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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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

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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

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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.

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NetWits

APRIL 22, 2010

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.

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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. I love the design.

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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. People who have heard me speak know how excited I am about the potential of cell phones.

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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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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).

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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. At age 7, he knew his passion was space and wanted to be a rocket ship pilot.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

Her students consistently score at the top of over 120 schools in the Arusha district of Tanzania. Mama Lucy is an Epic Change fellow, and has been an invited speaker at the European Summit for Global Transformation.

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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. Every Thanksgiving since, Stacey has launched a gratitude campaign. This year epic thanks is asking you to share a photo of gratitude and make a thankful gift.

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AFP Blog

AUGUST 27, 2013

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.'

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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. Be sure to check out the Twitterkids.

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Tech Soup

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. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing.

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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. Don’t get me wrong, some wonderful initiatives have been leveraged via social media. Tweetsgiving, created by Amanda Rose, raised $1.2 million within 14 months for 137 nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

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. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

Last November, Tweetsgiving used Twitter to raise over $10,000 in 48 hours for a school in Tanzania. Beth Kanter stood on stage at Gnomedex and used Twitter to help raise $2,657 in 90 minutes. And just last month, I used Twitter to raise $350 in a couple hours to help send the NTEN staff out for a relaxing excursion.

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Tech Soup

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. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing. Wednesday, October 11, 2017.

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NTEN

JUNE 3, 2011

an SMS-based initiative to promote user-driven media in Tanzania. On the Netwits Thinktank, Blackbaud shares 44 Ways to Turn Your Supporters into Fundraising Superstars. Do you have any tips to add? MobileActive shares a new case study on Speak Up!, Read the full case study – and be sure to look at MobileActive's other mobile resources, too!

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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. FLIP Camera.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Additionally, Rebecca is a digital mapper for the Tanzania Development Trust mapping rural Tanzania to aid the work of local anti-FGM activists. She is also a crisis line operator with the mental health charity Shout! UK and a marketing support officer for the environmental NGO Become Carbon Negative.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Additionally, Rebecca is a digital mapper for the Tanzania Development Trust mapping rural Tanzania to aid the work of local anti-FGM activists. She is also a crisis line operator with the mental health charity Shout! UK and a marketing support officer for the environmental NGO Become Carbon Negative.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Additionally, Rebecca is a digital mapper for the Tanzania Development Trust mapping rural Tanzania to aid the work of local anti-FGM activists. She is also a crisis line operator with the mental health charity Shout! UK and a marketing support officer for the environmental NGO Become Carbon Negative.

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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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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. recordings.

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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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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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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Instead of saying in the middle of the campaign “we need $X”, they share an interview with one of the beneficiaries, or invite people to connect directly via twitter with children in Tanzania who attend the school funded through the campaign. It instantly becomes less about numbers and more about impact. And that’s hard to ignore.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Communities on both platforms were clearly not part of the development and communications process, yet they were actively using the platform (for example, a grant from ideablob helped Epic Change implement a technology lab in a school in Tanzania ). If a platform were to disappear, would the community be able to continue on?

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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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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 $10,000. The highlights: * $11,021 raised from 364 donations. over 100 press and blogger mentions.

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Global Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Featured Photo: Solar Suitcases for Safer Childbirth in Tanzania by WE CARE Solar. Read the supplement and parent publication before undertaking a pro bono technology project and refer to it as needed for resources and advice throughout the project. Get a copy of the pro bono planning supplement delivered to your inbox now. Download Now.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2006

Jessica has worked in rural Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda with the Village Enterprise Fund and Project Baobab on impact evaluation and program development. Jessica is the co-founder and a board member of Kiva , a nonprofit that is using the Internet to connect people through loans to alleviate global poverty.

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