21 Feb 2012 No Comments
Now that you’ve chosen your organization, it’s time to decide on a grassroots fundraising activity. From a weekly poker night, to an upcoming graduation, grassroots fundraising can find its place in just about any scenario. Take advantage of the year’s notable events As a grassroots fundraiser, it’s easy to take advantage of the year’s [...]
20 Feb 2012 No Comments
This week’s blog series serves as an introduction to throwing your very own grassroots fundraising event. From deciding which nonprofit to fundraise for to post event donation emails, this series will serve as an overview of how you can easily have your own successful grassroots fundraising event. Types of nonprofits Before you start organizing [...]
17 Feb 2012 No Comments
After a thorough analysis of our recent Boston Marathon fundraisers, we have some great findings we’d like to share with you. As we gear up for this year’s marathon, we want to do as much good for the community as we do for our bodies. Here are a few data points to check out while [...]
16 Feb 2012 No Comments
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012, 1pm to 2pm EST/ 10am to 11am PST Crowdsourcing has been successful at automating the process of collecting charitable contributions and increasing on-line exposure for nonprofits. This webinar addresses the next phase of fundraising by integrating crowdsourcing into traditional in-person events – stepping beyond the walk-a-thon and into the ballroom. [...]
16 Feb 2012 No Comments
For those of us on Twitter, we all know how time consuming orchestrating tweets can potentially be. Though we understand their importance, finding time to tweet throughout the day can be difficult to do. This is why scheduling them in advance might be one way to make engaging your audience on Twitter a little more [...]
15 Feb 2012 No Comments
When fundraising, it’s important to stay fresh in the minds of your friends and family. Email is a vital part of smart peer-to-peer fundraising. Start conversations about three months prior to the event by emailing your supporters every two weeks until the big day. Increase in email frequency as the date draws closer to maximize [...]
14 Feb 2012 No Comments
In past posts we’ve highlighted our “Donate Now” button and how this free, online application can help bring in more donations for your nonprofit. However, we wanted to showcase some organizations that have been using this tool to their advantage. Below is a list of three organizations that have raised a considerable amount of donations [...]
13 Feb 2012 No Comments
Looking for ways to make a difference with your music? Producing a live video EP for charity is a creative way to give back for musicians in any genre. Depending on your resources and/or desires, this project can be as simple or extensive as you’d like. Here are a few things to think about before [...]
10 Feb 2012 No Comments
Now here’s an interesting nugget of information. Between 2007 and 2010, fundraisers who created their own grassroots fundraising events on FirstGiving received higher average donations than those who participated in official nonprofit events. Grassroots fundraisers are tailored to the passion and energy of the individual fundraisers, which, are more likely to inspire friends, family members [...]
09 Feb 2012 3 Comments
As an individual fundraiser, you want to do everything you can to maximize your impact. Raising your fundraising goal is a proven fundraising best practice that is sure to maximize your total donations. This ensures that you and your network are always “pushing” for that near sited goal. CEO Karsten Robbins’ Movember fundraising success Our [...]
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