Save March 24th in your calendar for YVR Twestival. “Beauty Night Society is thrilled to be the cause that the proceeds raised from YVR Twestival 2011 will be donated to,” said Beauty Night Founder & Executive Director, Caroline MacGillivray.
What is Twestival? (taken directly from their website)
Twestival: Tweet. Meet. Give.
Twestival® (or Twitter Festival) uses social media for social good by connecting communities offline on a single day to highlight a great cause and have a fun event. Twestival is the largest global grassroots social media fundraising initiative to date. Since 2009, volunteers have raised close to $1.2 million for 137 nonprofits. All local events are organized 100% by volunteers and 100% of all ticket sales and donations go direct to projects.
Twestival was born out of the idea that if cities were able to collaborate on an international scale, but work from a local level, it could have a spectacular impact. Over 200 international cities from Buenos Aires to Bangalore, Seattle to Seoul and Hong Kong to Honolulu have participated in Twestival.
“The monies raised from YVR Twestival will go towards training several of our participants & volunteers to hold 50 life-makeover sessions, explains MacGillivray, “A session consists of 3 streams of programming wellness, makeover & life-skill development. Our participants come in, are accepted as themselves, able to make friends, & become leaders of their community. Thanks to over 400 volunteers we are at a stage where if we develop our leadership to have volunteer facilitators & training participants to become jr facilitators, we can reach more women & youth.”
Although Twestival is several weeks away, Already it has sold over 100 tickets and raised $2585 for Beauty Night programming so far. Tickets for Twestival are on Sale. To purchase tickets, please visit this link. To find out more about YVR Twestival, visit their website at www.twestival.com.
