{"id":8571,"date":"2011-06-03T17:50:54","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T17:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=8571"},"modified":"2011-06-03T17:50:54","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T17:50:54","slug":"nonprofits-patch-com-offers-volunteers-free-ad-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/publicity\/nonprofits-patch-com-offers-volunteers-free-ad-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonprofits: Patch.com offers volunteers, free ad space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Patch-publicity-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8574\" style=\"float: left;margin: 4px 10px\" title=\"Patch publicity logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Patch-publicity-logo.jpg\" alt=\"Patch logo\" width=\"218\" height=\"84\" \/><\/a>Don&#8217;t view <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Patch.com\" target=\"_blank\">Patch.com <\/a>only as a news-gathering website for hyer-local news.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, when I shared\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/blog\/need-local-publicity-6-tips-for-pitching-patch-com\" target=\"_blank\">6 tips for pitching Patch<\/a>, I didn&#8217;t know that nonprofits, community groups and anyone dedicated to a worthy cause can apply for free advertising space and volunteers that come directly from Patch&#8217;s staff.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130908064912\/http:\/\/hermosabeach.patch.com\/news\/volunteering\" target=\"_blank\">Give 5 program<\/a> and here&#8217;s how it works.<\/p>\n<p>Patch gives 5 percent of its advertising space, free of charge, to local charities from the communities it serves. \u00a0All Patch employees spend five working days each year volunteering in their communities.<\/p>\n<p>For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Patch volunteers<a href=\"http:\/\/hermosabeach.patch.com\/groups\/volunteering\/p\/patch-give-5-school-on-wheels\" target=\"_blank\"> tutored children in need in downtown Los Angeles<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>In Norton, MA, volunteers helped herd runners and feed them snacks during the New Balance Reach the Beach Relay.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>In Fairlawn-Bath, Ohio, editor\u00a0Kymberli Hagelberg <a href=\"http:\/\/fairlawn-bath.patch.com\/groups\/volunteering\/p\/editors-notebook-taking-time-to-give-5-at-stewarts-caring-place\" target=\"_blank\">wrote about her volunteer stint<\/a> at Stewart&#8217;s Caring Place in Fairlawn, a non-profit organization that provides free wellness services people who have been touched by cancer. Other editors do, too, and that means extra publicity for the organization that&#8217;s lucky enough to get a Patch volunteer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two paws up&#8212;way up&#8212;for Patch&#8217;s Give 5 program which gets journalists into the community and\u00a0gives back.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:give5@patch.com\" target=\"_blank\">Email them<\/a> to see if you qualify.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update on Aug. 16, 2011:<\/strong> Patch\u00a0now has websites in Iowa, North Carolina and\u00a0New Hampshire. It&#8217;s also starting a new series called &#8220;Dispatches: The Changing American Dream.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/blog\/pitch-patch-com-for-new-series-on-the-american-dream\" target=\"_blank\">Read\u00a0about it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t view Patch.com only as a news-gathering website for hyer-local news. Last month, when I shared\u00a06 tips for pitching Patch, I didn&#8217;t know that nonprofits, community groups and anyone dedicated to a worthy cause can apply for free advertising space and volunteers that come directly from Patch&#8217;s staff. It&#8217;s called the Give 5 program and\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/publicity\/nonprofits-patch-com-offers-volunteers-free-ad-space\/\" 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":1,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[691],"tags":[629,639],"class_list":{"0":"post-8571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-publicity","7":"tag-advertising","8":"tag-patch","9":"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\/8571","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=8571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}