From Tanzania to Los Angeles. Stacey invited Mama Lucy, Gideon and Leah from the Shepherds Junior in Tanzania (an Epic Change project ) to share their hopes and dreams with the attendees. Leah (on my right) wants to be a pediatrician and the first female president of Tanzania. MORE
Their Tweetsgiving campaigns were fundraisers benefiting Mama Lucy’s school in Tanzania and connected the students to their supporters through Twitter. MORE
For inspiration, I had to look no further than the " On the Road: Tanzania ," a video blog from the UN World Food Programme. Here's a few how-to resources that relate to the camera and software that were used to create the On the Road: Tanzania video blog. MORE
On mothers day 2010 they set out to raise money for Mama Lucy - a change maker who’s dedicated her life to helping kids in Arusha, Tanzania. The folks at Epic Change continue to do great things using the web as their medium. We can learn some things from this online fundraising project MORE
The BBC just had a great article that demonstrates the power of this tool: Mobile phones boom in Tanzania Two articles caught my eye recently. Nicole Wallace, the tech reporter for the Chronicle of Philanthropy, who does a great job, just wrote an article on new business plan software that the Social Enterprise Alliance has helped develop, entitled New Technology Tools Aid Business Plans. I saw a demonstration of this software at the last Gathering conference, and it looks very well done! MORE
As I mentioned in my previous two blogs about my Africa trip of last July, I had the pleasure of meeting many interesting people and learning about numerous exciting, cool projects during that three week long visit to Kenya, Tanzania and Ghana. Kenya and Tanzania, among others, are considered “high burden countries,” defined as having more than 5 million people living in trachoma-confirmed and suspected areas. MORE
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. MORE
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. Can Twitter help your cause raise money?, a question asked by the Give and Take blog. MORE
Check out our newest groups: * [NetSquared Tanzania]([link] in Tanga, Tanzania * [501 Tech Club Austin]([link] in Austin, TX * [Nonprofit Neighbors Tech Club]([link] in Kansas City, MO --> Upcoming Events. MORE
While we don’t yet know the exact ways in which the SDGs will be accomplished over the next 14 years, we do know that the dedication of philanthropic organizations from Toledo to Tanzania will be key to the end results. MORE
Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing. Morogoro, Tanzania: Role of ICT for Farm Management. Pangani, Tanzania: Storymakers Campaign. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing. MORE
Tweetsgiving is using micro-blogging tool Twitter to raise money for a classroom in Tanzania. Last year, Elliot penned a post about TweetsGiving. What, pray tell is that, you might be asking? MORE
The inspiring Tweetsgiving , developed by Epic Change , raised over $60K over the last three Thanksgiving holidays to build schools in Tanzania. Are your nonprofit staffers addicted to social media? Do they feel that one day Twitter and Facebook are going to bring in the big bucks and build a huge base of activists that will come to your organization’s rescue when you need their help the most? MORE
Check out our newest groups: * [NetSquared Tanzania]([link] in Tanga, Tanzania * [501 Tech Club Austin]([link] in Austin, TX * [Nonprofit Neighbors Tech Club]([link] in Kansas City, MO --> Upcoming Events. (Please visit the site to view this video). MORE
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 But Stacey Monk, its founder, sees a big challenge: the lack of Internet access MORE
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. MORE
For example, you could be Eni, a mother of 9 in Tanzania; you might be Ken, a struggling carpenter in the Republic of Vanuatu; or you could be Manu, the mayor of a Peruvian town. Challenge: How do you connect attendees of a local event with an international organization? MORE
NetSquared Tanzania in Tanga, Tanzania. NetSquared events come in all shapes and sizes, and we love them all! The exact format isn't important, as long as we are consistently gathering the nonprofit and tech communities together so that they can learn from each other. MORE
Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing. Pangani, Tanzania: Social Media Surgery: Instagram for Farmers and Livestock Keepers. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing. MORE
Make sure to watch the brief video to see how EpicChange has impacted the lives of many children in Arusha, Tanzania using tools like Twitter, YouTube and Facebook to raise money, connect people with a cause and tell their story If you’ve ever wondered how to do fundraising using social media as a core part of your nonprofits online strategy I suggest you check out what Stacy Monk of Epic Change has to say. MORE
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. Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. MORE
Check out our newest groups: NetSquared Tanzania in Tanga, Tanzania. NetSquared believes in the power of meeting face-to-face in physical space. MORE
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. MORE
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. Happy Tweetsgiving: Nonprofit taps Twitter for fundraising - OrlandoSentinel.com: "The Twitter message started simple enough two years ago: What are you thankful for? Happy Tweetsgiving!But The site allowed readers to donate money MORE
Last year, Tweetsgiving raised $10,000 to build a classroom in Tanzania. This year, See3 is playing an active role in Tweetsgiving 2009 , a global celebration that seeks to change the world through the power of gratitude. But as the story behind Tweetsgiving demonstrates, the real focus is not to raise money but to share gratitude all across the web. MORE
" The TwitterKids of Tanzania | The Epic Change Blog – A beautiful update from the Epic Change blog where Stacey and Avi are now in Tanzania working with the "school that Twitter built" last year from proceeds of Tweetsgiving, and where this year's donations will help bring technology. "Hujambo "Hujambo from Tanzania! These are some links I wanted to share from October 28th. Find me on Delicious for more! MORE
The money you donate to this effort will support Mama Lucy Kamptoni, a changemaker in Tanzania who once sold chickens and used her income to build a primary school that now provides a high-quality education to over 400 children in Tanzania. MORE
" The TwitterKids of Tanzania | The Epic Change Blog - A beautiful update from the Epic Change blog where Stacey and Avi are now in Tanzania working with the "school that Twitter built" last year from proceeds of Tweetsgiving, and where this year's donations will help bring technology. "Hujambo "Hujambo from Tanzania! These are some links I wanted to share from October 28th. Find me on Delicious for more! MORE
Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing. Musoma, Tanzania: Adobe Spark: Storytelling for Nonprofits. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing. Morogoro, Tanzania: Storytelling Event; Storymakers Campaign. Bunda , Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing. MORE
For example, you could be Eni, a mother of 9 in Tanzania; you might be Ken, a struggling carpenter in the Republic of Vanuatu; or you could be Manu, the mayor of a Peruvian town. Challenge: How do you connect attendees of a local event with an international organization? MORE
During the US Thanksgiving holiday, Tweetsgiving asked people around the world to use Twitter to share something they were grateful for and include the link to the Tweetsgiving site (where people could donate to help build a library, classroom and more for the benefiting school in Tanzania). Technology for Change. What’s your favorite example of technology helping people create positive change in the world? I think there are too many to count, really. MORE
allAfrica.com: Tanzania: Charitable Giving - Where Are Tanzania''s Affluent? Page 1 of 4) : IN December 2009, Luca Neghesti, a serial entrepreneur in Media, ICT and Logistics industries in Tanzania spearheaded a relief aid campaign for thousands of victims of the Dar es Salaam floods through the use of social media platforms MORE
and was off to Tanzania. I think of Tanzania as the ultimate African country. Grace Ministries International has been doing interesting things to develop their school, the Tanzania Grace Bible Institute. Tanzania Grace Bible Institute teachers learning how to use the new lab. MORE
"Meetings" come in diverse and innovative formats like Mississauga, Canada's Geek Talk — Coffee and Convo; Pangani, Tanzania's Social Media Surgery ; and Birmingham, United Kingdom's Summer Tech for Good Social in a local pub. MORE
I've just ended an exciting three week long Africa trip to Kenya, Tanzania and Ghana. They've also done a similar project in Tanzania and Uganda. social entrepreneurs Kipp Thigo SODNET Uchaguzi Huduma Martus Tanzania Nairobi Kipchumbah Social innovation human rights KenyaThere are so many exciting people and organizations to talk about! MORE
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. Tweetsgiving was one of the first Twitter campaigns designed to raise money. MORE
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. MORE
Last year, using the theme of gratitude and TweetsGiving, Epic Change catalyzed the global community to help build a school in Tanzania. From the Heart: Just like Tweetsgiving, and everything that Mama Lucy is doing in Tanzania, the To Mama with Love campaign is all from the heart. MORE
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. Happy Thanksgiving! MORE
Her students consistently score at the top of over 120 schools in the Arusha district of Tanzania. I have talked many times before about the way we as nonprofit organizations and changemakers set our goals. (If If we focus our work on feeding the hungry, for example, do we actually create a system in which we rely on people needing our services? What would happen, instead, if organizations focused on eliminating hunger?) MORE
The goal this week is to build more classrooms for Shepherd Middle School in Tanzania. This week is EpicThanks where the entire internet will explode with gratitude. MORE
Over the past two years, from the gratitude of thousands, this global event has built two classrooms and a library in Arusha, Tanzania, where the twitterkids, led by local changemaker Mama Lucy Kamptoni, learn and grow at one of the best primary schools in their country. MORE
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. Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. MORE
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allAfrica.com: Tanzania: Charitable Giving - Where Are Tanzania''s Affluent? Page 1 of 4) : IN December 2009, Luca Neghesti, a serial entrepreneur in Media, ICT and Logistics industries in Tanzania spearheaded a relief aid campaign for thousands of victims of the Dar es Salaam floods through the use of social media platforms
Tech Soup Blog
AUGUST 28, 2013
and was off to Tanzania. I think of Tanzania as the ultimate African country. Grace Ministries International has been doing interesting things to develop their school, the Tanzania Grace Bible Institute. Tanzania Grace Bible Institute teachers learning how to use the new lab.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 15, 2011
I've just ended an exciting three week long Africa trip to Kenya, Tanzania and Ghana. They've also done a similar project in Tanzania and Uganda. social entrepreneurs Kipp Thigo SODNET Uchaguzi Huduma Martus Tanzania Nairobi Kipchumbah Social innovation human rights KenyaThere are so many exciting people and organizations to talk about!
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. Happy Tweetsgiving: Nonprofit taps Twitter for fundraising - OrlandoSentinel.com: "The Twitter message started simple enough two years ago: What are you thankful for? Happy Tweetsgiving!But The site allowed readers to donate money
NetWits
MAY 10, 2010
On mothers day 2010 they set out to raise money for Mama Lucy - a change maker who’s dedicated her life to helping kids in Arusha, Tanzania. The folks at Epic Change continue to do great things using the web as their medium. We can learn some things from this online fundraising project
Amy Sample Ward
NOVEMBER 16, 2009
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.
Tech Soup Blog
SEPTEMBER 1, 2017
Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing. Musoma, Tanzania: Adobe Spark: Storytelling for Nonprofits. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing. Morogoro, Tanzania: Storytelling Event; Storymakers Campaign. Bunda , Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing.
Tech Soup Blog
OCTOBER 2, 2017
Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing. Morogoro, Tanzania: Role of ICT for Farm Management. Pangani, Tanzania: Storymakers Campaign. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing.
Tech Soup Blog
AUGUST 1, 2017
Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing. Pangani, Tanzania: Social Media Surgery: Instagram for Farmers and Livestock Keepers. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing.
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. Originally posted on the NetSquared blog.
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. Originally posted on the NetSquared blog.
Tech Soup Blog
JUNE 30, 2017
"Meetings" come in diverse and innovative formats like Mississauga, Canada's Geek Talk — Coffee and Convo; Pangani, Tanzania's Social Media Surgery ; and Birmingham, United Kingdom's Summer Tech for Good Social in a local pub.
John Haydon
NOVEMBER 21, 2011
The goal this week is to build more classrooms for Shepherd Middle School in Tanzania. This week is EpicThanks where the entire internet will explode with gratitude.
Amy Sample Ward
OCTOBER 28, 2009
" The TwitterKids of Tanzania | The Epic Change Blog – A beautiful update from the Epic Change blog where Stacey and Avi are now in Tanzania working with the "school that Twitter built" last year from proceeds of Tweetsgiving, and where this year's donations will help bring technology. "Hujambo "Hujambo from Tanzania! These are some links I wanted to share from October 28th. Find me on Delicious for more!
Amy Sample Ward
OCTOBER 28, 2009
" The TwitterKids of Tanzania | The Epic Change Blog - A beautiful update from the Epic Change blog where Stacey and Avi are now in Tanzania working with the "school that Twitter built" last year from proceeds of Tweetsgiving, and where this year's donations will help bring technology. "Hujambo "Hujambo from Tanzania! These are some links I wanted to share from October 28th. Find me on Delicious for more!
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 5, 2010
The money you donate to this effort will support Mama Lucy Kamptoni, a changemaker in Tanzania who once sold chickens and used her income to build a primary school that now provides a high-quality education to over 400 children in Tanzania.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 1, 2005
The BBC just had a great article that demonstrates the power of this tool: Mobile phones boom in Tanzania Two articles caught my eye recently. Nicole Wallace, the tech reporter for the Chronicle of Philanthropy, who does a great job, just wrote an article on new business plan software that the Social Enterprise Alliance has helped develop, entitled New Technology Tools Aid Business Plans. I saw a demonstration of this software at the last Gathering conference, and it looks very well done!
John Haydon
NOVEMBER 4, 2011
From Tanzania to Los Angeles. Stacey invited Mama Lucy, Gideon and Leah from the Shepherds Junior in Tanzania (an Epic Change project ) to share their hopes and dreams with the attendees. Leah (on my right) wants to be a pediatrician and the first female president of Tanzania.
Amy Sample Ward
MAY 5, 2010
Last year, using the theme of gratitude and TweetsGiving, Epic Change catalyzed the global community to help build a school in Tanzania. From the Heart: Just like Tweetsgiving, and everything that Mama Lucy is doing in Tanzania, the To Mama with Love campaign is all from the heart.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
OCTOBER 12, 2011
As I mentioned in my previous two blogs about my Africa trip of last July, I had the pleasure of meeting many interesting people and learning about numerous exciting, cool projects during that three week long visit to Kenya, Tanzania and Ghana. Kenya and Tanzania, among others, are considered “high burden countries,” defined as having more than 5 million people living in trachoma-confirmed and suspected areas.
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.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 24, 2010
Over the past two years, from the gratitude of thousands, this global event has built two classrooms and a library in Arusha, Tanzania, where the twitterkids, led by local changemaker Mama Lucy Kamptoni, learn and grow at one of the best primary schools in their country.
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.
See What's Out There
NOVEMBER 24, 2009
Last year, Tweetsgiving raised $10,000 to build a classroom in Tanzania. This year, See3 is playing an active role in Tweetsgiving 2009 , a global celebration that seeks to change the world through the power of gratitude. But as the story behind Tweetsgiving demonstrates, the real focus is not to raise money but to share gratitude all across the web.
Tech Soup Blog
NOVEMBER 25, 2009
Tweetsgiving is using micro-blogging tool Twitter to raise money for a classroom in Tanzania. Last year, Elliot penned a post about TweetsGiving. What, pray tell is that, you might be asking?
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.
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. Happy Thanksgiving!
Frogloop
JANUARY 15, 2011
The inspiring Tweetsgiving , developed by Epic Change , raised over $60K over the last three Thanksgiving holidays to build schools in Tanzania. Are your nonprofit staffers addicted to social media? Do they feel that one day Twitter and Facebook are going to bring in the big bucks and build a huge base of activists that will come to your organization’s rescue when you need their help the most?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 14, 2009
For inspiration, I had to look no further than the " On the Road: Tanzania ," a video blog from the UN World Food Programme. Here's a few how-to resources that relate to the camera and software that were used to create the On the Road: Tanzania video blog.
Mobile Commons
MARCH 28, 2017
For example, you could be Eni, a mother of 9 in Tanzania; you might be Ken, a struggling carpenter in the Republic of Vanuatu; or you could be Manu, the mayor of a Peruvian town. Challenge: How do you connect attendees of a local event with an international organization?
Mobile Commons
MARCH 28, 2017
For example, you could be Eni, a mother of 9 in Tanzania; you might be Ken, a struggling carpenter in the Republic of Vanuatu; or you could be Manu, the mayor of a Peruvian town. Challenge: How do you connect attendees of a local event with an international organization?
Amy Sample Ward
FEBRUARY 9, 2010
During the US Thanksgiving holiday, Tweetsgiving asked people around the world to use Twitter to share something they were grateful for and include the link to the Tweetsgiving site (where people could donate to help build a library, classroom and more for the benefiting school in Tanzania). Technology for Change. What’s your favorite example of technology helping people create positive change in the world? I think there are too many to count, really.
Amy Sample Ward
MAY 3, 2011
Her students consistently score at the top of over 120 schools in the Arusha district of Tanzania. I have talked many times before about the way we as nonprofit organizations and changemakers set our goals. (If If we focus our work on feeding the hungry, for example, do we actually create a system in which we rely on people needing our services? What would happen, instead, if organizations focused on eliminating hunger?)
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.
See What's Out There
DECEMBER 2, 2008
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. Tweetsgiving was one of the first Twitter campaigns designed to raise money.
Tech Soup Blog
MARCH 16, 2015
Check out our newest groups: * [NetSquared Tanzania]([link] in Tanga, Tanzania * [501 Tech Club Austin]([link] in Austin, TX * [Nonprofit Neighbors Tech Club]([link] in Kansas City, MO --> Upcoming Events. (Please visit the site to view this video).
Tech Soup Blog
JUNE 1, 2015
NetSquared Tanzania in Tanga, Tanzania. NetSquared events come in all shapes and sizes, and we love them all! The exact format isn't important, as long as we are consistently gathering the nonprofit and tech communities together so that they can learn from each other.
Tech Soup Blog
APRIL 3, 2015
Check out our newest groups: * [NetSquared Tanzania]([link] in Tanga, Tanzania * [501 Tech Club Austin]([link] in Austin, TX * [Nonprofit Neighbors Tech Club]([link] in Kansas City, MO --> Upcoming Events.
Tech Soup Blog
FEBRUARY 17, 2015
Check out our newest groups: NetSquared Tanzania in Tanga, Tanzania. NetSquared believes in the power of meeting face-to-face in physical space.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 3, 2008
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. Can Twitter help your cause raise money?, a question asked by the Give and Take blog.
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