APRIL – Kentucky Gives Day. Are you thinking about participating in a Giving Day? Good news! There are so many organizations that have given it a try, and YOU can learn from them (the good AND the bad). MORE
I just can’t understand what Kentucky Fried Chicken is thinking with its latest cause marketing program. Causerants cause marketing jdrf juvenile diabetes research foundation kentucky fried chicken kfc MORE
The KFC eleven test store is in Louisville, Kentucky, KFC’s headquarters. KFC, a unit of Yum Brands, is testing a new quick-serve restaurant version of the fried chicken outlet and among the changes is that its cause marketing efforts will be much more local, according to Anne Fuller, senior director of development for KFC eleven. When it opens August 5, 2013, it will feature rice bowls, flatbreads, salads, KFC original recipe chicken among other items, plus sides. MORE
Last Friday, Joe appropriately ranted that Kentucky Fried Chicken’s latest “cause marketing” promotion (we cringe to even call it that) pushing mega-jugs of soda to “support” Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation was, well, chicken. MORE
Shortly after Steve’s tweet, Estrella Rosenberg said what a lot of us must have been thinking: Estrella is referring, of course, to the Komen/Kentucky Fried Chicken Buckets for the Cure cause marketing program that has sparked outrage both online and off. MORE
Moreover, the states with the largest percent growth in their Hispanic populations include nine where the Latino population more than doubled , including a swath in the southeast United States — Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee and South Carolina. Here from Pew Research is a nice wrap-up of the 2010 US Census figures as they relate to America’s Hispanic population. We all know the growth is strong — 43% over the past decade. MORE
While Komen had its misstep with Kentucky Fried Chicken , fast food chains make excellent partners for cause marketing. There’s social media, and social networking and then there’s social gaming. And they’re all growing like crazy and can be used for cause marketing. MORE
Jennifer Milburn, Kentucky Waterways Alliance. Thanks to the 154 nonprofits who completed our recent survey about what should go on the webinar schedule. Here are the top three webinars you selected. How to Create, Reuse, and Manage All of Your Content. This webinar has been scheduled for Thursday, November 4. Registration will open late August. Rethinking Your Newsletter Strategy. This webinar will be held Thursday, September 9. Registration will open in two weeks. MORE
They are: Super Bowl… $336 million Summer Olympics…$176 million Fifa World Cup…$103 million NCAA Men’s Final Four…$90 million Winter Olympics…$82 million Rose Bowl…$72 million MLB World Series…$61 million Kentucky Derby…$59 million 9. The September 27, 2007 Forbes magazine listed the value of the world’s top sponsored sports events, by the amount of money they generate per day. MORE
Here are some of the stories RWJF community members have shared with Meghan and team: Bringing Health Care to Rural Kentucky. Welcome to guest blogger Meghan Hurley, Special Events Intern at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and a senior at Loyola University Maryland. . MORE
Komen for the Cure’s® cause partnership with with Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), launched via a huge TV advertising campaign. Your feedback by May 7 please! Choosing a corporate sponsor for your nonprofit has tremendous potential to either help or harm your organization and its mission. MORE
Even after Komen’s misstep in 2010 with Kentucky Fried Chicken and Buckets for the Cure , the program still raised $4 million and had little ill effect on the nonprofit’s brand. MORE
Capplause Cause Marketing 101 cause marketing kentucky fried chicken kfc maggie keenan pinups qr codeI love when students put their education to good use. MORE
I want to love Komen’s new cause marketing partnership with Kentucky Fried Chicken, Buckets for the Cure. Tags: Causerants breast cancer causes cause marketing cause-related marketing causes finger lickin kentucky fried chicken kfc komen komen for the cure partnerships MORE
One of the infuriating things about the pink ribbon, emblematic of the fight against breast cancer, is that no one owns it in the United States. MORE
As we learned from the controversy surrounding a cause marketing promotion between Kentucky Fried Chicken and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation , cause promotions are about marketing and perception, not truth and reality. MORE
There are three press releases for SIGNARAMA stores in Edmonton, Alberta, Peterborough, Ontario, and Louisville, Kentucky all with exactly the same leads or first paragraphs. The most common way to activate or promote your cause marketing campaign is via public relations. MORE
Here’s a freebie for Ball jars, which sells food preserving jars and equipment, and Grow Appalachia, which teaches the people of rural Kentucky how to grow, cook and preserve their own food. MORE
Vigorous physical activity among tweens, VERB Summer Scorecard Program, Lexington, Kentucky, 2004-2007 Evaluation of a successful community-based social marketing effort to increase physical activity among tweens. It's that time of year for retrospectives on the state of whatever. Here we offer our top 10 papers on social marketing published in 2011. MORE
Some ideas included posting photos of early ticket buyers with the reasons they were looking forward to the events, highlighting auction items as they are donated and even asking for early bids ahead of time, and asking trivia questions related to the event themes (“Wines of the World” and the Kentucky Derby). On Friday, I taught a workshop called Social Media: Your On-Ramp to Future Fundraising at the annual conference of the North Carolina Center for Nonprofits. MORE
Kentucky Fried Chicken wanted to get away from all three of its names, so it became KFC. For some time now the two big prominent label collection efforts, General Mills Boxtops for Education and the much more senior and yet smaller Label’s for Education. founded by Campbell’s. MORE
Colleen Payne, Executive Director, Spina Bifida Association of Kentucky. August 9th, 2012 3pm EDT OR September 6th, 3pm EDT. Are you worried about your next big event? Have you ever been at your wits end for finding sponsors? Are you afraid of what sponsors are thinking? MORE
Profits from its ‘gear’ store benefit Habitat for Humanity, local food banks in Lexington, Kentucky, veteran’s organizations and the Longhopes Donkey Shelter). Most cause marketing faces the consumer. You can imagine why. MORE
The University of Kentucky has put giant Facebook place icons throughout the campus to showcase its connectivity to prospective students. MORE
So Kentucky Fried Chicken is doing a cause marketing promotion for the Susan Komen Foundation. You know, the one that fights breast cancer. And there are a lot of people scratching their heads about that. Some are even angry. Many are calling it a huge blunder. It’s tough to understand how greasy fast food and fighting breast cancer go together. MORE
Harland Sanders didn’t open his first Kentucky Fried Chicken until he was 65. Yesterday Regal Entertainment announced the final tally of its August Straw Vote; Boys and Girls Clubs of America garnered $97,721 and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospitals collected $65,692. MORE
Komen for the Cure, with its screw-ups in de-funding Planned Parenthood , suing other organizations with “cure” in their organizational or program names and partnering with the heart-stopping Kentucky Fried Chicken —restoring confidence and support is almost impossible. MORE
Cause Practices cause marketing kentucky fried chicken kfc maggie keenan pinupsTwo weeks ago I wrote about Maggie Keenan , a graduate of my Six Figure Cause Marketing Program and happy owner of Cause Marketing for Dummies. MORE
A major meeting on "getting better at doing good" will take place in Clearwater Beach, FL 15-16 June 2012. This theme for the 22nd Annual Social Marketing Conference reflects the global reality that government institutions, not-for-profit groups, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), universities and colleges and businesses are searching for better ways to improve people's health, the environment, work force development and social welfare. MORE
Planned Parenthood of Kentucky tweeted the picture and story below. The first thing I ever did was come out of a woman’s body picture of congressmen trying to take our healthcare away. On this Mother’s Day, let’s get mad everybody. MORE
It’s been an interesting week since I wrote my post on the cause marketing promotion between Kentucky Fried Chicken and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. For Kentucky Fried Chicken. MORE
Details: 50 cents of every bucket ordered by Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant operators during the promotion period went to Komen for the Cure. I combed through the Selfish Giving archives and came up with the best and worst local cause marketing programs of 2010. MORE
If you’re Western Kentucky University , you could have a contest of alumni hugging red towels. Yesterday, I got an email from Red Box asking me to take a picture of myself hugging a Red Box. Hugging a huge DVD dispensing box. Why haven’t I done this with my nonprofit?! MORE
Please, there were many good, productive ways Kentucky Fried Chicken and Komen could have worked together. I’m always finding good examples of cause marketing on Twitter. I have a few open searches on Tweetdeck that capture most of them. MORE
October 26-27: I’m the featured speaker at the Kentucky Nonprofit Leadership Forum. Here’s what happening this month at Nonprofit Marketing Guide. Three Webinars. We are presenting three webinars this month. MORE
I faced a similar reaction when I wrote here and on The Huffington Post on JDRF’s partnership with Kentucky Fried Chicken. This is a guest post from the Center of Social Impact Communication at Georgetown University. It first appeared on their blog. I’m reprinting it here with their permission because it’s an excellent case study on the trouble cause marketing can stir and how to deal with it. MORE
But last year when Komen got caught in the chicken coop with Kentucky Fried Chicken suddenly nothing stuck, and, despite waves of criticism, Komen weathered the storm well. MORE
Above is a flyer with a coupon from Coit cleaning in Louisville, Kentucky and benefiting Susan G. We see evidence of big cause marketing all the time. You know, cause marketing so massive… like the Red campaign or Boxtops for Education… that it seems to create its own gravity. MORE
We decided to use his site to update race fans of Barbaro's preparations for the Preakness Stakes after he had won the Kentucky Derby so easily, to remain undefeated. . MORE
This isn’t Komen’s first branding debacle: See the Kentucky Fried Chicken incident and suing smaller charities for using “for the cure” but I’d say it’s the biggest one yet. Yesterday afternoon, and continuing into today, I believe we are witnessing the accidental rebranding of what is surely one of America’s biggest and most well-known, and even well-loved, nonprofit brands. MORE
Details: One Kentucky Fried Chicken location in Utah ran this promotion: Buy a HALF-GALLON of soda — with 800 calories from 56 spoonfuls of sugar — for $2.99 Here are my picks for the best local cause marketing programs of 2011. MORE
Kudos to Side by Side Kids , Miriam’s Kitchen , Merrimack River Feline Rescue Society , CASA of Travis County , The Aslan Project , Feeding America Kentucky’s Heartland , Pro Mujer , Diablo Regional Arts Association , Alameda County Community Food Bank , and Autism Community Network for being wonderful examples for other nonprofits to follow! A few weeks ago I shared tips for assessing whether or not a visitor would consider your nonprofit’s website open for business. MORE
” -Colleen Payne, Executive Director, Spina Bifida Association of Kentucky. November 14th, 2012 Workshop: Advanced Content Marketing for Your Business, Asian Pacific American Chamber of Commerce (APACC) Portland, OR, 5:30pm Register here. MORE
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Selfish Giving
JUNE 10, 2011
I just can’t understand what Kentucky Fried Chicken is thinking with its latest cause marketing program. Causerants cause marketing jdrf juvenile diabetes research foundation kentucky fried chicken kfc
Selfish Giving
NOVEMBER 29, 2011
Capplause Cause Marketing 101 cause marketing kentucky fried chicken kfc maggie keenan pinups qr codeI love when students put their education to good use.
Selfish Giving
JUNE 16, 2011
It’s been an interesting week since I wrote my post on the cause marketing promotion between Kentucky Fried Chicken and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. For Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Selfish Giving
APRIL 20, 2010
I want to love Komen’s new cause marketing partnership with Kentucky Fried Chicken, Buckets for the Cure. Tags: Causerants breast cancer causes cause marketing cause-related marketing causes finger lickin kentucky fried chicken kfc komen komen for the cure partnerships
Selfish Giving
DECEMBER 14, 2011
Cause Practices cause marketing kentucky fried chicken kfc maggie keenan pinupsTwo weeks ago I wrote about Maggie Keenan , a graduate of my Six Figure Cause Marketing Program and happy owner of Cause Marketing for Dummies.
Getting Attention
JULY 24, 2012
Here are some of the stories RWJF community members have shared with Meghan and team: Bringing Health Care to Rural Kentucky. Welcome to guest blogger Meghan Hurley, Special Events Intern at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and a senior at Loyola University Maryland. .
Fundraising Coach
SEPTEMBER 18, 2011
If you’re Western Kentucky University , you could have a contest of alumni hugging red towels. Yesterday, I got an email from Red Box asking me to take a picture of myself hugging a Red Box. Hugging a huge DVD dispensing box. Why haven’t I done this with my nonprofit?!
Getting Attention
MAY 4, 2010
Komen for the Cure’s® cause partnership with with Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), launched via a huge TV advertising campaign. Your feedback by May 7 please! Choosing a corporate sponsor for your nonprofit has tremendous potential to either help or harm your organization and its mission.
Getting Attention
MARCH 29, 2011
The University of Kentucky has put giant Facebook place icons throughout the campus to showcase its connectivity to prospective students.
Cause Related Marketing
JULY 11, 2011
Here’s a freebie for Ball jars, which sells food preserving jars and equipment, and Grow Appalachia, which teaches the people of rural Kentucky how to grow, cook and preserve their own food.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
FEBRUARY 1, 2012
This isn’t Komen’s first branding debacle: See the Kentucky Fried Chicken incident and suing smaller charities for using “for the cure” but I’d say it’s the biggest one yet. Yesterday afternoon, and continuing into today, I believe we are witnessing the accidental rebranding of what is surely one of America’s biggest and most well-known, and even well-loved, nonprofit brands.
Cause Related Marketing
JULY 31, 2013
The KFC eleven test store is in Louisville, Kentucky, KFC’s headquarters. KFC, a unit of Yum Brands, is testing a new quick-serve restaurant version of the fried chicken outlet and among the changes is that its cause marketing efforts will be much more local, according to Anne Fuller, senior director of development for KFC eleven. When it opens August 5, 2013, it will feature rice bowls, flatbreads, salads, KFC original recipe chicken among other items, plus sides.
Selfish Giving
JUNE 13, 2011
Last Friday, Joe appropriately ranted that Kentucky Fried Chicken’s latest “cause marketing” promotion (we cringe to even call it that) pushing mega-jugs of soda to “support” Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation was, well, chicken.
Wild Woman Fundraising
NOVEMBER 6, 2012
” -Colleen Payne, Executive Director, Spina Bifida Association of Kentucky. November 14th, 2012 Workshop: Advanced Content Marketing for Your Business, Asian Pacific American Chamber of Commerce (APACC) Portland, OR, 5:30pm Register here.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
Some ideas included posting photos of early ticket buyers with the reasons they were looking forward to the events, highlighting auction items as they are donated and even asking for early bids ahead of time, and asking trivia questions related to the event themes (“Wines of the World” and the Kentucky Derby). On Friday, I taught a workshop called Social Media: Your On-Ramp to Future Fundraising at the annual conference of the North Carolina Center for Nonprofits.
Social Marketing and Social Change
MAY 24, 2012
A major meeting on "getting better at doing good" will take place in Clearwater Beach, FL 15-16 June 2012. This theme for the 22nd Annual Social Marketing Conference reflects the global reality that government institutions, not-for-profit groups, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), universities and colleges and businesses are searching for better ways to improve people's health, the environment, work force development and social welfare.
Selfish Giving
FEBRUARY 8, 2011
But last year when Komen got caught in the chicken coop with Kentucky Fried Chicken suddenly nothing stuck, and, despite waves of criticism, Komen weathered the storm well.
Selfish Giving
MAY 10, 2010
Shortly after Steve’s tweet, Estrella Rosenberg said what a lot of us must have been thinking: Estrella is referring, of course, to the Komen/Kentucky Fried Chicken Buckets for the Cure cause marketing program that has sparked outrage both online and off.
Selfish Giving
MAY 24, 2011
While Komen had its misstep with Kentucky Fried Chicken , fast food chains make excellent partners for cause marketing. There’s social media, and social networking and then there’s social gaming. And they’re all growing like crazy and can be used for cause marketing.
Cause Related Marketing
FEBRUARY 4, 2011
They are: Super Bowl… $336 million Summer Olympics…$176 million Fifa World Cup…$103 million NCAA Men’s Final Four…$90 million Winter Olympics…$82 million Rose Bowl…$72 million MLB World Series…$61 million Kentucky Derby…$59 million 9. The September 27, 2007 Forbes magazine listed the value of the world’s top sponsored sports events, by the amount of money they generate per day.
Social Marketing and Social Change
DECEMBER 29, 2011
Vigorous physical activity among tweens, VERB Summer Scorecard Program, Lexington, Kentucky, 2004-2007 Evaluation of a successful community-based social marketing effort to increase physical activity among tweens. It's that time of year for retrospectives on the state of whatever. Here we offer our top 10 papers on social marketing published in 2011.
Cause Related Marketing
JULY 26, 2011
One of the infuriating things about the pink ribbon, emblematic of the fight against breast cancer, is that no one owns it in the United States.
Selfish Giving
APRIL 4, 2011
Even after Komen’s misstep in 2010 with Kentucky Fried Chicken and Buckets for the Cure , the program still raised $4 million and had little ill effect on the nonprofit’s brand.
Selfish Giving
MAY 2, 2011
Please, there were many good, productive ways Kentucky Fried Chicken and Komen could have worked together. I’m always finding good examples of cause marketing on Twitter. I have a few open searches on Tweetdeck that capture most of them.
The Agitator
MARCH 31, 2011
Moreover, the states with the largest percent growth in their Hispanic populations include nine where the Latino population more than doubled , including a swath in the southeast United States — Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee and South Carolina. Here from Pew Research is a nice wrap-up of the 2010 US Census figures as they relate to America’s Hispanic population. We all know the growth is strong — 43% over the past decade.
Cause Related Marketing
SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
Above is a flyer with a coupon from Coit cleaning in Louisville, Kentucky and benefiting Susan G. We see evidence of big cause marketing all the time. You know, cause marketing so massive… like the Red campaign or Boxtops for Education… that it seems to create its own gravity.
Selfish Giving
DECEMBER 20, 2010
Details: 50 cents of every bucket ordered by Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant operators during the promotion period went to Komen for the Cure. I combed through the Selfish Giving archives and came up with the best and worst local cause marketing programs of 2010.
Selfish Giving
SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
I faced a similar reaction when I wrote here and on The Huffington Post on JDRF’s partnership with Kentucky Fried Chicken. This is a guest post from the Center of Social Impact Communication at Georgetown University. It first appeared on their blog. I’m reprinting it here with their permission because it’s an excellent case study on the trouble cause marketing can stir and how to deal with it.
Wild Woman Fundraising
MAY 13, 2017
Planned Parenthood of Kentucky tweeted the picture and story below. The first thing I ever did was come out of a woman’s body picture of congressmen trying to take our healthcare away. On this Mother’s Day, let’s get mad everybody.
Cause Related Marketing
NOVEMBER 9, 2011
Kentucky Fried Chicken wanted to get away from all three of its names, so it became KFC. For some time now the two big prominent label collection efforts, General Mills Boxtops for Education and the much more senior and yet smaller Label’s for Education. founded by Campbell’s.
Selfish Giving
JUNE 23, 2011
As we learned from the controversy surrounding a cause marketing promotion between Kentucky Fried Chicken and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation , cause promotions are about marketing and perception, not truth and reality.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
OCTOBER 3, 2011
October 26-27: I’m the featured speaker at the Kentucky Nonprofit Leadership Forum. Here’s what happening this month at Nonprofit Marketing Guide. Three Webinars. We are presenting three webinars this month.
Diva Marketing Blog
JULY 15, 2011
We decided to use his site to update race fans of Barbaro's preparations for the Preakness Stakes after he had won the Kentucky Derby so easily, to remain undefeated. .
Wild Woman Fundraising
AUGUST 2, 2012
Colleen Payne, Executive Director, Spina Bifida Association of Kentucky. August 9th, 2012 3pm EDT OR September 6th, 3pm EDT. Are you worried about your next big event? Have you ever been at your wits end for finding sponsors? Are you afraid of what sponsors are thinking?
Selfish Giving
DECEMBER 27, 2011
Details: One Kentucky Fried Chicken location in Utah ran this promotion: Buy a HALF-GALLON of soda — with 800 calories from 56 spoonfuls of sugar — for $2.99 Here are my picks for the best local cause marketing programs of 2011.
Cause Related Marketing
FEBRUARY 5, 2013
There are three press releases for SIGNARAMA stores in Edmonton, Alberta, Peterborough, Ontario, and Louisville, Kentucky all with exactly the same leads or first paragraphs. The most common way to activate or promote your cause marketing campaign is via public relations.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
JULY 30, 2010
Jennifer Milburn, Kentucky Waterways Alliance. Thanks to the 154 nonprofits who completed our recent survey about what should go on the webinar schedule. Here are the top three webinars you selected. How to Create, Reuse, and Manage All of Your Content. This webinar has been scheduled for Thursday, November 4. Registration will open late August. Rethinking Your Newsletter Strategy. This webinar will be held Thursday, September 9. Registration will open in two weeks.
Get Fully Funded
MAY 13, 2010
So Kentucky Fried Chicken is doing a cause marketing promotion for the Susan Komen Foundation. You know, the one that fights breast cancer. And there are a lot of people scratching their heads about that. Some are even angry. Many are calling it a huge blunder. It’s tough to understand how greasy fast food and fighting breast cancer go together.
Cause Related Marketing
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
Harland Sanders didn’t open his first Kentucky Fried Chicken until he was 65. Yesterday Regal Entertainment announced the final tally of its August Straw Vote; Boys and Girls Clubs of America garnered $97,721 and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospitals collected $65,692.
Cause Related Marketing
JULY 30, 2012
Profits from its ‘gear’ store benefit Habitat for Humanity, local food banks in Lexington, Kentucky, veteran’s organizations and the Longhopes Donkey Shelter). Most cause marketing faces the consumer. You can imagine why.
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