01 Jun 2009 No Comments
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 [...]
22 Apr 2009 No Comments
Our logo isn’t the only thing about us that’s green! Today is Earth Day, and we’re celebrating, but we also think it would be a good idea to make all the other days Earth Days, too. That’s why we were excited to see this post on how to save water and this video from our [...]
27 Mar 2009 No Comments
It’s happening tomorrow at 8.30 PM local time, wherever you are on earth. Turn off your lights! That’s all. We usually stay out of the office on Saturdays, so the lights will already be out at Firstgiving Towers, but a bunch of us will be observing Earth Hour in the privacy of our own [...]
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 [...]
27 Feb 2009 No Comments
To say there’s been a lot of talk recently about “green” things would be an understatement. You can’t peruse a newspaper or jump into the Twitterverse without coming across phrases like “global warming,” “carbon tax” or “energy efficiency.” Green is on everyone’s mind. Amidst the frenzy of green product marketing and the efforts of world [...]
20 Jan 2009 1 Comment
Yesterday afternoon our fundraisers hit the $80,000,000 mark for online fundraising with Firstgiving.com! Since Firstgiving’s inception in 2003, you have been busy creating personal fundraising pages to raise money online for the causes you care about–medical research, animal rights, international development, the environment, and more. At 4.37 PM, it looked like this: And today, it [...]
14 Jan 2009 1 Comment
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