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Passports with Purpose: A Travelblogger fundraiser

Are you a travelblogger?  Or just full of wanderlust?  Need some long underwear for your next travel adventure?  Pam and some of her fellow travelbloggers have put together a travel-inspired initiative to raise money online for Heifer International.  Each 10 dollar donation to their fundraising page enters you into the raffle for one of the [...]

Summer social media fundraising promotions continue

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 [...]

Twitter for your cause and enter to win a $250 donation

Back in June, we wrote about how people are using Twitter to promote their fundraising efforts. To help our fundraisers and NPOs get more comfortable using social media tools to raise money online, we’re offering the chance to win some donation dollars for your cause just by using Twitter. Here’s how: 1. Follow Firstgiving on [...]

Fundraisers of a feather Twitter together

One of the most interesting things about working at Firstgiving is seeing all the amazingly inventive things people do to promote their online fundraising pages. Sometimes we even get to invent or discover new ways. So you can image how proud of ourselves were were when we decided that we were going to start using [...]

Who else wants to make a difference?

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 [...]