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Project: Hill Country Ride for AIDS
Location: Austin, Texas
Project Description: The Ad Fed Ride Marketing Group has helped grow the Hill Country Ride with award-winning campaigns designed to reach a broader audience. The results are impressive: $493,000 raised in 2006, up from $229,000 in 2003, our first year of involvement. Over 80% of funds raised go to local AIDS service organizations for AIDS prevention education and direct support for families living with HIV/AIDS.

Contact Marketing Chair Scott Van Osdol at scott@vanosdol.com to learn how you can help.

The 2007 campaign is produced by the nFusion Group. nfusion’s 2005 and 2006 campaigns appeared in the HOW International Design Annual and PRINT. The initial 2004 campaign was created by a multi-agency team lead by Larry McIntosh of The MAD House, nFusion’s Jeff Neely, and EnviroMedia’s Liam Kernell. The campaign featured a new logo designed by Head Gear Creative’s Sean Carnegie which appeared in Communication Arts. Tuerff-Davis EnviroMedia’s Ted Burton continues to lead the remarkable media relations campaign. Other Ad Fed members providing pro-bono goods and services include Lithoprint, Horizon Printing, The Whitley Company, Unisource, Clampitt Paper, Fox River Paper, Expedx San Antonio, The Austin American Statesman, The Austin Chronicle, and Scott Van Osdol, Photographer.

If you ride, we hope you’ll join the Ad Fed Team Veloci-Peddlers, “Our Campaigns’ Got Great Legs!”. Learn more at our Public Service page (www.austinadfed.com/about_service.shtml) and visit the Ad Fed designed website at www.hillcountryride.org. Type “Ad Fed” in the Search Box to join the Veloci-Peddlers.

Posted: 10/12/06

Project: Art From the Streets
Location: Austin, Texas
Project Description: This celebrated project provides much needed income to homeless and low-income artists at an annual sale of their artwork. The Ad Fed has provided marketing support for eight years, helping increase sales to $67,577 from $6,500.

We need a a graphic designer, a media director, and a project manager/event coordinator to work with AFTS staff, Inferno Films, and Scott Van Osdol, Photographer to produce marketing collateral, media outreach, and assist in show promotion. Our GSD&M/Elephant Productions/Inferno Films/ideality.com volunteer team won a Gold ADDY for our TV PSA spot. Learn more at Public Service (http://www.austinadfed.com/about/publicservice.shtml) and by visiting the AFTS website at http://artfromthestreets.com.

To join in the fun and help out your brothers and sisters in art contact Michael Roberts volunteer@austinadfed.com.

Posted: 06/18/05

Project: Austin ADDY® Awards
Location: Austin, Texas
Project Description: The ADDYs are our industry’s largest and most competitive creative competition, with 60,000 entries nationwide. In recent years Austin Ad Fed members twice won National ADDYs second in number only to New York City. Our member-designed Call for Entries campaigns routinely win Gold Austin and District ADDYs.

We’re looking for all sorts of volunteers—ace designers, PR wizards, web-dweebs, sent-from-heaven printer reps, and account service and project management specialists who make the trains run on time. Whatever your skill, we’ll find a good fit. Sign up now for Austin advertising’s biggest professional and social event by emailing addys@austinadfed.com.

Posted: 10/12/06