29 Sep 2009 No Comments

Alanis Morissette runs for NEDA

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Celebrity sighting at FirstGiving! Grammy award winning artist Alanis Morissette is running 26.2 miles to support the National Eating Disorders of America (NEDA).  NEDA advocates for funding for quality treatment, research and prevention of eating disorders.  Although the organization is still farily young (it was founded in 2001), these folks have a mature fundraising program going.  This fall, NEDA is hosting fundraising walks all across the [...]

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25 Sep 2009 No Comments

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. . . Keep your fundraising community in [...]

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24 Sep 2009 No Comments

Nonprofit Spotlight: Melanoma Research Foundation

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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 Melonoma Research Foundation. The Melonoma Research Foundation (MRF) funds cancer research, educates [...]

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22 Sep 2009 No Comments

Nonprofit Spotlight: Epilepsy Foundation of Minnesota

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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 Epilepsy Foundation of Minnesota and their Stroll for Epilepsy walks. In 2009, the Epilepsy Foundation of Minnesota [...]

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21 Sep 2009 1 Comment

Tweet, tweet

The current edition of the NonProfit Times has an article with some helpful commentary on Twitter for nonprofits, including what to expect when it comes to raising money online using Twitter.  Particularly insightful is this comment by Jeff Patrick, founder and President of Common Knowledge: “[Twitter] is not so much the organization as it is [...]

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18 Sep 2009 No Comments

This week's nonprofit fundraising Best Practice in Action

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. . . Start building relationships with your [...]

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17 Sep 2009 No Comments

Top 10 ways to use your page creation auto emails #2

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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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16 Sep 2009 No Comments

Don't you wish Microsoft would design your nonprofit webpage?

So you fill out an application, wait a few weeks and poof the one and only Bill Gates calls you personally to tell you he wants to design your nonprofit website for free, and then you wake up right;  WRONG.  It can be a reality.  Microsoft Bill Gates, and Microsoft employees have always had a focus [...]

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11 Sep 2009 No Comments

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. . . Don’t just thank your [...]

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10 Sep 2009 1 Comment

Nonprofit Spotlight: CURE Childhood Cancer

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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  Cure Childhood Cancer , and their CURE’s Kids Conquer Cancer One Day at [...]

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