Email marketing service provider Emma announced today its 2012 Emma 25, a program that annually awards 25 charitable organizations free email marketing tools for the lifetime of the nonprofit. Emma has donated services to more than 200 nonprofits worldwide through Emma 25, now in its eighth year of operation.
Members of 501(c)3 organizations with 10 or fewer full-time employees are eligible for the Emma 25 program. More than 225 nonprofits applied this year.
"All the applicants were worthy. Supremely worthy, really, which made it extremely difficult to choose 25 from all the deserving nominees," said Emma CEO Clint Smith. "We set out to find organizations that really struck an Emma chord, like nonprofits for which email is the missing link or is a natural extension of their existing outreach communication efforts."
Emma 25 organizations receive an Emma account, a custom-designed email stationery design and a lifetime of email and survey service, all at no cost. Emma 25 honorees also receive unlimited support and account help, and access to special classes on mastering the fundamentals of email marketing.
Emma 25 recipients from this year include:
Austin Creative Reuse, an Austin collective that collects paper, buttons, test tubes, etc. from all over Central Texas to reuse in its creative arts programs and sell in its retail store (http://www.
Classical Revolution PDX, a Portland, Oregon revolution bringing classical music to the masses through a coffee shop session here, a lounge concert there, Classical Revolution PDX connects classical musicians with classical music fans (http://www.
desigNYC, a NYC-based community of experienced designers on a mission to improve the lives of New Yorkers through pro-bono graphic, landscape and industrial design projects (http://www.designyc.org).
Springboard Landings of Nashville, Tennessee has an inspired goal of creating a campus that can support independent living for 48 adults with mild developmental disabilities (http://www.
The remaining 2012 honorees include:
ABLE Youth, Nashville, TN http://www.ableyouth.org
Abolition International, Nashville, TN http://www.
Alberta Main Street, Portland, OR http://www.albertamainst.org
Autism Society of Middle Tennessee (ASMT, Inc.), Nashville, TNhttp://www.tnautism.org
Bellevue Youth Theatre Foundation, Bellevue, WA http://www.bytf.org
Big Dog Ranch Rescue, Wellington, FL http://www.bdrr.org
Cowichan Therapeutic Riding Association, Duncan, Vancouver, Canadahttp://www.ctra.ca
Climate Ride, Missoula, MT http://www.climateride.org
Con Mi MADRE, Austin, TX http://www.conmimadre.org
Council on Aging of Greater Nashville, Nashville, TN http://www.coamidtn.org
Global Gardens, Tulsa, OK http://www.global-gardens.org
Help a Teacher Teach, Youngstown, OH http://www.helpateacherteach.
HopeWorks, Inc., Memphis, TN http://www.whyhopeworks.org
Lose the Training Wheels, Inc., Goddard, KS http://www.
Mainstreamed Media, Portland, OR http://www.mainstreamedmedia.
Miracle Travel Works, Des Moines, IA http://www.miracletravelworks.
Second Chance Greyhounds, Douglasville, GA http://www.
Sidewalk Chalk, Charleston, SC http://www.sidewalkchalk.org
Southwest Indiana College Access Network, Evansville, INhttp://www.yessican.com
Transitions Housing Agency, Inc., Nashville, TN http://www.transitionshousing.
Victims Impact Panel of Tennessee, Inc., Mount Juliet, TN http://www.vipoftn.org
For more Emma 25 information, visit myemma.com/emma25.
About Emma®
Emma is an email marketing service that helps small and midsize companies, nonprofits and agencies market and communicate in style. Founded in 2003, Emma makes it easy to create attractive email campaigns and online surveys, send to large opt-in audiences and track the response in real time. Based in Nashville, with offices in Portland, Denver, Austin and New York, Emma's 100+ employees serve more than 30,000 organizations worldwide. To learn more, please visit myemma.com. Follow Emma on Twitter at twitter.com/emmaemail or on Facebook,facebook.com/emmaemail.