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.

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 12, 2013

This particular bench resides in a classroom in a small school in Moshi. Parents would often appear near the door of this classroom. I tried to picture a bench like this in a “Western” classroom. Toting my understanding of international development, and my NGO experience, I figured I knew to expect the unexpected. I got 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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See3

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.

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See3

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. The goal was SPECIFIC — a classroom, not support of an organization. The goal was $10,000.

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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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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. More importantly, the event was one of a series of social media fundraisers that offered evidence that Twitter and other social media tools were not just a passing fad. .

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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. The holy grail metrics is missing? Velocity and fluence and it's darn hard to track those.

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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.

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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 ?

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