Cancer

Nonprofit Spotlight: CURE Childhood Cancer

NPOspotlight

Each month we highlight a couple of our nonprofit partners who have unique fundraising events, great success stories, or something else fantastic going on that we’d like to tell you about. Next up in our nonprofit fundraising series, the nonprofit spotlight, is  Cure Childhood Cancer , and their CURE’s Kids Conquer Cancer One Day at [...]

Nonprofit fundraising for June Awareness Month

Flickr photo courtesy of Teo

Happy June from Firstgiving.com!  June brings us Flag Day, Father’s Day (also Prostate Cancer Awareness Day), Gay and Lesbian Pride Month, Aphasia Awareness Month, and the beginning of summer.  It also brings lots of opportunities for nonprofit fundraising, and we’ve put together a list of this month’s causes to get you going: Vision Research Month [...]

On the Road

One of the benefits to fundraising is the amount of creativity and fun you can have with it. You can do something you’ve always wished to do but never had a reason or purpose to do it. Like Matt (see blog below) who has chosen to dance around the world, on all seven continents and [...]

When Life Hands You Lemons, Make a Firstgiving Page

Lemonade Stand

Nothing beats a cup of cold, refreshing lemonade on a scorching, hot summer day. And do you know what makes it taste even sweeter? Knowing that the proceeds from that cup are going towards a good cause. That’s exactly how the idea of Alex’s Lemonade Stand was born. In 2000, a 4-year-old cancer patient named Alexandra [...]

What's Your Cause?

One of the great things about raising money online is that you can do it for almost any cause!  Last month, my colleague, David (he doesn’t like it when I call him “boss”– gotta love it), helped celebrate May as Lupus Awareness Month by writing about it both on our blog and on our website.  [...]