HIV/AIDS

Nonprofit fundraising for June Awareness Month

Flickr photo courtesy of Teo

Happy June from Firstgiving.com!  June brings us Flag Day, Father’s Day (also Prostate Cancer Awareness Day), Gay and Lesbian Pride Month, Aphasia Awareness Month, and the beginning of summer.  It also brings lots of opportunities for nonprofit fundraising, and we’ve put together a list of this month’s causes to get you going: Vision Research Month [...]

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(PRODUCT) RED Makeover: the best way to support the AIDS cause?

We kicked this month off with a post about World AIDS Day, and as AIDS Awareness Month continues, discussions about the disease and people affected by it are popping up all over the blogosphere.  Last week I ran across a video highlighting a (PRODUCT) RED “makeover” as part of the anti-AIDS campaign.  You may have [...]

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World AIDS Day

Today marks the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day, an international awareness-raising campaign to fight and end the disease and prejudices surrounding it.  There’s lots going on around the world; here are some highlights: From the official World AIDS Day campaign, info on an SMS campaign in India and some thoughts on the role of leadership in the [...]

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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. [...]

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