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. We just spent three weeks at Shepherd’s Junior near Arusha, Tanzania setting up a technology lab and wireless internet at the school. Where do the funds go?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2011

Last year, this campaign had hundreds of people sharing their love for hundreds of moms, and nearly $20,000 USD was raised to build a home for the TwitterKids of Tanzania and their classmates who attend Mama Lucy Kamptoni’s school in Arusha, Tanzania.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2010

The fundraiser's goal to is to raise money for one amazing Mama who dreams of building a home for children in her village in Africa. The money raised from this fundraiser will help build a boarding facility on campus so that every child who attends her school has a place to call home. Here's how it works. I love the design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

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. To ensure the school is off the ground & ready to open by the time next term begins in January 2012, we aim to raise $15K more by ThanksGiving Day here in the US.

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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.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2021

It’s a great way to raise money, raise awareness, and gain new supporters. Notice the low goal and the small, solvable problem: Here’s another sample $5 Friday from Beautiful Feet Ministries of Tanzania. . $5 Friday Fundraiser Anyone who knows me knows how much I love the $5 Friday fundraiser!

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AFP Blog

MAY 28, 2009

Do Online Fund-Raising Contests Squeeze Out Foreign Charities? Philanthropy.com: "Do Online Fund-Raising Contests Squeeze Out Foreign Charities?Epic 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.

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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. Beth Kanter stood on stage at Gnomedex and used Twitter to help raise $2,657 in 90 minutes. Last November, Tweetsgiving used Twitter to raise over $10,000 in 48 hours for a school in Tanzania.

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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. So far, they've had more than 13,000 thank you notes tagged with #tweetsgiving and they've raised more than $16,000. Along the way, they're also compiling a log of what Twitter users are thankful for this year. recordings. recordings.

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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

A couple of great examples are Twestival which brought together thousands of twitter members all over the world and raised over $250K for Charity:Water and TweetsGiving which raised over $11K last in 48 hours to fund the building of a classroom in Tanzania.

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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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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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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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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.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

These events raise many questions and flags about diversity, opportunity, and even corporate decision-making. We can see by the issues raised above that the platforms weren’t necessarily operating in the best ethos anyway. What’s Next.

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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. As part of a. highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

The landscape has changed dramatically for the nonprofit, charity, and voluntary sector in the UK and I heard people across the country raise the question many times and with many different intentions, asking if there were simply “too many” organizations. The more is raised, the more impact they can make. There’s no limit to either.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2008

Blandford Nature Center : Maria is raising funds for the organization in a very innovate (and tough) way. 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 Dave Web 2. Her journal/blog is here. 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 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. Charlotte, A Young Teen, Helping To Save Horse Farm Through A Kick Starter Campaign.

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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. I suspect the amount raised will be impressive. I wondered whether or not those results would be replicable

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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. And there are a lot more ways to participate.

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2006

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. The campaign raised $17, 000. Here are my picks for the Best Internet Marketing for a Cause 2006 (in alphabetical order).

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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. BB: How can people get involved with KickStart? How can they help?

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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 February, Twestival raised over $250,000 for charity:water in 24 hours through self-organized volunteer events in 200 cities around the world.

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