Earlier today The NonProfit Times published an article entitled “Twittering To Fame And Fortune: Microblogging can help raise cash and awareness.” Although they didn’t feature the TweetmasFuture campaign, the author does a great job summarizing the story and statistic of TweetsGiving and Twitter Vote Report.
Right now, there’s about 32 hours left until Christmas Day. Rather […]
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Using Twitter to Fundraise: TweetmasFuture with less than 32 hours left
Posted December 23rd, 2008 by Leif Baradoy
TweetmasFuture: Starting the Conversation
Posted December 11th, 2008 by Leif Baradoy
About two weeks, Epic Change ran a fundraising campaign called TweetsGiving, which focused specifically on encouraging the Twitterverse to help raise funds to build a school. In 2 days, they raised $11,131. Very cool.
After this campaign, Avi Kaplan posted the stats on how the campaign faired and what he learned from the event. This […]
Free Hugs for the Holidays
Posted December 9th, 2008 by Leif Baradoy
ChristmasFuture is going to be hitting the streets on Thursday, December 11th to give some Free Hugs to people in the downtown core of Calgary.
We are going to do our part to fight the poverty of spirit that many urban dwellers seem to be plagued with during the holidays. It is a simple way to […]
UNBOUND: Party with a Purpose
Posted November 27th, 2008 by Leif Baradoy
If you’re in #yyc this Friday night, then don’t miss out on the party of the season. UNBOUND is taking place at Flames Central on Friday November 28. Proceeds from this fundriasing event go towards supporting ChristmasFuture.
UNBOUND will be headline by a DJ performance from multiple Juno Winner K-OS. The celebrity host is MTV host […]
Gotta get up to get down: Democamp 12 in #yyc
Posted November 26th, 2008 by Leif Baradoy
Last night I had the good pleasure of presenting ChristmasFuture at DemoCamp 12, which took place at RareMethod). I had a great time connecting with the folk in the Calgary tech community and learning about what other people are doing. It was also cool to finally meet some of the people I’ve been following on […]
OneYoga Voting Results
Posted November 24th, 2008 by lindsay
The first-ever OneYoga was an absolute success and I could not be more thrilled or proud to say I was apart of it. We had over 225 people participate in this first-year event.
I had the privilege of contacting many of the studios, participants, and media that were involved in OneYoga and helped to make the […]
Millennium Development Goals Update
Posted November 22nd, 2008 by david
If it matters, measure it. The United Nations, in their recently issued Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Report 2008, has done an excellent job at illustrating the impact of poverty and our ability to create lasting, positive change.
The Millennium Development Goals are the framework for targeting specific action in 8 areas such as extreme poverty, hunger, […]
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