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 [...]
13 Jan 2009 No Comments
In the Twitterverse this morning, @terrijellman posted something we thought you in the Blogosphere might be interested in: a Social Media Case Studies Superlist. Social media tools can be powerful ones for getting your organization’s message out and helping you raise money online. Sometimes it takes some time and experimentation to figure out which mix of [...]
30 Sep 2008 No Comments
I love bowling. When I first moved to Boston I was introduced to a New England/Canadian Maritime form of it, candlepin bowling. And since my ancestors hail from this region, I’ve developed a particular familial affinity for it. It may come as no surprise, then, that the “Be the Star You Are Bowling Classic” on Firstgiving’s site caught [...]
09 Sep 2008 1 Comment
Beth Kanter, champion of the social media revolution and an authority on the use of social media for NPO fundraising, recently posted prophetically on her blog a response to the following question: “When will online fundraising using social media and social networks become more than just a niche source of income?” Here’s an excerpt from [...]
31 Jul 2008 2 Comments
Here at Firstgiving, we really believe in the power of connecting people to raise money for the causes they believe in. And social media – blogs, Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, social networking, etc. – is the latest way to connect people for a cause or any reason. So we’re running some donation promotions to help people [...]
28 Jul 2008 No Comments
Almost 300 Firstgiving fundraising pages are listed with Digg, and the winner of our $500 donation for getting the most diggs during the promotion is Caitlyn Langley’s fundraising page for the Aplastic Anemia & MDS Foundation. Caitlyn’s family is raising money online and offline to fund research for a cure to her condition. The big [...]
14 Jul 2008 No Comments
![](http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/winjulyd.jpg "Winjuly\")
Debbie DeCerbo’s Fundraising Page is the winner of Firstgiving’s “winjuly” promotion, and we’ve made a $500 donation to her fundraising page for Lupus Foundation of America’s New Jersey Chapter. Congratulations, Debbie! Debbie will be walking the Walk for Lupus Now in October in Union, NJ, and we wish her all the best. For the rest [...]
14 Jul 2008 5 Comments
At 5:00pm Eastern time today we’re going to announce the winner of our $500 “winjuly” tagging promotion – there’s still a couple of hours left to enter – but we’re also kicking off a new donation promotion, this time with Digg. Here’s the deal. Submit your fundraising page to Digg, (or somebody else’s) and get [...]
25 Jun 2008 No Comments
We see the explosion of social networks as our next big growth opportunity at Firstgiving and are looking for a visionary online community leader to join our team. This person would have tangible experiences in building social networks and associated stuff like widgets, microblogging tools, and sharable applications. Do you or someone you know fit [...]
17 Jun 2008 1 Comment
Last Saturday, Firstgiving CEO Mark Sutton was a presenter at ePhilanthropy.org’s Nonprofit Social Networking Symposium in New York City. It was good to get out of the office and into a room full of leading thinkers about ephilanthropy and NPO fundraisers, officers, volunteers and techies, all trying to figure out how to use this web [...]
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