grassroots fundraising

This week's fundraising Best Practice in Action

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Today we bring you another nonprofit fundraising Best Practice in Action from our weekly  series. 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. . . Set a fundraising minimum and [...]

Nonprofit fundraising for August awareness month

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It’s the dog days of summer, at least if you’re in the northern hemisphere, but only according to the stars!  When it comes to nonprofit fundraising, there is lots going on in August, even as many of you are prepping for the fall fundraising season.  Wherever you are, we hope you’re staying cool and that [...]

This week's nonprofit fundraising Best Practice in Action

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Today we bring you another nonprofit fundrasing Best Practice in Action from our weekly series. 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. . . Talk about fundraising opportunities in your [...]

Free webinar tomorrow: grassroots fundraising and community organizing

Even if you have a successful fundraising event with lots of participants, we’re willing to bet that you’ve got even more supporters out there living their lives with gusto—having birthdays, running marathons, hosting parties, and more.  How could your organization increase its impact if they turned these activities into fundraising events for your nonprofit? With [...]

Nonprofit fundraising with Facebook: build your community in 3 easy steps

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As you go about your Facebook fundraising this summer, Facebook has a helpful tool you can use to build your nonprofit fundraising community online: a widget for your website or blog. The Fan Box widget links your Facebook fan page to your nonprofit site, lets visitors see your fan base, and makes it easy for [...]

This week's fundraising Best Practice in Action

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Today we bring you another nonprofit fundraising Best Practice in Action from our weekly series. Each week we 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. . . Send a friendly reminder about [...]

This week's nonprofit fundraising Best Practice in Action

Today we bring you another nonprofit fundraising Best Practice in Action from our weekly series.  Each week we 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. . . Equip your fundraisers to make [...]

Counting down (or should we say up?) to $100,000,000 in donations

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We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: we are constantly inspired by you!  Together, you, the thousands of nonprofit organizations, fundraisers and donors who raise money online with Firstgiving, have raised millions of dollars for causes you care about. Today is an exceptionally exciting day in Firstgiving history as we count up to [...]

Follow-up on Facebook fan pages

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Last week we hosted a sold-out webinar on using Facebook for community building and nonprofit fundraising.  Well, technically it wasn’t sold out because it was free, but the session was completely full!  If you missed it or couldn’t get in, you can see slides and audio for the session here. During the session, we talked [...]

This week's nonprofit fundraising Best Practice in Action

AIDS Walk Kansas City

Today we bring you another nonprofit fundraising Best Practice in Action from our weekly series.  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 nonprofit fundraising Best Practice is. . . Give your fundraisers [...]