Win two roundtrip
airline tickets
by supporting
Georgia Gives Day!
National Service Members of Georgia,
If you haven’t heard, Georgia Gives Day inspires individuals to donate to participating nonprofits with the
goal of raising as much money as possible within a 24-hour period. GAgivesday.org makes donating easy by
organizing hundreds of nonprofits across the state onto one website, providing the information people need to
select a cause or charity of their choice, and enabling online donations by credit card or e-check.
We need your help spreading the word and building the buzz before and on the day – together, we can
co-create a fun way to galvanize the public to support local causes and to give where they live.
The Georgia Center for Nonprofits is hosting a competition for all National Service members, and we
want your help!
Here are the rules:
1. Between today (Friday, 11/1) and next Monday
(11/11), hang as many Georgia Gives Day posters
or leave flyers (download here) in as many storefronts in your community as possible. Storefronts
include grocery stores, banks, salons, libraries,
malls, boutiques, restaurants & eateries, dry cleaners, gas stations, etc. For more information about
Georgia Gives Day and participating nonprofits,
click here.
2. Get permission from managers and owners to
hang the posters or leave flyers in the storefronts
until November 13th, 2013. Make sure to always
say thank you & smile!
3 Collect the business, company, or storefronts
name and address by filling out the attached form.
If they have social media handles, collect that
information as well.
4. Take fun pictures of you in each location that
we can leverage online in our various social media
channels.
Prizes:
The two individuals with the most businesses on their
list and submit the requisite information and pictures
by Monday, November 11th, 2013 will each win two
roundtrip tickets courtesy of Southwest Airlines!
All other participants will be featured in the Georgia
Gives Day blog with the name of their favorite participating organization.
Send your results and any questions to Tommy
Pearce, [email protected].
Visit Clickifyoucare.org to learn more about the
competition, and learn how you can enter to win
other cool prizes from Georgia Gives Day!
Download the Georgia Gives Day Flyer
Download the Georgia Gives Day Poster
Download the Submission Form
Georgia Gives Day
A Great Opportunity for
National Service Members!
What is it? A flashmob of giving! A statewide day
of giving to support the important work and impact
that nonprofits make in local communities.
Georgia Gives Day is an opportunity for people
to find a cause that matters to them and give where
they live. The day does not support any specific
cause; rather it engages the public through a collaborative campaign to support any cause they
choose. Through a highly searchable database of
nonprofits across the state on Gagivesday.org, citizens can key in an array of search terms, including
type of cause, zip code, city, or nonprofit name and
receive a list of nonprofit profiles from which they
can learn more and give to directly. 100% of every
donation goes directly to the nonprofit.
How Can National Service Members Get
Involved?
By promoting Georgia Gives Day, you have the
opportunity to support your sponsor organization
and hundreds of nonprofits in the state of Georgia.
The objective is to engage as many people as possible to support your cause or simply support any
cause they care about on November 13th. We are
working hard to engage the media to cover Georgia
Gives Day and create a wave of awareness. As a
national service member, you already do amazing
work to support nonprofits around the state, while
also working to eradicate poverty. By getting your
nonprofit organization involved with Georgia Gives
Day, you can continue to build support and awareness for the great work you do.
Here’s How You Can Help:
Enter the Georgia Center for Nonprofits contest for
National Service Members or other Georgia “GivesAways,” and have the chance to win awesome
prizes, including Southwest Airline tickets.
You can also build comunity buzz by sending email
blasts to donors and volunteers, building social media awareness, or putting the Georgia Gives Day
logo on your homepage.
Create a Public Challenge.
People love a challenge. Create a public match
challenge using funds that you have already secured from an event or a donor. Challenge the
public to help you double that amount.
Become a Personal Friend-Raiser.
As an active supporter of your sponsor organization, consider becoming a personal friend-raiser!
Create a fun and challenging fundraising goal to
meet on or before Georgia Gives Day, and consider
asking friends and other national service members
to match your goal. The GA Gives platform allows
also your supporters to create their own profile pages to create a link between new donors and your
organization, with only a few steps on your part!.
On the Day of:
Create a Georgia Gives Day champion team. Encourage your team to give consistent shout out’s
throughout the day to their friends and community,
updating your audiences on the support you are
getting, and making calls to action. We have many
fun donor engagement games on the day that can
help your causes make even more money.
Georgia Gives Day
A Great Opportunity for
National Service Members!
2013 Goal: To increase giving to nonprofits
across Georgia and get more than 10,000 people
to donate online through GAGives.org in 24 hours.
The event also hopes to help nonprofits attract new
donors.
Background: The brainchild of the nonprofit,
public and private sectors and spearheaded by the
Georgia Center for Nonprofits, Georgia Gives Day
launched in 2012 as a co-created nonprofit fundraising initiative. Our corporate partners include
Coca-Cola, Mohawk, SunTrust, Wells Fargo, Georgia Power, Auto Trader, Southwest Airlines, and
Gas South among others.
Our nonprofit leadership group includes 50 of
Georgia’s renowned cause leaders including the
Red Cross, United Way, Georgia Council for the
Arts, Goodwill(s), Jewish Federation, Humane
Societies, Georgia Food Bank Association, Georgia Legal Services, Families First, Georgia Council
Against Domestic Violence, etc.
Georgia Gives Day 2012 was also supported by
pro-bono media partners such as Edelman Public Relations, Ames Scullin O’Haire Advertising,
Encyclomedia, Outdoor Advertising Association of
Georgia, GA Cable Association, Cox Media Group,
Channel 11, and the Georgia Association of Broadcasters including over 40 television and over 50
radio stations throughout Georgia.
Elected officials have also recognized and supported the mission of Georgia Gives Day since
its launch, including Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed,
Secretary of State Brian Kemp, Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle and Governor Nathan Deal, who
officially proclaimed November 13, 2013 as Georgia
Gives Day.
In 2012, Gives Day event where over 7000 people
donated $800,000 to over 1300 nonprofits throughout Georgia. The 2013 event aims to engage
15,000+ donors and create a large awareness campaign about the impact nonprofits create on local
communities. We hope to raise in excess of $1M in
2013. There are over 1500 registered nonprofits.
Want to Know More?
Amanda Keuler
Georgia Gives Day Coordinator
[email protected]
678.916.3048
Didi Henry
Georgia Gives Day Coordinator
[email protected]
678.916.3062
For more ideas on how to get ready for the
giving day, click here or email
[email protected].