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January 18, 2012 From Today in Fundraising
Check out recent blog posts from FirstGiving for You and Get Fully Funded.
January 18, 2012 From Today in Fundraising
Check out recent blog posts from FirstGiving for You and Get Fully Funded.
September 29, 2011 From MarketWatch
GoodThreads announced a strategic partnership with online fundraising software vendor FirstGiving. Both brands will use core assets of their technology to create an innovative solution
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July 18, 2011 From Bloomberg
Despite launching Fundraise.com just five months ago, 19-year-old Nate Drouin says some 500 users have tapped it to solicit donations for causes that range from tsunami relief to anti-nuke protests. He expects more than $2 million in revenue by year’s end and more than...
July 12, 2011 From Today in Fundraising
The mission of Children of Uganda is to support and empower hundreds of orphans and vulnerable children in Uganda to lead successful and productive lives.
June 7, 2011 From Tributes.com
Tributes Inc., an online resource for local and national obituary news, and FirstGiving, an online peer-to-peer fundraising tools provider, announced that they have formed a strategic partnership. Tributes.com has integrated FirstGiving’s Global Charity API Platform throughout the obituary classified destination site to help...
March 31, 2011 From ABC News
More than 150 cities across the world participated in Twestival this year. Each city selected a local charity and received a Web page from FirstGiving.
'Twestival' brings the Twittersphere offline and onto a physical location — a fairground, skating rink,
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January 28, 2011 From San Francisco Chronicle
CauseVox, a white label crowd funding platform for non-profits, announced today the launch of its fully customizable crowd-funding platform for nonprofits. The platform, in beta, offers easy to use and manage charity-branded fundraising pages.
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September 8, 2010 From New York Times
LATE last month, tens of thousands of runners who are registered for this year’s New York City Marathon got an e-mail from Mary Wittenberg, the president and chief executive of New York Road Runners.
She implored the runners to join a social networking...
September 2009 From FundRaising Success
Most of the nonprofit techies I know have a laptop appendage — an extra (digital) limb, of sorts — attached to their bodies. Not so with fundraisers. As a breed, fundraisers are "people people" — they spend their time cultivating relationships by phone and face to face. Sure, you know how to use a computer, but when it comes down to the big ask, you've got to get out from behind your desk, right?
Firstgiving.com Reaches $100 Million Raised for Charity
July 13, 2009 From News
SOMERVILLE, Mass., July 13, 2009 — Firstgiving.com, a leading web-based fundraising platform for nonprofit organizations, today announced a major milestone. Since 2003, Firstgiving has helped over 1.8 million people raise more than $100 Million for over 27,000 different nonprofit organizations. These funds have helped disease research, education, housing, healthcare, animal care and many other very worthy causes all across the United States.
July 13, 2009 From News
SOMERVILLE, Mass., July 13, 2009 — Firstgiving.com, a leading web-based fundraising platform for nonprofit organizations, today announced a major milestone. Since 2003, Firstgiving has helped over 1.8 million people raise more than $100 Million for over 27,000 different nonprofit organizations. These funds have helped disease research, education, housing, healthcare, animal care and many other very worthy causes all across the United States.
Tips for Harnessing Web 2.0 Potential
May 13, 2009 From GIVING 2.0
The communications landscape is changing every day and, as it does, more and more nonprofits are realizing that they need to create a presence for their brands where potential supporters are. Today, many of those places are Web 2.0 hideouts like social-networking sites and blogs.
In the Campbell & Co.-sponsored webinar, "Philanthropy 2.0," in March, presenters Leslie Gryce Sturino, director of marketing for Campbell & Co., and Brian Kish, assistant vice president for advancement at Salve Regina University and an annual-giving consultant with Campbell & Co., discussed the Web 2.0 and social-networking tools available to nonprofits and how fundraisers can use them to engage potential supporters.
May 13, 2009 From GIVING 2.0
The communications landscape is changing every day and, as it does, more and more nonprofits are realizing that they need to create a presence for their brands where potential supporters are. Today, many of those places are Web 2.0 hideouts like social-networking sites and blogs.
In the Campbell & Co.-sponsored webinar, "Philanthropy 2.0," in March, presenters Leslie Gryce Sturino, director of marketing for Campbell & Co., and Brian Kish, assistant vice president for advancement at Salve Regina University and an annual-giving consultant with Campbell & Co., discussed the Web 2.0 and social-networking tools available to nonprofits and how fundraisers can use them to engage potential supporters.
Firstgiving Runners Help Raise $1.9 Million for Charities in the 2009 Boston Marathon
April 21, 2009 From News
SOMERVILLE, Mass., April 21, 2009 — Firstgiving.com, a leading web-based fundraising platform for nonprofit organizations, today announced results from its fundraising efforts for the 113th Boston Marathon. Comprising nearly half of the charity-focused entrants, Firstgiving’s 844 runners have already raised $1,938,281 for 96 charities using Firstgiving technology. These preliminary numbers indicate that the final amount raised is an increase over 2008, for a fifth record-breaking year.
April 21, 2009 From News
SOMERVILLE, Mass., April 21, 2009 — Firstgiving.com, a leading web-based fundraising platform for nonprofit organizations, today announced results from its fundraising efforts for the 113th Boston Marathon. Comprising nearly half of the charity-focused entrants, Firstgiving’s 844 runners have already raised $1,938,281 for 96 charities using Firstgiving technology. These preliminary numbers indicate that the final amount raised is an increase over 2008, for a fifth record-breaking year.
Webinar Roundup: Building Your E-mail List
February 10, 2009 From FS Advisor
In a Jan. 13 Firstgiving webinar titled "Building Your E-mail List," David Karp, director of marketing for Firstgiving, a site that offers online donation processing services, covered elements surrounding e-mail that every nonprofit fundraiser doing or considering doing e-mail should know.
February 10, 2009 From FS Advisor
In a Jan. 13 Firstgiving webinar titled "Building Your E-mail List," David Karp, director of marketing for Firstgiving, a site that offers online donation processing services, covered elements surrounding e-mail that every nonprofit fundraiser doing or considering doing e-mail should know.
Webinar Roundup: Building Your E-mail List
February 3, 2009 From FS Advisor
In a Jan. 13 Firstgiving webinar titled "Building Your E-mail List," David Karp, director of marketing for Firstgiving, a site that offers online donation processing services, covered elements surrounding e-mail that every nonprofit fundraiser doing or considering doing e-mail should know.
February 3, 2009 From FS Advisor
In a Jan. 13 Firstgiving webinar titled "Building Your E-mail List," David Karp, director of marketing for Firstgiving, a site that offers online donation processing services, covered elements surrounding e-mail that every nonprofit fundraiser doing or considering doing e-mail should know.
Using the Web to Fundraise for Special Events
May 2007 From FS Advisor
More and more, nonprofit organizations are giving constituents the tools to rally support for them and get donation pledges online. Online fundraising can be especially useful for annual, pledge-driven events like walk-a-thons; seasonal campaigns like an awareness month or during the summer for a “virtual” lemonade stand; or just as an ongoing, grassroots way constituents can support a cause. Laurel Ackerman, marketing director for Firstgiving, an online fundraising service, says that’s because using the Web is a more efficient way to ask for pledges — much easier than calling on the phone or going door to door to friends and neighbors. Participant
May 2007 From FS Advisor
More and more, nonprofit organizations are giving constituents the tools to rally support for them and get donation pledges online. Online fundraising can be especially useful for annual, pledge-driven events like walk-a-thons; seasonal campaigns like an awareness month or during the summer for a “virtual” lemonade stand; or just as an ongoing, grassroots way constituents can support a cause. Laurel Ackerman, marketing director for Firstgiving, an online fundraising service, says that’s because using the Web is a more efficient way to ask for pledges — much easier than calling on the phone or going door to door to friends and neighbors. Participant
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