Two tech savvy mama’s throw an epicparty this Tweetsgiving

Mama Fu’s joins Mama Lucy and Austin’ssocial media community to celebrate an attitude of gratitude

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1stAnnual TweetsGiving Austin Event Details

Date:November,24th, 2009                   

Location:MamaFu's Downtown (100 Colorado Street)

Times:6:30pm -10:30 pm     

Price: $10 online or $15 at the door       

Sponsoredby: MamaFu's

TweetsGiving, a 48 hour global celebration created in 2008 by US nonprofit Epic Change, seeks to changet he world through the power of gratitude. On Tuesday, November 24 from 6:30pm to 10:30 pm, I will get to join the Austin area Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube users and  bloggers as we join EpicChange in celebrating TweetsGiving09: Epic Thanks at Mama Fu’s downtown location (100 Colorado) Festivities  include live musicby Hopper and Soft Healer, a live auction,  free hors d’oeuvres (courtesyo f Mama Fu’s) and a cash bar. Tickets are only $10 online or $15 at the door,so guests are urged to buy their tickets early! (http://epicchange.org/groups/austin/home/).Thisparty is one of over 40 taking place around the world. All funds raised will godirectly to Epic Change. This marks the first year for the event to be held inAustin.

This worldwide Tweet-up encourages participants to express their thanks using powerful online tools such as Twitter and at live events.  TweetsGiving“Gratitude Parties” are opportunities for people around the world to comet  together to express thanks while raising money for a great cause. Organizers are using popular social media platforms to organize and spread the word about the event. Twitter users can follow @TweetsGivingATX on Twitter for regularu pdates and special announcements.

In Tweetsgiving’s first year, social media savvy citizens utilized the power of Twitter to raise over $10,000 in just two days, marking the first time a the  social media site was used to raise such a large amount of money for a nonprofit cause.  The funds supported the efforts of Mama Lucy Kamptoni, a Tanzanian who raised money selling chickens to build a school on rented land near her home. When developers came in and took the land she was using, Epic Change stepped in to rebuild and expand the school that now serves over 300 children. The primary goal of the school is to ensure that all children in the Kimandolu area are provided access to a high quality education.Funds raised from this year’s event will allow the Shepherd’s Junior primary school to build more classrooms, a library, a cafeteria, and an orphanage/dormitory. The 2008 Tweetsgiving event raised enough money to build a cassroom at Kamptoni’s school. In this classroom built from gratitude, the Twitter handles of donors are now painted on the walls. The organizers of this year’s events are hoping to raise at least $100,000 world-wide to continue this expansion.

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