I got an email today from Josh Clauss at tuggl.com about the contest they are running for nonprofits that I wanted to share with you. Tomorrow (Tuesday 9/1/2009), beginning at 8:00am, tuggl is launching a one-day recognitions contest on tuggl.com for Denver/Boulder nonprofits. The short details are that the nonprofit that recognizes the most local business supporters on tuggl between 8:00 am and midnight tomorrow will be the recipient of a possible $500 donation and a lot of publicity for their organization.

The longer explanation is this: tuggl.com is finally launching to the public, and as part of that launch, they’re donating a dollar to a good cause in the community for every local business review completed between Wednesday, 9/2 and Friday, 9/4, up to $250. Tuggl’s friends over a Hot Press Web have agreed to match this donation, dollar-for-dollar, bringing the total projected contribution to $500. There is an additional drawing to win a $100 gift certificate to Noel Cunningham’s award-winning Strings Restaurant for the consumers doing the business reviews. Tomorrow’s nonprofit contest is to decide the organization that is the beneficiary of the donations generated from the consumer promotion as well as all the publicity that all of the businesses and consumers involved in the contest can muster – which is to say, a lot.”

Who do you know in the Denver/Boulder nonprofit community?  Can you can help spread the word?  It would be great if you could send this message out to your nonprofit network letting them know that this contest is on (which, again, does not start until tomorrow at 8 am, but ends at midnight), and letting them know that they can find out more about tuggl at: http://www.tuggl.com/about/nonprofit.

Tuggl is a web-based initiative helping individuals and local nonprofits to identify good businesses so that they receive the recognition they deserve and are able to grow. In this way, tuggl proves to local businesses that doing good is good for business.

Industry: Photography

Headquarters: Boulder, CO

Founder: Judith Abrams

Markets: United States, Japan, Canada

Interviewed: Judith Abrams, Owner

Landscapes Within grew out of Judith Abrams’ photography talent, love of nature, and grief over her father’s struggle with Alzheimer’s Disease. After his death, Judith left her work as a hospice worker to follow her passion of taking beautiful pictures of nature. She began to sell her images on a very small scale at Boulder’s Farmer’s Market Fine Art and Craft Fair, then steadily larger fairs until becoming one of the Boulder’s Open Studios and joining the fine art realm. With the company, she fulfilled her vision of printing greeting cards and selling them nationally. By growing her company and increasing profits, Judith found a way not only for herself and her employees to thrive, but also a way to facilitate the ability to write frequent and large checks to organizations that support research to fight Alzheimer’s disease.

The community involvement of Landscapes Within is driven by the owner’s strong connection to her family legacy of service and her grief over the death of her father from Alzheimer’s. Abrams has harnessed this passion into growing a lucrative and thriving business, the profits of which she donates to Alzheimer’s research. Judith Abrams sees the business success of Landscapes Within as an outlet to support a cause in which she strongly believes.

Landscapes Within

637-B So. Broadway #340
Boulder, CO 80305

www.landscapeswithin.com