Introduction:
The organization that I chose to analysis is the Save the Children Campaign. This organization relies heavily upon ethos and pathos to get support for their cause. This organization uses many means to get their point across to people. This organization uses the emotional appeal to their advantage and mostly they use this technique to get donations and volunteers. The use of credibility strategies has helped the organization also with receiving donations and getting people to volunteer. The mission of Save the Children is to create lasting, positive changes in the lives of children in need. Save the Children works to achieve this mission through community-based programs designed to ensure sustained improvements and benefits for children, families and communities. Save the Children main focuses are child protection, economic opportunities, education, health, HIV/AIDS, hunger and malnutrition, and saving newborn lives. This organization use a variety of techniques, the techniques are ethos, pathos, visual persuasion, celebrity selling power, and image management to establish themselves as a credible organization.
Background:
Save the Children began serving children in the United States in 1932 in response to The Great Depression. Save the Children is the leading independent organization creating real and lasting change for children in need in the United States and around the world. It is a member of the International Save the Children Alliance, comprising 27 national Save the Children organizations working in more than 110 countries to ensure the well being of children. This organization is a non-governmental agency providing technical assistance and funding throughout the world.
The way Save the Children helps people, they respond to any emergency that puts at great risk the survival, protection, and well-being of large numbers of children, where addressing the needs and well-being of those children
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