Thought you might find this email I just received from First Giving of interest. On first glance, this seems like a really good idea to me. I hope to have more time in the next few days to analyze this concept more carefully.
There are some exciting things going on at Firstgiving that we thought you might be interested in. We are reaching out to you and several other bloggers specifically because we read your blogs and we know that you “get” what we do and are out there already making a difference everyday.
Over the past few weeks, our developers have been working tirelessly on creating a fundraising application for Facebook; and we will be releasing it within the next few weeks! We are contacting you because we know that you understand how influential social networking can be for getting the word about the amazing things that people do to raise money for charity.
Our goal is to create the most user-friendly and far-reaching fundraising applications possible. As soon as the Facebook API was ready, so were we, because we know that our fundraisers are already using Facebook as an important platform for communicating with their online community.
So, how will it work?
For those that have a Firstgiving page, all you have to do is enter your page address when prompted. Your profile will then display your fundraising total and your friends will be able to donate from there. Donations your friends make are represented on your page and once the donations are mailed (or electronically transferred) they are attributed to you, so your nonprofit will know what you’re doing for them! Creating a page takes less than 5 minutes, so if you don’t already have one, go get one!
Your friends can also help you by using the app to promote your page on their Facebook profile. The donation process is totally secure and we transfer the funds directly to the charity. We accept credit cards from anywhere in the world.
Who are we?
We’re a small, sincere, hardworking group of people based in Somerville, MA (right outside of Boston) who believe that we are all a part of something bigger. We’ve been doing this in the US since 2003, while our sister company Justgiving has been doing it for UK charities since 2001.
You can find out more and see live fund raising pages at www.firstgiving.com and on our blog at http://firstgiving.typepad.com/communityblog/.
We’d love to hear what you think about what we’re doing and are always open to any questions or suggestions.
Best,
The Firstgiving team
firstgiving
48 Grove Street, #106
Somerville, MA 02144
(p) 617.591.2121 x1006
(f) 617.591.2127