The historic Boston Marathon is happening right in our backyard, and we’ve been keeping up with lots of Boston Marathon fundraisers and charities as April 20 fast approaches.  So far over 800 charity runners have raised almost $700,000 online with their personal fundraising pages.

Larry is just one of many marathon fundraisers we know with an [...]

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Bill is running the Boston Marathon in 2 months, 1 day, 22 hours, 44 minutes and 12 seconds. . . and counting.  He’s fundraising for Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary, and he’s met 32% of his fundraising goal.  How did we get this info so fast?  Bill has a couple of nifty widgets on his [...]

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What is a virtual event, you ask? Well, we’ll tell you. A virtual event is one that doesn’t require its participants to be in the same place at the same time in order to participate. It can take place anywhere in the country (or the world), in any time zone. It [...]

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Last week we posted a mini-series on tips from our marathon fundraising panel experts. If you missed it, you can find it here.
One of our experts, Beth from Samaritans, mentioned a method of thinking about your networks and extended networks called “treasure-mapping.” This concept is so useful, we thought we’d give [...]

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One of the most exciting things Team Firstgiving gets to do is connect athlete-fundraisers with charities who use endurance events to raise money online.  As marathoners and triathletes who fundraise ourselves, we know a lot about training and fundraising,  and we love to help athlete-fundraisers achieve their goals.  Check out the fundraiser spotlight section on [...]

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