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Newsletter: Selfish Giving + You: 2025 is Our Year! ; Retail Winners and Losers of 2024 ; How Jimmy Carter Made Habitat a Nonprofit Giant

Selfish Giving

There are two fewer retailers to partner with: Party City and Big Lots close 1,600 stores and declare bankruptcy. Read more on the retail winners and losers of 2024. Customers can donate at checkout, with 100% of the funds going toward providing free mental health educational resources.

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Active vs. Passive Cause Marketing

Selfish Giving

Some retailers see it as pestering the customer. I ran across the pictured Autism Special Education Center pinup program at my local Whole Foods in West Newton, Massachusetts. To date, I also haven’t worked with retailers with the kind of customers that are more responsive to PCM programs. The same is true of pinups.

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Ep198: How One Nonprofit Raises Millions With the Gaming Industry

Selfish Giving

How the Endowment is raising money with in-game "vanity items," and the key role these items play in educating gamers about the cause. Show Notes Ep143: Call of Duty Endowment Enlists Gamers, Retailers for Mission to Help Vets Call of Duty Endowment Call of Duty Endowment on Twitter Dan Goldenberg on Twitter.

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Starting From Scratch: Boston’s Heal the Hood

NonProfit Quarterly

Now, each Sunday, 20 to 25 volunteers spend five hours delivering a months worth of groceries, including meats, fresh produce, clothes, sneakers, and other essentials, to about 200 homes in Boston public housingwith no help from grocery or retail stores as part of Heal the Hoods Feed the Hood program. Rich people dont help us.

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Cone Study to Local Nonprofits: Now is the Time for Cause Marketing

Selfish Giving

That’s the number of Americans that wish more of the products, services and retailers they used would support causes. Employee education and training in causes is key and causes with a local presence have the edge, if they will only take advantage of it. Focus on educating and motivating your partner’s employees.

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Tap UNICEF’s Tap Project for Restaurant Cause Marketing

Selfish Giving

Point-of-sale just isn’t for retailers. That’s one advantage you have over UNICEF: you’re a local cause so you can educate restaurant workers on the program and don’t need printed materials. It’s a cheat sheet the waitstaff can use at the diner’s table to educate, explain and sell the program.

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Scott Resumes Giving Away Millions In Large Chunks

The NonProfit Times

million square feet of retail, community, and educational space, and help tens of thousands of people find employment and improve their finances, according to data from the organization. LISC leaders will determine the specifics of how the new funding will be used in the coming weeks.

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