year. MORE
There's just a few more donation days before Christmas for your local food bank. or Toys for Tots, or Sub for Santa, or the Salvation Army’s Giving Tree. MORE
Here for your listening and viewing pleasure is Darlene Love, singing Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).It It is far and away the blues-iest, rocking-est, Christmas song ever! Tags: David Letterman Darlene Love Phil Spector Merry Christmas MORE
The long-standing Christmas Eve tradition at the cause marketing blog is to show the video of the prior year’s appearance of Darlene Love singing 'Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)' on the Late Show with David Letterman. Enjoy and Merry Christmas! MORE
It’s a little Christmas comic relief for those who are working entirely too hard and need a little giggle. Tags: Just For Fun christmas comic relief Today’s post has absolutely nothing to do with fundraising or nonprofit work. MORE
Sign up for Pam Grow’s 12 Days of Christmas Nonprofit Gifts Giveaway and receive free downloads from now until Christmas. (If Photo Source: https://flic.kr/p/2GC29. p/2GC29. Friday, it is. MORE
As a holiday, Christmas is surprisingly challenging to cause market around, but a local homebuilder has the bones of a good campaign based on a gingerbread house-building contest that could be duplicated almost anywhere. Christmas is a time of giving. MORE
We also had a Victorian Christmas party in an Edwardian house! We dressed up, wore corsets, had roast chicken, potatoes, and mince pie, we pulled christmas crackers and got crowns and bad jokes out. Oh, and then Christmas day we had Dim Sum & watched Skyfall in the theater! MORE
For our third Christmas, we urge you to get into a mirthful holiday mood by listening to this unforgettable rendition of O Holy Night. The Agitator has few traditions at this point. But here is one of them. The Agitator Guarantee: This performance will leave you smiling well into the New Year, or we’ll refund your Agitator subscription fee. But you must listen to the entire performance. Happy Holidays! Roger and Tom. MORE
In the restaurant the paper icons were prominently displayed behind the host’s station, Right now Denny’s are plastered with their Christmas promotion with Arthur Christmas , an animated film about Santa’s workshop where it is the elves that run the show, not the Fat Man himself. MORE
I would like to wish all of my blog readers a wonderful Christmas and a New Year filled with health, happiness and epic new adventures in your professional and personal lives. Personal christmas wishes MORE
Christmas is a time of giving. The following Christmas fundraising ideas are designed to not only help your organization raise much-needed funds but also spread holiday cheer in the process. Sell Christmas trees. Partner with a local tree-grower and borrow a section of a parking lot from a neighborhood business to set up your Christmas tree lot. Sell Christmas wreaths. Hold a Christmas concert. Who doesn’t love an evening of Christmas music? MORE
This is the book I wish I could give you for Christmas. Let me tell you a story about my family. My family came to visit me in October. We were sitting at a restaurant, and my dad got a waiter to take a picture of all of us. It was sweet. It was heartwarming. MORE
ask campaign christmas classy.org donor engagement giving justgiving.com NGOs small NGO Small nonprofitMost people hate that the end of the year holiday buying season seems to start earlier and earlier. But if you're a small business in the economic downturn OR a small nonprofit, you know that time is not on your side. I recently found a few articles I thought would be handy information for those of you who haven't firmed up your end-of-year campaigns. MORE
And finally, it’s December so be sure to catch some holiday classics (and not-so-classics) during ABC Family’s 25 Days of Christmas. 1983 – Mickey’s Christmas Carol by theperminator. Cocktails from Minero in Atlanta. Happy Friday! MORE
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in the Christmas season circulars and Tom Aiello, Division Vice President, Public Relations at Sears Holdings was kind enough to respond.He The other day I posted the question “Where’s Kmart’s Cause Marketing Effort?” also graciously agreed to answer 10 questions I had for him about Kmart’s “Purpose Marketing,” and the company’s notably-long sponsorship of March of Dimes, along with Kmart’s newer. March of Dimes Kmart St. Jude Sears Holdings Purpose Marketing Sears Thanks and Giving MORE
Thursday’s mid-year release of the Blackbaud Index shows overall charitable giving up 2.2% and online giving up 14% for the first six months of 2013. MORE
A Christmas Story. I was not worried about pushing a bit to find out how they were doing this Christmas Eve. “No,” When told that he and the whole family could come early tomorrow, Christmas Day, to get presents, he was excited, much more so than I expected. I would get to see family on Christmas Day. I got this email today from Mark Bergel, founder of A Wider Circle. It was beautiful, so I wanted to share it. MORE
A year ago, with the release of the mid-year results of the Blackbaud Charitable Index — online and offline — we reminded readers now is a great time to make sure they get their share of year-end giving. MORE
With the photo, she described how much this meant to her young son, as he had donated some of his Christmas money and allowance money that he worked so hard to earn. On my Facebook News Feed the other day, I saw a post from a friend of mine. MORE
As a holiday, Christmas is surprisingly challenging to cause market around, but a local homebuilder has the bones of a good campaign based on a gingerbread house-building contest that could be duplicated elsewhere.Cause marketing is commonly linked to holidays. MORE
Mother Nature dropped nearly twenty inches of snow on Boston on Sunday and Monday. The snow gave my climbing hydrangea, which is a lush green in the summer, a very different appearance. I hope you’re taking a few days off over the holidays to relax or even do some planning for the new year. MORE
But this is Christmas. And to hear Lockheed Martin tell it, sometimes Santa himself needs their C-130 aircraft to see that needy kids have toys to play with come Christmas Day. MORE
Quick Post:In keeping with Thursday's post on Current Energy and and my Dec. 5 posting on Sears Hero's At Home, I'm pleased to highlight SoldierWish.com, which allows armed service men and women and their families to post wish lists that you and I can fulfill. But do it now, secret Santa's. MORE
Ironically, for the first three weeks of December it is the busiest time of the year, and then for a week from about Christmas to New Years it can be the slowest. Note: I want to wish all of my readers a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. The holidays are a time of mixed emotion for many fundraisers. For many offices the holiday season is the time of the year-end or holiday appeal, where they receive the largest number and amount of gifts. MORE
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In fact, this Christmas I’d rather someone give me experiences or the chance to learn (or a massage!) Tags: ChangingthePresent.org Cause-Related-Marketing Googlegroup Benjamin Franklin Redefine Christmas JustGive.org Merry Christmas Well Good LLC MORE
24, Christmas Eve. 25, Christmas. December is coming. DECEMBER IS COMING! For a lot of nonprofits, that means the biggest online fundraising campaign of the year is right around the corner. Are you ready? . Next week, on Oct. MORE
The Official 2015 Christmas Cookie of Nonprofit Marketing Guide. I am usually a dutiful recipe follower, but I’m finally competent enough at baking cookies that I have been freestyling on some recipes lately, including this new one I created this year. MORE
For our fourth Christmas, we urge you to get into a mirthful holiday mood by listening to this unforgettable rendition of O Holy Night. The Agitator has few traditions at this point. But here is one of them. Tom is especially fond of this performance, as it takes him back to his Catholic grammar school choir days. The Agitator Guarantee: This performance will leave you smiling well into the New Year, or we’ll refund your Agitator subscription fee. MORE
The long-standing Christmas Eve tradition at the cause marketing blog is to show the video of the prior year’s appearance of Darlene Love singing 'Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)' on the Late Show with David Letterman. MORE
Yet right now there’s goodly number of sponsors whose Christmas ad mix includes cause marketing messaging on behalf of a cause. Make-A-Wish Polar Bears Macy's Believe Christmas Cause Marketing White Coke Cans World Wildlife Fund MORE
to make this the "best Christmas EVER!" not-for-profits adopt a family small nonprofits thanksgiving donate christmas nonprofitsWhat with our own expectations, traditions, and the constant admonition. the whole season can quickly. degenerate into a mass of anxiety-ridden desperation. The quickest way. to help you feel better is to make things better for someone else! Today I'm volunteering tweets to the Adopt a Family Project in Santa Cruz County, California and devoting this. MORE
Some of my peers say that there is no Christmas cause marketing. Please tell me the truth, is there Christmas cause marketing?Virginia There’s not much Christmas cause marketing going on in the States. Dear EditorI am more than 8 years old. MORE
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NOVEMBER 30, 2011
Yet right now there’s goodly number of sponsors whose Christmas ad mix includes cause marketing messaging on behalf of a cause. Make-A-Wish Polar Bears Macy's Believe Christmas Cause Marketing White Coke Cans World Wildlife Fund
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
DECEMBER 24, 2015
The Official 2015 Christmas Cookie of Nonprofit Marketing Guide. I am usually a dutiful recipe follower, but I’m finally competent enough at baking cookies that I have been freestyling on some recipes lately, including this new one I created this year.
Wild Woman Fundraising
DECEMBER 23, 2014
This is the book I wish I could give you for Christmas. Let me tell you a story about my family. My family came to visit me in October. We were sitting at a restaurant, and my dad got a waiter to take a picture of all of us. It was sweet. It was heartwarming.
The Agitator
AUGUST 4, 2014
A year ago, with the release of the mid-year results of the Blackbaud Charitable Index — online and offline — we reminded readers now is a great time to make sure they get their share of year-end giving.
The Agitator
DECEMBER 23, 2015
Roger and Tom. Donor retention / loyalty / commitment premium
Social Media Bird Brain
NOVEMBER 3, 2015
ask campaign christmas classy.org donor engagement giving justgiving.com NGOs small NGO Small nonprofitMost people hate that the end of the year holiday buying season seems to start earlier and earlier. But if you're a small business in the economic downturn OR a small nonprofit, you know that time is not on your side. I recently found a few articles I thought would be handy information for those of you who haven't firmed up your end-of-year campaigns.
Cause Related Marketing
DECEMBER 23, 2011
The long-standing Christmas Eve tradition at the cause marketing blog is to show the video of the prior year’s appearance of Darlene Love singing 'Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)' on the Late Show with David Letterman. Enjoy and Merry Christmas!
Public Sector Marketing 2.0
DECEMBER 23, 2013
I would like to wish all of my blog readers a wonderful Christmas and a New Year filled with health, happiness and epic new adventures in your professional and personal lives. Personal christmas wishes
Selfish Giving
DECEMBER 13, 2011
They even have a Believe-o-Matic app that kids can use to make their own Christmas cards. Finally, we have a big retail chain that’s sticking its flag in the ground and saying MERRY CHRISTMAS instead of happy holidays. These cause promotions top my Christmas list.
Public Sector Marketing 2.0
JANUARY 6, 2014
Compliment Governance Government 2013 social media campaigns 2014 christmas progress public sector Social Media social media guidelines training Web 2.0
The Agitator
JULY 9, 2012
Only 167 shopping days until Christmas. We’ll make sure there’s something under your tree – a Christmas Agitator Raise. Yesterday I noted the frightening lack of concern in our trade over the importance of paying attention to messaging. I then went on to promise some mid-year recommendations that, if acted upon now, should help your bottom line six months down the line.
Cause Related Marketing
DECEMBER 16, 2011
As a holiday, Christmas is surprisingly challenging to cause market around, but a local homebuilder has the bones of a good campaign based on a gingerbread house-building contest that could be duplicated almost anywhere. Christmas is a time of giving.
Wild Woman Fundraising
DECEMBER 26, 2012
We also had a Victorian Christmas party in an Edwardian house! We dressed up, wore corsets, had roast chicken, potatoes, and mince pie, we pulled christmas crackers and got crowns and bad jokes out. Oh, and then Christmas day we had Dim Sum & watched Skyfall in the theater!
Fundraiser Ideas
DECEMBER 6, 2011
Christmas is a time of giving. The following Christmas fundraising ideas are designed to not only help your organization raise much-needed funds but also spread holiday cheer in the process. Sell Christmas trees. Partner with a local tree-grower and borrow a section of a parking lot from a neighborhood business to set up your Christmas tree lot. Sell Christmas wreaths. Hold a Christmas concert. Who doesn’t love an evening of Christmas music?
Get Fully Funded
DECEMBER 16, 2009
It’s a little Christmas comic relief for those who are working entirely too hard and need a little giggle. Tags: Just For Fun christmas comic relief Today’s post has absolutely nothing to do with fundraising or nonprofit work.
Non Profit Marketing 360
DECEMBER 12, 2011
Nonprofit Advent Calendar Charitable organization Christmas Christmas and holiday season Facebook Non-profit organization Online Communities Social networkThe holiday season is prime gift-giving and donation-giving season.
The Agitator
DECEMBER 20, 2012
For us, it’s Christmas carols. For our sixth Christmas, and into our seventh year, we urge you to get into a mirthful holiday spirit by enjoying to this unforgettable rendition of O Holy Night. Yesterday we posted on the power of visual content. Today it’s music. For some it’s the Yule Log. For others, mistletoe, For still others, mincemeat pie. Here is The Agitator’s most enduring tradition.
A Small Change
DECEMBER 24, 2009
Ironically, for the first three weeks of December it is the busiest time of the year, and then for a week from about Christmas to New Years it can be the slowest. Note: I want to wish all of my readers a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. The holidays are a time of mixed emotion for many fundraisers. For many offices the holiday season is the time of the year-end or holiday appeal, where they receive the largest number and amount of gifts.
Cause Related Marketing
DECEMBER 13, 2011
In the restaurant the paper icons were prominently displayed behind the host’s station, Right now Denny’s are plastered with their Christmas promotion with Arthur Christmas , an animated film about Santa’s workshop where it is the elves that run the show, not the Fat Man himself.
Nonprofit Marketing Blog
DECEMBER 24, 2011
I hope you’re enjoying your holiday - and that you know the coming days are not a time to take a vacation from fundraising. Sorry, but it’s true! Late December is the season of philanthropic procrastinators who want to get in their donations by the end of the tax year.
Cause Related Marketing
DECEMBER 21, 2011
There's just a few more donation days before Christmas for your local food bank. or Toys for Tots, or Sub for Santa, or the Salvation Army’s Giving Tree.
Cause Related Marketing
DECEMBER 12, 2008
In fact, this Christmas I’d rather someone give me experiences or the chance to learn (or a massage!) Tags: ChangingthePresent.org Cause-Related-Marketing Googlegroup Benjamin Franklin Redefine Christmas JustGive.org Merry Christmas Well Good LLC
Cause Related Marketing
NOVEMBER 24, 2010
As a holiday, Christmas is surprisingly challenging to cause market around, but a local homebuilder has the bones of a good campaign based on a gingerbread house-building contest that could be duplicated elsewhere.Cause marketing is commonly linked to holidays.
Cause Related Marketing
DECEMBER 24, 2009
Here for your listening and viewing pleasure is Darlene Love, singing Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).It It is far and away the blues-iest, rocking-est, Christmas song ever! Tags: David Letterman Darlene Love Phil Spector Merry Christmas
Selfish Giving
DECEMBER 28, 2010
Mother Nature dropped nearly twenty inches of snow on Boston on Sunday and Monday. The snow gave my climbing hydrangea, which is a lush green in the summer, a very different appearance. I hope you’re taking a few days off over the holidays to relax or even do some planning for the new year.
Social Media Bird Brain
NOVEMBER 29, 2011
to make this the "best Christmas EVER!" not-for-profits adopt a family small nonprofits thanksgiving donate christmas nonprofitsWhat with our own expectations, traditions, and the constant admonition. the whole season can quickly. degenerate into a mass of anxiety-ridden desperation. The quickest way. to help you feel better is to make things better for someone else! Today I'm volunteering tweets to the Adopt a Family Project in Santa Cruz County, California and devoting this.
Cause Related Marketing
DECEMBER 24, 2010
The long-standing Christmas Eve tradition at the cause marketing blog is to show the video of the prior year’s appearance of Darlene Love singing 'Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)' on the Late Show with David Letterman.
The Agitator
DECEMBER 22, 2010
For our fourth Christmas, we urge you to get into a mirthful holiday mood by listening to this unforgettable rendition of O Holy Night. The Agitator has few traditions at this point. But here is one of them. Tom is especially fond of this performance, as it takes him back to his Catholic grammar school choir days. The Agitator Guarantee: This performance will leave you smiling well into the New Year, or we’ll refund your Agitator subscription fee.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
OCTOBER 8, 2015
24, Christmas Eve. 25, Christmas. December is coming. DECEMBER IS COMING! For a lot of nonprofits, that means the biggest online fundraising campaign of the year is right around the corner. Are you ready? . Next week, on Oct.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
DECEMBER 4, 2015
And finally, it’s December so be sure to catch some holiday classics (and not-so-classics) during ABC Family’s 25 Days of Christmas. 1983 – Mickey’s Christmas Carol by theperminator. Cocktails from Minero in Atlanta. Happy Friday!
The Agitator
DECEMBER 22, 2011
For our fifth Christmas, we urge you to get into a mirthful holiday mood by listening to this unforgettable rendition of O Holy Night. Here is The Agitator’s most enduring (only?) tradition. Tom is especially fond of this performance, as it takes him back to Midnight Mass and his Catholic grammar school choir days. We guarantee this performance will leave you smiling well into the New Year. But you must listen to the entire performance to feel its full power. No irreverence intended.
The Agitator
DECEMBER 22, 2009
For our third Christmas, we urge you to get into a mirthful holiday mood by listening to this unforgettable rendition of O Holy Night. The Agitator has few traditions at this point. But here is one of them. The Agitator Guarantee: This performance will leave you smiling well into the New Year, or we’ll refund your Agitator subscription fee. But you must listen to the entire performance. Happy Holidays! Roger and Tom.
Fundraising Coach
DECEMBER 24, 2011
Other Possibly Related posts: Merry Christmas from the Pitman Family! This afternoon, I was working on my “ List of 100 Things to do in 2012.” ” While doing it, I asked my 12 year old son, “If there were one thing you and I could do together in 2012, what would it be?”
Cause Related Marketing
NOVEMBER 25, 2008
Some of my peers say that there is no Christmas cause marketing. Please tell me the truth, is there Christmas cause marketing?Virginia There’s not much Christmas cause marketing going on in the States. Dear EditorI am more than 8 years old.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
DECEMBER 18, 2015
Sign up for Pam Grow’s 12 Days of Christmas Nonprofit Gifts Giveaway and receive free downloads from now until Christmas. (If Photo Source: https://flic.kr/p/2GC29. p/2GC29. Friday, it is.
Getting Attention
APRIL 8, 2015
Take this email I received from Make It Work (MIW) just a few days before Christmas. Frantically searching Amazon to see how fast that gift for your mom can be delivered, your boss calling you at 4pm on Christmas Eve, all of your kids simultaneously catching the flu.
Cause Related Marketing
DECEMBER 19, 2008
Quick Post:In keeping with Thursday's post on Current Energy and and my Dec. 5 posting on Sears Hero's At Home, I'm pleased to highlight SoldierWish.com, which allows armed service men and women and their families to post wish lists that you and I can fulfill. But do it now, secret Santa's.
iMarketSmart
NOVEMBER 9, 2016
Birthday card, Christmas Card, Phone calls. There’s brilliance down under! . A while back on my LinkedIn Group (Major and Planned Gift Marketers) , Sharon Wangman outlined a stewardship plan for Legacy Society donors/members.
J Campbell Social Marketing
FEBRUARY 11, 2016
With the photo, she described how much this meant to her young son, as he had donated some of his Christmas money and allowance money that he worked so hard to earn. On my Facebook News Feed the other day, I saw a post from a friend of mine.
Cause Related Marketing
DECEMBER 8, 2010
in the Christmas season circulars and Tom Aiello, Division Vice President, Public Relations at Sears Holdings was kind enough to respond.He The other day I posted the question “Where’s Kmart’s Cause Marketing Effort?” also graciously agreed to answer 10 questions I had for him about Kmart’s “Purpose Marketing,” and the company’s notably-long sponsorship of March of Dimes, along with Kmart’s newer. March of Dimes Kmart St. Jude Sears Holdings Purpose Marketing Sears Thanks and Giving
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