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/2009/10/nonprofit-spotlight-garden-of-dreams-foundation/ http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/10/nonprofit-spotlight-garden-of-dreams-foundation/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:54:22 +0000 Ashley Morrison http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/?p=5000 Each month, we highlight a couple of our nonprofit partners who have unique fundraising events, great success stories, or something else fantastic going on that we’d like to tell you about. Next up in our nonprofit spotlight fundraising series, is Garden of Dreams Foundation (GDF). 37,000  runners will be crossing  the Brooklyn Bridge and running the 26.2 miles [...]]]> http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/10/nonprofit-spotlight-garden-of-dreams-foundation/feed/ 0 http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/09/alanis-morissette-runs-for-neda/ http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/09/alanis-morissette-runs-for-neda/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:00:03 +0000 Ashley Morrison http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/?p=4866 Celebrity sighting at FirstGiving! Grammy award winning artist Alanis Morissette is running 26.2 miles to support the National Eating Disorders of America (NEDA).  NEDA advocates for funding for quality treatment, research and prevention of eating disorders.  Although the organization is still farily young (it was founded in 2001), these folks have a mature fundraising program going.  This fall, NEDA is hosting fundraising walks all across the country–their [...]]]> http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/09/alanis-morissette-runs-for-neda/feed/ 0 http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/06/nonprofit-spotlight/ http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/06/nonprofit-spotlight/#comments Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:00:29 +0000 Ashley Morrison http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/?p=3338 We’re introducing a new series to the Online Fundraising Blog: the nonprofit spotlight.  Each month we’ll highlight a couple of our nonprofit partners who have unique fundraising events, great success stories, or something else fantastic going on that we’d like to tell you about. This week’s nonprofit spotlight shines on Organs ‘R’ Us.   Located in [...]]]> http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/06/nonprofit-spotlight/feed/ 0 http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/04/team-world-vision-supporter-ryan-hall-is-boston-bound-this-monday/ http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/04/team-world-vision-supporter-ryan-hall-is-boston-bound-this-monday/#comments Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:15:40 +0000 Beth Lingard http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/?p=2968 Professional runner Ryan Hall will toe the line with 26,000+ other runners this Monday at the 113th running of the Boston Marathon. Like the 900 Boston-bound runners fundraising on Firstgiving, Ryan and his wife Sara (also a professional runner) have a fundraising page, too. If you can’t be in Boston to cheer Ryan on, show your support [...]]]> http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/04/team-world-vision-supporter-ryan-hall-is-boston-bound-this-monday/feed/ 0 http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/01/attn-charities-chicago-marathon-charity-program-application-deadline-january-21-2009/ http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/01/attn-charities-chicago-marathon-charity-program-application-deadline-january-21-2009/#comments Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:29:00 +0000 Grant http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/?p=2300 http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/01/attn-charities-chicago-marathon-charity-program-application-deadline-january-21-2009/feed/ 0 http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2008/11/nanowrimo-update-night-of-writing-dangerously/ http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2008/11/nanowrimo-update-night-of-writing-dangerously/#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:30:43 +0000 Beth Pickard http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/?p=1946 It’s NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), and you’ve hit the wall: you have a case of writer’s block.  What’s a novelist to do?  In anticipation of a mid-month lull, NaNoWriMo organizers have created a brilliant mini-event to help their marathon fundraisers push through the effects of writer’s block and on to success.   Tomorrow evening NaNoWriMo sponsors the Night [...]]]> http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2008/11/nanowrimo-update-night-of-writing-dangerously/feed/ 0 http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2008/10/run-poverty-out-of-town-tips-from-grameen-foundation-president-alex-counts/ http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2008/10/run-poverty-out-of-town-tips-from-grameen-foundation-president-alex-counts/#comments Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:00:57 +0000 Beth Pickard http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/?p=1731 It’s marathon season, and this past weekend the 33rd Annual Marine Corps Marathon took place in Washington, D.C.  For Alex Counts, President of Grameen Foundation and friend of Team Firstgiving, the race was an opportunity to “run poverty out of town.”  We caught up with Alex to hear his thoughts on training, fundraising, and microfinance. [...]]]> http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2008/10/run-poverty-out-of-town-tips-from-grameen-foundation-president-alex-counts/feed/ 0 http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2008/10/inspiration-for-fundraisers-ive-raised-an-obscene-amount-of-money/ http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2008/10/inspiration-for-fundraisers-ive-raised-an-obscene-amount-of-money/#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:24:26 +0000 Beth Pickard http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/?p=1728 Skydiving in stilettos?  That’s one item on Melissa’s life list of to-do’s and the title of her blog, where she also claims to have raised “an obscene amount of money” with Firstgiving.com  After crossing #1 (run a marathon) off her list last year, Melissa has been training for marathon #2 and will be racing in NYC on [...]]]> http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2008/10/inspiration-for-fundraisers-ive-raised-an-obscene-amount-of-money/feed/ 1 http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2008/06/rejected-from-the-new-york-or-chicago-marathon/ http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2008/06/rejected-from-the-new-york-or-chicago-marathon/#comments Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:30:32 +0000 Grant http://www.marathonfundraisingtips.com/2008/06/18/rejected-from-the-new-york-or-chicago-marathon/ http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2008/06/rejected-from-the-new-york-or-chicago-marathon/feed/ 0 http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2008/04/keep-plugging-30-of-fundraising-happens-after-the-event/ http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2008/04/keep-plugging-30-of-fundraising-happens-after-the-event/#comments Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:00:00 +0000 David Karp http://www.marathonfundraisingtips.com/2008/04/28/keep-plugging-30-of-fundraising-happens-after-the-event/ ]]> http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2008/04/keep-plugging-30-of-fundraising-happens-after-the-event/feed/ 0 http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2008/04/mansfied-news-huffington-post-cheer-on-marathoner/ http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2008/04/mansfied-news-huffington-post-cheer-on-marathoner/#comments Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:52:50 +0000 David Karp http://www.marathonfundraisingtips.com/2008/04/20/mansfied-news-huffington-post-cheer-on-marathoner/ ]]> http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2008/04/mansfied-news-huffington-post-cheer-on-marathoner/feed/ 0 http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2008/04/going-the-extra-mile-raising-the-extra-dollar-and-20-cents/ http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2008/04/going-the-extra-mile-raising-the-extra-dollar-and-20-cents/#comments Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:11:00 +0000 David Karp http://www.marathonfundraisingtips.com/2008/04/19/going-the-extra-mile-raising-the-extra-dollar-and-20-cents/ http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2008/04/going-the-extra-mile-raising-the-extra-dollar-and-20-cents/feed/ 0