This past year has been a great one for Care2's 700+ nonprofit partners.
They attracted legions of new donors and supporters while winning major advocacy victories for their causes. Care2 has helped, mobilizing our 17 million fantastic members again and again to make a real difference. Here is a video greeting with heartfelt holiday wishes from the Care2 team.
What victories did Care2 members help you achieve in 2011?
We were astounded by the advocacy victories that so many leading nonprofits achieved in 2011 — and proud that our Care2 members played such an important supporting role in many of these big wins, large and small. Here are just a few of the more memorable victories this year:
Saved the "Roadless Rule" — conserving forests
With The Wilderness Society, EarthJustice and Pew / Heritage Forests Campaign
Convinced Chiquita not to transport bananas with toxic Tar Sands fuel
With Forest Ethics
Passed a law limiting the killing of black bears in New York
With WSPA
Boosted auto fuel standards
With UCS, Sierra Club, Go60mpg Coalition and Pew Foundation
Toughened EPA rules on smokestack polluters
With Environmental Defense Fund
Banned shark finning in California and the Bahamas
With Pew Environment Group, Sea Save, and Shark Savers
Banned bear den hunts in Russia
With IFAW
Helped imprisoned women in Afghanistan
With the Afghan Women's Justice Project
Saved Cayman Islands' Half Moon Bay from Destruction
With Sea Change Strategies
And legions of Care2 members donated their clicks - on our Click-to-Donate pages - to many great causes. In just one of many examples, Care2 members clicking daily on the Children in Need page have now sponsored 16 children in nine countries!
Meanwhile, thousands of Care2 members who took part in our "Butterfly Rewards" loyalty program generated the following charitable impacts, at no cost to them, delivered via Care2's nonprofit partners:
2011 also was a year in which new and expanded Care2 services helped us to significantly ramp up the benefits we provide to our nonprofit partners, especially these...
Care2 in 2011 also unveiled new, valuable services to help our nonprofit clients achieve their missions. These include:
Notwithstanding all of the above, no achievement made us prouder in 2011 than the continuing vote of confidence that you, our nonprofit clients, made in Care2. You repeatedly trusted us to help you drive web traffic to your campaigns, to win advocacy victories and to expand your base of grassroots donors, volunteers and supporters. Thank you for giving us these opportunities to help you -- and our millions of civically engaged members -- to build a better world.
Here's to a wonderful 2011 - and to an even better 2012 of making a difference together!
The Care2 Nonprofit Services Team
