FirstGiving news

Training on the Boston course this Sunday? Stop by and say 'Hi!'

Firstgiving will be on the Boston Marathon course to offer those training a complimentary waterstop this Sunday morning, March 11th. This is our way of letting you know we are proud of you, as we  know how hard you have worked on your fundraising and training so far. Please stop by and say "hi!" and [...]

Welcome to Your Blog

We have created a blog all about YOU, our fundraisers, charity partners and just plain amazing people.  This is where we will feature videos, photos and stories about all the incredible things that you all are doing.  It’s also where you might learn more about us at the Firstgiving office and read a funny story [...]

Need a little help with your marathon training? Hire a coach.

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< Matt of Team Firstgiving finishing the last leg of the Reach the Beach Relay 2006. We all have different backgrounds. Some of you are marathon veterans and are trying to take this year’s race to a new level. Others never ran before your training started in January. Whatever your case may be, you all [...]

Charity resources: tools to make the most of Firstgiving

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We just added Charity resources to the Firstgiving website to help charities make the most of their Firstgiving experience. You will find information on how to promote Firstgiving online fundraising pages effectively and efficiently to your supporters; you can download a fundraising page creation walk-through and review the benefits of your Subscriber Account Area. In [...]

Can we Talk? Firstgiving talks at two conferences about the evolving landscape of person to person fundraising

One of the most rewarding things we do at Firstgiving is meeting with individuals and charities that use our service and make a real difference as a result.  These opportunities are always energizing and tremendously educational for us here at Firstgiving.  We recently had the opportunity to speak at two conferences on the subject of [...]

New email tool in your FG account

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Racing to top ourselves after the launch of the widget, our product team announces another exciting release that makes it even easier to spread the word about your fundraising. We’ve added a great tool that allows you to import email addresses from your own email client straight in to the "To:" field in our page [...]

Training for Boston? Tips on staying motivated from FG staff and fellow runner

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< longing for those days of summer…? By Beth Blake If you live in the Northeast and you are training for the Boston Marathon (or any other Spring marathon), staying motivated on days like today can be very difficult! I have been in your running shoes many times. As an endurance athlete (7 marathons, 3 [...]

Menu for Hope

We are a bit star-struck by Pim Techamuanvivit, a well-known and prolific food writer.  She has run afundraising campaign for the past 4 years by creating and online fundraising page and posting about it with a link in her blog, outdoing herself regarding her fundraising goals and results each time.  We’re impressed with her motivations, [...]

Hot for 2007!

Mashable hosted the 2006 Social Networking Awards in late December, and Firstgiving was proud to have been nominated for the Niche Social Networks category.  Even prouder to have made the Hot for 2007 list.  (They said that qualifies us to post the winners’ badge). The full list of winners, in all of the categories, is [...]

Quick and Dirty Fundraising

Lucy Bernholz, author of the blog Philanthropy 2173 sent us an email this morning pointing to her recent post mentioning "quick and dirty fundraising".  This is not a bad description of some of the ways that online fundraising pages can be used.  We’d like to think that our features make online fundraising "quick and clean", [...]