For universities and advancement offices
A card from the president's office reaches alumni, donors and partners at the end of the year. Make it look like your university, and see it finished before anyone pays. These holiday ecards for universities are short animated cards with your logo, colors and words, sent by email to alumni, donors, partners, faculty and staff.
No account until you pay. The communications office approves it by link. One price for your whole list.
Since 2003
"...we get lots of positive feedback from recipients."
Stanford University Haas Center for Public Service
"It may be nice to receive a paper card in the mail...but times have changed, and thanks to CHE so have we."
Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa
"This is my fourth time working with CHE..."
Duke University's Fuqua School of Business
Made for a university
Type your university'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 or the whole university.
The result is a university holiday ecard that plays like a short film, with your logo, your colors, your words and music, full screen on a phone. On a Photo & Text design you can add your own photos of campus. It plays on its own web page, and the email that carries it to your alumni is designed for you, with an animated or still graphic of the card. The demo on this page was set up for a university in navy and stone gray; press Make this yours and the studio opens it in those colors, ready for your own logo.
Type your university's website and the card takes your colors and finds your logo.
A watermarked approval link the communications office watches on a phone, with no account and nothing to download.
Every word is yours, signed from the president, a dean, the alumni association or the whole university.
Send it yourself from your own email platform, and your alumni list never leaves your system.
Your website, your giving page or your alumni events, shown when the card finishes.
The card's page shows how many people actually watched it, and sets no cookies on your alumni.
Three steps
Pick a design and type your university's website. Your logo and colors come in.
Change the words, watch the finished card play, and send the communications 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 university'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.
A university holiday message works best short and grateful: thanks for what the reader gave the university this year, a wish for the season, and who it is from. Write a different card for each audience if the words should change. Start from one of these and change any word.
"Thank you for being part of our community. Happy holidays and best wishes for the new year."
"From all of us at [university name], warm wishes to you and your family this holiday season, wherever you are."
"With gratitude for all you do for [university name], warm wishes for the holiday season."
"Thank you for your generosity this year. Your support opens doors for our students. Happy holidays."
"Season's greetings from the president and all of us at [university name]."
"On behalf of the faculty, staff and students of [university name], season's greetings and best wishes for the new year."
"Thank you for everything you gave our students this year. Rest well over the break."
Need more ideas for an alumni holiday card? Fifty more messages are in our holiday card messages for business.
Many presidents still mail a printed university holiday card to trustees and major donors. A holiday ecard for alumni reaches everyone else, at one price.
A card holds one message, so many offices make two holiday cards for alumni and the campus: one from the president to alumni and donors, one to faculty and staff. Copy the first card, change the words, and both live in the same account.
Alumni and donors come from every faith and none, and many live far from campus, 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 university uses. Some offices send a thank-you at Thanksgiving as well.
A card from the president usually needs a yes from the president's office, communications, advancement and whoever looks after the university'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 every office can watch it on a phone.
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 alumni and is kept out of search engines. How each way works · Privacy.
Early December is the usual window: after Thanksgiving, and before the campus closes for winter break. Send it midweek, in working hours, when it lands in an inbox rather than a long weekend. If we send it, you can schedule it ahead of time.
Want readers to have somewhere to go next? Add your giving page, your alumni events or your winter break hours as the card's ending links, the row of links shown when the card finishes.
| 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 in your colors, or pick any design.
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