17 Apr 2009 No Comments
Professional runner Ryan Hall will toe the line with 26,000+ other runners this Monday at the 113th running of the Boston Marathon. Like the 900 Boston-bound runners fundraising on Firstgiving, Ryan and his wife Sara (also a professional runner) have a fundraising page, too. If you can’t be in Boston to cheer Ryan on, show [...]
14 Apr 2009 No Comments
Our RSS feed overrunneth this week with great Boston Marathon fundraising stories. Here are three from the local media. Please join us in saluting their athletic and fundraising efforts! In Hingham, Mike Haggerty is running Boston to support the Hingham Education Foundation with the purchase of a Smart Board, a piece of educational technology too [...]
09 Apr 2009 No Comments
Here at Team Firstgiving, we are continuously inspired by marathon fundraisers like Terrie, who not only accomplish the amazing feat of training for and running a marathon, but also take on the challenge of fundraising several thousand dollars for charities like Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary. Originally from Boston, Terrie has been living abroad [...]
03 Apr 2009 2 Comments
Here at Team Firstgiving, we are continuously inspired by marathon fundraisers like Mike, who not only accomplish the amazing feat of training for and running a marathon, but also take on the challenge of fundraising several thousand dollars for charities like Doctors Without Borders. Mike was kind enough to take a break from training to [...]
27 Mar 2009 No Comments
Firstgiving will be hosting a banana water stop along the Boston Marathon course this Saturday, March 28 over by the corner of Rt 16 and 30 in West Newton. If you’re out running, stop by and say ‘hello!’
23 Mar 2009 No Comments
Last week a bunch of fundraisers and non-profit organizations participated in our Twitter contest. They tweeted their fundraising pages, and we chose four winners at random. Here they are: Tom (@greenjungle) is raising money for the Florida International Teaching Zoo. You can read about his Earth Day event and see some excellent Flickr photos that [...]
19 Mar 2009 1 Comment
If our office wasn’t in the basement, we’d be shouting this from the rooftops! Our friends at Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary announced this week that their Boston Marathon Team has reached its $100,000 fundraising goal. With the marathon a month away, this leaves them with plenty of time to finish their training runs and [...]
18 Mar 2009 No Comments
Here at Team Firstgiving, we are continuously inspired by marathon fundraisers like Mary, who not only accomplish the amazing feat of training for and running a marathon, but also take on the challenge of raising several thousand dollars for Boston Marathon charities like Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital. April 20th is only five weeks away, and like [...]
12 Mar 2009 2 Comments
Slides from this week’s webinar, Running for a Reason, are now live at the Team Firstgiving Blog, where you can download them if you want to keep them forever. Audio will follow shortly. We’ll also be emailing out answers to the questions, and we’ll post the top questions and answers to the blog. If you [...]
09 Mar 2009 3 Comments
We’re presenting a free webinar this week on how to raise more money for your cause than you ever thought possible as an athlete-fundraiser. It’s free and open to non-profits and fundraisers alike. When: Wednesday, March 11 at 1.00 PM EST (10.00 AM PST) Where: Online; register here. Join Team Firstgiving for a roundtable [...]
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