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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

Campaign) effort started in 2002 at seven Memphis-area Chili’s restaurants The National Christmas Tree Association modeled the Trees for Troops program after local efforts by growers in the Pacific Northwest. 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. Derek Ham, a North Carolina State University professor, asked: “What was it like to be there? How could VR transport us there?” 1 CAE credit. More info/register.

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