Firespring Franchise News

May 25, 2011 // Franchising.com // Firespring has long celebrated the work hard, play hard approach to business. Now, Inc. magazine and Winning Workplaces are joining the party.

Firespring was recently recognized as one of Inc. magazine's 50 Top Small Company Workplaces, celebrating the best small and mid-sized business work environments across the country. The list is created in conjunction with Winning Workplaces, an Illinois-based nonprofit organization.

"Our working culture has always been highly important to Firespring, so this is a particularly rewarding honor for us", said Firespring CEO Jay Wilkinson. ""We operate by the philosophy that you might as well work somewhere where you want to be. Apparently, Inc...

July 12, 2010 // Franchising.com // Over $12,000 was raised during a July 8 fundraiser for the St. Baldrick's Foundation. The fundraiser was sponsored by Firespring, a website and marketing services firm that specializes in nonprofit website solutions.

St. Baldrick's began as a challenge among friends and has grown into the world's largest fundraising event for childhood cancer. Because treatment typically given to youngsters causes their hair to fall out, volunteers are recruited to have their heads shaved in public in return for pledges of financial support.

In total, 31 shavees raised funds and awareness for childhood cancer. Eleven Firespring employees shaved their heads for the cause. Two of the shavees were women and there were nine children that participated...

June 07, 2010 // Franchising.com // The St. Baldrick's Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to raising money for childhood cancer research, has issued a lofty challenge to everyone who wants to help raise money for childhood cancer research: Be a hero for kids with cancer by shaving your head in return for pledges of financial support from friends and family.

Participants find that shaving their head in solidarity with the 160,000 children who are diagnosed with cancer each year is a small sacrifice in comparison to what these children endure, and want to raise money to help find a cure for children with cancer now and in the future.

The event will be held on July 8 at Red 9, 322 S. 9th St. The head-shavings will commence at 6:30 pm...

July 01, 2009 // Franchising.com // As part of its commitment to give back to the local community, Firespring, a marketing firm that specializes in affordable marketing and website solutions for small businesses and nonprofits, once again sponsors the weekly Jazz In June concert series.

For the past 18 years, the Jazz in June summer concert series has brought great jazz and great food to the great outdoors. The popular concerts are presented in the sculpture garden of the Sheldon Museum of Art every Tuesday in June.

Firespring has designed the website, marketing materials and t-shirts for this event for the past 8 years. As with the exhibits at the museum, each year the design and theme for Jazz in June changes...