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 [...]
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Part one in a mini-series on nuggets gleaned from our marathon fundraising panel experts.
Last week Firstgiving hosted a Marathon Fundraising Panel for local charities interested in endurance event fundraising. We’ve got photos here. Successful Boston Marathon fundraising team coordinators Ashley, Beth, and Kristina shared their wisdom on how to get the most out of marathon [...]
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Learn how to help your supporters raise money online for your nonprofit.
Do you have supporters fundraising and running in a spring marathon? If they haven’t started their training and fundraising yet, they’re about to.
Firstgiving is hosting an expert panel discussion on Wednesday, January 14 from 8:00-10:00 AM at the Hyatt Regency Boston.
Learn from and share [...]
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One of the great things about a blog (and our blog is no exception), is that a lot of the content stays relevant after it’s posted. Beth wrote this post when she was training through the winter in 2007, and we thought we’d re-post these useful tips for those of you training through the winter [...]
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If you’ve been following Ryan Hall’s marathon career, you may have heard: he’s running the 2009 Boston Marathon as part of the John Hancock Elite Team.
Hall finished 10th at the Beijing Olympics with the best U.S. finish in 32 years, inspired a bunch of Firstgiving fundraisers to raise money online and run the Chicago Marathon [...]
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The New York Marathon is this Sunday. Moving along with Posh Spice and David Beckham and the assorted hoi-polloi of celebrities are some real stars, those running for a cause.
Together, 169 runners have raised $368,085 for 44 charities on Firstgiving.com.
Check out these star fundraisers that have each raised over $5000:
Marisa has raised $8891 [...]
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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Need some inspiration? Learn from one of our successful fundraisers.
Meet Michael Ellis - On October 5, he ran the Milwaukee Lakefront Marathon to benefit the Special Friends Foundation. As a first-time fundraiser, he reached his initial goal of $2500 in less than 2 weeks after his Firstgiving page went live.
Now, a couple months after he [...]
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Need some inspiration? Learn from one of our successful fundraisers.
Meet John Zeidner – within 24-hours of creating his fundraising page, he raised $1300! Read on to hear how he has raised more than $2300…
John is fundraising because
Unfortunately, John is no stranger to cancer - his father, aunt, and more recently his mother have battled or [...]
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