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. People donate to a shared cause in honor of that for which they are most grateful. Find out more in the interview below! Where do the funds go?

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NTEN

JUNE 3, 2011

an SMS-based initiative to promote user-driven media in Tanzania. On the Netwits Thinktank, Blackbaud shares 44 Ways to Turn Your Supporters into Fundraising Superstars. Do you have any tips to add? MobileActive shares a new case study on Speak Up!, Read the full case study – and be sure to look at MobileActive's other mobile resources, too!

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Global Giving

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Raising money for personal causes, and medical fundraising, in particular, is having a moment in places like India with crowdfunding websites like GlobalGiving’s partner, Impact Guru. Crowdfunding to unlock empathy and investment capital. And the government of Bangladesh announced plans for a nationwide mobile payments system by early 2018.This

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

This charity also has offices in India , Nepal , and Tanzania operates its own projects and supports partners in Tanzania, India, and Nepal and works on behalf of children in places like the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Peru, Cambodia, China, and Bangladesh.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

A monitor for listening to chatter about your cause? Last November, Tweetsgiving used Twitter to raise over $10,000 in 48 hours for a school in Tanzania. The conversations inevitably get stymied around Twitter - which is no surprise, as every nonprofit is trying to figure out what the tool means for them.

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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. The first example and a brilliant one was " Trick or Tweet " cooked up by the good folks at FutureNow. Early research from Peter Kim.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Can Twitter help your cause raise money?, 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. The Working Wikily blog describes this effort as a "flash cause," I'm not sure, I think it is hybrid.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

From this moment on, I truly felt an emotional connection to the foundation's work in Kenya and Tanzania and appreciated the reality of these everyday problems that are so often looked over in favor of more dramatic conflict. I don't think I have been more blown away by a technological advance than this one.

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 12, 2013

In a nutshell, Matthews is addressing the cause and effect of “development,” with the purpose of answering the question “Why do we do what we do?”. In the end, a sustainable and locally based NGO, staffed with volunteers from across the globe, can offer education to students in a small town in Tanzania.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2008

Arthritis Foundation: Arthritis affects 1 in 5 people, is the #1 cause of disability in the US, and is not limited to adults. 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+. Suggested by Bob Uva. Suggested by Roger Carr.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Cause-First. Instead of saying in the middle of the campaign “we need $X”, they share an interview with one of the beneficiaries, or invite people to connect directly via twitter with children in Tanzania who attend the school funded through the campaign. 350ppm was the rallying point and as such remains so today.

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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. The Next Generation of Cause Marketing for Cystic Fibrosis Research.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 1, 2006

Passion for a cause. For the past year, I have been writing for NetSquared about nonprofits and NGOs that are using the social web to cultivate donors, advocates and activists for their organization and their cause. Here are my picks for the Best Internet Marketing for a Cause 2006 (in alphabetical order). Emotional connection.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2014

The app is currently being used in Tanzania, but the developers are hoping to deploy it in other countries as well. mobile apps nonprofit Causes mobile phone tech for good netsquared Caravan Studios TechSoup Event nonprofits library mobile phones libraries developers digital divide community' Log in and share in our comments.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

The service has 17 million users and is transforming the way wealth is distributed in poor countries, which now include Tanzania, India, and Afghanistan as well as Kenya. Also check out Cause Vox’s General tips for crowdfunding here. Find the Teespring discount offer on TechSoup.org.

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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. Or donating to a cause during a presentation or speech that motivated the giver? I wondered whether or not those results would be replicable ?

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

Their story was one of the ones that stood out the most for me from the series, so I was thrilled when a woman named Houria Iderkou, who set up a Causes campaign for KickStart on Facebook, contacted me to see if I'd like to interview Fisher. What follows is an edited transcript of our conversation on July 2, 2008.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

Overstated claims hurt the cause of the human rights movement over the long term. Human Rights Program – Changing the Field of Human Rights Making the truth matter is the core theme of our human rights work. If we’re going to speak truth to power, then we need to make sure that we are speaking truth.

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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. Last year, Facebook Causes added its birthday wish feature and we saw more peer to peer fundraising unfolding on social network sites. What is important to take into 2010?

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