1,198,987 people

have helped

raise $66,356,738

for

12,505 charities

using Firstgiving
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About Firstgiving


  • The staff at Firstgiving has provided excellent customer service since our first meeting. They have helped walk us through every step of the process... I recommend using them without reservation.”

    Karen Fried, Serve-a-thon Director, City Year Boston

  • Firstgiving, with its easy, step-by-step set-up and great design features, has helped me raise the most money I've ever raised, by allowing me to reach a much broader fundraising base than I can ever reach on my own. People were very impressed with my website and how easy it was to donate. Thanks for everything."

    Richard Fusco, NKF-MA-NH-RI-VT fundraiser

  • Firstgiving made a HUGE difference in our bottom line for this year’s AIDS Walk and got RAVE reviews from our walkers. We look forward to working with you folks for many years to come!”

    Christopher Butler, Executive Director, AIDS Project Rhode Island

Our mission:

To make it possible for everyone to raise more money online faster and more easily for the causes that are important to them

How it works :

  1. Fundraisers come to a nonprofit’s Firstgiving start page and make their own online fundraising page
  2. They send their page to friends, family and colleagues through email, social networks, and word of mouth, and ask for support in a walk, run, birthday celebration, etc. 
  3. Donors make an easy, secure online transaction using a credit card and receive an email receipt. We subtract a small transaction fee before sending the donation to your nonprofit. 
  4. Before sending on your donation, Firstgiving confirms with the IRS that the organization is a certified nonprofit in good standing.
  5. Firstgiving never rents or sells customer information to other companies.  We are PCI compliant and conduct all credit card transactions over secure connections.

Who we are:

We’re an office of 20 hardworking people dedicated to making online fundraising easy for everybody. We share the same core values as our fundraisers - many of us are fundraisers or donors ourselves – and we’re constantly amazed and awed by the extraordinary individuals who fundraise through Firstgiving. We feel very lucky to be able to help make online fundraising easier and more effective for all of them.

Some history:

Firstgiving is the US office of the Giving Group Ltd, which has also operated our UK-based company, Justgiving, since 1999.

We opened in 2003 in Lexington, MA, and received certification from the Better Business Bureau in 2004. Now in Davis Square, Somerville, we have helped raise money online for over 12,000 different nonprofit organizations.  At any given time, there are aver 15,000 active individual internet fundraising pages, each of which will raise an average of $400 for its cause.

The most successful Firstgiving individual fundraising page raised over $85,000 for the World Food Program.
Firstgiving — Fundraising made easy