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Six Amazing Ways to Engage Employees in Service
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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
(Very)Nicely Done!
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Written by Alexandra Frazier
The folks at verynice, a design and innovation consultancy based in Los Angeles, know a thing or two about pro-bono. Since opening their doors, they’ve donated over $775,000 in creative services to clients all over the world. CreateAthon was a unique opportunity, then, for the firm to give back to two deserving nonprofits located in... Read More
Three Companies Making Social Good Waves
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Written by Alexandra Frazier
Many businesses support their employees’ individual volunteerism efforts. Then there are those groups who take on a more active approach to social good. Here are three organizations making major waves in the social good sector. Drum roll, please. For Connecting Cell Phone Use with Forces for Good: The People’s Operator Launched in November 2012,... Read More
A New Generation of Service: Millennials and Volunteering
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Written by Alexandra Frazier
“I was your age once…” So begin the musings of Baby Boomers to their lazy, instant-gratification-obsessed children. Or, at least, we assume that’s how conversations begin with entitled Gen Y-ers—it’s certainly what we’ve been led to believe by the countless articles that discuss Millennials’ inability to grow up and move out of their parents’ basements.... Read More
Chronicle Delight
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Written by Alexandra Frazier
Here at CreateAthon, we love to be the center of attention. And so, we’re thrilled to announce that The Chronicle of Philanthropy has featured our up-all-night brand of imaginative altruism in their latest publication. In “Charities Benefit from Ad Agencies’ 24-Hour Creativity Marathons,” The Chronicle highlights CreateAthon’s transition from a local, single business effort to... Read More
The Many Meanings of CreateAthon
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Written by Julie Turner
The benefits of CreateAthon are quite clear for nonprofits. For creative professionals, however, the advantages of working for 24 hours straight can be shrouded by fear, anxiety and one very, very unforgiving deadline. It’s a challenge a handful of 2013 volunteers saw as an opportunity to stretch within the confines of everyday. Here’s how. What... Read More
Waggener Edstrom gives us a CreateAthon play-by-play
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Written by Jenni Brennison
There seem to be a few universal truths about every CreateAthon experience. Participants agree, staying up for 24-hours is a little bit crazy. OK, it’s a lot of crazy. At 8 a.m. a client’s enthusiasm for your work can make you burst into tears even before you begin your presentation. But what happens at 4... Read More
An Experiment in Giving Back
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Written by Teresa Coles
Sixteen years ago CreateAthon was a grand experiment. Our biggest concern wasn’t if we could get all the work done; it was more whether our rag-tag crew of volunteers could even stay awake for 24 hours! Little did we know, we were onto something big. That 1998 CreateAthon was the inaugural effort of what’s now... Read More
CreateAthon: A CEO Reflects On Her Favorite Time of Year
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Written by Jenni Brennison
CreateAthon does more for me than it ever does for the nonprofits we help. It teaches me lessons. It humbles me. It makes me a better person. – Trish Cheatham, CEO, Think Tank In the late morning hours of Oct. 25, Think Tank CEO, Trish Cheatham, sat down to blog about the successful completion of... Read More
CreateAthon is Coming: The Sales Factory's Survival Guide
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Written by Jenni Brennison
The team at The Sales Factory of Greensboro, NC, will soon have 11 CreateAthon’s under their belt. In the past they’ve stayed up all night to offer nonprofits everything from identity branding to direct mail pieces. This year is especially exciting because they’re bringing their newly opened San Francisco office into the fold. So what... Read More