16 Nov 2010 2 Comments
As the annual 2010 Mutt Strut dog parade approached, we enjoyed reading the increasingly excited tweets and updates from TAILS Humane Society. One of the things we noticed was that TAILS used Twitter very well for creating interest and deepening engagement. They also listed regular #FF (Follow Friday) and #WW (Woof Wednesday) shoutouts. We were [...]
18 Oct 2010 No Comments
When you run a fundraising event, a sure-fire way to fundraising success is to provide your event participants with an easy registration process, information about the event, and effective fundraising tools–all in one place. A great way to do this is to create a specialized online event page for your participants and include things like: [...]
26 Feb 2010 No Comments
Our friends at Bright Hope have a 5K fundraising run and walk coming up in May. Since participants are going to register for the event and create fundraising pages from Bright Hope’s FirstGiving page, they’ve clearly displayed all the event information there: On their FirstGiving page, Bright Hope provides: The event name and date Registration [...]
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. [...]
24 Nov 2009 No Comments
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 [...]
02 Nov 2009 1 Comment
Looking for a creative nonprofit fundraising event idea? Our friends at Nutfit have partnered with local nonprofit Action for Boston Community Development for an adventure race this month. It’s one of the most creative ideas we’ve seen, and it’s for a great cause. We caught up with James Moore of Nutfit to learn more about [...]
29 Oct 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 Garden of Dreams Foundation (GDF). 37,000 runners will be crossing the Brooklyn Bridge and running the 26.2 [...]
23 Oct 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. . . Encourage supporters who [...]
16 Oct 2009 No Comments
Whether your offline fundraising events have been successful in the past or not, bringing them online can be a rather frightening prospect. If the thought of transitioning to an online fundraising system seems daunting, find out what should really scare you: missing out on what you could be reaping from raising money online! Join us [...]
07 Aug 2009 No Comments
Today we bring you another 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. . .Encourage your fundraisers–give them some tips on [...]
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