Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Whether you want to raise money for clean water in Ethiopia, vaccinations for children in Haiti, or a safe home for a puppy in Mississipi, with a Birthday Cause your friends can give in honor of your special day. Select your Birthday Cause today: Get Started - Learn More. I received two emails from Dave: 1.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 21, 2014

While there has been some high-profile efforts to raise awareness and money, most recently by former football player Steve Gleason and his Team Gleason House , research efforts and awareness have been low compared to the other fatal diseases. Although as of this writing, the accidental campaign raised 31.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

A community group worked hard to get her placed on the historic register and raise money to restore her to her mid-century glory. Here's another story , about teenage boy who started with a small project to raised money for the local food pantry his first year and then rallied his community to raise $20,000 for hunger organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

I was able to raise $2,500 in 90 minutes at Gnomedex. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

On September 7, 2006, Scott Harrison launched charity: water by throwing a birthday party, charging people $20 to attend, sending 100% of the money to build wells in a refugee camp in Uganda and then proving the work by sending photos and GPS coordinates to every guests. The overall goal is to raise $1.2 Obviously $. To pass our $1.2

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

This world-wide fundraiser, with a $1 million fundraising goal, brought together the Twitter community for an evening of fun and to raise money and awareness for charity: water. The first post I wrote was called " Look Out Here Comes Everybody To Raise Money for charity:water on Twitter " with a wink to Clay Shirky's work.

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