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 [...]
08 Jan 2009 No Comments
Welcome to 2009! Last year we helped 3,500 NPOs raise money online–more than $30 million from more than half a million donors. And we, like you, have big plans for the new year’s online fundraising. One of them is to create our own awareness month campaign: Ok, but seriously. Below are the national causes of [...]
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. [...]
15 Oct 2008 2 Comments
Today is Blog Action Day, an annual nonprofit event uniting the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters to post about the same issue on the same day. Bloggers everywhere will participate in this virtual event today by publishing posts that discuss poverty in some way. Here at Firstgiving, we usually like to keep things lighthearted. We get [...]
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 [...]
26 Sep 2008 No Comments
Looking for some inspiration? Meet one of our successful fundraisers, Sarah Lewis. Sarah recently biked 70 miles with a team in the Hope for New York Bike-a-Thon, and has raised over $1,000 with Firstgiving.com. We caught up with Sarah to hear more about her story: Why are you fundraising? I am fundraising for Hope for [...]
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