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The Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Awards have been announced and there are 12 nonprofit winners! This was the first of an annual contest, bringing in over 1,000 tagline submissions and over 3,000 votes.

How well would your nonprofit organization's tagline stand up to the rest? Here are the winners of the Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Awards so you can compare and check out what makes a great tagline:

• Arts & Culture: Where Actors Find Their Space —NYC Theatre Spaces
  This clearinghouse for NYC rehearsal and performance spaces uses a double entendre to go beyond a description of its services and highlight the value of its work.
• Civic Benefit: Stand Up for a Child —CASA of Southwest Missouri
  CASA’s tagline provokes anger, compassion and a desire to help, in just five words.
• Education: Stay Close...Go Far. —East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania
  This simple yet distinctive tagline from East Stroudsburg cuts through the clutter. Its straightforward character mirrors that of the school.
• Environment & Animals: Helping Preserve the Places You Cherish —LandChoices
  LandChoices’ tagline thoroughly communicates the value of its work while evoking one’s most precious memories of walks in the woods, wildflower meadows and childhood camping trips. There’s a real emotional connection here.
• Grantmaking: Make the most of your giving. —The Greater Cincinnati Foundation
  This clear tagline articulates the value of the foundation for donors considering an alternative way to give.
• Health & Sciences: Improving Life, One Breath at a Time —American Lung Association
  This unexpected focus on the breath—a core element of life—gets attention, and understanding.
• Human Services: When You Can't Do It Alone —Jewish Family & Children’s Service of Sarasota–Manatee, Inc.
  This tagline tells the story succinctly and powerfully: It’s all about getting help when life becomes overwhelming. It makes a strong emotional connection.
• International, Foreign Affairs & National Security: Whatever it takes to save a child —U.S. Fund for UNICEF
  UNICEF engages hearts and minds with its passionate focus on helping children. Who could turn down a request for a donation?
• Jobs & Workforce Development: All Building Starts With a Foundation
  —Building Future Builders
  Voters enjoyed the word play here: It adds depth of understanding without being glib.
• Religion & Spiritual Development: Grounded in tradition...Open to the Spirit—Memphis Theological Seminary (MTS)
  MTS conveys the two equally important halves of its values and curriculum in a way that makes you think about the connection.
• Other: The Art of Active Aging —EngAGE EngAGE surprises with the imagery of active aging and the use of the term “art” to describe the way it does its work.
• Other: Because facts matter. —Oregon Center for Public Policy (OCPP)
  This tagline introduces the nature of OCPP’s impact in Oregon and entices the reader or listener to find out more. Its value proposition—the truth—is particularly compelling at a time when facts are frequently disregarded in public debate.

The contest originated by a Getting Attention survey on nonprofit taglines by Nancy Schwartz of Nancy Schwartz & Company and the Getting Attention blog.

Read more on the Getting Attention blog and find out how to be part of next year's contest.

Does your nonprofit organization have a tagline? How did it come about and how do you use it? Do you think it works? How does it compare to the winners?