Give $ to Public Schools Without Spending a Penny via Twitter

by Clay Burell · 2009-03-20 13:00:00 UTC
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I hope EdWize will forgive me for nicking its plug for this innovative bit of education charity. Please click through to donate $3 dollars to public schools - without spending a penny. It's a good incentive to enter Twitter-land for those of you not yet familiar with this amazingly fun and socio-educationally powerful tool. (And feel free to follow me too.)

I'm a big supporter of Donors Choose, a featured non-profit on this blog. I hope you'll help them.

Tim Ferriss, San Francisco-based productivity guru and bestselling author of The 4-Hour Workweek, is attracting new Twitter followers with this “ethical bribe”:

For every new Twitter follower in the next two weeks, I will donate $1 to DonorsChoose.org, and an anonymous supporter will match $2, for a total of $3 to U.S. public school classrooms per follower. For now, the matching limit is tentatively capped at 50,000 new followers, though I’m open to increasing it later. 50,000 new followers would mean $150,000 to U.S. public school education, and I hope to double or triple this total with a few twists.

For more information, go to Ferriss’s blog. Click here for his Twitter page.

Clay Burell
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