Riggs Partners chooses organizations to receive CreateAthon® services
September 21, 2015
COLUMBIA, SC – Eight South Carolina nonprofit organizations will be the beneficiaries of free marketing and communications services provided by Riggs Partners in its 18th annual CreateAthon®. The 24-hour work-around-the-clock effort will begin Thursday, October 23.
Organizations selected as CreateAthon clients this year include:
- Able South Carolina
- Death Penalty Resources and Defense Center
- Epworth Children’s Home
- Handicapped Athletes Learning to Enjoy Riding – HALTER
- Healing Icons
- Global Pencil Project
- Sexual Trauma Services of the Midlands
- The Therapy Place
“We are delighted to be able to donate our time and services to these eight deserving organizations,” said Teresa Coles, Senior Partner and Brand Strategist at Riggs Partners and cofounder of CreateAthon. “We’re incredibly humbled as we review the CreateAthon applications each year and are reminded of the significant needs that exist in our community. Our mission through CreateAthon is to help these organizations strengthen their communications in a way that will move their work forward.”
Riggs Partners founded CreateAthon in 1997 as an innovative way to provide pro bono marketing services to nonprofits in South Carolina. The program has achieved significant impact since its national expansion in 2002, attracting more than 100 agencies, universities, professional organizations and corporate marketing departments throughout the world as CreateAthon partners. In total, the program has served more than 1,600 nonprofit organizations with pro bono marketing projects valued at more than $20.5 million.
Riggs Partners works with two printer sponsors, Sun Printing and The Graphics Source, to provide materials to participating nonprofits.
For more information on the program, please visit www.createathon.org.
About Riggs Partners:
Riggs Partners is a creative marketing consultancy that develops cross-channel brand communications programs for socially conscious companies and nonprofit organizations. For more information, visit www.riggspartners.com.
