Twestival.fm: Live Aid for Twitter
A new charity effort called Twestival.fm, which bills itself as "a kind of Twitter-driven Live Aid", aims to raise $20,000 USD in 2 weeks using music donated by artists on Twitter. People can download MP3s for free, but are encouraged to give a donation in exchange. Twestival.fm currently has donated tracks from over 350 artists, including Bloc Party, Imogen Heap, the Mystery Jets and Erol Alkan. The money raised will go to Charity: Water, a non-profit dedicated to providing clean and safe drinking water to developing nations.
Twesitival.fm is one part of an overall effort by charity: Water, called Twestival. On 12 February 2009, more than 100 cities around the world will host fundraising events organized by local Twitter communities. There is also a t-shirt design competition.
SitePoint's Bushfire Appeal
On the subject of worthy charities, Australian-based media company SitePoint is currently running a special promotion to help the victims of the terrible bushfires in the Melbourne area. SitePoint is offering 5 books (in PDF format) and you pay for just 1; and 100% of the proceeds from that will be donated to the Australian Red Cross Victorian Bushfire Appeal 2009.
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Another Twitter charity project is www.twittacause.com - we just signed up as sponsors.
Thanks for mentioning SitePoint's fundraising effort.
In 24 hours we've raised $75,000 USD - most of that coming through social media - and every cent will go to those affected by the bushfires in Australia which have directly affected thousands of people.
It is good to see how the community has come together. There are millions of dollars being raised and we need it to rebuild the communities effected. I too had family that could have been in harms way from the fires but luckily they are safe.
Glad to have this mentioned in the states.