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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

And as an extra reward for getting involved in sharing the good this holiday season, you can enter our #Goodspotting sweepstakes for a chance to win up to $500 in holiday spending cash for yourself, and up to a $5,000 donation to the nonprofit of your choice. I just uploaded a screen of John Haydon dong some good! Happy Thanksgiving!

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

This year, TMWL is raising funds that will support the work of 4 passionate women who truly believe that everyone has something to give: “ Mama Lucy &# Kamptoni sold chickens in her Tanzanian village & turned her income into a primary school that now serves over 400 children.

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JANUARY 15, 2011

The inspiring Tweetsgiving , developed by Epic Change , raised over $60K over the last three Thanksgiving holidays to build schools in Tanzania. Tweetsgiving, created by Amanda Rose, raised $1.2 million within 14 months for 137 nonprofits. But these examples are rarities.

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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. Photo by NimagesDR. a question asked by the Give and Take blog. The holy grail metrics is missing?

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DECEMBER 2, 2008

Tweetsgiving was one of the first Twitter campaigns designed to raise money. Built around Thanksgiving, the idea was for Twitterers to tweet (post) something they are grateful for, and at the same time post a link to Tweetsgiving where a donation could be made to build a classroom in Tanzania. The goal was $10,000.

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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

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. Need some ideas?

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 12, 2013

Note: This article will focus on international development from my perspective working in an African country, although the questions raised are pertinent to any “developed” country or continent’s relationship to a “developing” region. That NGO can continue for the foreseeable future, operating chiefly on Western dollars and donations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2008

Epic Change uses their donations to provide interest-free loans to local partners to finance their community improvement efforts. I just donated $20 via Network for Good. (In Blandford Nature Center : Maria is raising funds for the organization in a very innovate (and tough) way. Here is more about their approach. Epic Change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2014

Crowdfunding in general has raised more than 5.1 But giving, isn’t just about making a donation or volunteering your time. She is trying to raise money by selling one of her horses and crowdfunding money to help with her legal fees. Raising Money To Fight Food Insecurity. What could be better than that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2009

I was able to raise $2,500 in 90 minutes at Gnomedex. 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. And, she has also challenged the notion of the size of a "small donation."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

This two-day event, scheduled for November 24-26, will also invite people to donate to Epic Change. Other goodies will also be raffled off to raise money for Epic Change at the event. This two-day event, scheduled for November 24-26, will also invite people to donate to Epic Change. And there are a lot more ways to participate.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The big nonprofit tech trends this past year seemed to be in the areas of making websites viewable on mobile phones, using mobile phones more in the workplace, cloud computing, social media fundraising, foundations and Microsoft donations, greater self-sufficiency among NGOs in developing countries, and some cutting edge things like hackathons.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 1, 2006

What makes us write a donation check, spread the word about a campaign, or show up for a meeting or protest? Blogging for Chickens by ProBlogger : Darren Rowse celebrated ProBlogger's second birthday by raising $1100 (AU), or about $830 US, to buy 110 pairs of chickens for impoverished families via Oxfam Australia. Passion for a cause.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

In Tanzania, only something like 3.5%; in Sudan, it's only about 1.5%, and even in India, which we think of as being more developed, it's only about 10% of the people who actually have a job in the formal private sector. MF: Well, of course, we're always raising funds. All of these things sound great and look great. How can they help?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Less than 24 hours ago, Epic Change launched its TweetsGiving 2009 , a 48-hour charity event to encourage people to express their gratitude using online tools and at face-to-face meet-ups. This two-day event, which ends on Thanksgiving, also invites people to donate to Epic Change. . More than $550,000 was raised last March. .

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