04 Feb 2010 3 Comments
Nonprofit organizations are seeking fresh ideas that will help lead to more donations and volunteer engagement. FirstGiving presents a FREE Webinar about online social fundraising while showing how one nonprofit raised $1,000 a day for 30 days online. You can easily design a similar fundraising program for your supporters as well. Join the Webinar to learn how. [...]
20 Mar 2009 1 Comment
Last summer I spent several days with a Ugandan family in a suburb outside Kampala, Uganda’s capital. When this family needs water for washing, cooking, and drinking, the daughters walk about a quarter of a mile to go get it. After a few hours of insisting that i wanted to go with them to collect [...]
17 Feb 2009 3 Comments
What is a virtual event, you ask? Well, we’ll tell you. A virtual event is one that doesn’t require its participants to be in the same place at the same time in order to participate. It can take place anywhere in the country (or the world), in any time zone. It could be a hike, [...]
21 Nov 2008 1 Comment
In Boston this weekend? Passionate about ending the AIDS pandemic in Africa? Boston AIDS Africa, a local association of Boston businesswomen, has teamed up with World Vision to assemble 3,000 Caregiver Kits tomorrow at the Back Bay Events Center. These kits will equip volunteer caregivers in Africa with the practical materials they need to bring [...]
26 Sep 2008 No Comments
It’s been a historical week in international development as leaders worldwide have ramped up discussions around meeting the 2015 Millennium Development Goals. Increasingly (though not exclusively) Africa-specific concerns, the MDG conversation has generated some significant news over the past few days. Below are links to the buzz: Yesterday’s UN Summit on the 2015 MDGs, a mid-way progress [...]
19 Sep 2008 No Comments
A friend just sent me a link to an article from the BBC on the threat of wasted aid dollars in the developing world. Normally I see articles (and books) on this subject related to how aid dollars have already been wasted. This article, however, warns of the inefficiency of waiting until a crisis occurs [...]
02 Sep 2008 2 Comments
Last week we highlighted Olympic marathoner Ryan Hall‘s fundraising page for World Vision on the Team Firstgiving Blog. (By the way, Hall finished 10th in Beijing, helping the U.S. team to its best finish in 32 years). At Firstgiving, we know that endurance sports events have extraordinary power to inspire, especially when athletes are also [...]
29 Aug 2008 5 Comments
If you’ve been involved in the discussion about poverty and international development in the past few years, you probably know the name Jeffrey Sachs. Sachs is a development economist at Columbia University, advisor to the UN on the Millennium Development Goals, and author of the bestselling work, The End of Poverty. You may or may not [...]
18 Aug 2008 No Comments
What’s really interesting about working at Firstgiving is that we get to see such variety in the people who are raising money for the same cause at the same event. Today I noticed that four people who work here are all raising money for very different organizations but doing the same event, World Run Day. [...]
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