26 Mar 2010 No Comments
Our friends at Stewart’s Caring Place are getting ready for their 4th Annual Hope Walk. Since many of their event participants are local, they’re hosting a team kick-off meeting at their offices. Here’s the invite they sent out via email: Kick-off meetings are a great way to meet supporters, generate some excitement and momentum around [...]
24 Mar 2010 2 Comments
When Kelly Strauch was moving from small-town Laurel, Montana to the big city of Boston, Massachusetts, she dreamed of running the Boston Marathon. Only knowing a little about running and marathons, she learned from a friend that the Boston Marathon consisted of 26.2 miles that started in Hopkinton and traveled into the city. She was [...]
22 Mar 2010 1 Comment
Today is World Water Day, and here at FirstGiving, we are thrilled to see people raising money online for clean water solutions all over the world. We could think of no better time to highlight the remarkable efforts of Katie Spotz, who has just spent 70 days thinking about water. In fact, she’s been doing [...]
19 Mar 2010 1 Comment
Our friends at Carolina Canines for Service are getting ready for their annual fundraising walk, the 2010 Walk for Those Who Can’t. They’ve set up a great blog to provide information to their community of supporters, including information about how to make the most of a FirstGiving page. Here’s one post they put together about [...]
12 Mar 2010 No Comments
Our friends at Climate Cycle are living out their mission to promote “Clean Energy in Motion” by starting registration early for their 2010 Solar Schools fundraising ride: This announcement appears front and center in their newsletter, and points event participants to Climate Cycle’s FirstGiving page to register for the event: By starting to talk about [...]
10 Mar 2010 1 Comment
Jesse Vetter’s doctor lightheartedly said that he could run a marathon after his 14th knee surgery. Jesse took that literally and will be participating in the 114th running of the Boston Marathon this year. He is running to support Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership (MBHP), which provides an array of services to provide those in need [...]
10 Mar 2010 No Comments
As of today we are offering an easy way for your supporters to raise awareness about your cause, and help ask for donations. You can find icons on your supporters fundraising page that link directly to their Facebook and Twitter accounts. We’ve also added a feature for donors that allow them to “share” the page [...]
08 Mar 2010 1 Comment
On Wednesday, March 3, 2010, FirstGiving fundraisers gathered at Dillon’s, just steps away from the Boston Marathon finish line, for a night of team building, networking, and fun. Dick Hoyt, a seasoned marathon and endurance athlete, gave a motivational speech to Boston Marathon runners. Rick Hoyt, Dick’s son, was a strongly felt presence throughout the [...]
05 Mar 2010 No Comments
Our friends at Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Association (RSDSA) are masters of community building around fundraising events. They’re running their annual walk in June, and they didn’t want a conflict with the event date to stop their supporters from being part of it. For people who are unable to make the event, the folks at [...]
03 Mar 2010 No Comments
Jodie Nelson likes to hold the distinction of the first woman. She was the first woman to be towed into enormous barrels in Tahiti’s Teahupoo, and was one of the first female surfers even to attempt tow-in surfing. On March 28, 2010, Jodie will become the first woman to paddle surf from Avalon, on the island of [...]
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