Beth Kanter, champion of the social media revolution and an authority on the use of social media for NPO fundraising, recently posted prophetically on her blog a response to the following question:

“When will online fundraising using social media and social networks become more than just a niche source of income?”

Here’s an excerpt from her response: 

“I believe social media will become as ubiquitous to development offices as is the phone, direct mail,  and email.  In the next decades, we’ll see rapid adoption of social media for many nonprofit purposes, including fundraising and as gen y’s come into their own as donors.”  You can read the rest of her post and respond with comments here.

We think this is (a) a useful question to ask and (b) an important discussion to engage in.  Firstgiving.com fundraisers are these fundraisers of the future.  Our fundraisers are raising thousands of dollars for charities and NPOs by harnessing the power of social media for good work.  They are creating personal fundraising pages and then Facebooking, Tweeting, Digging, Stumbling, Flickring, YouTubing–the list goes on– FTW (for the win).  In fact, as of today:  

1,252,705 people 

have helped raise $69,304,142 

for 13,708 nonprofits 

using Firstgiving.com.

We have some seriously successful Firstgiving.com fundraisers. These individuals are part of the aforementioned trend by which social media fundraising is moving from a niche to a significant source of income for NPOs.  To this end, we regularly post Tips and Tricks on our blog to help you savvy fundraisers out there use the future power of social media today for your fundraising efforts.  Welcome to the future!  And kudos from Firstgiving.com.