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TweetsGiving: Show Your Gratitude With Epic Change

Amy Sample Ward

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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Show Your Love on Mother’s Day for Your Mom & Mama Lucy

Amy Sample Ward

Last year, using the theme of gratitude and TweetsGiving, Epic Change catalyzed the global community to help build a school in Tanzania. The call-to-action is to create a “heartspace&# for a mom you love consisting of words, photos and video. Use #tomamawithlove in Twitter. Create a heartspace and share your story!

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Interview: Avi Kaplan, Epic Change for TweetsGiving

Amy Sample Ward

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. Participants will share what they are grateful for through Twitter and other online media and attend gratitude parties around the world. Where do the funds go?

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Interview: Avi Kaplan, Epic Change for TweetsGiving

Amy Sample Ward

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. Participants will share what they are grateful for through Twitter and other online media and attend gratitude parties around the world. Where do the funds go?

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Philanthropy and Social Media: New Whitepaper from The Institute for Philanthropy

Amy Sample Ward

A similar example is that of an Atlanta city councilman who chose to post a message to Twitter asking for a medic to respond to an unconscious woman on the street rather than to dial 911 when his mobile phone battery was very low. The real-time web has also revolutionized the way we support local communities in disaster. Impacts to Society.

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Show Your Mama Some Love (or Facebook Like)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.