Buttons and Beer Support Clean Water Act
Drink beer for a good cause! Show your support for the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Clean Water Act by attending the Craft Beer Tasting & Benefit this coming Monday at Galleria Marchetti in Chicago. The fundraiser will also be the official launch of the Brewers for Clean Water campaign, a movement aimed to...
Introducing Rectangle Buttons and Magnets!
Busy Beaver is excited to announce the addition of our newest button and magnet shape: the 2″x3″ rectangle! Rectangles are the shape for getting your big messages heard! Available in both horizontal and vertical layouts, our rectangles can be pinned on as buttons or made as magnets. Use our special finishes– cosmic, metallic or glow–...
CVA Action Fundraises with Buttons
In January, St. Paul, Minnesota’s College of Visual Arts announced that it will be shutting it’s doors at the end of the current semester due to financial challenges. Not willing to let the school close without a fight, a group of students, faculty, alumni and community members joined together to create CVA Action, a group...
Tonight: Help Save Hamilton Wood Type Museum
If you’re in the Milwaukee area tonight, be sure to join AIGA Wisconsin 7-10:30pm at the Milwaukee Public Market garden area to help raise money for the Hamilton Type Museum. The museum, which was featured in the documentary Typeface, was evicted from their space in Two Rivers, Wisconsin and is now humbly asking for donations...
Buttons for RX Made
Check out these good-lookin’ buttons recently made for RX Made– RX Made partners Busy Beaver pals Rebuilding Exchange and Strand Design, combining the rescued building materials of the former with the product design skills of the latter. The RX Made Kickstarter (which starts today) will fund start-up manufacturing costs for creating four Strand designed products–...
Grassroots Fundraising with Buttons
Coming up with creative ways to engage supporters can mean the difference between a ho hum and highly successful fundraiser, and buttons can be a great way to make that happen. Here’s our list of creative and fun ways to use buttons to create a successful grassroots fundraiser. Give Them Away Maybe it seems counter-intuitive,...
How to Make Buttons for Your Non-Profit
Custom buttons are a great way to for non-profits with tight budgets to market to the audience you’re trying to reach. Buttons can get your name out to stakeholders, advertise your programs and services and raise awareness about issues effecting your community. Buttons are affordable, simple to customize by you or using our design services, and easy to...
Buttons Help Save The Historic Prentice Building
Check out the custom buttons which Save Prentice Coalition is using to help their campaign to protect a historic Chicago building from demolition: Designed by renowned Chicago architect Bertrand Goldberg and completed in 1975, the Prentice Women’s Hospital is on the Preservation Chicago’s 7 Most Threatened list. This building has a cloverleaf shape which rises...
Custom Buttons Help Raise Money for Japan
With the Japanese earthquake and Pacific tsunami having occurred almost a month ago, national news has turned its coverage away from the devastated country to more pressing topics like Libya, the 2012 election, and, of course, the Bronx Zoo cobra. But the recovery efforts in Japan are ongoing and the country could still benefit from...
Utica Beard Council Buttons Up
Thanks to the Utica Beard Council for sharing this group shot showing off their UBC one-inch pins at a great event and where they sold the buttons, raised money for Charity, and “had fun doing it.” Bearded individual Todd LaMondie writes, It’s good to know that there are literally hundreds of Beard Buttons floating around...
Girls Rock Benefit Buttons Up
Please join Girls Rock! Chicago tomorrow, Thursday evening at the Red & White wine shop in Bucktown to celebrate an organization that supports girls and women around the world.
