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/2010/02/this-weeks-fundraising-best-practice-february-26-use-your-firstgiving-page-to-provide-event-information/ http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2010/02/this-weeks-fundraising-best-practice-february-26-use-your-firstgiving-page-to-provide-event-information/#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:00:38 +0000 Beth Pickard http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/?p=5466 Our friends at Bright Hope have a 5K fundraising run and walk coming up in May. Since participants are going to register for the event and create fundraising pages from Bright Hope’s FirstGiving page, they’ve clearly displayed all the event information there: On their FirstGiving page, Bright Hope provides: The event name and date Registration costs [...]]]> http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2010/02/this-weeks-fundraising-best-practice-february-26-use-your-firstgiving-page-to-provide-event-information/feed/ 0 http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2010/02/free-webinar-raise-1000-a-day-for-30-days/ http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2010/02/free-webinar-raise-1000-a-day-for-30-days/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:58:52 +0000 Ashley Morrison http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/?p=5351 Nonprofit organizations are seeking fresh ideas that will help lead to more donations and volunteer engagement.  FirstGiving presents a FREE Webinar about online social fundraising while showing how one nonprofit raised $1,000 a day for 30 days online. You can easily design a similar fundraising program for your supporters as well.  Join the Webinar to learn how. 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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/2009/10/this-weeks-nonprofit-fundraising-best-practice-in-action-17/ http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/10/this-weeks-nonprofit-fundraising-best-practice-in-action-17/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:06:53 +0000 Beth Pickard http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/?p=4954 Today we bring you another installment in our weekly series of nonprofit fundraising Best Practices in Action. Each week, we’ll 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. . . Encourage supporters who can’t [...]]]> http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/10/this-weeks-nonprofit-fundraising-best-practice-in-action-17/feed/ 0 http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/10/free-webinar-ghosts-are-scary-raising-money-online-is-not/ http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/10/free-webinar-ghosts-are-scary-raising-money-online-is-not/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:00:24 +0000 Beth Pickard http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/?p=4936 http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/10/free-webinar-ghosts-are-scary-raising-money-online-is-not/feed/ 0 http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/08/this-weeks-nonprofit-fundraising-best-practice-in-action-8/ http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/08/this-weeks-nonprofit-fundraising-best-practice-in-action-8/#comments Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:00:45 +0000 Beth Pickard http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/?p=3688 http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/08/this-weeks-nonprofit-fundraising-best-practice-in-action-8/feed/ 0 http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/06/this-weeks-nonprofit-fundraising-best-practice-in-action-5/ http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/06/this-weeks-nonprofit-fundraising-best-practice-in-action-5/#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:00:25 +0000 Beth Pickard http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/?p=3505 http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2009/06/this-weeks-nonprofit-fundraising-best-practice-in-action-5/feed/ 0 http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2008/06/lets-get-ready-to-philanthro-party/ http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2008/06/lets-get-ready-to-philanthro-party/#comments Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:05:11 +0000 admin http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/?p=681 When you are a busy, working professional or student, it can sometimes be difficult to find time for everything you’d like to do. If you’re remotely like me, then you probably have a growing mental list of all the activities you’d like to do this summer. Whether it is making a trip to the beach, [...]]]> http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2008/06/lets-get-ready-to-philanthro-party/feed/ 1