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TweetsGiving: Show Your Gratitude With Epic Change

Amy Sample Ward

People donate to a shared cause in honor of that for which they are most grateful Funds raised will go to support the work of Mama Lucy Kampton ( @MamaLucy ), a ChangeMaker who has transformed her community in Arusha, Tanzania through her school Shepherd’s Junior. Join the TweetsGiving Community. Get Involved.

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Interview: Avi Kaplan, Epic Change for TweetsGiving

Amy Sample Ward

I recently had the opportunity to connect with Avi Kaplan, the Community and Events Director at Epic Change , to discuss the upcoming TweetsGiving campaign and events. 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.

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Interview: Avi Kaplan, Epic Change for TweetsGiving

Amy Sample Ward

I recently had the opportunity to connect with Avi Kaplan, the Community and Events Director at Epic Change , to discuss the upcoming TweetsGiving campaign and events. 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.

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Happy Thanksgiving: Check out #Goodspotting and EpicThanks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Stacey is one who launched the first social media infused gratitude campaign during Thanksgiving back in 2008,successfully raising money for a school project Tanzania. With $250, you can make room for a student in a classroom. With $10,000, you could build an entire classroom – out of pure gratitude.

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Technology for Change Contest: Win a new computer from HP!

Amy Sample Ward

For example, simply review the hundreds of ideas listed in NetSquared ’s Project Gallery and you’ll quickly see that people from around the world are hard at work leveraging all kinds of technologies to create positive change for communities tackling many different issues.

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Five Ways Social Media is Helping to Build Social Justice Movements

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Here are the top five ways building a community on social networking sites benefits nonprofits advocating for social change. Now many of these discussions are also taking place in large communities filled with millions of people – and often times with people who have never even met in person before.

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If your organization tweets it, will they donate?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Basically you can categorize your Tweets so that you can analyze them as an individual as well as compared to the community at large.