Category: Pro Bono Volunteerism

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CreateAthon@VCU Goes Virtual to Help Richmond, VA Nonprofits CreateAthon@VCU Goes Virtual to Help Richmond, VA Nonprofits
CreateAthon@VCU Goes Virtual to Help Richmond, VA Nonprofits
  • Written by CreateAthon

When the COVID-19 pandemic forced the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Richard T. Robertson School of Media and Culture to cancel its annual CreateAthon@VCU event, students reimagined an alternative approach and held it virtually. CreateAthon is a 24-hour pro bono marathon during which marketing organizations and university students develop strategic and creative marketing deliverables for nonprofits... Read More

AIGA DC CreateAthon 2017 – Exhausted and Thrilled: Designers Pair with Nonprofits for 24-Hour CreateAthon AIGA DC CreateAthon 2017 – Exhausted and Thrilled: Designers Pair with Nonprofits for 24-Hour CreateAthon
AIGA DC CreateAthon 2017 – Exhausted and Thrilled: Designers Pair with Nonprofits for 24-Hour CreateAthon
  • Written by Amber Jinae

What happens when creatives get together to work 24 hours straight? A lot, actually! In March 2017, AIGA DC organized their first CreateAthon where thirty volunteers created various marketing materials for five local, underfunded nonprofits: Serve Your City, Educational Theater Company, Reading Partners, Arlington Free Clinic and GTLD Network. The response from the local design... Read More

Six Amazing Ways to Engage Employees in Service Six Amazing Ways to Engage Employees in Service
Six Amazing Ways to Engage Employees in Service
  • Written by CreateAthon

Do you wish you could hear from the experts as you manage and scale employee engagement and corporate volunteer programs?  Now you can! The latest trends in corporate volunteering are now at your fingertips and on video with Points of Light’s Corporate Video Lecture Series. Watch and learn as corporate social responsibility experts from the... Read More

Seamgen CreateAthon Offers Pro Bono Services to Nonprofits Seamgen CreateAthon Offers Pro Bono Services to Nonprofits
Seamgen CreateAthon Offers Pro Bono Services to Nonprofits
  • Written by CreateAthon

Seamgen invites local nonprofit organizations to submit applications for its CreateAthon® event, to be held October 24-25, 2015. CreateAthon is a 24-hour blitz during which Seamgen provides creative services to nonprofit organizations on a pro bono basis. “This is our first year partnering with CreateAthon and it will definitely represent some of the most important... Read More

How CreateAthon Appeals to Employee’s Sweet Spot How CreateAthon Appeals to Employee’s Sweet Spot
How CreateAthon Appeals to Employee’s Sweet Spot
  • Written by Rhian Rotz

In December, two of the 2014 trends about corporate societal engagement by CECP resonated as we reflected on Waggener Edstrom’s second annual CreateAthon event. The post highlighted that companies are paying closer attention to their culture and how it aligns company values with employee values because employees are looking to work for companies that share... Read More

Pro Bono Week is rocking in Richmond, VA
  • Written by Peyton Rowe

Richmond, Virginia is a hot spot of Pro Bono events this week. As many of you know, Pro Bono Week, a global celebration of the pro bono ethic across all sectors, is Oct. 19 through Oct. 25.  In honor of that outstanding week, three events are happening at Virginia Commonwealth University and each them is... Read More

A nonprofit on the edge of CreateAthon: Anticipating the power of pro bono
  • Written by Peyton Rowe

I feel so energetic just being here. I’m bowled over by their passion and thoughtfulness. It’s already more than I ever imagined. This was the post-meeting take from Natalie Allen, founder of the Arts Empowerment Project in Charlotte, NC, as she emerged from her first CreateAthon briefing session. The gathering was at our place —... Read More

Magnifying Philanthropic Giving
  • Written by Julie Turner

When CreateAthon was born 15 years ago, the idea was simple: To do more work for more nonprofits in next-to-no amount of time. That’s also what happened in a big way on Tuesday, May 6 in our hometown and maybe yours as well. Give Local America, a movement designed reignite philanthropy at the community level,... Read More

Hop on CreateAthon.
  • Written by Julie Turner

It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year is the song we’re all singing about this time every year. Yes, the warm, sunny summer days are nigh. But what really puts the wind in our sails is when our CreateAthon partners start setting the wheels in motion for CreateAthon 2014. The first step? Signing the CreateAthon... Read More

Furman CreateAthon Sparks Student Creativity
  • Written by Julie Turner

Furman University Art Department Chair Ross McClain digs his ultra-smart students. Yet he thinks they would benefit greatly from failing at something every now and again. You know as a learning exercise. That was one reason the esteemed South Carolina university signed on for CreateAthon in 2013. Writer Ron Wagner shares more about their inaugural... Read More