EFA: Etsy For Animals Etsy For Animals: Join or Support our COTM Program !


Etsy for Animals (EFA) aka Artists Helping Animals,

is a team of independent artists, craftspeople,

vintage sellers and craft suppliers on Etsy.com

who are dedicated to providing charitable relief to animals

by donating a portion of the profits from their shops

to an animal charity of their choosing,

and/or to EFA's featured Charity of the Month.

Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Join or Support our COTM Program !



WHAT IS CHARITY OF THE MONTH ?


Each month, TEAM EFA designates one animal charity as our Charity of the Month (aka COTM). All EFA Charities of the Month is the charity of choice of at least one EFA member.


Team EFA promotes COTM during the month...


* on our COTM website page


* on our main blog


* through our social media channels (Facebook & Twitter)


* through EFA's Teams & Yahoo Groups


* with weekly COTM specific Treasuries


* by encouraging COTM members to use our COTM logo in their Etsy listings


* by rewarding EFA members that donate $10 or more to our COTM (see COTM Sponsorship)


HOW CAN EFA MEMBERS

PARTICIPATE IN OUR COTM PROGRAM ?



TAGGING

EFA members who choose to donate a portion of their product sales to EFA's Charity of the Month can tag those listings with: team efa cotm. You may also use charity as a tag; and if the proceeds amount is 100% you can use donation as a supplemental tag.


If after the month is done & your products are still tagged 'team efa cotm' then those products will go to benefit our next COTM. If you wish to donate a percentage to another charity, including a -previous- cotm, please remove 'cotm' from your tag.


Using these tags helps to identify your pledge and makes it easier for shoppers & treasury makers to locate your products.



ETSY REQUIREMENT
If members plan to promote their wares as "benefiting charity" Etsy requires each seller to specify details in their Shop Announcement and/or product listings outlining which charity & what amount or percentage of sale will be donated to them. Along with those details provide the link to our website's COTM page which outlines each month's Charity.


For example:
ANiMAL CHARiTY DONATiON
X% of sales will be donated to animal charities, notably Team EFA's CHARiTY OF THE MONTH which differs each month. Please visit our Team's website to read about this month's charity: http://efaartistshelpinganimals.org/charities.htm


Please note that Charity of the Month Members can also use our Team's 'Sales Benefit COTM' logo to upload in their product listing ! (as shown above)



COTM DONATIONS
To make a donation to EFA's COTM charity, visit our blog where you will find on the left hand side the donation quick links for the last 12 COTM charities. When you make a donation to any animal charity including our COTMs... be sure to report it to Team EFA.



COTM SPONSORSHIP

Become a COTM sponsor !


ANY current EFA member who is able to make & report a donation of $10 and up during the month which coordinates with our COTM becomes a COTM Sponsor for the month.


You are not required to have any shop product listings tagged with 'cotm' to become a COTM Sponsor. As a thank you gift, Team EFA will feature your Etsy Mini 1x1 on EFA's website Sponsor page during the following month.



OTHERS CAN SUPPORT

OUR COTM PROGRAM TOO !


Whether you are an EFA member or not, you too can support our COTM program... consider purchasing products from our COTM EFA Members. Search: Team EFA Cotm on Etsy.com.



THANKS !

Nicole
Team Captain,
COTM & Membership Leader,
Blog Editor: Etsy for Animals

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