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Happy Thanksgiving, from Team FirstGiving

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Thanksgiving is by far my favorite holiday, I love to sit back, eat turkey and watch football by a fire.  There is no stress about gifts, (except for my Mom who will be First in line at Macy’s for Black Friday), and usually it is a family affair that is filled with tradition.  One tradition that I am [...]

Nonprofit spotlight: Samaritan's Purse

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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 [...]

Need an extreme makeover??

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We won’t be much help when it comes to  a beauty or house makeover, but is your nonprofit in need of a marketing and computer technology makeover?  If so, we know just the people, Geek Girl.   The Extreme Geek Girl Makeover contest is open to any 501(c)(3) nonprofit located in the greater Cape and [...]

Nonprofit Spotlight: Garden of Dreams Foundation

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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 Garden of Dreams Foundation (GDF). 37,000  runners will be crossing  the Brooklyn Bridge and running the 26.2 [...]

Top 10 ways to use your page creation auto emails #1

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Firstgiving’s Account Management Team has been on the road for the past few months, talking with our nonprofit partners about how to raise more money online and listening to your feedback. One thing you’vetold us is how helpful it is to receive an automatic email when someone creates a new fundraising page for your nonprofit. [...]

Nonprofit Spotlight: Melanoma Research Foundation

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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 fundraising series, the nonprofit spotlight, is  The Melonoma Research Foundation. The Melonoma Research Foundation (MRF) funds cancer research, educates [...]

Top 10 ways to use your page creation auto emails #2

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Firstgiving’s Account Management Team has been on the road for the past few months, talking with our nonprofit partners about how to raise more money online and listening to your feedback.  One thing you’ve told us is how helpful it is to receive an automatic email when someone creates a new fundraising page for your [...]

Don't you wish Microsoft would design your nonprofit webpage?

So you fill out an application, wait a few weeks and poof the one and only Bill Gates calls you personally to tell you he wants to design your nonprofit website for free, and then you wake up right;  WRONG.  It can be a reality.  Microsoft Bill Gates, and Microsoft employees have always had a focus [...]

Nonprofit Spotlight: CURE Childhood Cancer

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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 fundraising series, the nonprofit spotlight, is  Cure Childhood Cancer , and their CURE’s Kids Conquer Cancer One Day at [...]

Top 10 ways to use your page creation auto emails #3

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Firstgiving’s Account Management Team has been on the road for the past few months, talking with our nonprofit partners about how to raise more money online and listening to your feedback.  One thing you’ve told us is how helpful it is to receive an automatic email when someone creates a new fundraising page for your [...]