Businesses
This service is ideally suited for you if you offer gift certificate donations, you don't want to do it the old way, you see the value of branding your business in our community, increasing traffic to your business, and you want to turn $5 a month donations into $18,000 or more additional revenue a year*!
Do you have an item or dollars off you can give on a frequent basis? This new way is inexpensive, promotional, and builds traffic while consciously supporting community nonprofit organizations that you choose. As a philanthropic corporate citizen you can now provide the nonprofit organization everything they need for your gift certificate donation at their 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.
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. 
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Customized Donations - the New WayWe 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.
You'll get advertising exposure and more return business/more revenue with this new service.
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
Santa Fe Donations™ creates a simple donation plan for you that manages, designs, prints, promotes, and distributes this new style of 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 in Santa Fe instead of meeting with all 955 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.
"Santa Fe Donations is a great way for Santa Fe businesses to consolidate their charity giving to achieve more efficiency and receive recognition for their support."
"Every organization - not just business - needs one core competence: Innovation."- Peter Drucker
Choose your Santa Fe based Charities
Pre-select which nonprofits you will give to and when, or change or add as you please. The list of Santa Fe 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. This master list took 7 years to build, and is continuously updated. Categories include:
- Animals
- Arts & Culture
- Children's Causes
- Education
- Health
- Human Services
- Other (Capital City Business and Professional Women, Chamber of Commerce, Cornerstones Community Partnership, Grand Prix de Santa Fe, Santa Fe Conservation Trust, Santa Fe Downtown Kiwanis Foundation, United Way of Santa Fe)
Consider this new service -customized donations, delivered 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 200 local residents attend charity events. If you donate to 50 events ( a little less than half the events in town), you are potentially reaching 10,000 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. Choose how much you want to donate at retail cost every month. Suppose it's a value of $5 every month for a total value of $60/year retail. The person who purchases it at a benefit event 
comes in every month to use their $5 gift certificate - give them a reason to stay and enjoy the products or services you offer and it is highly likely you'll be giving AND receiving. 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.......?
and spend on average $50 each visit? Perhaps more? Will they introduce friends and family to your place of business?
Here's a sample of how it might work, based on a $5 a month donation that a new customer purchases at a charity silent auction:
A customer that bought the $5 gift certificate comes in every month, stays, and spends an additional $50 (maybe they are accompanied by friends and family and this number multiplies). Your donation of $5 a month x 12 months = $60/year donated to the charity you chose. Can your $5 donation/month bring in an additional $50 revenue/month? If so, $50 x 12 months = $600/year. Your $60/year donation at retail cost can easily become $600 in additional revenue/year.
Project this estimate when you donate to 30 events a year:
$600 x 30 events = $18,000 - and at least 30 loyal customers - all additional revenue from $5/ month donations or $60/year to each of 30 events ($1,800). Your investment: $1,800, your expected return: $18,000 when the customer spends an additional $50 each visit.
- Don't forget:
you'll also get a $1,800 charitiable donation receipt directly from the nonprofits you donated to (based again on $60 worth of gift certificates to each of 30 events).
Pricing
Use your donations as an inexpensive media buy with more measureable results!
Donate to 30 events for just $32.99/month - get your message out into the community all year 'round. Thirty events a year based on once-a-month offers gives you:
360 color gift certificates and 30 color posters to display your logo and offer - as little as 86¢ for every color print designed, printed, and delivered.
15% discounts available too. Inexpensive exposure, frequent offers/frequent visits, and the much-appreciated support of worthy nonprofits in your community.
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. If you can gain $18,000 a year or more with this new donation/marketing system, then 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 over 100 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 starting at just $32.99/month for up to 30 events you may participate in. Choose more or less. Discounts apply, making it as low as $336/year. There is no contract to sign.
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) 670-8230 to set up a meeting to get started!
* $5 a month donations can turn into $18,000 a year of additional revenue when the customer comes back every month. This estimate is based on donating $5 a month to 30 events a year with customers spending an additional $50 per visit at your location. Give them a reason to stay and enjoy the services or products you sell.
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Just need One Special Gift Certificate Designed?
We can do that too, our in-house creative department can easily help you. Contact us at graphicdesignrequest@santafedonations.com and we'll quote it, and get back to you immediately. (Attach a digital file of your logo if you have one.)
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