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Happy Thanksgiving from CardPartner

Fundraising Success Magazine Features Affinity Programs!

Fundraising Success Magazine's November issue highlights the misconceptions and benefits of an affinity card program.

"Unquestionably, fundraising has become extremely challenging given the current economy. However, Americans still want to contribute...nonprofits must be [able] to give their supporters ways to do so even when money is tight. One primary way to do so is through affinity marketing..." -'Buy to Give' by Steve Halliday

Check out the rest of the article at Fundraising Success Magazine.

Don't miss out on this great opportunity for you organization. Get started on your organization's affinity program today.

'Tis the season...

The decorations are starting to be hung and the holiday songs are already playing in the stores here in Manhatten. Even with Halloween only 2 days behind us, it's clear that the holiday shopping must begin!

'Tis the season of giving and your supporters have to opportunity to give back just by using their affinity credit card. By purchasing gifts for their loved ones they will also be making donations to your organization. What a great way to spread the holiday spirit. Make sure to be sending out those e-blasts, newletters, Tweets and Facebook posts with increased frequency and watch your program thrive.

New to CardPartner? Sign up now to get your program started in time for the holiday spending!!

Take Advantage of the Autumn Weather

With the kids back in school and the colder weather slowly forcing us indoors...seems like the perfect time to do a promotional push about your card program.

Remind your supporters about their opportunity to participate in your card program with the help of our Marketing Toolkit

CardPartner’s Marketing Toolkit provides you with everything you need to:

• Send out e-mails to your mailing lists.
• Produce a press release.
• Print up flyers to hand out at events.
• Add banners and badges to your webpage.
• Make a blog post about your card program.
• Tweet about your visa card.
• Add the card program to your e-mail footer.
• Produce your own promotional material using the hi-res versions of your cards and our logos.

Elvis Sighting!!

The Elivis Presley Charitable Foundation launched our new Platinum Visa Rewards Program this past month in full force.

Result?...REMARKABLE! Over 200 cards issued in 3 weeks.

The King now adds 'King of Affinity Cards' to his title.

Over 40 new groups!!

Proving to be another busy week for the CP team. Working with 40+ new groups to get their programs launched!

Our newest partners include The Arthritis Foundation, Elvis Presley Charitable Foundation, and the Cincinnati Cyclones - who are introducing their cards tonight!

A formal introduction to the Linux "Tux" card.

Allow us to formally introduce the program that's causing such a sensation today, The Linux Foundation Visa card program!

Whale Wars is back with a vengeance!

If you haven't already, be sure to check out the new season of Whale Wars. You can see our friends from Sea Shepherd in all their glory Friday nights at 9pm. est on Animal Planet.

Visible Results

Not that you'll be surprised, but we're seeing a direct correlation between visibility of the card program on our partners' home pages and cards issued.

Omnipeace, which recently added a graphic about the card program on their homepage, is just one example among many.

Vis a vis partners who hide the card, those that let it shine can count on being rewarded with more accounts!

Arthritis Foundation Signs with CardPartner!

We are very excited to announce that we have signed the Arthritis Foundation and will shortly begin work on designing their custom card program!

Meeting Face to Face

Yes, we're an online company and we're all for using the latest technology, but even we must confess that there is something to be said for meeting face-to-face. Doug, Margie and I had a wonderful meeting here in town (NYC) with a prospective group this morning and we all commented on how refreshing it was to visit in person, see their facility and put faces to names.
Virtual reality is all well and good but we'll still take real reality any day of the week. We're looking forward to another person-to-person meeting with yet another group tomorrow. If you're in the New York area, consider this your open invitation to stop by and see us at 37 West 20th. Street, Suite 810.

CardPartner by the numbers. Part 1.

We've been looking at the numbers lately and they're looking very good. At last count, we count thirty-three animal groups among our partners. These humane and welfare groups are focused on saving everything from frogs to whales to greyhounds and rabbits. We're proud to help them get the word out and the income in.

CardPartner Welcomes World ORT

What a delight to meet in person today with Valerie Khaytina, Deputy North American Representative of World ORT. Founded in 1880, ORT is the world's largest Jewish education and vocational training non-governmental organization. Valerie gave us a great excuse to put up a fresh pot of coffee and bring in a box of pastries from City Bakery. We're looking forward to a a soft launch of her program over the summer, with a major introduction this fall. Thanks to Elie Rubinstein from The Blue Card for introducing Valerie to us.

Get up to speed with our latest signing!

They're not even available yet and they're already going fast! Coming soon from CardPartner and Porsche Club of America are personalized PCA cards featuring members' very own Porsches.

Watch this space for updates on the launch of this major new program.

Badges? We have badges!!

The badges section of our online Marketing Toolkit is brand new and we've already updated it with even more selections.

Check out all the new badges featuring our rewards partners now.

See Sea Shepherd on Animal Planet

Congrats to our friends at Sea Shepherd on the debut of season 2 of Whale Wars.

See Sea Shepherd in action, and we do mean action, for yourself on the Animal Planet channel.

You hear us loud and clear!

Sorry if we've been shouting on the phone today, but they're reinstalling our old air conditioners in our new windows and there's been a whole lot of banging going on here in Suite 810, 37 West 20th. Street, New York, NY.

Since it's now officially summer in the city, we're happily putting up with the noise and apologize if your ears are ringing!

Big Blow Up in CardPartner Conference Room!

No, fighting has not broken out in the halls of CardPartner, we're just decorating our conference room with some wonderful blow-ups of our partners' card designs. The first batch of blow-ups arrived today and we'll begin the velcro'ing on Wednesday. We'll post some photos as soon as they're in place.

Introducing The SAVE THE FROGS! Visa Platinum Card

Introducing The SAVE THE FROGS! Visa Platinum Card

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Introducing The Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership Visa Platinum Card

Introducing The Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership Visa Platinum Card

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A Moving Blog Entry

Thanks to David Liddle, developer extraordinaire, for moving our blog to its new home on Blogger. It will now be very easy for me to post links to our partners' applications using ShareThis.

Surf's Up!

Wait till you see the awesome cards we've got in the works for the Surfrider Foundation and US Windsurfing, just in time for endless summer! They're the perfect way to pay for your summer getaway.