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What customers say
 "We are thrilled with the transformation of our Walk for the Animals. With attendance and fundraising on the decline, we were evaluating whether to scrap it altogether. But it found new life! As a result of the ease and efficiency of Firstgiving, we generated a 60% increase in event participants and a 63% increase in funds raised. We are clear that the move to online fundraising with Firstgiving is what really put us over the top. Last year’s event had 75 attendees and raised $7,000; this year’s event had over 500 attendees and raised over $50,000! One of the things we’re very excited about is that the event reached lots of new people and, thanks to Firstgiving, we now have the ability to communicate electronically with a whole new pool of supporters."
Carolyn Paden,
Director of Public Relations, Asheville Humane Society |
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 "We started using Firstgiving 3 years ago and it's the best tool we could have given our fundraisers, and ourselves, to help boost our fundraising efforts! The feedback from our event fundraisers has been overwhelmingly positive. We hear over and over from our online fundraisers that Firstgiving makes their fundraising easier and more successful. And we couldn't agree more with them! The reporting tools are user friendly, the online services market themselves, and our contacts at Firstgiving are a pleasure to work with. Firstgiving truly understands how to partner with the nonprofit community in a very valuable way. Thank you, Firstgiving, for everything you've helped us accomplish - it has been a pleasure working with you!"
Michele Bart, Associate Director of Development, Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation (SAAF) |
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“We
used Firstgiving at the request of our fundraisers. Online fundraising
is the wave of the future – and thank goodness Firstgiving
has made it so easy! The feedback we’ve received is that
it’s user-friendly, convenient, fast and efficient. The pages
our fundraisers created have not only raised a considerable amount
for our events, but have also helped us to spread the mission of
JA to a whole new set of constituents. The reporting makes it easy
to manage and track the progress of our online results – this
is really inspiring and motivating and gives us a great way to
project our overall income for an event. Firstgiving has really
helped us maximize the benefits of their online fundraising tools.
Overall, we are extremely pleased with the results of our first
year and can’t wait to continue to grow our efforts with
Firstgiving!”
Valerie Egel, Associate Director of Special Events, Junior Achievement of Chicago |
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 "Firstgiving
has definitely been an OUTSTANDING fundraising tool, and we definitely
will be using it again next year."
Roxie Hentz, Founding Executive Director, Teen
Approach, Inc |
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 "In
2005, Firstgiving's tools helped us have our most successful Buddy
Walk to date - we were able to raise more than double our goal. It's
easy, low cost, very effective and well supported. Firstgiving
enables a small group like ours to use online tools to raise more
money, without hassle. We have added online registration this year,
and look forward to working and raising money with Firstgiving
in 2006."
Clinton Swanson, President, Up With Downs, Northwest Louisiana |
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 "Thanks
in large part to Firstgiving's tools, we broke a fundraising record
for this year's event. Our supporters who used Firstgiving's Personal
Fundraising Pages raised over 6x more money than those who did
not. We have used other services in the past and found Firstgiving's
results, simplicity and support to be to be far superior. I'd recommend
Firstgiving's Personal Fundraising Pages to any organization of
any size doing a fundraising event."
Larry Little, Chairman, Guardian Angel Basset Rescue, Inc |
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 “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 |
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 “The Firstgiving
team has been so helpful and quick to respond to any questions
that we had. Our Walk was a HUGE success. We were able
to raise $385,000 for the animals. That’s the
most we have ever raised in a single event here at the shelter.
We had great reviews regarding the online fundraising pages and
many walkers were extremely excited about the tool.”
Jamie Profant, Walk Coordinator,
Humane Society of Broward County |
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 "Our
fundraisers have found Firstgiving's online fundraising pages to
be very easy to set up and use. The pages make it so simple to create
a very personalized appeal complete with photos and personal message.
The ability to quickly email the page to everyone in their online
address book helps fundraisers reach more people with their personal
appeal, which helps us raise more funds with less work.
The reporting and administration of Firstgiving's online fundraising
page service is powerful and easy. I can monitor all our online fundraising
activity and it significantly reduces administrative effort required
to process donations. It's an easy and powerful service!"
Kathleen Durepo, Special Events Manager, National Kidney
Foundation of MA, RI, NH & VT |
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 “The web pages
provided our runners with another great tool to help them in reaching
their fundraising goals. The online option was a bonus to our program
this year. It was quick and easy to use.”
Meg Pagonis, Team Lombardi Special Events Coordinator |
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 “Working with them has
been an incredibly positive experience and a majority of the City
Year staff who have set up an online fundraising page and emailed
it people they know, are seeing results... The staff at Firstgiving
have provided excellent customer service since our first meeting
with them. 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 |
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“Setting
up our tools with Firstgiving was extremely easy! All we had to do
was send them a mission statement, a few images, and our event dates
and everything was up and running perfectly in only a few days!"
Lisa Schutz Jelic, Special Events Manager, National Kidney
Foundation of Michigan
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 “In 2006, without using Firstgiving, our individual sponsorships for our Buddy Walk brought in $37,600. This year with Firstgiving we reached $68,000 in donations, plus our offline donations have climbed to $83,000! We have brought in over $151,000 this year! I have to say that people love Firstgiving! Last year we had 40 families bringing in donations, this year it has doubled to 80!"
Jeffrey Pomranka, Chief Operating Officer, Down Syndrome Association of Greater Saint Louis
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