26 Apr 2011 1 Comment
Peter Swimm is a chip tune musician who goes by the Twitter handle of @TCTD and writes the blog True Chip Till Death. He wanted to motivate the chip tune community to help Japan after the March earthquake and tsunami. He asked fellow musician Dod McKnight (@Pixel8) to help spread the word about a [...]
20 Apr 2011 No Comments
The Campus Kitchens project just pulled off its first fundraiser, a competitive fundraising riff on college basketball’s March Madness, and the key to winning was…Facebook. The March Madness fundraiser was conceived within the national office of Campus Kitchens as a play upon college students’ natural pride and competitive [...]
15 Apr 2011 No Comments
“My name is Joe and I am a drive-thru runner.” Those are the words of Joe D’Amico, who has run 14 marathons, with a personal best of 2:36:54. Beginning at the end of February, he created the McRunner Challenge: “I will eat only McDonald’s for 30 days and attempt a sub 2:36 at the [...]
05 Apr 2011 No Comments
Chuck Wagner is raising funds for the 2011 Boston Marathon to benefit The Hoyt Foundation. He tells of how he has raised his funds, what motivates him, and why he’s creating the “Send Chuck to Boston” video.
21 Mar 2011 2 Comments
As the world learned of the devastating national disaster that took Japan by surprise; the wedding blog Ever Ours and e-magazine Utterly Engaged created the one-day event and ongoing fundraising campaign For Japan with Love, initiating a day of silence amongst bloggers. Bloggers quickly signed on to the Blogger’s Day of Silence, with the concept [...]
14 Mar 2011 4 Comments
In the wake of the 8.9 earthquake that hit Northern Japan on Friday, fundraisers and donors on FirstGiving rallied to the cause of Japan Disaster Relief incredibly fast. Within the first 18 hours, 66 fundraisers had created fundraising pages, and raised over $7,000. Today, three days after the earthquake struck, 185 people are raising [...]
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.
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