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 [...]
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 [...]
29 Aug 2008 1 Comment
That means “For The Win” BTW (which means By The Way). Our latest social media fundraising promotion has drawn to a close. We asked people to join our Facebook group and promote their fundraising pages using our Facebook application. Thousands of people are using the application, but only a couple hundred have joined the Facebook [...]
18 Aug 2008 1 Comment
The summer of social media fundraising continues. We recently made two nice $250 donations to pages that were featured on Twitter – Pam’s Down Syndrome page and Miss Sarah’s Climate Cycle page – and now we’re taking the game to Facebook. Join the Firstgiving Facebook group (so we know who you are) and add the [...]
18 Aug 2008 No Comments
What’s really interesting about working at Firstgiving is that we get to see such variety in the people who are raising money for the same cause at the same event. Today I noticed that four people who work here are all raising money for very different organizations but doing the same event, World Run Day. [...]
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