Fundraiser spotlight: Peter Ogle runs the Portland Marathon for the Acorn Foundation

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Peter Ogle doesn’t think his story is a newsworthy one, but here at FirstGiving, we do!  Peter is a marathon runner, a survivor of melanoma, and the founder of the Acorn Foundation.  On October 4th, exactly one year after his last treatment, Peter will be running the Portland Marathon.  In addition to a strenuous training [...]

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This week's 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. . . Set a fundraising minimum and [...]

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Nonprofit spotlight: Gilda’s Club of Western Pennsylvania

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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  Gilda’s Club of Western Pennsylvania, and their Today’s Faces of Gilda’s Club campaign. [...]

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7.5% Service Fee? You can't be serious. . .

How is a Firstgiving account different from a donate button on your website?   Are Firstgiving’s online fundraising tools really that powerful?  Is it possible to raise more money online with Firstgiving than without? Inspired by an anonymous email we recently received, Team Firstgiving hosts a provocative discussion on why empowering your supporters to fundraise [...]

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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 email 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. . . Point your event participants [...]

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Top 10 ways to use your page creation auto emails #4

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Firstgiving’s Account Management Team has been on the road for the past few months, talking with our nonprofit partners 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 [...]

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US rowing team bound for World Rowing Championships

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Many of us here at FirstGiving commute over Boston’s Charles River every day, where we see dedicated men’s and women’s rowing teams hard at work churning up what some refer to as “that dirty water.”  Rowing is a sport close to our hearts, which is why several crew teams caught our eye as they propelled [...]

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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 email 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. . . Show your fundraisers how [...]

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Nonprofit spotlight: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network

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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 Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, and their Keep the Memory Alive campaign. The Pancreatic [...]

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Free webinar: 7.5% service fee? You can't be serious. . .

How is a Firstgiving account different from a donate button on your website?   Are Firstgiving’s online fundraising tools really that powerful?  Is it possible to raise more money online with Firstgiving than without? Inspired by an anonymous email we recently received, Team Firstgiving hosts a provocative discussion on why empowering your supporters to fundraise [...]

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