Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

Their Tweetsgiving campaigns were fundraisers benefiting Mama Lucy’s school in Tanzania and connected the students to their supporters through Twitter. Maybe it isn’t even money, but feedback or advice, maybe an introduction or volunteer time. We can’t focus just on money. Another great example is Epic Change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2011

Stacey Monk, founder of Epic Change , says forget spending money on stuff to celebrate your mom on Mother’s Day. Embracing the arts as a child and into my adult years has made me learn the value of experimenting and creativity. And it’s all because my mom opened the doors and pointed the way and said “try this.&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Go participate and if you happen to be the winner, go donate the money to Stacey Monk’s, founder of epic change, new amazing project, LaLaLove. 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.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2021

If you choose not to pursue fundraising on Facebook, you are probably leaving money on the table. Be clear about the reason for the campaign and tell prospective donors where their money will go. Rent money for three families at risk of being evicted? It’s a great way to raise money, raise awareness, and gain new supporters.

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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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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2011

The inspiring Tweetsgiving , developed by Epic Change , raised over $60K over the last three Thanksgiving holidays to build schools in Tanzania. The American Red Cross reached tons of people on Twitter and Facebook after the tragic earthquake hit Haiti and raised a historical amount of money via texting to donate campaigns.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

What are ways of helping farmers get more money from their work? He has been on field missions to co-create solutions with governments and implementing partners in Zambia, Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Nigeria, and Bangladesh. What are ways of translating early warning dashboards captured at the global level into local action?

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See3

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Last year, Tweetsgiving raised $10,000 to build a classroom in Tanzania. But as the story behind Tweetsgiving demonstrates, the real focus is not to raise money but to share gratitude all across the web.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Tweetsgiving is using micro-blogging tool Twitter to raise money for a classroom in Tanzania. Here's a smidge from his post: If you haven't heard about it yet, be sure to check out TweetsGiving , a project of the nonprofit Epic Change. Along the way, they're also compiling a log of what Twitter users are thankful for this year.

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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. " Nonprofit Education in Haiti.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

Raising money on Twitter is happening all the time. Last November, Tweetsgiving used Twitter to raise over $10,000 in 48 hours for a school in Tanzania. It's all of those things, but it's also something else: a real-time fundraising tool! Beth Kanter stood on stage at Gnomedex and used Twitter to help raise $2,657 in 90 minutes.

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AFP Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

But it also included a link to a website that told the story of Mama Lucy Kamptoni, a woman building a school in the African nation of Tanzania. The site allowed readers to donate money." Happy Tweetsgiving!But

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See3

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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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Freedom Fone in Tanzania and Ghana. Freedom Fone was introduced at two radio stations: Radio Maria in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Volta Star radio in the Volta region of Ghana. Capturing Voices from the Field in Tanzania. In Tanzania, Sullivan bought a second-hand computer locally to host the Freedom Fone software.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 12, 2013

It wasn’t simply about throwing money at an international issue - it was about listening to local problems, local solutions, and local thought. 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. I couldn’t do it.

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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.

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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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AFP Blog

MAY 28, 2009

Epic Change, a charity raising money for a school in Tanzania, is a finalist in one of a mushrooming number of contests that enable Web users to vote for nonprofit groups. Do Online Fund-Raising Contests Squeeze Out Foreign Charities? Philanthropy.com: "Do Online Fund-Raising Contests Squeeze Out Foreign Charities?Epic

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 31, 2016

According to a Bridgespan online assessment of nonprofit organizations, their two biggest obstacles to investing more into leadership are time and money. Adam Rubin is the Co-founder and CEO of RENEW , a nonprofit organization focusing on helping young people in Tanzania. The Business Case for Investing in Talent (SSIR).

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 12, 2006

They offer $100-$150 start-up grants to businesses in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. All Flora said she needed was enough money to buy a 50 kg. For example, VEF gave a $100 grant to Flora Khaombi who was struggling to provide food, clothing, healthcare and education for her two grown daughters and her grandchildren.

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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

There is a growing recognition, that personal success is not about solely about making a lot of money, but also giving it to charity as Ariana Huffington points out in Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder. Raising Money To Fight Food Insecurity.

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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 ? And, she has also challenged the notion of the size of a "small donation." I suspect the amount raised will be impressive.

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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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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. They can set goals for building credit and saving money, hence the name. This app does a tremendously important service because it speeds up the time in which broken pumps get fixed. Supporting Youth. Youth ALIVE!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

” Mpesa works on really basic phones and allows users to deposit money, and most importantly to transfer money using SMS (texting) to other users. 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.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Money raised on crowdfunding sites is estimated to be 91 percent higher than 2011. #GivingTuesday happened for the first time on the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving this year and generated $10 million in donations - a 53 percent increase from donations received on the same day last year , according to the UN Foundation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

The first thing we recognize is that poor people everywhere are really not that different than us, in that they live in a cash economy, and just like us, if they have a way to make money they can access education, clean water, health care, and all of those other things that we think about as being so important.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Jessica is the co-founder, with her husband, Matthew Flannery, of Kiva , a nonprofit that is using the Internet to allow everyday philanthropists, like you and me, to loan money to budding entrepreneurs all over the world. I'm sure we could get people to help them and to loan money to them, so let's just try it." What is an MFI?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

We now have more than 3,500 users in over 140 countries using Miradi for projects as varied as a coordinated national strategy for the preservation of the chimpanzees in Tanzania, to the development of management plans for two Marine National parks bordering Sweden and Norway.

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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. The March of Dimes community rallied to raise money in Maddie's memory, unleashing a groundswell of support and sympathy expressions. . What is important to take into 2010?

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