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. [...]
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 [...]
05 Feb 2009 No Comments
As a small internet company, we pay attention to what’s going on in Web 2.0 and how people use the web to raise money and awareness online for causes they care about. We’re excited about the potential for the internet to connect people and facilitate real change at low cost. This story about a mobile [...]
20 Jan 2009 1 Comment
Yesterday afternoon our fundraisers hit the $80,000,000 mark for online fundraising with Firstgiving.com! Since Firstgiving’s inception in 2003, you have been busy creating personal fundraising pages to raise money online for the causes you care about–medical research, animal rights, international development, the environment, and more. At 4.37 PM, it looked like this: And today, it [...]
14 Jan 2009 1 Comment
Does your organization have a compelling story to tell? Do you want to connect with your supporters, volunteers, and donors but don’t have the funds to launch expensive outreach campaigns? If your NPO is based in the U.S. or the U.K., you may be eligible for YouTube’s Nonprofit Program. Current participants include: The One Campaign [...]
29 Dec 2008 No Comments
First in a mini-series of year-end best practices from NPOs we know. Last week we received the following year-end appeal from our neighbors at Oxfam America. It’s short and simple and aesthetically pleasing: The Global Hunger Epidemic from Oxfam America on Vimeo. Oxfam’s mission statement is a one-two punch: they deliver development programs and emergency [...]
20 Nov 2008 1 Comment
Are you a travelblogger? Or just full of wanderlust? Need some long underwear for your next travel adventure? Pam and some of her fellow travelbloggers have put together a travel-inspired initiative to raise money online for Heifer International. Each 10 dollar donation to their fundraising page enters you into the raffle for one of the [...]
28 Oct 2008 No Comments
It’s marathon season, and this past weekend the 33rd Annual Marine Corps Marathon took place in Washington, D.C. For Alex Counts, President of Grameen Foundation and friend of Team Firstgiving, the race was an opportunity to “run poverty out of town.” We caught up with Alex to hear his thoughts on training, fundraising, and microfinance. [...]
07 Oct 2008 2 Comments
Just a heads-up to let you know that we’ve registered for Blog Action Day 2008 on October 15. This virtual event will bring together bloggers from all over the blogosphere to contribute to a worldwide discussion on the subject of poverty. Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty from Blog Action Day on Vimeo. Firstgiving is currently [...]
26 Sep 2008 No Comments
It’s been a historical week in international development as leaders worldwide have ramped up discussions around meeting the 2015 Millennium Development Goals. Increasingly (though not exclusively) Africa-specific concerns, the MDG conversation has generated some significant news over the past few days. Below are links to the buzz: Yesterday’s UN Summit on the 2015 MDGs, a mid-way progress [...]
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