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Posted By:  BethP
Posted On:  Oct 15, 2008

  Online Fundraising to Combat Poverty

Today is Blog Action Day, an annual nonprofit event uniting the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters to post about the same issue on the same day.  Bloggers everywhere will participate in this virtual event today by publishing posts that discuss poverty in some way....... [view]

Posted By:  BethP
Posted On:  Oct 10, 2008

  Gartner: “enteprises can learn a great deal from firstgiving.com about leverage”

Earlier this week I had the pleasure of speaking with Gartner analyst Anthony Bradley.  His area of expertise is corporate web applications and web services, but he also covers social computing and social applications, and that’s what we talked about.  He was kind enough to blog about...... [view]

Posted By:  BethP
Posted On:  Oct 9, 2008

  Green Firstgivers walking in the news

Just a quick note, we’ve updated the sidebar to include a live feed of Firstgiving news from Google.  And when we did, we noticed that Firstgiving has been noted as one of “ 100+ Sites for Green Living ” on Mashable, so make sure you recycle this web page when you’re...... [view]

Posted By:  BethP
Posted On:  Oct 7, 2008

  Countdown to Blog Action Day 2008

Just a heads-up to let you know that we’ve registered for Blog Action Day 2008 on October 15.  This virtual event will bring together bloggers from all over the blogosphere to contribute to a worldwide discussion on the subject of poverty.  Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty from Blog...... [view]

Posted By:  BethP
Posted On:  Oct 3, 2008

  We FLiP for Philanthropy!

Our friends over at the FLiP (Future Leaders in Philanthropy) Blog asked us to guest post this week on what to expect with online fundraising.  Have a look at it here . ... [view]

Posted By:  BethP
Posted On:  Oct 3, 2008

  Our customer survey and iPod winner

Last month we sent out a customer survey to learn more about how we can improve Firstgiving.  We received over 200 responses!  We’d like to say  THANK YOU again for your feedback. Flickr photo courtesy of Werner Schnell From the survey we learned that we can improve: Teams...... [view]

Posted By:  BethP
Posted On:  Sep 23, 2008

  Talk to us!

If you are a nonprofit organization and work with Firstgiving - talk to us! We will be conducting focus groups soon. Our goal is to understand more about your organization’s needs so that we can provide the best tools and services for you. What’s does the focus group entail?...... [view]

Posted By:  BethP
Posted On:  Sep 2, 2008

  Olympic Inspiration

Last week we highlighted Olympic marathoner Ryan Hall ’s fundraising page for World Vision on the Team Firstgiving Blo g.  (By the way, Hall finished 10th in Beijing, helping the U.S. team to its best finish in 32 years). At Firstgiving, we know that endurance sports events...... [view]

Posted By:  BethP
Posted On:  Sep 3, 2008

  September Awareness Month & Fundraising Beyond the Bake Sale

September is a month of transitions.  Classes begin, the cool autumn air sets in, and I have never seen more moving trucks in one place than I did this weekend in Boston.  Residents scrambled up and down streets and flights of stairs with furniture and sundries during the biggest moving day...... [view]

Posted By:  BethP
Posted On:  Sep 5, 2008

  We’ve been busy listening…

Wrigley Building in Chicago Morning fog over the carnival at Santa Monica Pier In August, we met and listened intently to energetic and enthusiastic people just like you - in Boston, Chicago, Santa Monica, and various locations in the United Kingdom . Listening to your stories,...... [view]

Posted By:  BethP
Posted On:  Sep 16, 2008

  Fundraising in 60 seconds

In fundraising and nonprofit marketing, you have get your message across quickly and simply.  Lots of marketers use video to deliver this “elevator pitch” idea.  We’ve blogged about effective fundraising videos before, and now we have our own “Firstgiving in 70...... [view]

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