http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com A blog about raising money online for charitable causes, social media fundraising, and other nonprofit fundraising ideas from Firstgiving.com Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:00:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/07/npofundraisingwithfacebook/ http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/07/npofundraisingwithfacebook/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:46:37 +0000 Beth Pickard http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/?p=3580 As you go about your Facebook fundraising this summer, Facebook has a helpful tool you can use to build your nonprofit fundraising community online: a widget for your website or blog. The Fan Box widget links your Facebook fan page to your nonprofit site, lets visitors see your fan base, and makes it easy [...]]]> http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/07/npofundraisingwithfacebook/feed/ 2 http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/07/this-weeks-fundraising-best-practice-in-action-2/ http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/07/this-weeks-fundraising-best-practice-in-action-2/#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:00:09 +0000 Beth Pickard http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/?p=3527 Today we bring you another nonprofit fundraising Best Practice in Action from our weekly series. Each week we highlight an organization that has done an incredible job of promoting its online fundraising efforts with Firstgiving and show you how to do the same. This week’s Best Practice is. . . Send a friendly reminder about your [...]]]> http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/07/this-weeks-fundraising-best-practice-in-action-2/feed/ 0 http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/06/follow-up-on-facebook-fan-pages/ http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/06/follow-up-on-facebook-fan-pages/#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:31:48 +0000 Beth Pickard http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/?p=3477 Last week we hosted a sold-out webinar on using Facebook for community building and nonprofit fundraising.  Well, technically it wasn’t sold out because it was free, but the session was completely full!  If you missed it or couldn’t get in, you can see slides and audio for the session here. During the session, we talked about [...]]]> http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/06/follow-up-on-facebook-fan-pages/feed/ 0 http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/04/facebook-public-profiles-for-nonprofits/ http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/04/facebook-public-profiles-for-nonprofits/#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:00:56 +0000 Beth Pickard http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/?p=3036 http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/04/facebook-public-profiles-for-nonprofits/feed/ 7 http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/01/good-old-fundraising-on-new-facebook/ http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/01/good-old-fundraising-on-new-facebook/#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:00:51 +0000 Beth Pickard http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/?p=2342 Remember the old Facebook? Remember when you could post your Firstgiving fundraising page to your profile? When new Facebook arrived on the scene, it shook a few things up.  Has your fundraising page been relegated to your “Boxes” tab, languishing in obscurity next to bumper stickers and cities you’ve visited?  Now, thanks to a recent update [...]]]> http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/01/good-old-fundraising-on-new-facebook/feed/ 5