Six out of the box ideas to attract more donations

Adding incentives to your fundraising page and personalizing the fundraising appeal inspires your donors and can push you past your fundraising goal. In this blog post, We’re spotlighting fundraisers who “think outside of the box” by offering personalized appeals, creative donation incentives, and even creative pledge opportunities on their FirstGiving fundraising pages.

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FirstGiving Insights launches: a rich source of data analysis and fundraising resources

This week FirstGiving launched FirstGiving Insights, a new research offering to help nonprofits understand donors and donor behavior. The FirstGiving Insights website (http://insights.firstgiving.com) will regularly report on trends within the greater world of giving through regular blog posts, guest blog posts, recorded webinar content, white papers, and trend papers. FirstGiving Insights aims to bring giving [...]

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Tweeting Towards A Cure

In January, Laura Speir began a project to tweet 50,000 tweets during 2011 to raise awareness and money towards a cure for ALS (also known at Lou Gehrig’s disease). We noticed her tweets as @Tweet50KforALS and asked Laura if she would answer a few questions about why she is tweeting, and what she has learned [...]

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