Businesses
Nothing is business as usual this year, and this brand new service offers you a way to give and get in return. AlbuquerqueDonations helps you make effective donations nurturing a spirit of abundance rather than scarcity.
Who uses this service?Businesses that can offer gift certificate donations.
Are you still handwriting your donation gift certificates and hoping you have a visible presence at the charity event?Do you see the value of branding your business in our community? Want to increase traffic too? Now you can.
This new way is inexpensive, promotional, and builds traffic while consciously supporting community nonprofit organizations that you choose in advance. Offering philanthropic community support you can now provide the nonprofit organization everything they need for your gift certificate donation at the next event; showcasing your logo in full color, and your offer, as it should be - all professionally designed with no additional design fees.
Have you known in the past how your gift certificate donation was displayed at benefit auctions? Now you will.
Have you reached the tipping point? Are there more requests for donations than you can handle? This is a new way to think of donations - a new way to think of gift certificates....and a helping hand too.
There is no duplication of effort here, this service is unique, inexpensive (as low as 94¢/day), and custom designed to help you buffer the surge of requests you receive. Using this integrated service gives you real people that work for you, and with you, representing your business to the community and nonprofit organizations with every intention to increase awareness, revenue, and traffic to your store location through your charitable giving. It also gives you the convenience of an integrated web service for both yourself and your donation-seekers. 
Customized Donations - the New Way
We work with you to CREATE gift certificate donations with careful consideration to your offer, frequency of your offer, your logo, and your presentation. Bringing people back to your location once a month can increase your traffic and sales. Now nonprofits are giving back too, they help their donors.
You'll get advertising exposure and more return business/more revenue with this new system
Hundreds of people purchase tickets to attend gala events. On average there's over two a week in Santa Fe. You choose from the current list of benefit events and give strategic gift certificates that are frequent offers to visit your place of business. Your gift cerificates will be custom designed and the nonprofit will also receive an 8.5"x11" color poster to display and promote your offer clearly showcasing your logo and the value of your donation. Hundreds of people are now seeing your business identity at the gala event and what you offer. The person who bids during the silent auction is your potential new customer. They attend the event, bid on your exciting and colorful gift certificates, and you gain a loyal new customer(s) from the person who bid the most and who also receives a 
tax-deductible receipt for purchasing your donation. You've gained awareness from EVERYONE attending, and you'll also receive a tax-deductible acknowledgement as usual from the nonprofit organization you've given to. Your gift certificate donations are chosen in advance, designed, printed, managed, and delivered for you.
How it Saves you Time
Albuquerque Donations™ helps you create a simple donation plan that manages, designs, prints, promotes, and distributes your donations - you choose the organizations you want to give to - it's that easy and it's all done for you. Choose which organizations you'll give to in advance from the master list of events instead of meeting with all nonprofit organizations individually. Next time you're asked, simply direct donation-seekers to this site to make their request. Requests are always acknowledged immediately.
More Benefits
This service gives you the freedom to never have to say "no" again to another request for donations. We'll graciously do it for you, or help you invent a way to do more donations and build more traffic to your store.
More Options
A framed poster that is also designed and given to you to display at no additional cost. This poster highlights the nonprofit organizations you are currently giving to. Many businesses have it close at hand to direct donation-seekers to this web address and let them know that they can request a donation directly from you online. You are also given a page on this website that is exclusively yours to showcase your business and your current giving.
"Every organization - not just business - needs one core competence: Innovation."- Peter Drucker
Choose your Albuquerque based Charities
Pre-select which nonprofits you will give to and when, or change or add as you please. The list of Albuquerque Events is supplied to you. This is the only source available where you can find a current database of charitable organizations and the events they host every year and is continuously monitored and updated. Categories include:
- Animals
- Arts & Culture
- Children's Causes
- Education
- Health
- Human Services
- Religious Organizations
- Political Organizations
- 501 (c) 6 Organizations
- Other (Chamber of Commerce, United Way, etc)
Consider this new service -customized donations, distribution too.
- Ensure that your offer is presented well at all events.
- Instead of one donation, offer more frequency, once-a-month offers, in a way that will increase traffic for your business.
- Base your offer on a unique item/service/strength of your business and BRAND your specialty.
- Purposeful design. Gift certificates - intended to be kept in wallets all year long - can be a constant reminder of your donation, and your business, and a reason to come back.
- Amortize your donations monthly to support more charities.
- Could you benefit by having customers come back every month?
How often do people see your logo now? Will they recognize your contributions in the community?
FACT: You need to see something 6 times to remember it.
FACT: We are exposed to over 3,000 messages a day.....According to Jean Kilbourne, who has been studying ads' cultural impact for almost 20 years in an interview by Nan Knutsen: “We believe we're not affected by advertising because it is so often silly, trivial, and something we don't pay conscious attention to. We flip through ads in magazines, speed by billboards, zone out during TV commercials. However, advertising's influence is cumulative and primarily unconscious. The less consciously we watch ads, the more deeply we are affected. The average American is exposed to more than 3000 ads a day, and companies spend over $200 billion each year on advertising. (Jean Kilbourne Website - http://www.jeankilbourne.com/)
More is More. There's real value in every donation.
Consider this:
On average 400 local residents attend charity events. If you donate to 160 events , you are potentially reaching 64,000 people who see your logo and your community philanthropy throughout the year. Like you, a winning bidder at a slient auction receives a charitiable receipt for what they buy, supports your charity as well, and has a motivated reason to patronize your place of business.
Does your old way of giving include the potential to bring in thousands of dollars of additional revenue? This new concept can.
You could give one gift certificate of $25 or you could choose this new way offering 12 gift certificates, once-a-month-for-a-year and both your business and the nonprofit benefits. The person who purchases it at a fundraising event 
comes in every month to use their gift certificate. This is social networking. Now your generous donation to a charity brings you more business. When the purchaser of the gift certificate spends more and brings friends with them then your donation has done three things: increased your regular traffic, given you a loyal customer every month, and increased your revenue. The continued presence of the 12 gift certificates in your new customer's wallet gives a constant reminder to comeback.
Is it likely that your customer will come back every month to use their monthly gift certificate.......?
stay to sample more that you offer.......?
what do they spend on average? Will they introduce friends and family to your place of business?
Here's a sample of how it might work:
Compare the advertising value too.
This is another way to show your presence in the community in conjunction with traditional media options, at a very inexpensive cost. Why not add this service as another media strategy? It will pay for itself - and then some. It is designed to be a win-win solution. With so many charity events continuously seeking contributions from area businesses, you will be asked anyway - maximize the opportunity to help build your business and to help area nonprofits. This service is less than $1 a day, offers free graphic design, promotes, manages, and distributes your donations.....all purposely created to increase the frequency of your customers' visits, increase YOUR revenue, contribute to your community, and save valuable time.
At your initial consultation you can view all the options on the price list. Choose more or less. Discounts apply, making it as low as $.81 per gift certificate printed and distributed.
Your logo is scanned, gift certificates are designed at no charge by a professional graphic designer, andyour participation will be published - if you choose this option - on the "BUSINESSES who are Donating" section of this website. Email us or call (505) 850-8016 to set up a meeting to get started!
Online forms are coming soon.
- Current Events/Benefits
- Nonprofits seeking gift certificate donations
- Businesses who are donating
- Feedback
- Contact us
Other Helpful Services:
Just need One Special Gift Certificate Designed?
Whether you need a specialty donation, or ones to sell, our in-house creative department can easily help you. Contact us at winwin@albuquerquedonations.com (Don't forget to attach a high-res logo.)
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