Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

So, now we have another holiday twitter event - Tweetsgiving , the goal of which is to put the giving back in Thanksgiving by spreading stories of gratitude across the Twitterverse.and across the world. And, course, to raise money for a school in Tanzania.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2008

Because Mama Lucy, the local woman who founded the school we're now partnered with in Tanzania, turned income from chickens into a school that now serves 200+. Arthritis Foundation: Arthritis affects 1 in 5 people, is the #1 cause of disability in the US, and is not limited to adults. Suggested by Roger Carr. Epic Change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. I wondered whether or not those results would be replicable ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

I want you, whether you’re in the Congo or Darfur or if you’re in Iran or if you’re in Tanzania, Kosovo…you shoot that story like it’s your mother, your brother, your sister, your father and your cousin and you tell that in that way because that’s actually the road, I think, to not only clarity and truth and understanding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2014

My colleague, Stacey Monk , founder of Epic Change and one of the pioneers of peer-to-peer fundraising efforts incorporating social media, shared this NPR story about a Kickstarter Campaign by a Gideon , 15 year old boy who is from in Tanzania Africa. At age 7, he knew his passion was space and wanted to be a rocket ship pilot.

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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. Be sure to check out the Twitterkids.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2009

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 wondered whether or not those results would be replicable ?

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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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