Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Next week, participants will share what they are grateful for through Twitter and other online media and attend gratitude parties around the world. Last year, funds from TweetsGiving helped build a classroom in Tanzania. This year, the Epic Change team are working on building a technology lab there. Get Involved.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 5, 2010

Last year, using the theme of gratitude and TweetsGiving, Epic Change catalyzed the global community to help build a school in Tanzania. For Mother’s Day, Epic Change wants to help Mama Lucy realize another dream – to build a home on campus where in-need children will live. Use #tomamawithlove in Twitter.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. Epic Change is a US nonprofit dedicated to helping social entrepreneurs harness the power of their stories to create change in their communities.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. Epic Change is a US nonprofit dedicated to helping social entrepreneurs harness the power of their stories to create change in their communities.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

In 2009, for example, two trapped girls in Australia chose to post to facebook for help rather than dialing emergency numbers directly. Their Tweetsgiving campaigns were fundraisers benefiting Mama Lucy’s school in Tanzania and connected the students to their supporters through Twitter. Another great example is Epic Change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Last August, I saw the impact of Twitter's velocity first-hand with a fundraising experiment. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. Let's take a look at the brief history of fundraising on Twitter and lessons learned.

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