For community and technical colleges
The fall term ends, finals are done and the campus empties for winter break. A card with your college's name on it is the last word of the year to students, staff, the employers who hire your graduates and the alumni and donors who stand behind you. These holiday ecards for colleges are short animated cards with your logo, colors and words, sent by email, and you see the finished card before you pay.
No account until you pay. The president's office approves it by link. One price for your whole list.
Since 2003
"...offered a level of quality and personalization I didn't find with other companies..."
Texarkana College
"...our supporters and partners look forward to seeing each year."
Stanford University Haas Center for Public Service
"...a fresh new look..."
Duke University's Fuqua School of Business
Made for a college
Type your college's website address and the card takes your brand colors and finds your logo. Or drop in a logo file and the colors are read from it. Then every line of text is yours: the greeting, the message, and whether it comes from the president, a dean, the foundation or the whole college.
The result is a college holiday ecard that plays like a short film, with your logo, your colors, your words and music, full screen on a phone. It plays on its own web page, and the email that carries it to your students is designed for you, with an animated or still graphic of the card. The demo on this page was set up for a community college; press Make this yours and the studio opens the same design, ready for your own logo, colors and words.
Type your college's website and the card takes your colors and finds your logo.
A watermarked approval link the president's office watches on a phone, with no account and nothing to download.
Every word is yours: one card for students, another for faculty and staff, a third for partners, alumni and donors.
Send it yourself from your own email platform, and your student and alumni lists never leave your system.
Next term's registration, your winter break hours or your giving page, shown when the card finishes.
The card's page shows how many people actually watched it, and sets no cookies on your students.
Three steps
Pick a design and type your college's website. Your logo and colors come in.
Change the words, watch the finished card play, and send the president's office the approval link.
Pick your list size and buy. We send it, or you send it from your own email platform.
The catalog
The demo above is one of 51 holiday designs, and every one of them takes your college's logo, colors and words. Press Change Colors to see a design in your colors, Preview to watch it, or Customize to open it in the studio.
The best holiday message to students is short and names something real: the work they put into the term, the staff who kept the campus running, the employers who took on your graduates. Two or three sentences, a wish for a restful break, and who it is from. Start from one of these and change any word.
"Season's greetings from all of us at [college name]. Rest well, and see you in the new year."
"You finished the term. Thank you for your hard work, and enjoy every day of the break."
"Thank you for a great year at [college name]. Happy holidays."
"Thank you for everything you gave our students this term. Rest well over the break."
"Warm wishes to our students, staff and partners this holiday season."
"Thank you for opening doors for our students this year. Season's greetings from [college name]."
"Wherever this season finds you, you are part of [college name]. Happy holidays and best wishes for the new year."
Need more ideas for a college holiday message? Fifty more are in our holiday card messages for business.
A printed card reaches a few trustees and major donors. Community college holiday cards sent by email reach every student, faculty member, employer partner and graduate on the list, at one price.
A card holds one message, so many colleges make two or three holiday ecards for colleges and their communities: one to students, one to faculty and staff, and one to partners, alumni and donors. Copy the first card, change the words, and every version lives in the same account.
A community college serves students of every faith and none, so the greeting is usually Season's Greetings, Happy Holidays or best wishes for the new year. Every word on the card is yours to type, so the same design carries whichever greeting your college uses. Many colleges send a thank-you at Thanksgiving as well; see our Thanksgiving ecards for colleges.
A card from the college usually needs a yes from the president's office, marketing and communications, the foundation, or whoever looks after the college's brand. Press Send for approval and pass on the link. It shows the real, finished card with a watermark, has nothing to download, and needs no account, so everyone who signs off can watch it on a phone, even in the last busy week of the term.
When the card is approved, answer one question at checkout and the clean card is made in about one to two minutes. Nothing is bought until you say yes.
There are two ways to send, at the same price.
Either way, the email is designed and tested to render as widely as possible, and the card's own page sets no cookies on your students and is kept out of search engines. How each way works · Privacy.
Graduates of a community college often stay close to home and go on to hire the next class. A college holiday ecard for alumni and donors keeps that tie warm without asking for anything. If the foundation would like readers to have somewhere to go next, add the giving page to the card's ending links, the row of links shown when the card finishes, and let the card itself simply say thank you.
Early December is the usual window: after Thanksgiving, and while students and staff are still reading campus email, before finals end and the college closes for winter break. Send it midweek, in working hours. If we send it, you can schedule it ahead of time.
Spring registration open? Add it as one of the card's ending links, along with your winter break hours, so students know what comes next and when offices reopen.
| People you send to | Price (USD) |
|---|---|
| 0 to 500 people | $99 |
| 501 to 1,000 people | $249 |
| 1,001 to 2,500 people | $399 |
| 2,501 to 5,000 people | $599 |
| 5,001 to 10,000 people | $899 |
| 10,001 to 20,000 people | $1,499 |
| 20,001 to 30,000 people | $2,099 |
| 30,001 to 40,000 people | $2,699 |
| 40,001 to 50,000 people | $3,299 |
| 50,000+ people | Get a quote |
Prices in US dollars. One purchase per card. There is no subscription and nothing to renew.
Start from the demo, or pick any holiday design.
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