06 Feb 2012 No Comments
A Facebook event is an opportunity to invite your nonprofit’s Facebook Fans to either a physical event or an ongoing campaign. It’s a powerful way to pull individuals into a specific cause and engage your supporters. Creating your event If you have a Facebook Fan page for your organization, you can create an event [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
20 May 2009 No Comments
We’re in the midst of a bumper crop of free online fundraising webinars. This afternoon, we’re honored to have Mike Hennessy from the Special Operations Warrior Foundation as our featured guest in the webinar called “Smart fundraising programs for surviving the summer slump” with our own James Campbell. There’s still time to register for the [...]
14 Apr 2009 No Comments
Well, they have one award, and one of you could win it. The Jenzabar Foundation is offering The Jenzabar Foundation Social Media Leadership Award, a $3,000 grant to one US non-profit organization “based on a blogger’s demonstration on how they are either effectively utilizing, or propose to utilize, social media to raise awareness and/or funds [...]
27 Mar 2009 No Comments
It’s happening tomorrow at 8.30 PM local time, wherever you are on earth. Turn off your lights! That’s all. We usually stay out of the office on Saturdays, so the lights will already be out at Firstgiving Towers, but a bunch of us will be observing Earth Hour in the privacy of our own [...]
02 Mar 2009 No Comments
Not too long ago, we hosted a free webinar on “Using Social Media to Expand your Fundraising Horizons.” If you missed it, you can view the video here. And there’s also a lively discussion, with Q&A from the webinar, happening on Facebook. One topic that comes up a lot in the social media discussion is social [...]
13 Feb 2009 1 Comment
We came across an absolutely amazing story this week. Jeremy and Christy’s son Jackson has Autism, and they wanted him to have the opportunity to work with a service dog. They found a non-profit organization called Autism Service Dogs of America, which trains and places service dogs with autistic children. Jeremy and Christy set up a personal [...]
09 Feb 2009 2 Comments
If you’ve even logged in to your Facebook account within the past two weeks, you know what we’re talking about. So without further ado: 1. Our favorite coffee spot is Diesel Cafe. 2. Our sister company in the UK is called Justgiving, and we love having people with British accents in our office. 3. We [...]
19 Jan 2009 No Comments
It’s the beginning of an exciting week, and the buzz about Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a call to action, urging us to “Make it a day ON, not a day OFF.” Taking a cue, perhaps, from non-profit organizations (among which MLK Day observance is most popular), there’s been an initiative to [...]
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