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Fundraising tip: use video! Video gives you a chance to speak directly to donors and express why this fundraiser is so important to you.

As cancer survival rates increase, many are coping with life after cancer and the problems that arise with oncofertility. Learn more about the options available and what cancer survivors can do.

Healthcare reform, known as the Affordable Care Act, is being decided by the Supreme Court and the impact the reform can have has everyone talking. Recently GiveForward’s founder, Desiree Vargas Wrigley and user Shannah Rodriguez-Torres were interviewed on CNN about the rising costs of health care, healthcare reform and how families are utilizing fundraising within their personal networks to raise money for medical expenses.

Car accidents and sports injuries aren’t the only causes of traumatic brain injury (TBI), seemingly harmless falls and bumps to the head can be just as damaging. TBIs have serous consequences including financial ramifications that may affect a patients access to treatment and therefore the progress of their recovery. As part of National Brain Injury Awareness Month, GiveForward encourages you to “mind your mind.”

Fundraising online can be a little overwhelming at first, so our head fundraising coach and Director of User Relations, Erica Trzeciak, put together her top 5 do’s and don’ts of fundraising online to get you started.  Take a look and add your own in the comments!   Do: Personalize your fundraising. Write a compelling story that [...]

A community gathers to raise money for a family following an accident.

Do you like creating unexpected joy? Are you that person that does random acts of kindness…even when no one is watching? Do you love coming up with ways to do or make things better? If so, you could be perfect for this position. A little about GiveForward: We’re fun. We’re young. We like burritos. We [...]

The battle began in Berkeley California, progressed to Skokie Illinois and will hopefully end in Germany. Her name is Maria Grayson-Metaxas, and she was diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer in January 2010. The Metaxas family is full of fighters – they will not sit still and will not take no for an answer. Unfortunately, [...]

Sam Eaton is one of a kind, in every sense of the word, as he has a rare 16th chromosomal genetic abnormality that has no other documented cases. As a result of his condition, he suffers from hypotonia, static encephalopathy, severe speech apraxia, and bilateral skew foot; and he wants to just have “happy feet”. [...]

Battling cancer is a challenging, scary and debilitating experience. Fortunately, your friend has you to help them through it. But you’re wondering, “how should I act around them?” “Is it OK to talk about it?” And most of all, “What can I do to help?” Useful tips like “what not to say,” “laughter therapy” and “support your friend physically, emotionally–and financially” offer insight into this question.