National Domestic Awareness Violence Campaign: #PutTheNailInit

To bring national brand attention to Safe Horizon’s services for domestic violence survivors, the organization partnered with top-tier angency Arnold Worldwide to create the #PutTheNailinIt campaign.

They joined the campaign in 3 steps

  1. Vow to end domestic violence by painting the left ring fingernail purple; the color of movement.

  2. Make donation to Safe Horizon

  3. Share the photo with branded language on social media and hashtag #PutTheNailinIt

Watch the PSA video here.

Celebrity Partners (clockwise left to right): Tamron Hall, Dave Navarro, Alan Cumming, Kyra Sedgwick, & Michael Bolton.

Strategy and Results

A multi-channel fundraising and awareness strategy.

  1. Created a custom microsite dedicated to the campaign with shareable messaging and graphics, branded infographics, video PSA, and other celebrity and survivor content.

  2. Showcased user-generated content on Twine social media feed embedded on microsite page.

  3. Utilized traditional media such as in-person events and engaging corporate partnerships with HBO and Thinx to increase awareness.

Campaign results:

  1. Reached more than 15 million people.

  2. Garnered more than 520,000 impressions on X (formerly Twitter).

  3. 800 users uploaded their #PutTheNailinIt selfies sharing their support for the cause.

  4. Nearly 2,000 people took the vow.

Robust custom microsite featured celebrity presence and digital content.
"Take The Vow" Page on microsite served as lead generation tool to increase advocacy and donor pipeline.
The stats are loud and clear! Here is one of the shareable infographics for users to download and share.
Donate. Paint. Share. The crux of #PutTheNailinIt.

Experiential Marketing
Campaign:

The Things We Carry

Through a series of evocative images of survivors' personal items styled by Philippa Brathwaite and photographed by critically acclaimed photographer Kelly Marshall, this photography-driven campaign visually explores what survivors bring with them on their journey toward healing.

A series of events at a pop-up art gallery created unique and memorable experiences for supporters, survivors, and the New York City community as they learned about the impactful stories behind the photographs.

A series of pop-up art gallery events promoted the artwork and campaign.
Guests enjoyed learning about the stories behind the personal belongings.
Recreating the gallery experience online: The Things We Carry website presence.