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Good Old Fundraising on New Facebook

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 [...]

Facebook Fundraising FTW

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 [...]

Try Facebook fundraising and win a donation

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 [...]

Four runners: which one are you?

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. [...]

Rain or Shine: State Radio Goes On

Firstgiving interns

  This past weekend, the dedicated Firstgiving interns made their way through the pouring rain and thunderclaps to the Bank of America Pavilion to hear State Radio and to promote Bikes Not Bombs and Firstgiving, simultaneously. State Radio in conjunction with Bikes Not Bombs was endorsing alternative forms of transportation to promote a cleaner environment [...]

Summer social media fundraising promotions continue

Here at Firstgiving, we really believe in the power of connecting people to raise money for the causes they believe in. And social media – blogs, Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, social networking, etc. – is the latest way to connect people for a cause or any reason. So we’re running some donation promotions to help people [...]

Firstgiving on Facebook

We’ve created a Firstgiving Facebook group, and it’s already boasting over 100 members! You are cordially invited to join; we’ll be updating the group page often with Firstgiving news, events, photos and tips.