World Run Day

World Run Day this Sunday!

Reminder–World Run Day is this Sunday, November 9th. It’s an international day of running and charitable giving (and fundraising!). Where are you running? Here’s Team Firstgiving’s 3.8 mile route through Boston: It’s not too late to join us if you’re in Boston. Team Firstgiving is meeting at 10 am at the corner of Mass Ave [...]

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The Great Pennsylvania Outdoor Challenge

Flickr photo courtesy of GreerAz

If you’re not already an outdoor enthusiast, the elk bugling phenomenon could quite possibly call you into the forest this month.  That’s what our friends at the Pennsylvania Parks and Forests Foundation are hoping, anyway. For the next two weeks, Pennsylvania residents and outdoor enthusiasts will bike, hike, kayak, canoe, stroll, and generally gallavant through the state’s [...]

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Facebook Fundraising FTW

That means “For The Win” BTW (which means By The Way). Our latest social media fundraising promotion has drawn to a close. We asked people to join our Facebook group and promote their fundraising pages using our Facebook application. Thousands of people are using the application, but only a couple hundred have joined the Facebook [...]

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Four runners: which one are you?

What’s really interesting about working at Firstgiving is that we get to see such variety in the people who are raising money for the same cause at the same event. Today I noticed that four people who work here are all raising money for very different organizations but doing the same event, World Run Day. [...]

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Explore The Great Outdoors

The summer is the best season of the year—especially in Seattle, Washington where the rain temporarily stops, the sun starts to shine and the breezes are cool. I may be a bit biased as a native Seattleite but the weather really is perfect. And the summer sunshine seems to bring out good moods, weekday barbeques [...]

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