For museums, theaters and arts organizations
Thanksgiving is a good time to thank members, donors and volunteers, before the year-end giving season. A thank-you with your organization's name on it arrives while the inbox is still quiet. These Thanksgiving ecards for museums and arts organizations 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. Your director approves it by link. One price for your whole list.
Since 2003
"...our supporters and partners look forward to seeing each year."
Stanford University Haas Center for Public Service
"...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
Made for an arts organization
Type your organization'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 your director, your board chair or everyone at the museum, the theater or the orchestra.
The result is an arts organization 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 galleries, the stage or the season. It plays on its own web page, and the email that carries it to your members is designed for you, with an animated or still graphic of the card. The demo on this page was set up for a museum; press Make this yours and the studio opens it, ready for your own logo.
Type your organization's website and the card takes your colors and finds your logo.
On a Photo & Text design, add your own photos of the galleries, the stage or the season.
A watermarked approval link your director or board chair watches on a phone, with no account and nothing to download.
Every word is yours, signed from your director, your board or everyone at the organization.
Your website, your membership page, your giving page or your season, shown when the card finishes.
The card's page shows how many people actually watched it, and sets no cookies on your members.
Three steps
Pick a design and type your organization's website. Your logo and colors come in.
Change the words, add your season or giving page, watch the finished card play, and send your director 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 25 Thanksgiving designs, and every one of them takes your organization's logo, colors and words. Press Preview to watch one, or Customize to open it in the studio.
Keep it short and about the reader. A good Thanksgiving message to members thanks them for being part of the year, says what their support made possible in a phrase, wishes them a good holiday, and says who it is from. Keep the card a thank-you; if you want readers to have somewhere to go next, put your membership or giving page in the card's ending links rather than in the message. Start from one of these and change any word.
"This Thanksgiving, we are grateful for everyone who keeps the arts alive in our community."
"Thank you for a year of inspiration. Happy Thanksgiving."
"To our members, donors and volunteers: thank you. Happy Thanksgiving from [organization name]."
"Your support filled our galleries and our stage this year. With gratitude, Happy Thanksgiving."
"Thank you for every tour you led and every guest you welcomed this year. Happy Thanksgiving from all of us."
"We could not open our doors without you. Wishing you a warm and restful Thanksgiving."
"To everyone who hung a show, rehearsed a scene or sold a ticket this year: thank you. Happy Thanksgiving."
Need more ideas for member appreciation or a thank you for supporting the arts note? Fifty more messages are in our holiday card messages for business.
Some organizations still mail a printed card to a short list of patrons. A museum Thanksgiving message sent as an ecard reaches every member, donor and volunteer on the list, at one price, and ends with a link to your season.
A card holds one message, so many organizations make two: one that thanks members and donors, one that thanks volunteers, docents and staff for their time. Copy the first card, change the words, and both live in the same account.
From December on, your members hear from every cause they have ever supported. A Thanksgiving card arrives before that, when a thank-you reads as a thank-you and nothing else. It carries no faith, only gratitude, so it suits every member on the list, and it lands as people plan their holiday outings: the winter exhibition, the seasonal concert, the family matinee. Many organizations thank their supporters in November and send a holiday card in December; see the holiday designs.
A card from the organization usually needs a yes from the executive director, the development or membership office, marketing, and sometimes the board chair. 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 rehearsals or openings.
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 members and is kept out of search engines. How each way works · Privacy.
When the card finishes, it shows a row of links you choose. For a museum, that is often the winter exhibition or the membership page; for a theater, orchestra or dance company, the holiday performances or the season ahead. Add your giving page beside them, so a member who wants to do more before the year closes is one click away. The gift or the ticket is handled on your own website, as always.
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.
Giving Tuesday follows on December 1, 2026. A Thanksgiving card that thanks first, sent a few days before, leaves room for the appeals that come after it. See all our Thanksgiving ecards.
| 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 Thanksgiving design.
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