Please use these resources for more information, and to let everyone know that, even though the main event is over for 2020, they can still shop the online Market!
2020 ONLINE MARKET
Shop online through our Alternative Gifts International (AGI) “crowdfund” any time through December 15, 2020 and support the Wichita Alternative Gift Market. Here’s the direct link to support the regional, national, and global causes:
https://alternativegifts.org/giving/crowdfunds/57
To support the market’s local causes and/or to receive complimentary ornaments (while supplies last), please contact AGI at 316-269-0635 or agi@alternativegifts.org.
FACEBOOK
Like us on Facebook, then invite your friends to do so, as well! Also, RSVP for the Market on the “events” page (even if just “maybe”) and invite your friends. Please post photos and comments about your meaningful holiday shopping experience!
http://www.facebook.com/WichitaAlternativeGiftMarket
Thanks to My-Trinh Nguyen and Jennifer Tran, long-time volunteers for hosting our Instagram page! Please be sure to share and tag as appropriate.
https://www.instagram.com/ictaltgiftmkt/
TWITTER SITE
“Follow” the Wichita Alternative Gift Market twitter site. Please remember to tag it when you tweet about the @ICTAltGiftMkt and our many partners!
http://twitter.com/ICTAltGiftMkt
YOUTUBE
NEW! Get a glimpse of an alternative gift market and hear interviews with shoppers, volunteers, parents, and Alternative Gifts International Board members.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5ZlF6upYPziKE5Dru0wS1Q/
SAVE THE DATE LABELS
Click on either the Word or PDF document link below to print on Avery #5160 or #8460 adhesive address labels (30 per page, letter-sized paper, 1 in. x 2 5/8 in. ea. label size) and adhere to AGI catalogs (or anything you’d like) before distributing to your friends, neighbors, coworkers, church attendees, or just around town!
2021 “Save the Date” labels: Word
2021 “Save the Date” labels: PDF
COMING IN 2021
PROMO POSTERS :
2020 WAGM poster
2021 POSTERS COMING IN SUMMER, 2021 … print and post as many of these promotional market posters around your organization (and around town) as you’d like! Recommended size is 11×17″ on glossy paper, full-color. Smallest size recommendation would be letter-sized. You may need to adjust the color settings from RGB to CMYK, depending on your printer. If you do post some of these around town (i.e. at cafes, bookstores, restaurants, campuses, etc.) please let our “street team” know by emailing wichitaaltgiftmkt at gmail dot com.
PROMO HANDBILLS
2020 WAGM handbill
COMING IN SUMMER, 2021 … Print the two-sided PDF document below (p. 1 is in color, p. 2 is in B/W) on letter-sized card stock, cut (4 handbills per page), and distribute to your friends, family, colleagues, church members, and everyone you meet! Use “actual size” printer settings for best results.
POSTCARDS
COMING IN FALL, 2021 … Design for the front of the postcard will be the same as the handbills, above, to be printed on card stock. Please add your own return address and postage info (or that of your organization, with the administrator’s permission) to the mailing side of the postcard.
SAVE THE DATE CARDS
2020 WAGM save the date business card
COMING IN SUMMER, 2021 … Select the Word document link below to print on Avery #28877 Business Card template/perforated paper (or on card stock, then cut as needed). Use the Word file or PDF file, whichever you prefer. The “print actual size” (rather than “print to fit”) option usually works better. The cards are double-sided and in color.
MEDIA RELEASE
2020 November market media release
MORE INFORMATION
To request specific materials or additional information contact Julie Brin, WAGM team member, at area code 316, prefix 841, line number 4391 or by emailing juliebrin at gmail dot com.
For electronic market packet materials please contact Alternative Gifts International at 316-269-0635 or visit their market info pages:
https://alternativegifts.org/giving/gift-markets/local
https://alternativegifts.org/giving/gift-markets/market-resources-page
… WORKS IN PROGRESS …
NEW! We are just starting to build our LinkedIn organizational page. Please like it, share it, and/or link to it if you are a market volunteer! If you have ideas to make it more successful please send a LinkedIn message to Julie Ann Baker Brin. Thanks!
https://www.linkedin.com/company/wichita-alternative-gift-market/
EVEN NEWER! If you are a Pinterest user, you know that the possibilities are endless. So this is just the beginning for our market page. We could use a volunteer to help build this; the ideal candidate would be a self-starter with proficiency in Pinterest or similar social media, and familiarity with the market (i.e. a former “shopper”). If interested email juliebrin at gmail dot com with a brief summary of qualifications and at least one reference.
https://www.pinterest.com/wichitaaltgiftmkt/
KIDS SHOPPING LIST & ACTIVITIES
COMING IN FALL, 2021 … Alternative Gifts International has resources available for children’s groups who wish to host their own markets for kids, with a special shopping list focusing on just a few simple causes. This is an excerpt of that booklet, which was available to young shoppers at our 2019 market:
AGI 2019 Kids Shop List and activities
SHOPPING LIST
COMING IN FALL, 2021 … Need to plan ahead? Here’s a sneak peek of our market day “shopping list” (of tribute gifts/donations in honor of your giftees—not including the local vendors, whose items are sold separately). Thanks to Associated Business Forms for printing our shopping list, and for their support of the market! The forms will be in duplicate (“carbon copy”) on market day, so you can take a copy home with you as your receipt (AGI will need to keep one for their records).
QUOTATIONS AND TESTIMONIALS
The PDF below is a resource for media — and it’s just the short list! There are more where these came from. (If you’re a shopper who would like to let us know why the market is so meaningful to you and/or your gift recipients, we’d love to hear from you, and your quotation may become an important part of the way we spread the word about this unique opportunity! Just email wichitaaltgiftmkt@gmail.com with a sentence — or three!)
Quotations & testimonials WAGM short list for media 2019
PROGRAMS/BULLETIN INSERTS
These can be made available upon request.
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