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 Twitter. Go to www.twitter.com/firstgiving and click the “follow” button. If you’re not already signed up with Twitter, you’ll have to sign up to do this. It won’t hurt a bit.

2. Tweet at us (that means send us a message) with the address of your favorite fundraising page. It could be yours or anybody else’s. Make sure your message includes “@firstgiving” so we’ll see it and the full web address of the fundraising page.

That’s all you have to do. This Thursday and again next Thursday, we’ll select a random one of our Twitter followers, and if that follower has sent a Twitter message about a firstgiving fundraising page, we’ll make a $250 donation to that page.

For extra credit, you can tell all your friends to do this too. The more Twitter people twittering about your fundraising page, the better its chances of winning one of the $250 donations, and more importantly, the better your chances of spreading the word about your cause and getting even more donations from more people.

So don’t wait, get Twittering!

Fine print: Firstgiving fundraising pages only. No fundraising page can win more than one promotional donation from Firstgiving. If you Twitter about more than one Firstgiving fundraising page and win, we will make the donation to the page most recently mentioned.

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