Experience Project’s Social Cause Program – TwitCause – profiled in San Francisco Chronicle
Posted on 10/26/09 by Bailey Payer | Filed under Grassroots & Events, Weblog
Experience Project helps charities with TwitCause and lands a spot in the San Francisco Chronicle!
Got a tweet to spare? It could help the charity of your choice.
A week ago, a record number of status updates on Twitter and Facebook using the phrase “#BeatCancer” helped raise $70,000 for four non-profit cancer organizations.
Meanwhile, sales of a virtual crop for the popular Facebook game FarmVille raised nearly a half-million real dollars to feed poor children in Haiti. And a group called TwitCause used tweets to promote organic foods and a walk to benefit diabetes research.
These are just a few of many recent examples of how social networks have quickly become a powerful yet inexpensive tool to raise money and awareness for charities, even at a time when the economy has reduced overall donations to nonprofit groups. Read More.
