FirstGiving news

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 [...]

FirstGiving Empowers Entrepreneurs. Meet CauseVox.

At FirstGiving, we are empowering donors, fundraisers, and nonprofits to raise more than they ever thought possible for important causes. That commitment also extends to empowering entrepreneurs that have their own ideas about growing and enhancing giving opportunities. We’re excited to announce a new partnership with CauseVox.

Join us for Digital Storytelling Day on Facebook January 19

Great digital storytelling brings the viewer inside the cause and emphasizes the personal importance of the cause to the donor. What’s more, it motivate donors to give, and give even more than they would otherwise. Last Tuesday, our friends at TechSoup launched their Digital Storytelling Event with an hour-long twitter chat about fundraising and digital [...]

What’s Your Story? Enter TechSoup’s Digital Storytelling Event

At FirstGiving, we know the power of a great story. Compelling stories inspire people to donate, understand the connection between the fundraiser and cause, and motivate readers to share and donate…over and over. Digital storytelling brings the viewer inside the cause and emphasizes the personal importance of the cause to the fundraiser. We also know [...]

Thank you for Bringing the Giving Back to your holidays!

Bring the Giving Back fundraisers raised more than $2,200 for community and youth development causes, more than $1,700 for health-related causes, more than $1,600 for animal welfare, and more than $1,100 for international and environmental relief.

Creative fundraising ideas for the new year

It’s the beginning of another season of giving with the start of a new year and new opportunities for making a difference for a cause you care about! Here are our top fundraising ideas for kicking off 2011 with a bang and finding ways to give every month of the year. January Include a fundraising [...]

Want to Bring the Giving Back? Here are a few ways to spread the word

At FirstGiving, we’re committed to Bring(ing) the Giving Back to the holidays. We’ve been to enough holiday parties, and family holiday dinners, where the exchange of gifts has devolved to an exchange of credit in the form of gift cards. One member of our staff even exchanged a gift card for the exact same amount [...]

Announcing our Bring the Giving Back Challenge – #Give40

Have you ever exchanged gift cards of the same value with friends or family during the holidays? Doesn’t it make you feel like your holidays have become more about the exchange of gifts (or gift cards) than about the true meaning of the holidays? Consider this: This year, Americans will spend over $24 billion on [...]

Fundraiser spotlight: Guest post by Lane Phalen, of Mutt Strut 2010

As the annual 2010 Mutt Strut dog parade approached, we enjoyed reading the increasingly excited tweets and updates from TAILS Humane Society. One of the things we noticed was that TAILS used Twitter very well for creating interest and deepening engagement. They also listed regular #FF (Follow Friday) and #WW (Woof Wednesday) shoutouts. We were [...]

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 [...]