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Donate Your Twitter Status
March 17, 2009
Do you Twitter? Twitter is a micro-blogging social-networking service that allows users to share text-based posts (or tweets) of up to 140 characters.
Starting Monday, March 16, ReMIND.org and Porter Novelli ask Twitter users to register at TweetToReMIND.org.
The Tweet to ReMIND event will take place over Memorial Day weekend (Friday, May 22, to Monday, May 25). Participants will be asked to donate one dollar per tweet. Tweet to ReMIND’s goal is to register 400,000 twitterers by Memorial Day, and to raise $1.65 million during the weekend event, which represents the 1.65 million service members deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan since 9/11. Each Twitterer must tweet four times in order to meet our goal.
More than 35,000 service members have been physically wounded and it is estimated that more than 320,000 have sustained traumatic brain injuries and more than 300,000 have psychological wounds. Tweet to ReMIND empowers Twitter users to spread this message and raise money to give injured service members, veterans and their families the local support and resources they deserve as they heal and reintegrate into their communities.
Individuals, groups or companies can sponsor and donate designated hours of their Twitter updates to ReMIND.org.
The Tweet to ReMIND campaign call to action was announced March 16 at SXSW Interactive’s Social Media for Social Change panel discussion, sponsored by Porter Novelli at Stubb’s BBQ in Austin, Texas. TWITTERERS: Please use hashtag #TweetToRemind when you tweet for Tweet to ReMIND.
ReMIND.org, a Bob Woodruff Foundation (BWF) initiative, provides resources and support for returning U.S. service members injured while serving in Afghanistan and Iraq, as they reintegrate into their local communities.
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