For nonprofits and charities

Thanksgiving ecards for nonprofits

Thanksgiving is the natural moment to thank the people who give their money and their time. Say it with your organization's name on it, before the year-end giving season. These Thanksgiving ecards for nonprofits are short animated cards with your logo, colors and words, sent by email to donors, volunteers and board members, and you see the finished card before you pay.

Make this yours Watch the card

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

Since 2003

Public service customers whose cards we built

"...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

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

Mayor's Office of Special Events

Made for a nonprofit

A Thanksgiving card that looks like your 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 or everyone on the team.

The result is a nonprofit Thanksgiving 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 donors 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, colors and words.

Your organization's brand

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

Approved before it goes out

A watermarked approval link your director or board chair watches on a phone, with no account and nothing to download.

A thank-you, not an appeal

Every word is yours, signed from your director, your board or everyone on the team.

Your list stays yours

Send it yourself from Mailchimp, Constant Contact or Outlook, and the list never leaves your system.

Ends with your links

Your website, your giving page or a volunteer sign-up, 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 supporters.

Three steps

How it works

1

Brand it

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

2

Approve it

Change the words, watch the finished card play, and send your director 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 organization

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.

What to write in a Thanksgiving message to donors

A good Thanksgiving message to donors thanks them for what their gifts and their time made possible, wishes them a good holiday, and says who it is from. Leave the appeal for another day: a thank-you that asks for nothing is the one supporters remember. Start from one of these and change any word.

To donors

"Your generosity changed lives this year. Happy Thanksgiving."

"This Thanksgiving, we are grateful for you. Thank you for everything you made possible this year."

To volunteers

"To our donors and volunteers: thank you. Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at [organization name]."

"Thank you for every hour you gave this year. We could not do it without you. Happy Thanksgiving."

To your board and partners

"Thank you for your leadership and your partnership this year. Wishing you a restful Thanksgiving."

To your own staff

"To everyone at [organization name]: thank you for showing up for our mission all year. Enjoy the long weekend."

Need more ideas for donor appreciation? Fifty more messages are in our holiday card messages for business.

Ecard or printed card for your donors?

Many organizations still mail a printed donor thank-you card to their closest supporters. Digital Thanksgiving cards reach every donor and volunteer on the list, at one price.

At a glance
Printed card
Thanksgiving ecard
Best for
Major donors and a short list
Every donor, volunteer, board member and partner
Reaches
The mailing address on file
Every inbox, wherever your supporters are
Cost
Printing, postage and envelopes for each card
One price for the whole list
Approval
Proofs on paper
A link your director or board chair watches on a phone
Afterwards
No way to know who saw it
See how many people watched, and links to your website
Volunteers in matching shirts packing boxes of food and aid

Who should get your organization's Thanksgiving card

  • Donors: individual and monthly givers, foundations and corporate sponsors.
  • Volunteers, from the regulars to the people who came for one event.
  • Board members and partner organizations, and your own staff.

A card holds one message, so many organizations make two Thanksgiving cards for donors and volunteers: one that thanks donors for their gifts, one that thanks volunteers and staff for their time. Copy the first card, change the words, and both live in the same account.

Why Thanksgiving is the right time to thank donors

Thanksgiving comes before Giving Tuesday and the year-end giving season, when every inbox fills with appeals. A thank-you that arrives first, and asks for nothing, reads as gratitude rather than a lead-in to a request. It carries no faith, only thanks, so it suits every supporter on the list. Many organizations send a Thanksgiving thank-you now and a holiday card in December; see the holiday designs.

Two smiling volunteers holding donated blankets and a box

Approved by your director before you pay

A thank-you to donors usually needs a yes from the executive director, the development director or 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.

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.

Volunteers passing a box of food across a table

Your donor 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 Mailchimp, Constant Contact, Outlook or another provider. Your donor 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 supporters and is kept out of search engines. How each way works · Privacy.

A planner, a pen and small pumpkins on a desk beside a laptop

When to send a nonprofit Thanksgiving ecard

US Thanksgiving is Thursday, November 26, 2026. Send it the week before, Monday to Wednesday, so it lands before the long weekend and well ahead of Giving Tuesday on December 1. If we send it, you can schedule it ahead of time.

Want supporters to have somewhere to go next? Add your giving page or a volunteer sign-up 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 nonprofits ask

Yes, when it looks like your organization and says thank you. The card carries your logo, your colors and your words, plays on its own page, and arrives in an email designed to carry it. Many organizations mail printed cards to a short list of major donors and send the ecard to everyone else.
Two or three sentences: thanks for what their support made possible, a wish for the holiday, and who it is from. Sample lines for donors, volunteers, your board and your staff are on this page.
Most organizations keep the Thanksgiving card a pure thank-you and save the appeal for later. If you want supporters to have a way to give, add your giving page to the card's ending links, the row of links shown when the card finishes.
US Thanksgiving is Thursday, November 26. The week before is a good time.
Yes. Send the preview link; they watch the real card, watermarked, with no account.
Donors, volunteers, board members, partner organizations and your staff. Many organizations make a second card so volunteers and staff are thanked for their time.
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 organization'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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