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Here are some documents you can copy, customize and share to help your supporters get started raising money for you.

Remember to customize them with your organization's name, start page URL, and other specific information.

Quick video overviews - show them to your executive director or board

Overview of Firstgiving - printable two-page PDF introducing Firstgiving. Great for board or executive directors with little time. Download PDF

Getting started with online fundraising - printable one-pager showing your supporters how to get started with Firstgiving (be sure to add your logo and start page address!) Download PPT slide

Publicity tips for individual fundraisers - printable two-page tip sheet for doing local PR to generate coverage and interest in your fundraising. For NPOs and their fundraisers. Download PDF

Step-by-step guide for creating a fundraising page (without online registration)

  1. Go to our Firstgiving start page: http://www.firstgiving.com/YOURURL
  2. Click the Get Started button
  3. Press the Select button to choose **INSERT EVENT NAME HERE**
  4. Enter your e-mail address and click Continue
  5. Enter your contact information, check that you have read the terms of services and click Continue .
  6. Click Create your page (you're more than halfway there!)
  7. You can fundraise on your own, create a new team or join an existing one.
  8. Choose your fundraising page address and press Create your page.
  9. Click Personalize and share your page
  10. Give your page title and set a fundraising goal.  Also upload a photo and customize the text to tell your fundraising story and thank your donors.  When you are happy, click Save and Continue
  11. Click the Email your friends link to send your page to friends, family, and co-workers.

Step-by-step guide for creating a fundraising page (with online registration)

  1. Go to our Firstgiving start page: http://www.firstgiving.com/YOURURL
  2. Click the Get Started button
  3. Press the Select button to choose **INSERT EVENT NAME HERE**
  4. Select the appropriate registration option and press Continue
  5. If you are using online registration, add the number of registrants, click that you have read the waiver, answer registration questions and click Continue .
  6. Enter your e-mail address and click Continue
  7. Check whether you are registering for yourself or someone else. And click Continue
  8. When you complete the registration process click Go to your account.
  9. Enter your contact information, check that you have read the terms of services and click Continue .
  10. Click Create your page
  11. You can fundraise on your own, create a new team or join an existing one.
  12. Choose your fundraising page address and press Create your page.
  13. Click Personalize and share your page
  14. Give your page title and set a fundraising goal.  Also upload a photo and customize the text to tell your fundraising story and thank your donors.  When you are happy, click Save and Continue
  15. Click the Email your friends link to send your page to friends, family, and co-workers.

Sample fundraising page text

Remember:

  • the more personalized the fundraising page text, the more effective it will be.
  • giving your supporters some text about your organization and your event will help.

Thank you for visiting my fundraising page. Donating through this site is simple, fast and totally secure.  It is also the most efficient way to give, so please donate now! Many thanks for your support.

Help us make a difference in this year's campaign!

This event is a unique opportunity for individuals, businesses and organizations to support our charity by walking. Since we started this walk 37 years ago, 16,263 Alaskans have walked to raise over $1.5 million.

If you can’t participate this year, please give generously!  It is for a good cause.

Here are some successful fundraising pages with good personal messages. You can also search Firstgiving for pages to find more examples to inspire you, just use the search boxes at the top of our homepage.

Humane Farming Association

As part of our TUT's Adventurers Club mission, we have chosen the Humane Farming Association as our adoptive organization for the month.  To reach our collaborative goal of support for them, please donate a dollar or more now at the link right below. Happy Giving!

"To find out how much you've truly been blessed with in terms of love, time, energy, talent, joy, abundance, confidence, intelligence, wit, or any other quality, substance, or dispensation... give of them. Then you'll know what boundless really means." - The Universe

Pancreative Cancer Action Network

Thank you for visiting my Mom's Memorial Page. Despite a surprisingly high threshold for pain, and a noble battle with pancreatic cancer, Felina "Kim" Briones passed peacefully on June 30, 2008, surrounded by family and friends at home. My family thanks so many of you who have already expressed your condolences to each of our members. In lieu of flowers or gifts, we humbly encourage you to donate a modest sum to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network - here at this site - in honor of my mother. Your gift will aid in the under-funded research and crucial fight for the cure for pancreatic cancer. At the moment, for all stages of pancreatic cancer combined, the one-year survival rate is 20%. The five-year survival rate is 4%. Let's make it 100%. Mom would like that.  Donating through this site is simple, fast, and totally secure. Many thanks for your support -- and please feel free to forward this to anyone who you think might want to donate too!  Warmest regards, Matthew M. Briones

Amy Wurst's Fundraising Page for Special Olympics MO

Yes, I have completely lost my mind and am going to be a Super Plunger in January. That means I will be plunging into icy cold Longview Lake every hour for 24 consecutive hours - that's 24 freezing dips in the lake!!! It just goes to show you how much I want to help Special Olympics Missouri raise money for its athletes...because I wouldn't do this for just any organization - that's for sure!

For those of you willing to support me in this effort, I promise to take pictures every hour to catalog my insane-ness and share them with you afterwards.

Ryan's Team for Organization for Autism Research

Ryan is six-years old (birthday on World Autism Day!) and is the son of Donna Shank (one of the triathalon attemptees) and Greg Rowe and little bro' to Daniel.  Ryan developed like any typical kid, reaching all his developmental milestones just like his big brother until about 18 months, when his parents noticed that he wasn't responding to the environment and others as he should.  After a long and frustrating process of testing and being sent out into the "unwritten roadmap" of treating autism, Ryan's family has found a blending of therapies that have worked for him and are always striving to find more ways to challenge him. 

Operation You Know It

On Memorial Day of this year, two long-time friends of ours took a flight to California to begin training for service in Iraq for what will be their 2nd and 5th tours of duty in the United States Marine Corps.  In appreciation of the service and self-sacrifice of Mark Domanick and Kristoffer Borch, we are holding a fundraiser and participating in a road race on their behalf.  Our event, entitled "Operation You Know It", will culminate on September 20th as part of the Northport Cow Harbor Day 10 Kilometer Road Race.  All proceeds will go directly to the Wounded Warrior Project.  Our goal is to raise $10,000 from now to race day.

Carol Peter's Fundraising Page for Woofstock

This year, I'm dedicating my fundraising to Maddie, the newest member of our family.  Maddie is a perfect example of why Steve and I are so involved with Rescue Village.  Maddie was surrendered to the shelter at about 3 months of age.  She spent the next 4 months there, waiting every day for her new family to find her there.  But they never came.  And for a young, energetic, smart girl like Maddie--who we suspect is a cattle dog/terrier mix--she learned how to make her own fun.  Getting out for 15 minute walks three times a day and spending the rest of her day in a cage, just isn't a life.  So, despite some training efforts by we Homeward Bound Trainers, Maddie got into trouble. 

Watch this space as we add more resources. If you have something you'd like to share or more questions, please visit our help area.
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