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Coaches vs. Cancer: Groups’ Fundraising Strategy Eyes New Recruits

Associations Now

Here’s why ACS recruited some of college basketball’s top coaches to their team. As we were thinking about a way to engage for donations, we started with the consumer insight that people are really interested in how coaches recruit. Basketball coaches tend to be a passionate bunch, known for their bursts of inspiration.

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Kids Skate Free: Association-Managed Cause Marketing Campaign

SCD Group

Kids Skate Free represents a great example of a locally-initiated, association-managed cause marketing campaign that benefits a struggling industry. It demonstrates how associations can use cause marketing to enhance their members while benefitting a cause. It was able to recruit FedEx as a sponsor.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 3.9.18

Reid All About it

His “ there” is the Memphis sanitation workers strike and the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. If a competitor beat you to a new market opportunity or disrupted your business model, know you’re in good company. Your Event Marketing Survival Guide. Take away a sample 12-month marketing calendar. Wed 3/14 at 1 p.m.

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