NON-PROFITS OFFERED PRO BONO ADVERTISING THROUGH CREATEATHON

MERIDIAN, MS – Leading Edges Advertising has again joined forces with CreateAthon, an international effort during which advertising agencies all over the United States and Canada close down their businesses for a 24-hour creative blitz. This creative marathon benefits local nonprofit organizations, giving them the total focus they deserve in order to create various types of marketing pieces. The event will be held on September 22, 2011, at Leading Edges Advertising.

 

Since CreateAthon was founded in 1998 by Riggs Partners, an advertising firm in South Carolina, it has grown to include a total of 73 agencies that have given back to 1,100 local nonprofit organizations in their cities. An estimated $11 million worth of donated time and materials have created 2,500 different projects for nonprofit clients.

 

The Leading Edges team is very excited about CreateAthon. Owner Tony Pompelia said he hopes the agency's seventh year of being involved with this cause will be a great one. “This is a great opportunity for us to share our expertise with the organizations that work so hard to serve our community,” Pompelia said. “Our team feels that it is our civic responsibility to help support their efforts.”

 

Among the nonprofit agencies that have benefitted in the past are L.O.V.E.’s Kitchen, Hope Village for Children, Wesley House Community Center, Girl Scouts of Greater Mississippi, Care Lodge Domestic Violence Shelter, Street Defensive Driving, Main Street, Youth 4 Service, United Way and Gaits to Greatness.

 

For more information about CreateAthon call 601-483-9810.

 

Check out some of our work from CreateAthon 2011!