To help the Osteosarcoma Institute raise awareness of — and funding for — efforts that advance research for an aggressive childhood cancer, C/A jumped in as an extension of the OSI team to lead powerful digital and content marketing initiatives.
Challenge: The Osteosarcoma Institute is a small-but-mighty nonprofit with a mission of increasing treatment options and survival rates for osteosarcoma, a rare but aggressive bone cancer that primarily affects children and adolescents.
As a relatively new organization focused on finding a cure for a rare disease, the OSI needed high-impact strategies to broaden awareness with its core audiences: patients, caregivers, researchers and donors.
Solution: The OSI team partnered with C/A to create a comprehensive nonprofit digital marketing program that would support fundraising efforts and raise national awareness of osteosarcoma. Our strategy:
- A content hub focused on core audience needs. C/A began by creating foundational content and a digital marketing strategy to determine the best ways to reach each audience. This work informed our design for a new content hub, The Frontline, which shares “stories of progress, inspiration and information in overcoming osteosarcoma.”
- Ongoing data-driven editorial direction. C/A’s work continues with our team developing the organization’s annual editorial calendar, informed by keyword research to ensure it reaches key audiences and covers each of the OSI’s strategic pillars.
- Galvanizing advocacy with targeted campaigns. Each year, we develop and execute a series of campaigns to help fundraising and awareness. One campaign served to publicize an osteosarcoma survivor’s charity golf tournament; another helped turn followers into advocates. With precise targeting on each of these campaigns, we help to ensure that we make the most of every dollar spent.
2022 Results
FROM OUR CLIENT
Maximizing Google’s Ad Grant Program
C/A spearheaded the OSI’s participation in Google’s Ad Grant program, which provides nonprofits with a free $10,000 search ad budget per month. (Note: If you’re with a nonprofit and aren’t taking advantage of this program, we should talk!)
First, we developed a comprehensive content marketing strategy for the Google Grant that analyzed the current organic positioning of the OSI’s pages and pinpointed high-intent search terms that were already driving impressions and organic clicks. From there, C/A strategically leveraged the Google Ad Grant to boost Search Engine Results Page (SERP) visibility and drive organic traffic to relevant editorial content.
2022 Digital Marketing Results
Rethinking (& Rebranding) an Invaluable Resource for Families
Imagine receiving a life-changing cancer diagnosis about your child. Where do you turn?
OSI Connect is a resource that provides patients and caregivers with the opportunity to consult live with an osteosarcoma expert. In its former iteration, it was termed a “hotline,” which created some confusion since the service offered a scheduled video call rather than an on-demand phone line. With C/A’s help, the OSI rebranded the service to OSI Connect and created a strategy to increase engagement, which included recommendations for website, email and social media messaging as well as paid promotions. C/A also consulted on the intake process to identify efficiencies and automate elements of the communications.
Content Hub Redesign
The OSI partnered with C/A to refresh the design and provide a more intuitive interface for The Frontline, OSI’s content hub. C/A mapped out a new tagging and filtering structure for The Frontline blog categories based on user behavior, allowing site visitors to navigate through content more easily and removing content dead ends. Using the nonprofit’s existing brand guidelines, we modernized the design of the homepage and content templates to improve the user experience.
Fundraising Campaigns
As the OSI’s digital marketing agency of record, C/A manages digital marketing for the organization’s nonprofit initiatives, which include multiple fundraising campaigns throughout the year. C/A’s media approach identifies target audiences and optimizes multiple channels to drive as much qualified traffic to campaign landing pages as possible. For each fundraising campaign, we create a unique landing page and dynamic, often animated, social media and display assets. Donors receive an automated thank you email and are looped into the OSI’s monthly newsletter to encourage continued engagement and future donations.
