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===Charity Christmas cards=== [[File:Royal Typewriter Christmas Card 1909.jpg|thumb|120px| Christmas card promoting [[Royal Typewriter Company|Royal typewriters]]]] Many organizations produce special Christmas cards as a fundraising tool. The most famous of these enterprises is probably the [[UNICEF]] Christmas card program,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.unicef.org/philippines/downloads/07Consumer%20Brochure.pdf |title=UNICEF Christmas Card Program, ''UNICEF Philippines'' |access-date=29 November 2013 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304063931/http://www.unicef.org/philippines/downloads/07Consumer%20Brochure.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> launched in 1949, which selects artwork from internationally known artists for card reproduction. The UK-based Charities Advisory Trust used to give out an annual "Scrooge Award" to the cards that return the smallest percentage to the charities they claim to support<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/12/11/scrooge-awards-retire-successful-campaign-charity-christmas-cards/ |title=? |publisher=Charitiesadvisorytrust.org.uk |access-date=22 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031216155305/http://www.charitiesadvisorytrust.org.uk/charitiesadvisorytrust/awards.html |archive-date=16 December 2003 |url-status=dead }}</ref> although it is not universally well received by the Christmas card producers.<ref>[https://archive.today/20130121230725/http://www.digiprintchristmas.com/blog/2012/06/charities-advisory-trust/ The Charities Advisory Trust β Killing a UK market in decline]</ref> The RSPB produced the first ever charity Christmas card in 1898, selling 4,500 that year <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://shopping.rspb.org.uk/christmas-shop/charity-christmas-cards |title=RSPB Shop β charity Christmas cards |access-date=29 November 2023 |archive-date=29 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929141849/https://shopping.rspb.org.uk/christmas-shop/charity-christmas-cards/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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