03 Feb 2011 2 Comments
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 [...]
30 Dec 2010 1 Comment
The Cake Wrecks blog began their Christmas Charity Countdown (CCC) in 2009 to raise money for 12 different nonprofits in 12 days. As Cake Wrecks writes: “Many of you remember this crazy thing I did last year, when John and I skipped gifts and decorations and instead donated to a different charity each day for [...]
21 Dec 2010 No Comments
Charity inspires goodwill, as proven by a current fundraiser launched by the Christianity, Atheism, and Islam groups in the social news site reddit.com. Together, they’ve raised over $55,000 from among their group members. We asked redditor Ahmed Mahmood, of the subreddit group r/islam, if he could answer some questions about the fundraiser and the reddit challenge. This is part three of a three-part interview about this amazing fundraising collaboration and challenge.
20 Dec 2010 No Comments
Charity inspires goodwill, as proven by a current fundraiser launched by the Christianity, Atheism, and Islam groups in the social news site reddit.com. Together, they’ve raised over $55,000 from among their group members. We asked redditor Jay Hazen, of the subreddit group r/aheism, if he could answer some questions about the fundraiser and the reddit challenge. This is part two of a three-part interview about this amazing fundraising collaboration and challenge.
20 Dec 2010 No Comments
Charity inspires goodwill, as proven by a current fundraiser launched by the Christianity, Atheism, and Islam groups in the social news site reddit.com. Together, they’ve raised over $55,000 from among their group members. We asked redditor Margaret Crymes, a member of the subreddit group r/christianity, if she could answer some questions about the fundraiser and the reddit challenge. This is part one of a two-part interview about the amazing fundraising collaboration and challenge.
20 Nov 2010 No Comments
Farley Sullivan is a free agent fundraiser. She can’t ignore the human problem of homelessness and in 2007, she decided to do something about it on a large scale. The result is the annual Boston Knit-a-thon fundraising event for the Pine Street Inn‘s permanent housing program. Farley’s life changed when she befriended a local homeless [...]
16 Nov 2010 2 Comments
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 [...]
11 Nov 2010 1 Comment
This Veterans’ Day, we are struck most by the stories on our site. Fundraisers choose their causes because they have some connection to the cause, a person, or the organization. The connections are often personal, and always compelling. For Veteran’s Day, we read the fundraising stories behind the fundraisers and are highlighting a few. If [...]
19 Aug 2010 2 Comments
Just ask Kate Atwood, who got some incredible visibility around her birthday fundraising efforts when she appeared on the Today Show: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Here’s how to create a great fundraising campaign for your birthday or another event: 1. Make your FirstGiving page. Select a nonprofit [...]
09 Aug 2010 No Comments
Two weeks ago, actor Keith Powell (30 Rock) responded to Alyssa Milano’s challenge to be a “real man” and donate money to the World Wildlife Federation to help the cleanup effort for the Gulf oil spill. Rather than simply writing a check and walking away, Powell decided instead to create a FirstGiving fundraising page (which [...]
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