Recently active topics in Firstgiving tagged with donations

Here at Firstgiving, we've had the honor of working with thousands of nonprofit organizations. That experience has given us invaluable information about what works when it comes to online fundraising.

We've put together best practices (see http://www.firstgiving.com/statements..., step 6) based on the feedback and success stories we hear every day.

Here's a perfect example of our best practice, "Add your Firstgiving page URL to brochures and printed hand-outs. Be sure to use your start page web address," http://www.theangelfund.org/wp-conten.... Thanks to The Angel Fund for sharing this brochure with us so that we could share it with you!

Non-profit start pages should have an area for offline donations as well, just like individual fundraising pages. Perhaps is could be an aggregate of fundraising pages offline donations...

For my birthday, I want to create a place where friends can donate to a nonprofit in lieu of gifts. Rather than ask them to donate to a non-profit I choose, I would like to ask them to donate to a cause they care about, but I still want the donations on my page.

Customer Idea: "I wish I could have posted more than one picture on my website"

Customer Idea/Comment: "Yes, the donee knew about my "anonymous" donation, even though I indicated that I did not want my email address published to her. Not a big deal - anonymous should just mean anonymous."