24 Jan 2012 No Comments
Part 2 of our “Sharing your fundraising page” series focuses on sharing on Facebook. Yesterday we touched upon Twitter and will hit other social media sharing channels in the days to come. Share your fundraising page on Facebook Walls, Pages, and Groups In the realm of Facebook, there are many places you can share [...]
20 Apr 2011 No Comments
The Campus Kitchens project just pulled off its first fundraiser, a competitive fundraising riff on college basketball’s March Madness, and the key to winning was…Facebook. The March Madness fundraiser was conceived within the national office of Campus Kitchens as a play upon college students’ natural pride and competitive [...]
03 Jun 2010 No Comments
Many nonprofits are unclear about how to use social media tools such as Facebook to promote their cause. Ironically, the free and easy to use tools are the ones where you can benefit the most from when combining social media outlets and FirstGiving fundraising pages. That is not the case with our friends at Horace Mann Educational [...]
13 Jul 2009 4 Comments
As you go about your Facebook fundraising this summer, Facebook has a helpful tool you can use to build your nonprofit fundraising community online: a widget for your website or blog. The Fan Box widget links your Facebook fan page to your nonprofit site, lets visitors see your fan base, and makes it easy for [...]
03 Jul 2009 No Comments
Today we bring you another nonprofit fundraising Best Practice in Action from our weekly series. Each week we highlight an organization that has done an incredible job of promoting its online fundraising efforts with Firstgiving and show you how to do the same. This week’s Best Practice is. . . Send a friendly reminder about [...]
23 Jun 2009 No Comments
Last week we hosted a sold-out webinar on using Facebook for community building and nonprofit fundraising. Well, technically it wasn’t sold out because it was free, but the session was completely full! If you missed it or couldn’t get in, you can see slides and audio for the session here. During the session, we talked [...]
28 Apr 2009 7 Comments
Facebook has made some significant changes in the past few months, and one of them is the creation of Public Profiles for non-profit organizations. If you’re already familiar with Facebook, a Public Profile is like your personal Facebook profile, except that it represents your whole organization instead of just one person. You can post updates, [...]
23 Jan 2009 5 Comments
Remember the old Facebook? Remember when you could post your Firstgiving fundraising page to your profile? When new Facebook arrived on the scene, it shook a few things up. Has your fundraising page been relegated to your “Boxes” tab, languishing in obscurity next to bumper stickers and cities you’ve visited? Now, thanks to a recent [...]
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