When Rachel Carrick saw news coverage of the devastation April’s tornadoes wreaked across the South, the 14-year-old singer/songwriter knew she had to do something. Coming from a family of musicians, Rachel started singing at the very young age of 4; mostly songs from The Sound of Music, according to her father, Jim. Two years later, [...]

Jim Littlefield of the Cerebral Palsy K.I.D.S. Center in Louisville, Kentucky shared his online fundraising success story from last weekend with us. The Walk & Roll for Kids took place on March 21, 2011 in Louisville, where 320 online fundraisers raised $74,125, which doesn’t include over $80,000 raised by cash, check, and corporate giving. Now [...]

  Today, on World Give Day, we’re joining a community of great folks blogging about what it takes to make a difference. Here are the facts: it takes some effort, but you don’t have to be superhuman. In fact, a whole bunch of bloggers and friends of FirstGiving have been weighing in on the idea [...]

  Peter Swimm is a chip tune musician who goes by the Twitter handle of @TCTD and writes the blog True Chip Till Death. He wanted to motivate the chip tune community to help Japan after the March earthquake and tsunami. He asked fellow musician Dod McKnight (@Pixel8) to help spread the word about a [...]

              The Campus Kitchens project just pulled off its first fundraiser, a competitive fundraising riff on college basketball’s March Madness, and the key to winning was…Facebook. The March Madness fundraiser was conceived within the national office of Campus Kitchens as a play upon college students’ natural pride and competitive [...]