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 [...]
20 May 2009 No Comments
We’re in the midst of a bumper crop of free online fundraising webinars. This afternoon, we’re honored to have Mike Hennessy from the Special Operations Warrior Foundation as our featured guest in the webinar called “Smart fundraising programs for surviving the summer slump” with our own James Campbell. There’s still time to register for the [...]
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, [...]
02 Mar 2009 No Comments
Not too long ago, we hosted a free webinar on “Using Social Media to Expand your Fundraising Horizons.” If you missed it, you can view the video here. And there’s also a lively discussion, with Q&A from the webinar, happening on Facebook. One topic that comes up a lot in the social media discussion is social [...]
26 Feb 2009 No Comments
Head on over to Social Actions this afternoon at 2 pm EST for the first conversation in their Change the Web Conversation Series: Using Facebook for Social Change. It’s free and questions will be answered by resident experts: Susan Gordon, Nonprofit Coordinator, Facebook Causes Ivan Boothe, Creative Director, Rootwork.org Dan Schultz, Author, A DigiActive Guide [...]
09 Feb 2009 2 Comments
If you’ve even logged in to your Facebook account within the past two weeks, you know what we’re talking about. So without further ado: 1. Our favorite coffee spot is Diesel Cafe. 2. Our sister company in the UK is called Justgiving, and we love having people with British accents in our office. 3. We [...]
02 Feb 2009 No Comments
Last week we posted a mini-series on tips from our marathon fundraising panel experts. If you missed it, you can find it here. One of our experts, Beth from Samaritans, mentioned a method of thinking about your networks and extended networks called “treasure-mapping.” This concept is so useful, we thought we’d give you a [...]
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