No matter the size of your company or your digital footprint, there’s never a bad time to reexamine the efficacy of your digital storytelling. Your CSR story needs to be front page news, so you need to make it engaging and easily accessible to help enhance your brand image. 64% of millennials use social media to address or engage with companies around …
How to Turn Your Sponsors into Cause Marketing Partners
When companies think about how best to support their communities and enhance their corporate social responsibility initiatives, cause marketing often isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. Sponsorship is typically the first step many companies take in partnerships with charities and nonprofits – and unfortunately it is also often the last as they don’t explore the other opportunities. Not …
7 Simple Crowdfunding Best Practices for Businesses
Across North America, companies in all industries are launching partnerships with nonprofits and crowdfunding platforms to collaborate and leverage their audience to execute on their CSR projects. Crowdfunding has become an increasingly accepted, indeed – expected, CSR activity, which more and more cause marketing professionals are recognizing and appreciating for its lack of a real ‘downside’ and the incredible potential …
6 Keys to Donation-Matching Crowdfunding Campaign Success
Human nature may be fundamentally altruistic, but even if we’re hardwired for giving charitably a little incentive can go a long way with even the most generous donors. No one is going to be disappointed to see their money double – especially when that money is going to a good cause and their impact is amplified. Offering to double up and dollar-match individual …