This week's nonprofit fundraising Best Practice in Action

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Today we bring you another nonprofit fundrasing 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. . . Talk about fundraising opportunities in your [...]

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Nonprofit spotlight: Reid R. Sacco Memorial Cancer Research Fund

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Each month we highlight a couple of our nonprofit partners who have unique fundraising events, great success stories, or something else fantastic going on that we’d like to tell you about. Next up in our nonprofit fundraising series, the nonprofit spotlight, is The Essex County Community Foundation and Reid’s Ride, which benefits the Reid R. Sacco [...]

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Thank you for the thank you!

When it comes to nonprofit fundraising, whether it’s online fundraising or offline, there’s a lot of talk about how important it is to follow up with donors and thank them.  This week I received a handwritten thank-you note from the folks at the International Justice Mission (IJM), a nonprofit organization that I’ve been supporting with [...]

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Attention nonprofits: resource development opportunity

A new Common Impact survey says engaging corporate employees would generate $1.1 billion in new nonprofit resources. Intrigued?  While our primary focus here at FirstGiving is helping nonprofits raise money online, we know you’re busy pursuing all kinds of other opportunities to make the most of your community resources.  That’s why we thought this opportunity [...]

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This week's nonprofit fundraising Best Practice in Action

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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 Best Practice is. . . Highlight the impact fundraisers’ dollars [...]

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Top 10 ways to use your page creation auto emails #6

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Firstgiving’s Account Management Team has been on the road for the past few months, talking with nonprofits like you about how to raise more money online and listening to your feedback.  One thing you’vetold us is how helpful it is to receive an automatic email when someone creates a new fundraising page for your nonprofit. [...]

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Firstgiving webinar: grassroots fundraising and community organizing

Even if you have a successful fundraising event with lots of participants, we’re willing to bet that you’ve got even more supporters out there living their lives with gusto—having birthdays, running marathons, hosting parties, and more. How could your organization increase its impact if they turned these activities into fundraising events for your nonprofit? With [...]

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Free webinar tomorrow: grassroots fundraising and community organizing

Even if you have a successful fundraising event with lots of participants, we’re willing to bet that you’ve got even more supporters out there living their lives with gusto—having birthdays, running marathons, hosting parties, and more.  How could your organization increase its impact if they turned these activities into fundraising events for your nonprofit? With [...]

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Nonprofit spotlight: Ele's Place

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Each month we highlight a couple of our nonprofit partners who have unique fundraising events, great success stories, or something else fantastic going on that we’d like to tell you about. Next up in our nonprofit fundraising series, the nonprofit spotlight, is Ele’s Place and their Ele’s Race 5k Run/Walk. ELE stands for Embracing Loss Effectively, [...]

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Improvements to FirstGiving's nonprofit account area

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Starting next month, you’ll see improvements on FirstGiving, including enhancements to the nonprofit account and reports, as well as a new logo and color scheme. Many of these changes are a result of the action we’ve taken on your feedback over the past few months. First up are the improvements to the nonprofit account. In [...]

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