2024 is shaping up to be a pivotal year for social impact. With an election year on the horizon, mounting pressure on corporate social stances and a focus on local communities, several key cause partnership trends are unfolding.
Our 2023 Top 10 Partnership Resources
We’re excited to reveal our For Momentum Top 10 Most Popular Partnership Resources, featuring the content that resonated most with YOU, our readers, in 2024.
From insightful social impact data to inspiring cause marketing campaigns and essential best practices, we hope this collection ignites a brilliant idea or delivers the data point you’ve been searching for.
New Fall 2023 Research: Corporate Insights
The latest study reveals that while there are many common goals between partners, there are also areas of misalignment. Our goal in this report is to help guide practitioners from both companies and nonprofits to better understand one another’s expectations, communicate openly during the planning phase of the partnership, and as a result build a foundation for more impactful partnerships that benefit both.
The case for AI in cause marketing
Artificial Intelligence is a vast field, but at its core, it’s all about creating smart machines that mimic human intelligence. We know that companies are readily using AI to boost productivity and sales. In fact, 43% of CEOs reported using generative AI to inform their strategic decisions, according to a recent IBM study. In the context of nonprofits and corporate social responsibility, AI tools can make many cause marketing tasks easier: Identifying potential partners, Drafting proposals, Managing communication, Analyzing outcomes
Four creative partnerships redefining cause marketing
Are you reaching beyond the “tried and true”? Companies have long embraced donating a percentage of product sales to nonprofits and encouraging customers to do the same at the register. But they are increasingly looking to nonprofits for fresh ideas to engage their customers and communities. Only 40% of the CSR leaders we surveyed said that nonprofits were doing a good job at bringing unique opportunities to them. Check out four partnerships that are refreshingly creative.
For Momentum announces Best of the Best Halo Award winner
The Halo Awards are North America’s highest honor for corporate social impact initiatives with outstanding consumer or employee engagement. These prestigious CSR, cause marketing and corporate social impact awards focus on initiatives where brand purpose and social impact intersect to help build a better world—and bottom line. Sponsored by For Momentum and selected by the Halo judges, the Best of the Best Halo Award is chosen from the full spectrum of Halo applications. It’s category agnostic and recognizes an initiative that demonstrates best practices in social impact engagement. The winner: Expedia Group and UNICEF USA – “Give the World a Shot.”
Key Research Findings—Next Level Partnerships|Part 2
For Momentum is pleased to continue to bring you highlights from our recently released 2022 report, Next Level Partnerships: A Corporate Perspective, the result of polling corporate partnerships professionals from 65 companies. In Part 1, we focused on what corporations are looking for from nonprofit partners. Here, we’ll take a close look at how corporations make partnership decisions and select partners.
Key Research Findings—Next Level Partnerships|Part I
We’ve tracked corporate partnership trends for more than a decade and over the last year, we’ve seen that stakeholders have higher expectations of companies and their cause platforms across the board. Let’s dive into key learnings, including how corporate partnership decision makers are reacting to increased pressures and the motivations behind their decision making.
Why nonprofits should care about NFTs – Part II
Why nonprofits should care about NFTs. As we shared in Part I of our two-part non-fungible token (NFT) series, nonprofits and corporate partners are using NFTs to raise funds in exciting new ways, including auctioning one-of-a-kind digital art. Why the fascination?
Why nonprofits should care about NFTs – Part I
NFTs have created a wealth of opportunities for cause marketing over the last year and continue to gain ground. For many mission-driven organizations, a single gift of an NFT from a major brand to re-sell as a fundraiser can be a game-changer. We’re seeing innovative social impact partnerships capitalize on the NFT trend in three main ways: auctions, charitable investments and direct donations. Take a look at these stand-outs.
