22 Mar 2010 1 Comment
Today is World Water Day, and here at FirstGiving, we are thrilled to see people raising money online for clean water solutions all over the world. We could think of no better time to highlight the remarkable efforts of Katie Spotz, who has just spent 70 days thinking about water. In fact, she’s been doing [...]
28 Jan 2010 1 Comment
Many of us think of a marathon as a long way to run. And it’s true, 26.2 miles is a long way. But Abe Clark is planning on running 2862 miles – all the way across the USA – alone and unsupported. It is a monumental goal and one that has only ever been achieved [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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