Comments on: Funniest Nonprofit Direct Mail: Photoshop Disasters!

By: Mazarine

Mazarine — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 19:19:14 +0000

Dear Sarah,

I like your idea! yes, something to make it a bit more tangible, a quote from someone with anorexia, or a graph about anorexia stats going off the charts thanks to photoshop disasters, the larger historical context, it would make it longer, but it’s important to personalize it to one person too. You’re right.

Good idea!

Mazarine

By: Mazarine

Mazarine — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 19:17:35 +0000

Tessa thank you for writing!

A way to make facial disfigurements funny… that’s tricky!

I think that might be one for Patch Adams. He could even make death funny.

I wonder if a reminder of the children’s humanity might be appropriate?

For example, put a clown nose on a kid with a facial disfigurement, and then some sort of tagline, like “Even with a cleft palate, she’s still a kid” or something, to remind parents that their kids would still want to have fun if they had a facial disfigurement?

It’s not particularly funny though.

Rob Delaney does tons of inappropriate humor. Maybe some local comedians could be tasked with making some jokes up about your cause? Best one gets featured, with credit, in your e-newsletter?

Do you have any comedy clubs where you live?

Thanks for your compliment about my website Tessa, I really appreciate it. Craig Linton’s Fundraising Detective is a good website. Highly recommend you check him out, he’s always got good resources!

Mazarine

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:36:01 +0000

Yes. I think it’s great! For me, what would make it even better would be a quote from someone who was really influenced by these types of images in a negative way, and a one-sentence description of a study demonstrating that it is the images, not someone’s family background, that cause or increase anorexia rates, etc. It wouldn’t be as funny, but the intro is still funny. For me there is a bit of tension between free speech and healthy body images in the media, so demonstrating real harm is necessary for me to want to influence the publishers about this stuff. I’m a feminist, but I’m an artist, too…

By: Tessa

Tessa — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:35:21 +0000

I work with a charity that supports people with facial disfigurements and i so want to introduce some humour into the way we communicate. I can think of a few straplines that can get our message across whilst taking a dig at the airbrushing nature of womens magazines,

I think it’s good. I would be tempted to add in body dysmorphia caused by these unrelistic representations are affecting women and increasingly men, boys and girls as young as five. help us in stopping this charade. Donate £X bla bla. but then it might be too long and the tone is different.

I have been trying to create a new voice for the facial disfigurement charity i work with. Our communications tend to quite formal, i think humour makes charity info more readable, marks the charity out and could be a great way to engage with a younger demographic.

Love lovel your website and especially the interview with The Detective Fundraiser.