Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2010

The money you donate to this effort will support Mama Lucy Kamptoni, a changemaker in Tanzania who once sold chickens and used her income to build a primary school that now provides a high-quality education to over 400 children in Tanzania. Ironically, she isn't on Facebook or Twitter, nor does she have an email address.

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DECEMBER 2, 2008

Tweetsgiving was one of the first Twitter campaigns designed to raise money. Built around Thanksgiving, the idea was for Twitterers to tweet (post) something they are grateful for, and at the same time post a link to Tweetsgiving where a donation could be made to build a classroom in Tanzania. The goal was $10,000.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

One example that I’ve blogged about before is the annual project from EpicChange: Tweetsgiving. You can see the numbers (from tweets, to dollars, to videos and more) on the EpicChange blog here. The winner will be announced here in an update at the bottom of the blog post that day. Enter the Contest.

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AFP Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Happy Tweetsgiving: Nonprofit taps Twitter for fundraising - OrlandoSentinel.com: "The Twitter message started simple enough two years ago: What are you thankful for? But it also included a link to a website that told the story of Mama Lucy Kamptoni, a woman building a school in the African nation of Tanzania.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Founded in 2008, the original TweetsGiving celebration was implemented by a small group of volunteers and it generated thousands of grateful tweets from around the globe. As the event has evolved, TweetsGiving is not about Twitter. This year, TweetsGiving becomes Epic Thanks to indicate the broader impact of the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Snap a picture on your phone or camera and upload it to the Case Foundation Facebook page , or through another online photo-sharing service (Instagram, TwitPic, yFrog), and share on Twitter with the hashtag #GoodSpotting. Every Thanksgiving since, Stacey has launched a gratitude campaign.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Tweetsgiving is using micro-blogging tool Twitter to raise money for a classroom in Tanzania. Along the way, they're also compiling a log of what Twitter users are thankful for this year. This year, they're also enabling people to participate by tagging blog posts, Flickr photos, YouTube videos, and blip.fm

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Can Twitter help your cause raise money?, a question asked by the Give and Take blog. Avi Kaplan has published some basic stats from the recent Tweetsgiving Campaign that raised over $10,000 in 48 hours right before and during Thanksgiving to build a classroom in Tanzania. Photo by NimagesDR. The holy grail metrics is missing?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Sean Stannard-Stockton has just posted my guest post on the Tactical Philanthropy blog. You can read it and the comments on the blog here , it’s copied below. “In recent days, Causes has left MySpace and IdeaBlob has shutdown. To some, these events were unimportant. This week our idea was up for the sprint and in the top 3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

And celebrating holidays (or planning for a holiday ) on Twitter is also becoming a tradition but these are community-driven efforts and some have been connected with raising money for good causes. He further describes how this works: As a result, the most powerful activity within Twitter is to watch the "Retweet" phenomeneon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Just yesterday I read a tweet that called the #nonprofit twitter tag a “cavernous echo chamber.” That dude John Burn [an earlier presenter] was up here saying that ‘Twitter makes it easy to find stuff that pertains to you.’ Now don’t get me wrong, I love you people. That is a huge mistake.” starts around 16:46). “I starts around 4:35).

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JUNE 6, 2011

Who’s read a blog post about it? It is less about the number of people to retweet or like or blog. Our fear should not be of losing branding, not having “control” of the conversation, or having someone post a negative comment on our blog or facebook wall; but only in not changing the world, right? Slacktivism. What is it about?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2009

Last August, I saw the impact of Twitter's velocity first-hand with a fundraising experiment. Right before Thanksgiving, the TweetsGiving effort helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania seeking $10 donations. I was able to raise $2,500 in 90 minutes at Gnomedex.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

This year they hope to spread gratitude further and raise enough to help build an additional classroom, orphanage/boarding facility, cafeteria and library at Epic Change’s partner school in Tanzania, and to finding and funding future Epic Fellows like the school’s founder, Mama Lucy. Tags: twitter. And there are a lot more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Last year, TweetsGiving , raised $11,000 to build a classroom in Tanzania using Twitter to spread messages of thanks and opportunities to donate. More importantly, the event was one of a series of social media fundraisers that offered evidence that Twitter and other social media tools were not just a passing fad. .

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