Nonprofit resources

This week's fundraising Best Practice in Action: Post event fundraising tips to your blog

Our friends at Carolina Canines for Service are getting ready for their annual fundraising walk, the 2010 Walk for Those Who Can’t. They’ve set up a great blog to provide information to their community of supporters, including information about how to make the most of a FirstGiving page. Here’s one post they put together about [...]

This week's fundraising Best Practice: March 12 – Increase event registrations by starting early

Climate Cycle FirstGiving

Our friends at Climate Cycle are living out their mission to promote “Clean Energy in Motion” by starting registration early for their 2010 Solar Schools fundraising ride: This announcement appears front and center in their newsletter, and points event participants to Climate Cycle’s FirstGiving page to register for the event: By starting to talk about [...]

Fundraising strategy opportunity through Northeastern’s Nonprofit Management program

Northeastern University’s Nonprofit Management program is seeking applications from 501(c)(3) organizations for a spring term course on nonprofit fundraising. Student teams will: 1. Research the nonprofit and its work. 2. Assess current fundraising activities for effectiveness and potential. 3. Identify a social media or other approach that will bring more donor prospects to the nonprofit. [...]

This week's fundraising Best Practice: March 5–Reach your event goals with virtual participation

RSDSA on FirstGiving

Our friends at Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Association (RSDSA) are masters of community building around fundraising events. They’re running their annual walk in June, and they didn’t want a conflict with the event date to stop their supporters from being part of it. For people who are unable to make the event, the folks at [...]

This week's fundraising Best Practice: February 26 – Use your FirstGiving page to provide event information

Bright Hope on FirstGiving

Our friends at Bright Hope have a 5K fundraising run and walk coming up in May. Since participants are going to register for the event and create fundraising pages from Bright Hope’s FirstGiving page, they’ve clearly displayed all the event information there: On their FirstGiving page, Bright Hope provides: The event name and date Registration [...]

Nominate your nonprofit's video for a DoGooder Award and win $2,500

Cross-posted at the Case Foundation Blog Did your nonprofit organization create a video in 2009? If so, enter it into the 4th Annual DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards for the chance to win $2,500 for your nonprofit, get your video featured on the YouTube homepage, receive great prizes from Flip Video and NTEN, and have your [...]

This week's nonprofit fundraising Best Practice: February 19 – Provide fundraising incentives

Our friends at the Southern Tier AIDS Program (STAP) are using their annual fundraising walk/run as an opportunity to create stronger ties in their community: This year, the folks at STAP have partnered with their local YMCA to provide a free 1-year family membership to each of the top three fundraising teams. What’s more, they’re [...]

This week's fundraising Best Practice: February 12 – Offer opportunities to raise money from your website

Our friends at the International Rescue Committee (IRC) have been very busy supporting Haiti disaster relief efforts over the past few weeks. In the wake of so much need, the IRC knows that when people give, they often wish they could do even more to help. So, in addition to asking their supporters for donations, [...]

This week's fundraising Best Practice: February 5 – Find fundraising opportunities from an existing event

Our friends at Teen Futures know how to mobilize grassroots support from their community. They’ve teamed up with the Pasadena Marathon to give their supporters the opportunity to run for a reason. What’s more, the folks at Teen Futures created this simple YouTube video to help their runners, walkers, and bikers start raising money online [...]