 Fall is prime event season for the endurance athletes among us at Firstgiving. There’s Beth P dedicating her first triathlon to the Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, though nature had other plans. Sarah L is biking [...]  Last week we highlighted Olympic marathoner Ryan Hall’s fundraising page for World Vision on the Team Firstgiving Blog. (By the way, Hall finished 10th in Beijing, helping the U.S. team to its best finish in 32 years). Don’t just rely on emailing out the link to your page. It’s an easy way to ask your immediate family and friends, but won’t help you reach out to (and grow!) your network of supporters. Here are a few ways to turn people in your network into donors:  Both the global Huffington Post and the (wicked) local Mansfield News and Enterprise have recently featured Firstgiving online fundraiser, marathoner, and father Marc Turgeon, who is running the Boston Marathon tomorrow to raise money for LADDERS.org, an organization that provides services in the evaluation and treatment of children and adults with autism. |
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