29 May 2009 9 Comments
Firstgiving’s Account Management Team has been on the road for the past few months, talking with you about how to raise more money online and listening to your feedback. One thing you’ve told us is how helpful it is to receive an automatic email when someone creates a new fundraising page for your nonprofit. But [...]
29 May 2009 No Comments
Today we bring you another nonprofit fundraising Best Practice in Action from our weekly series. Each week, we’ll highlight an organization that has done an incredible job of promoting its online fundraising efforts with Firstgiving and show you how to do the same. This week’s nonprofit fundraising Best Practice is. . . Update your fundraisers [...]
27 May 2009 No Comments
News has quietly trickled out about a hush-hush meeting on May 5 of some of the richest and most philanthropic people in the world, the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates, George Soros. Apparently, Gates and Warren Buffet invited this elite group together to talk about “need” and what this group could do in light [...]
26 May 2009 No Comments
Five or six years ago, the social web was something few nonprofits had time to think about. These days, says Beth Kanter, it’s a powerful force for change in the nonprofit sector, not to be ignored. Many inside (and outside) the nonprofit world agree with her. Beth recently posted an overview of nonprofit social media [...]
22 May 2009 No Comments
Today we bring you another fundraising Best Practice in Action from our weekly series. Each week, we’ll highlight an organization that has done an incredible job of promoting its online fundraising efforts with Firstgiving and show you how to do the same. This week’s Best Practice is. . . Remind your fundraisers to send out [...]
21 May 2009 No Comments
A couple of weeks ago, we posted an update about Facebook’s new service for nonprofit organizations. Several of our readers asked us whether we thought it better for a nonprofit to have a profile, a group, or both. A lot of people must have been asking this question because the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) just [...]
20 May 2009 No Comments
We’re in the midst of a bumper crop of free online fundraising webinars. This afternoon, we’re honored to have Mike Hennessy from the Special Operations Warrior Foundation as our featured guest in the webinar called “Smart fundraising programs for surviving the summer slump” with our own James Campbell. There’s still time to register for the [...]
19 May 2009 No Comments
Have you ever had a new person come on board at your nonprofit? Does he or she need to see your nonprofit’s fundraising and donor reports? Make your new coworker feel welcome (not to mention really special) by giving him or her a personal username and login for your nonprofit account. As an administrator of [...]
18 May 2009 No Comments
Last week, the Boston Foundation released a report that included some dire-sounding news for Massachusetts nonprofits. I’m pretty sure these figures are not so very different in other communities, but here are some sobering factoids: 42 percent of Massachusetts nonprofits have reduced staff or salaries. 42 percent have frozen hires and current salaries. 23 percent [...]
15 May 2009 1 Comment
Today we bring you a fundraising Best Practice in Action from our new weekly series. Each week, we’ll highlight an organization that has done an incredible job of promoting its online fundraising efforts with Firstgiving and show you how to do the same. This week’s Best Practice is. . . Mobilize your fundraisers by helping [...]
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