Tweetup Tour – with Charity Focus
April 23rd, 2009
written by Danielle Grossi
***Updated August 17, 2009***
Unfortunately we’ll need to cancel the rest of the Tweetup Tour until further notice. Hopefully we’ll soon have it back on track! Thanks for your support and keep giving! 
smeepe and ceventiq are excited to announce our Tweetup Tour, starting in May going through the end of the year. The purpose of these tweetups is for all of us tweeps to get to know each other and to do something good for a charity in need at the same time.
We will be hosting tweetups in (at least) 10 different cities, focusing on a different charity per tweetup. Donations collected at the tweetup will be donated 100% to the particular charity of focus. We’ve decided to go with open donations, so feel free to give as much as you’d like!
We’ll be using amiando for the registration, so be sure to RSVP!
BUT WAIT – THERE’S MORE! We will sponsor a round of bubbly for all attendees. And Troubleshooter Media will be sponsoring our tweetup name badges!
Here are the tweetup dates and cities. More details will be updated to this post as they become available:
- May 13, 2009 – Darmstadt, Weststadt Bar, Charity is Read India, RSVP
- June 16, 2009 – Berlin, Location TBD, Charity is Break the Cycle, RSVP
Postponed until further notice:
- TBD – Zurich, Location TBD, Charity is Break the Cycle, RSVP
- TBD – Los Angeles, Location TBD, Charity is Everybody Wins!, RSVP
- smeepe & the Society for Geek Advancement are proud to bring you this tweetup from our Charity Tweetup Tour 2009. To celebrate and bring awareness to International Literacy Day on September 8, 2009, we’ve selected Everybody Wins! as our charity of focus for the LA Tweetup.
- TBD – London, Location TBD, Charity is TBD, RSVP
- TBD – Munich, Location TBD, Charity is NAET e.V., RSVP
- TBD – New York City, Location TBD, Charity is TBD, RSVP
- TBD – Barcelona, Location TBD, Charity is TBD, RSVP
- TBD – Frankfurt am Main
- TBD – Buenos Aires
If you would like to host a charity tweetup for us in a city we have not listed, have a suggestion to which charities we can donate, or would like to sponsor something, please let us know!
We’re looking forward to getting to know our tweeps out there. Let’s come together and do something good for those in need!
Tags: amiando, break the cycle, charity focus, everybody wins, geek advancement, read india, sister naina, the safe space, tweetup tour
Posted in Tweetups | Comments (8)
May 12th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Please consider donating to the charity Break the Cycle at the LA tweetup!
One in three teens is at risk of dating abuse and an astonishing two-thirds will never report it. At Break the Cycle, we believe every young person has the right to safe and healthy relationships—regardless of where they live, who they are or what they believe. That is why we work everyday towards our mission to engage, educate and empower youth to build lives and communities free from domestic violence.
May 12th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
Thank you Jon for your entry! We will definitely consider Break the Cycle. It sounds like a great cause! Will connect as we get closer to the tweetup date.
May 12th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Please consider designating one of your tweetups to Epic Change (http://www.EpicChange.org), creators of TweetsGiving (http://www.TweetsGiving.org), a groundbreaking Twitter fundraiser that raised over $11K in 48 hours last November. We make significant loans to people who are creating change in their own communities, then help them monetize their inspirational stories of hope to enable repayment. Our current partner is a school in Arusha, Tanzania that was founded by a local woman who used income from selling chickens and eggs as seed capital.
Thanks!
May 12th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Invisible People http://invisiblepeople.tv/blog/ @hardlynormal would be a grt charity/cause for LA on 3 September.
May 13th, 2009 at 5:22 am
We at cjMuse would like to nominate The African Child Trust for the for London’s date on October 1st 2009.
The African Child Trust (ACT) supports the education of orphans and vulnerable children of needy widows in Africa. Their aim has continually to enable child achieve their full potential in life through education and care.
Many thanks
Sam
May 15th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
What a fantastic idea!
Please consider choosing DOROT as the charity for your NYC Tweetup.
For 33 years, DOROT has been a lifeline to homebound and homeless seniors, working to provide food, housing, companionship, education, and cultural enrichment to thousands of elderly New Yorkers and foster friendship and respect between the generations. The DOROT family includes a pool of 10,000 volunteers of all ages – the largest volunteer force serving the elderly in the United States – working towards a shared vision of a more elder-friendly society.
Thank you, and best of luck with all of your events!
May 25th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
@daniellegrossi suggested I write here. If you’re looking for another charity to support, related to literacy, education, or Darfur, please consider Book Wish Foundation (www.bookwish.org). We provide reading relief for people in crisis. “Reading relief” encompasses all of the aid that makes reading possible, not only books and support for literacy programs, but also reading glasses, solar lighting, school construction, etc. We would love your support for our project in eastern Chad helping 70,000 Darfuris in three refugee camps and thousands of Chadians in the local host communities. If interested, we can advise about what specifically could be accomplished in Chad for different amounts that you might raise, so your donors would know exactly what they were supporting.
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