Archive for November, 2009

POSTED BY Suzi Craig

Nov 16, 2009

“Operation Home for the Holidays” Party Raised $12,000+ And Is Still Going!

In October, CT Governor Jodi M. Rell announced the “Operation Home for the Holidays” initiative to raise money for 700 CT National Guard troops who are being deployed in January 2010 to Afghanistan. The troops will be stationed in Wisconsin and Indiana until their deployment and, while they will have a holiday break, there are no funds to get them home to Connecticut to spend time with their families.

On November 14, 2009, Lisa Davenport’s Home Gallery warehouse in Marlborough, CT was transformed from funky, cool show room to fundraising central as 250 guests, organizers and supporters banded together to raise [More...]

POSTED BY Bruce Kaechele

Nov 3, 2009

Malt-O-Meal Sets A High Bar for Social Media and Social Responsibility

It’s pretty clear that social media is becoming an accepted method for raising money and support for cause-related organizations. Sara Lee is doing it today with their National Sandwich Day promotion that uses Facebook and Twitter to raise money for Share Our Strength.

Target did it for their Do Something 101 promotion that used Facebook to support an effort by dosomething.org to collect donations of school supplies.

Then yesterday [More...]