Getting creative with grassroots fundraising could land you a spot on national TV

Just ask Kate Atwood, who got some incredible visibility around her birthday fundraising efforts when she appeared on the Today Show:

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Here’s how to create a great fundraising campaign for your birthday or another event:

1. Make your FirstGiving page. Select a nonprofit and customize your Read more→

Find us at the Craigslist Foundation Boot Camp this weekend!

Imagine hundreds of passionate people gathered together to strengthen their communities and neighborhoods. That’s Boot Camp – a fun, intensive one-day conference where you will learn to bring your ideas for empowered communities into reality. Read more about Boot Camp and view the program.

We’re really looking forward to the incredible lineup of speakers and thought Read more→

Best Practice in Action: Aug. 12 – Make it easy for your event participants to register online

If you’re holding an event and want to use online registration, you will, of course, want the maximum possible number of potential registrants to sign up. This means making sure it’s easy and straightforward for them to go through the online registration process. FirstGiving provides a template for your registrations, but the questions Read more→

How to be a Twitter fundraising powerhouse like Keith Powell

Two weeks ago, actor Keith Powell (30 Rock) responded to Alyssa Milano’s challenge to be a “real man” and donate money to the World Wildlife Federation to help the cleanup effort for the Gulf oil spill.  Rather than simply writing a check and walking away, Powell decided instead to create a FirstGiving fundraising page (which Read more→

How to use Facebook’s consumer marketing strategy for your nonprofit

Fundraising with Facebook

Facebook just surpassed the highly boast-able milestone of 500 million site users.

And in an interesting PR move, instead of boasting about themselves and their product, the folks at Facebook are using the opportunity to highlight their users. You can read more about the project, Facebook Stories, at BoomTown, but the premise is this:

Facebook collects stories Read more→

This week’s Best Practice in Action- July 1: Create a Team!

Nothing can help build momentum and participation for an event like team spirit!  Creating a team helps create a community and the sense that you’re all in it together, working toward a common goal and FirstGiving Teams makes teambuilding a snap.  Whether running a marathon, a local race, or just raising money for an end-of-year Read more→