CreateAthon 2011

NEPA CreateAThon applications are due on August 1, 2011.  You can get an application by clicking here.

Northeastern Pennsylvania non-profit organizations will be the beneficiaries of free marketing and creative services provided by cds creative, inc. and Dawe Consulting, LLC along with a growing team of creative services volunteers in the 10th annual NEPA CreateAthon.

CreateAthon is a 24-hour, work-around the clock creative blitz during which marketing, advertising and public relations firms provide nonprofit marketing services on a pro bono basis. Since the program’s creation by Riggs Partners in 1998, 73 agencies have participated in the CreateAthon network, holding CreateAthon events in their respective markets. It’s an effort that has impacted more than 1,100 non-profit organizations, delivering 2,500 projects valued at more than $11 million.

Locally, the NEPA CreateAThon team provides marketing and creative services to nonprofit organizations in Luzerne, Lackawanna, Lehigh, Monroe and Wyoming counties (other counties can be considered on a special needs basis.) The CreateAthon volunteers include local artists, writers, web designers and coders and others.

“Catherine Shafer brought CreateAThon to Northeastern Pennsylvania ten years ago, and it has grown every year,” said John Dawe, president of Dawe Consulting. “Last year, cds creative’s CreateAThon event provided marketing services to fifteen nonprofit organizations. The market value of the work produced during the event  is estimated at $50, 000.”

Shafer will be out of the area CreateAthon day, but will be helping out with all the preparation work.  “CreateAthon is a way for us to support our community by providing marketing materials that will help nonprofits reach new donors and sources and create more awareness of their organizations,” she added. “The group who works on CreateAthon is tremendously talented.”