20 Apr 2011 No Comments
The Campus Kitchens project just pulled off its first fundraiser, a competitive fundraising riff on college basketball’s March Madness, and the key to winning was…Facebook. The March Madness fundraiser was conceived within the national office of Campus Kitchens as a play upon college students’ natural pride and competitive [...]
21 Mar 2011 2 Comments
As the world learned of the devastating national disaster that took Japan by surprise; the wedding blog Ever Ours and e-magazine Utterly Engaged created the one-day event and ongoing fundraising campaign For Japan with Love, initiating a day of silence amongst bloggers. Bloggers quickly signed on to the Blogger’s Day of Silence, with the concept [...]
03 Feb 2011 2 Comments
In January, Laura Speir began a project to tweet 50,000 tweets during 2011 to raise awareness and money towards a cure for ALS (also known at Lou Gehrig’s disease). We noticed her tweets as @Tweet50KforALS and asked Laura if she would answer a few questions about why she is tweeting, and what she has learned [...]
30 Dec 2010 1 Comment
The Cake Wrecks blog began their Christmas Charity Countdown (CCC) in 2009 to raise money for 12 different nonprofits in 12 days. As Cake Wrecks writes: “Many of you remember this crazy thing I did last year, when John and I skipped gifts and decorations and instead donated to a different charity each day for [...]
03 Jun 2010 No Comments
Many nonprofits are unclear about how to use social media tools such as Facebook to promote their cause. Ironically, the free and easy to use tools are the ones where you can benefit the most from when combining social media outlets and FirstGiving fundraising pages. That is not the case with our friends at Horace Mann Educational [...]
25 May 2010 No Comments
Ian didn’t expect to lose his daughter Timberly to Lupus, but he is not giving up hope for other Lupus patients and is determined to spread the word about the potentially life-threatening autoimmune disease that affects over 1 million Americans. His family participated in the Walk for Lupus in Lapeer MI this year to raise [...]
18 Nov 2009 No Comments
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 [...]
06 Aug 2009 1 Comment
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 [...]
17 Jul 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 fundraising series, the nonprofit spotlight, is Ele’s Place and their Ele’s Race 5k Run/Walk. ELE stands for Embracing Loss Effectively, [...]
03 Jul 2009 No Comments
Today we bring you another nonprofit fundraising Best Practice in Action from our weekly series. Each week we 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. . . Send a friendly reminder about [...]
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