16 May 2012 2 Comments
Facebook Fan Pages are a great way to reach your supporters in a social community. Here’s why. Facebook Fan Pages are specific pages for a variety of users, including businesses, organizations, celebrities, or any other institution. It’s important to engage with your supporters in a social space, like many nonprofits have done already. Here’s [...]
03 Apr 2012 No Comments
Some say there’s an art to the social media post. Great tweets and Facebook posts all share similar characteristics that help separate them from the rest of the pack. As a thought experiment, we decided we’d break down what we felt the best social media posts all had in common. Captivating text Effective social media [...]
29 Mar 2012 No Comments
If you haven’t done so already, on Friday, March 30th, Facebook will automatically switch your organization’s fan page to the new Timeline format. Before this required change happens, it’s important to understand how these changes may alter the way your nonprofit engages with your Facebook community. Here’s a breakdown of a few new features [...]
14 Feb 2012 No Comments
In past posts we’ve highlighted our “Donate Now” button and how this free, online application can help bring in more donations for your nonprofit. However, we wanted to showcase some organizations that have been using this tool to their advantage. Below is a list of three organizations that have raised a considerable amount of donations [...]
06 Feb 2012 No Comments
A Facebook event is an opportunity to invite your nonprofit’s Facebook Fans to either a physical event or an ongoing campaign. It’s a powerful way to pull individuals into a specific cause and engage your supporters. Creating your event If you have a Facebook Fan page for your organization, you can create an event [...]
27 Jan 2012 No Comments
Over the course of the week we have been discussing how to best share your fundraising page online. Here is a brief recap of this week’s series. The 5 “Don’t”s of sharing your fundraising page on Twitter Make sure your Twitter followers have a clear idea of what you are trying to do in [...]
20 Jul 2011 2 Comments
Online donations have grown steadily over the past few years, becoming a major piece of nonprofit development strategies – and a convenient way for the rest of us to support the causes we care about. We wanted to use our expertise in online donation processing to make that process even easier for everyone involved, and [...]
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 [...]
10 Mar 2010 No Comments
As of today we are offering an easy way for your supporters to raise awareness about your cause, and help ask for donations. You can find icons on your supporters fundraising page that link directly to their Facebook and Twitter accounts. We’ve also added a feature for donors that allow them to “share” the page [...]
04 Feb 2010 3 Comments
Nonprofit organizations are seeking fresh ideas that will help lead to more donations and volunteer engagement. FirstGiving presents a FREE Webinar about online social fundraising while showing how one nonprofit raised $1,000 a day for 30 days online. You can easily design a similar fundraising program for your supporters as well. Join the Webinar to learn how. [...]
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