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A supporter's fundraiser page looks like this.

Start raising money with a fundraising page

You can make your own fundraising page on FirstGiving to raise money for any nonprofit organization.

Email your page to friends, family and colleagues, who donate by credit or debit card in an easy, secure online transaction.

We send all the donations to your nonprofit, minus our small transaction fee.

FirstGiving transaction fee

Our robust online giving tools provide immense efficiency, while reducing technology hassles and administrative costs. What's more, our online tools empower nonprofits to tap into supporters who can't be reached by traditional solicitation methods. We deliver top-notch customer support to nonprofits, supporters, and donors alike. We also pay all associated credit card fees.

Thousands of users have teamed with us and raised more money with significantly less effort. FirstGiving's fee is just 7.5% on donations made to fundraising pages.

For example, with a $25 donation:

$1.88 (7.5%) = FirstGiving fee
$23.12 goes to the nonprofit

The 7.5% FirstGiving fee covers:

Securing and hosting the site
Vetting 501(c) nonprofits associated with GuideStar
Processing your donations securely
Providing exceptional support to nonprofits, supporters, and donors; when you contact us, you speak to friendly, knowledgeable people
Giving nonprofits full reporting and event management capability
Giving supporters personal storytelling tools to maximize donations
Ensuring the transfer of money raised to the nonprofit

If you have any questions, please email us at support@firstgiving.com.

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In-house or FirstGiving?

Officer Hugh Miller of Police Unity Tour of Florida said his board of directors was concerned about the cost of FirstGiving's service and looked into building a fundraising solution in-house:

"We reviewed the cost of hiring people to build and support the platform, maintenance, all the credit card processing, refunds, charge-backs, and customer service, and decided - there is no way we could do this as well in-house."

With FirstGiving their donations jumped from $43,960 in 2007 to $75,616 in 2008.

That's a 75% growth!