Trick or Treat Challenge! $25 donations from us

It’s trick or treat! We want to inspire you in this Halloween challenge, and we hope you take us up on it… For our Halloween treat, we want to donate $25 to five of our wonderful fundraisers who meet our Halloween Trick or Treat Challenge: FirstGiving will donate $25 dollars to the five fundraisers who [...]

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Build your 2011 Boston Marathon fundraising team smart

Race day may be six months away, but a highly competitive race has already been logged in the books: the race to official registration for the 2011 Boston Marathon. In a new course record, registration closed after a mere eight hours! With so many runners still looking to get a bib, this means you could [...]

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Improve fundraising event results with online event pages

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When you run a fundraising event, a sure-fire way to fundraising success is to provide your event participants with an easy registration process, information about the event, and effective fundraising tools–all in one place. A great way to do this is to create a specialized online event page for your participants and include things like: [...]

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Managing online and offline donations in your donor database

Donor management can be a bear, especially when you have donations coming in through both offline and online channels. Things get even more complicated with fundraising events when your participants are collecting online donations with personal fundraising pages and offline donations such as cash or checks. While online fundraising is making giving faster and easier, [...]

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How to maximize charity event fundraising with low registration fees

If you’re having an event with online registration, you have the opportunity to set up a registration fee. You may be tempted to set this fee high, so that you can cover your costs and maybe even raise a little money for your programs through registration fees alone. But this can backfire – registrants will [...]

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Add Your Photos To Our New Flickr Group

We are thrilled to announce the launch of the first-ever FirstGiving Event Photos group on the photo-sharing site Flickr. It is open to anyone who is raising money for a cause through FirstGiving. Just add your photo to our group, tag it “FirstGiving,” and your photo will be part of our permanent photo gallery.

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