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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. Bags are being sold online and in Harps Food Stores through the end of February. Director of Corporate Partnerships, Scratch Foundation , NYC ($110k - $120k) 2.

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Discount Retailer Keeps it Simple & Profitable with Pinups

Selfish Giving

There are no cross-promotions with other retailers. Everyone knows it has food and coats and supplies for the hospital. Ocean State Job Lots is a discount retailer with a premium reputation for giving. For all the different types of point-of-sale programs my cause marketing team executes this one is perhaps the simplest.

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Newsletter: Advice for New Corporate Fundraisers ; 25 Hot Retailers to Add to Your Prospect List; How to Use YouTube to Drive Traffic to Your Website

Selfish Giving

25 hot retailers ?? Brain Food 1. is a win that brings you closer to a new partnership! What would you suggest to a new corporate fundraiser?? Hit reply and let me know and I can share your advice in an upcoming issue. ?? Partnership Notes 1. to add to your prospect list. Which is your fave? ?? Marketing Your Cause 1.

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Active vs. Passive Cause Marketing

Selfish Giving

Some retailers see it as pestering the customer. An example here in eastern Massachusetts, and I limit it to my area because I really don’t know what they do in other parts of the country, is Whole Foods. And for all the shortcomings of PCM, Whole Food does it pretty darn well. But ACM isn’t for everyone.

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Detroit People’s Food Co-op: How to Advance Black Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Steve Dubb Food is the cover story. Malik Kenyatta Yakini, Up & Coming Food Co-op C onference panel September 15, 2023 There is a wave of food co-ops opening in majority-Black communities, as NPQ has covered. But organizing a food co-op is not easy. The first step was starting a monthly food-buying club.

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Tis the Season for Bad Cause Marketing

Selfish Giving

NPR reported on Monday that an Ohio Walmart was doing something wonderful: hosting a Thanksgiving food drive for needy families. A Cleveland newspaper asked the question: ”Is the food drive proof the retailer pays so little that many employees can’t afford Thanksgiving dinner?” … Keep reading.

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Towards Thriving: Building a Movement for Black Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

This article introduces Black Food Sovereignty: Stories from the Field , a series co-produced by Frontline Solutions and NPQ. This series features stories from a group of Black food sovereignty leaders who are working to transform the food system at the local level. These communities still live under food apartheid.

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