30 Jan 2012 No Comments
As an organization, you want to empower your supporters. With a slew of free online tools at your disposal, there are many you can choose from. Here are just a few to help implement an online social media fundraising strategy. Direct supporters to your social media communities Make sure your organization has its own unique [...]
23 Aug 2011 2 Comments
At FirstGiving, we’ve recently had a spate of celebrities using our online tools to raise money for causes they care about, including Britney Spears, Twilight’s Kellan Lutz, and even Jersey Shore’s The Situation. So Mashable’s recent series analyzing the relationship between celebrities and social good definitely caught our attention. The first post of the series [...]
13 Dec 2010 1 Comment
Time and time again, our most successful fundraisers tell us that their success started with a strong letter of appeal asking friends and family for donations. Learn more about their advice.
16 Nov 2010 2 Comments
As the annual 2010 Mutt Strut dog parade approached, we enjoyed reading the increasingly excited tweets and updates from TAILS Humane Society. One of the things we noticed was that TAILS used Twitter very well for creating interest and deepening engagement. They also listed regular #FF (Follow Friday) and #WW (Woof Wednesday) shoutouts. We were [...]
20 Jul 2010 No Comments
Facebook just surpassed the highly boast-able milestone of 500 million site users. And in an interesting PR move, instead of boasting about themselves and their product, the folks at Facebook are using the opportunity to highlight their users. You can read more about the project, Facebook Stories, at BoomTown, but the premise is this: Facebook [...]
11 Jun 2008 No Comments
At Firstgiving, we’re all about helping people help people. Our ever-alert support team have outdone themselves yet again, although unfortunately it wasn’t by baking cupcakes for everybody in the office. No, they set up an account with Get Satisfaction to create a "people-powered customer service & support" site for our customers and users to get [...]
04 Jun 2008 3 Comments
Online fundraising is a great way to raise money online quickly and easily by putting your social networks to good use for a good cause. But did you know that with a little elbow grease, you can start to collect donations online from people you don’t know at all? People generally agree that search is [...]
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