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. [...]
03 Sep 2009 No Comments
Firstgiving’s Account Management Team has been on the road for the past few months, talking with our nonprofit partners about how to raise more money online and listening to your feedback. One thing you’ve told us is how helpful it is to receive an automatic email when someone creates a new fundraising page for your [...]
06 Aug 2009 1 Comment
Firstgiving’s Account Management Team has been on the road for the past few months, talking with our nonprofit partners about how to raise more money online and listening to your feedback. One thing you’ve told us is how helpful it is to receive an automatic email when someone creates a new fundraising page for your [...]
17 Jun 2009 No Comments
On June 17, FirstGiving held a seminar on the basics of using Facebook for community building and fundraising. We discussed establishing a presence on Facebook and dispelled some common myths about fundraising on Facebook, as well as answered some of our audiences’ quesitons. Watch the video or view the slides (PDF) of the webinar to [...]
10 Jun 2009 4 Comments
We’re hosting another free fundraising webinar one week from right now, on Wednesday, June 17 at 3:30pm East coast time (12:30 West) all about fundraising with Facebook. Every time we talk about social media fundraising, there are always Facebook fundraising questions, so we decided to put together a whole session on using Facebook to build [...]
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