Our goal is to help people raise as much as they can for the causes they care about, by providing an excellent service to as many people as possible.
You can raise money for any nonprofit that's on GuideStar, although
we're not a nonprofit ourselves. Our online fundraising pages
make raising money and donating easy; they've helped transform the way people fundraise.
The rest is down to the amazing and creative ways you use them.
We believe in giving all nonprofits the same opportunity to raise huge amounts of money, including the smaller ones who can't afford to spend lots of money on technology, freeing them up to concentrate on what's important whether it's medical research or running the local playgroup.
We're fundraisers and donors too.
For me, it's all about the people and the product - and Firstgiving seems to have both.
- Susan, team coordinator for official Boston Marathon charities
Our history
- 2003 We start life in Lexington, Massachusetts
- 2004 Better Business Bureau gives us their stamp of approval
- 2005 We relaunch our website with a new look and some cool new features
- 2006 and move to Davis Square, Somerville, Massachusetts
- 2007 We keep growing
- 2008 We've raised over $68 million for over 13,000 nonprofits, thanks to fundraisers and donors like you
