{"id":4430,"date":"2009-07-21T12:55:26","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T12:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=4430"},"modified":"2025-06-05T16:01:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T16:01:23","slug":"nonprofit-marketing-contest-offers-ideas-for-creative-taglines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/content-creation\/nonprofit-marketing-contest-offers-ideas-for-creative-taglines\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonprofit marketing: Contest offers ideas for creative taglines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4444 aligncenter\" style=\"margin-left: 1px;vertical-align: middle;margin-right: 1px\" title=\"newarkmuseumlogo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/newarkmuseumlogo.jpg\" alt=\"newarkmuseumlogo\" width=\"211\" height=\"99\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last year, nonprofit marketing expert Nancy\u00a0Schwartz produced the\u00a0largest collection of nonprofit taglines ever assembled as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/gettingattention.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GettingAttention.org Nonprofit Tagline Award Program.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Her\u00a0survey showed that most nonprofits either don&#8217;t have a tagline or have a tagline that performs poorly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s a critical marketing and communication problem we&#8217;re trying to help solve, because a good tagline is one of the most powerful marketing tools available to any organization,&#8221; Nancy says. &#8220;A strong tagline does double duty&#8212;extending an organization&#8217;s name and mission, while delivering a memorable and specific message to its base.<\/p>\n<p>She loves the Newark Museum tagline: &#8220;100 years. always new.&#8221;\u00a0At her blog, she mentions\u00a0the criteria for memorable taglines. She&#8217;s trying to improve\u00a0all nonprofits&#8217; taglines by highlighting the best examples she\u00a0can find among nonprofits and foundations.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s where she needs your help. If you work in the nonprofit area,\u00a0enter your organization&#8217;s\u00a0tagline in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s.aspx?sm=inEcCCK2q3I63oNOiC_2bAMA_3d_3d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2009 Award program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Every entrant\u00a0contributes to the GettingAttention.org tagline database, and will receive a copy of\u00a0the updated 2009 Nonprofit Tagline Report. It will guide\u00a0any organization through the process of crafting an effective tagline, whether a new one, the first one, or a tagline for one of its programs.<\/p>\n<p>PR consultants, this is a great contest for your nonprofit clients!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Later this fall, once she has\u00a0processed all the entries&#8212;there are\u00a0more than 1,000 already&#8212;Nancy will\u00a0invite nonprofit and foundation professionals to vote for the best tagline in 13 categories. Deadline for entries is July 31. (While you&#8217;re at it, sign up for Nancy&#8217;s excellent ezine.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I promise to announce the winners here.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, nonprofit marketing expert Nancy\u00a0Schwartz produced the\u00a0largest collection of nonprofit taglines ever assembled as part of the GettingAttention.org Nonprofit Tagline Award Program. Her\u00a0survey showed that most nonprofits either don&#8217;t have a tagline or have a tagline that performs poorly. &#8220;That&#8217;s a critical marketing and communication problem we&#8217;re trying to help solve, because a good\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/content-creation\/nonprofit-marketing-contest-offers-ideas-for-creative-taglines\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":8,"wds_primary_category":603,"footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[617],"class_list":{"0":"post-4430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-content-creation","7":"tag-nonprofit-marketing","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42061,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430\/revisions\/42061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}