12 Feb 2010 No Comments
Our friends at the International Rescue Committee (IRC) have been very busy supporting Haiti disaster relief efforts over the past few weeks. In the wake of so much need, the IRC knows that when people give, they often wish they could do even more to help. So, in addition to asking their supporters for donations, [...]
08 Feb 2010 1 Comment
We recently caught up with Patrick McCrann, leader of the “Run for Haiti” project. It’s a team of athletes working together to raise money online for Haiti disaster relief efforts, and they’ve raised over $29,000 in just 4 days. How did they do it? Not only did Patrick raise money online; he challenged his personal [...]
05 Feb 2010 No Comments
Our friends at Teen Futures know how to mobilize grassroots support from their community. They’ve teamed up with the Pasadena Marathon to give their supporters the opportunity to run for a reason. What’s more, the folks at Teen Futures created this simple YouTube video to help their runners, walkers, and bikers start raising money online [...]
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. [...]
28 Jan 2010 1 Comment
Many of us think of a marathon as a long way to run. And it’s true, 26.2 miles is a long way. But Abe Clark is planning on running 2862 miles – all the way across the USA – alone and unsupported. It is a monumental goal and one that has only ever been achieved [...]
15 Jan 2010 No Comments
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: it’s incredibly heartening to see how quickly FirstGivers are responding to support Haiti disaster relief efforts. This story just in from 5 year-old Lily‘s mom: When I told my daughter about the earthquake in Haiti and told her that they would need lots of help, she [...]
11 Dec 2009 No Comments
Today we bring you another installment in our series of fundraising Best Practices in Action. This week’s Best Practice is. . . Start talking about online fundraising early. Our friends at the Autism Society of Minnesota are planning ahead for their annual “Steps of Hope” walk. Although the event won’t take place until the end [...]
20 Nov 2009 No Comments
Today we bring you another installment in our weekly series of fundraising Best Practices in Action. Each week, we’ll highlight an organization that has done an incredible job of promoting its online fundraising efforts with FirstGiving and show you how to do the same. This week’s Best Practice is. . . Encourage repeat fundraisers to [...]
19 Nov 2009 No Comments
Each month, we highlight a couple of our nonprofit partners who have unique fundraising events, great success stories, or something else fantastic going on that we’d like to tell you about. Next up in our nonprofit spotlight fundraising series is Samaritan’s Purse. Since 1974 Samaritan’s Purse has followed Jesus parable of The Good Samaritan, by [...]
06 Nov 2009 No Comments
Today we bring you another installment in our weekly series of nonprofit fundraising Best Practices in Action. Each week, we’ll highlight an organization that has done an incredible job of promoting its online fundraising efforts with FirstGiving and show you how to do the same. This week’s Best Practice is. . . Tell your supporters [...]
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