Inside a $50K Cause Campaign That Rallied 650+ Locations

The collision repair MSO’s third annual Breast Cancer Awareness Month initiative rallied 650+ repair centers and national walk teams to support Susan G. Komen’s life-saving mission.
Nov. 23, 2025
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Remember last week when we talked about how aligning your brand with a charitable initiative is a good opportunity to enhance your brand's image and build goodwill with customers? 

Here's a great example of charity in action from the auto collision repair industry: Crash Champions, a collision repair provider that operates in 38 U.S. states, raised $50,000 for Susan G. Komen during its third annual Breast Cancer Awareness Month "Champions For a Cause" initiative, powered by the sale of pink polos and T-shirts across the company's 650+ auto repair centers. The company also encouraged employees, customers, and partners to participate in Race for the Cure and MORE THAN PINK Walk events across the U.S. this fall.

Since 2023, Crash Champions has donated $170,000 to support Susan G. Komen's breast cancer research, patient navigation programs, and advocacy efforts.

B2B marketers can borrow a page from Crash Champions' playbook by turning giving-season campaigns into team-powered cause programs. By rallying employees and customers around a specific nonprofit, you can generate meaningful funding for a cause and community support while also reinforcing your brand's people-first values. 

When your cause partnership is authentic and sustained — the goal is not one-off donations, but a giving program that grows each year — you're helping your chosen charity do more good while strengthening loyalty, pride, and trust in your brand.

 

About the Author

Abby White

Abby White

Vice President, Content Studio

Abby White is a content strategist, newsroom-trained writer, and brand storyteller. As Vice President of EndeavorB2B’s Content Studio, she leads client-driven custom content programs across 90+ brands and the content strategy for topic and role-based newsletters serving executive audiences. An award-winning journalist with a marketer’s mindset, Abby brings 25 years of experience leading editorial, communications, marketing, and audience-building efforts across industries.

Abby launched her first magazine, Abby’s Top 40, in 1988 and made everyone in her family read it. While attending the University of Illinois, she paid her rent as a professional notetaker, which might explain why she still gets asked to take notes in meetings. Since then, she has held editorial leadership roles at an alt weekly, a newspaper, a luxury lifestyle magazine, a business journal, a music magazine, and regional women’s magazines, developing a sharp writing edge and a conversational tone that resonates with professional audiences. 

She expanded into marketing while leading communications for an entertainment industry nonprofit and later drove rebranding and audience-building efforts for an NPR music station. At EndeavorB2B, she has been instrumental in driving editorial excellence, developing scalable content strategies across multiple verticals, and building the foundation for EDGE, the company’s portfolio of executive newsletters. 

And if you’re a writer interested in contributing to MarketingEDGE, she’s the person you need to (politely) bug.

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