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Greeting Card Association Introduces ‘Festive Friday’ to Encourage People to Send Holiday Cards Early This Year
Greeting Card Association Introduces ‘Festive Friday’ to Encourage People to Send Holiday Cards Early This Year DENVER, CO (19 November, 2020) –The Greeting Card Association has added a special card-sending holiday to the calendar for 2020: Festive Friday. Occurring...
Greeting Card Association Partners with Brandwise to Create B2B Marketplace
Greeting Card Association Partners with Brandwise to Create B2B Marketplace November 13, 2020 (Lakewood, CO) – The Greeting Card Association (GCA) has partnered with Brandwise to create the GCA Marketplace, a B2B marketplace exclusive to GCA’s membership of greeting...
Committee Updates – October 2020
LOUIE Awards 2020 Mary Beth Sibert, LOUIE Awards Committee Chair The 32nd LOUIE Awards honor the tradition of celebrating the makers, the artists, the writers and the craftspeople who are passionate about bringing innovative greeting cards to the world. Get ready, as...
GCA Events – October 2020
November 12-13, 2020 Join the Greeting Card Association VIRTUALLY for this year's Workshop & Retreat Reset. Recover. Reimagine. 2020 has been a year of unprecedented change. “Normal” is indefinitely disrupted and innovation is the way forward. This interactive...
From the Executive Director – October 2020
October 2020 The Non-Virtual Virtue of a Card When virtually everything goes virtual, the tangible becomes more meaningful. When you can’t give loved ones a hug in person. When you can’t shake hands with a colleague. When distance becomes the norm. While distance may...
In the News – October 2020
GCA Members in the News & Industry Updates GCA Looks Westward to Denver for New Executive Director and Management Team: https://www.greetingcard.org/gca-looks-westward-to-denver-for-new-executive-director-management-team/ Thinking of You Week Returns: ...
Member Spotlight – October 2020
Member Spotlight with Kapil Trimal, StoneThis A Card Talk Member InterviewWhat inspired you to get involved in cards? My father has been sending out holiday cards for the past 35 years. It was family tradition, helping him while he signed each card and hand wrote the...
From the President – October 2020
October 2020 Change Brings Challenge, Challenge Brings Change It is a huge understatement to say 2020 has been a year filled with challenges and changes. While my vision for my first year as president of the Greeting Card Association certainly did not include a...
GCA Looks Westward — To Denver — For New Executive Director, Management Team
Fellow GCA Members, It is a huge understatement to say 2020 has been a year filled with challenges and changes. My vision for my term as GCA president certainly did not include a global pandemic that would require cancellation of all live events, but we rose to the...
Letter to the Wall Street Journal Assesses Postal Funding Issue
With increased scrutiny towards the United States Postal Service's finances and operations, this opinion piece and overview via the Wall Street Journal is timely. Additionally, the USPS Office of Inspector General concluded that lowering service standards failed to...