Getting ready to launch YourCause in Jan 2024!

Michele Blondheim

Hello everyone,

Aprio is gearing up to launch YourCause in Jan 2024. Was wondering if you would be willing to share your internal communications with us? We've love to lean on what communications worked well, how you shared FAQs, maybe if you incentivized activation, basically your launch communication plan/comms examples. We would truly appreciate your willingness to share…

If you would like to jump on a call or discuss in greater detail, we'd be happy to connect 1:1 with you and your comms team. Feel free to reply and/or email me and my comms partner: Michele.Blondheim@aprio.com and Olivia.Hartmann@aprio.com.

Thanks in advance for your partnership and support! We are excited to join the YourCause community!

Hope to hear from you soon,

Michele

Mike Flatt

@Michele Blondheim
Hi Michele + Olivia

I just noticed this post (thank you @Davis Behrendt!), but yes let's have a coffee chat in the new year to talk high-level comms/engagement and few template options. I'll find time on our calendars in January. Enjoy the holidays/break!

Michele Blondheim

@Mike Flatt thank you in advance for your time and support! I would love to connect with you early Jan on high-level comms/engagement and a few template options! Feel free to email me some day/time options (michele.blondheim@aprio.com) that work best for you. Thanks again for your offer and hope you have a wonderful and very Happy New Year!

Marie Gillespie

Hi @Michele Blondheim,

I have to dig back into our archives, as we launched back in 2019. But I know we posted an article on our intranet and shared the news in our weekly newsletter which went out to over 50% of our associates at that time. We had a core group highly engaged associates who we asked to help spread the word about the new system.

One thing that was really successful is we hosted “open houses” where folks could come in to a conference room (pre hybrid times) and we'd give them a guided tutorial on how the system worked. We helped them set up their profiles etc. We made sure we had a few favorite volunteer projects confirmed for 4 weeks out so folks would want to go into the system and sign up .

We have a few divisions/departments that had a high community engagement participation and we reached out to that area's leadership for time during an upcoming team meeting to showcase the system.

We offered a gift card give away and some snacks at the open house. We are are a regional company, so majority of our associates were in our main office at the time.

I hope your launch goes well. It is a very user friendly system, so most folks found it very easy to navigate.