18 Nov 2010 3 Comments
FirstGiving will be offering regular webinars the third Thursday of each month. However, in December we are offering two new webinars, just in time for end-of-year planning and engagement. See details below – and please join us December 2 and December 16. December 2, 2010. 1pm to 2pm EST Going the Distance with Race Fundraising: [...]
08 Nov 2010 2 Comments
A new national survey of donor confidence reveals the growing importance of online giving and peer to peer fundraising. The Campbell Rinker Donor Confidence Survey of 510 donors nationwide highlights important donor trends, including: One out of every two donors has given online and seven out of every ten households making more than $75,000 annually [...]
02 Nov 2010 No Comments
Further ideas on optimizing matching gifts from FirstGiving and HEP Development Services
20 Oct 2010 No Comments
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 [...]
18 Oct 2010 No Comments
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: [...]
17 Oct 2010 4 Comments
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, [...]
12 Oct 2010 No Comments
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 [...]
01 Oct 2010 No Comments
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.
28 Sep 2010 4 Comments
Corporate matching is one of the most helpful ways to meet your nonprofit fundraising goals. It’s also one of the least utilized: if you’re not asking, they’re not giving. Please join us on Thursday, October 21, 2010 at 3:00-3:45 PM EDT for a live online presentation, “Steps to Maximize your Matching Gift Dollars.” You’ll learn [...]
20 Jul 2010 No Comments
Facebook just surpassed the highly boast-able milestone of 500 million site users. And in an interesting PR move, instead of boasting about themselves and their product, the folks at Facebook are using the opportunity to highlight their users. You can read more about the project, Facebook Stories, at BoomTown, but the premise is this: Facebook [...]
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