For elected officials and their offices

Thanksgiving ecards for elected officials

Thanksgiving is a good time to thank the people you serve and the volunteers who help you serve them. These Thanksgiving ecards for elected officials are short animated cards with your office's logo, colors and words, sent by email to constituents, supporters, volunteers and community partners, and you see the finished card before you pay.

Make this yours Watch the card

No account until you pay. Your chief of staff approves it by link. One price for your whole list.

Since 2003

Public service customers whose cards we built

"...we never expected such a positive response in the form of calls and e-mails from our recipients."

Mayor's Office of Special Events

"...we get lots of positive feedback from recipients."

Stanford University Haas Center for Public Service

"CHE exceeded our expectations..."

Mayor's Office of Special Events

Made for an office

A Thanksgiving card with your name on it

Type your office's website address and the card takes your 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 you, from your office or from your whole team.

The result is a Thanksgiving card that plays like a short film: your logo, your colors and your words, with music, full screen on a phone. On a Photo & Text design you can add your own photos of the district. It plays on its own web page, and the email that carries it to your constituents is designed for you, with an animated or still graphic of the card. Press Make this yours and the studio opens the demo, ready for your own logo and words.

Your office's name

Type your office's website and the card takes your colors and finds your logo.

A thank-you, not a request

Every word is yours, signed by you, your office or your whole team.

Approved before it goes out

A watermarked approval link your chief of staff watches on a phone, with no account.

Your list stays yours

Send it yourself from your own email platform, and your list never leaves your system.

Ends with your links

Your website, your newsletter sign-up or a local food drive, shown when the card finishes.

See who watched

The card's page shows how many people actually watched it, and sets no cookies on your constituents.

Three steps

How it works

1

Brand it

Pick a Thanksgiving design and type your office's website. Your logo and colors come in.

2

Approve it

Change the words, watch the finished card play, and send your chief of staff the approval link.

3

Send it

Pick your list size and buy. We send it, or you send it from your own email platform.

The catalog

Thanksgiving ecard designs for your office

The demo above is one of 25 Thanksgiving designs, and every one of them takes your office's logo, colors and words. Press Preview to watch one, or Customize to open it in the studio.

What to write in a Thanksgiving message to constituents

The Thanksgiving notes officials send are short and grateful: thanks for the chance to serve, a wish for a warm holiday with family, and who it is from. A good Thanksgiving message from your office reads best without a record of the year or a request in it. Start from one of these and change any word.

To constituents

"This Thanksgiving, I am grateful to serve this community. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family."

"Wishing every family in our district a warm and happy Thanksgiving."

"Thank you for the honor of serving you. From all of us at the office, happy Thanksgiving."

To volunteers and supporters

"To our volunteers and supporters: thank you for everything this year. Happy Thanksgiving."

"We are grateful for every hour you gave to our neighbors this year. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving."

To community partners

"To the food banks, schools, first responders and neighbors who keep our community strong: thank you. Happy Thanksgiving."

To your staff

"Thank you for everything you did for the people we serve this year. Enjoy the holiday with the people you love."

Need more ideas? Fifty more messages are in our holiday card messages for business, and most read just as well at Thanksgiving. Every Thanksgiving design takes your own words.

Ecard or printed card at Thanksgiving?

A printed card at Thanksgiving reaches a short list. A Thanksgiving message to constituents sent as an ecard reaches everyone on your email list, at one price, the week of the holiday.

At a glance
Printed card
Thanksgiving ecard
Best for
A short list of community leaders
Constituents, supporters, volunteers and partners
Reaches
The mailing address on file, if it is current
Every inbox on your list
Cost
Printing, postage and envelopes for each card
One price for the whole list
Timing
Mailed early to arrive before the holiday
Sent the week before, or scheduled ahead
Afterwards
No way to know who saw it
See how many people watched, and links to your site
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Who should get your office's Thanksgiving card

  • Constituents and newsletter subscribers: everyone who wrote, called or signed up to hear from you.
  • Supporters and volunteers, sent under your committee's name where the rules call for it.
  • Community partners: food banks, schools, first responders, faith groups and local businesses.
  • Your staff, in the district and at the capitol.

A card holds one message, so many offices make two: one to constituents, and one to volunteers and supporters. Copy the first card, change the words and the name it is signed with, and both live in the same account.

Why Thanksgiving works for an office

Thanksgiving belongs to everyone in the district. It carries no faith, only gratitude, so the same card suits every constituent on the list. It arrives before the December rush, when inboxes are quieter and a thank-you reads as a thank-you. And it is the one holiday built around the thing an office most wants to say: thank you to the people it serves.

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Approved by your chief of staff before you pay

A card from an office usually needs a yes from the official, the chief of staff and whoever handles communications. 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 anyone who signs off can watch it on a phone between meetings.

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 someone says yes.

The rules that apply to your office

Your office decides every word on the card, the name it is signed with and the list it goes to. Offices and committees often have their own rules on official communications and on which list a message may go to. Check the rules that apply to your office before you send. We make the card; we don't advise on those rules.

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Your constituent list stays in your hands

There are two ways to send, at the same price.

  • Send it yourself. We design the email; you send it from your newsletter platform, Outlook or another provider. Your list never leaves your own system.
  • We send it. Import your list and every address is checked before the send. Unsubscribes are handled for you, permanently, and you get a report afterward.

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 constituents and is kept out of search engines. How each way works · Privacy.

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When to send a Thanksgiving message to constituents

US Thanksgiving is Thursday, November 26, 2026. Send it the week before, Monday to Wednesday, when it lands in an inbox people are reading 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 website, your newsletter sign-up or a local food drive as one of the card's ending links, the row of links shown when the card finishes. The card itself stays a thank-you.

How many people will this card reach?

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 your card, pay when it's finished

Included at every size

  • Your card, finished and watermark-free
  • Its own web page, live for 60 days
  • The video, to download
  • An email designed to carry it
  • Sending by us, or a ready-made email for your own provider
  • Delivery reports when we send it

Questions offices ask

Check your office's rules on official communications. The card is yours to send to the list you choose.
US Thanksgiving is Thursday, November 26. The week before, Monday to Wednesday, is a good time.
Two or three sentences: thanks for the chance to serve, a wish for the holiday, and who it is from. Sample lines for constituents, volunteers, partners and staff are on this page.
Yes. Send the preview link; they watch the real card, watermarked, with no account.
Yes, on a Photo & Text design: add your own photos to the card.
Constituents and newsletter subscribers, supporters and volunteers, community partners and your staff. Many offices make a second card for volunteers and supporters.
If you send it yourself, yes: we design the email and you send it from your own provider, so the list never leaves your system. If we send it, you import the list and every address is checked before the send.
Your choice: we send it to your list, or you send it from your own email platform with a ready-made email.
Yes. When the card finishes, it shows a row of links you choose: your website, other pages of yours, and your social accounts.
60 days from the later of your purchase and your last send, and another send extends it.

All questions

Your office's Thanksgiving card, approved before you pay

Start from the demo, or pick any Thanksgiving design.

Make this yours Start your Thanksgiving card

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