Milwaukee Twestival 2011
Thursday 24 March 2011
Supporting Independence First
IndependenceFirst has a vision for full inclusion of people with disabilities in every aspect of our community and commits itself toward this end. Their mission is to effectively facilitate empowerment of individuals with disabilities through: education, advocacy, independent living services, coalition building.
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@MKETwestival is TODAY & @NorthShoreBank is donating $1/Tweet #MKETwestivalCares
March 23rd, 2011 Comment
Tomorrow is MKETwestival
March 23rd, 2011 CommentThanks to all our sponsors and the people that working on Twestival 2011. It's not too late to retweet this & raise both money & awareness for Independence First, The resource for people with disabilities. Now spread the word & let's have some fun! - Ryan Thompson
Up to 5000 reasons to donate to MKE Twestival 2011!
March 16th, 2011 Comment
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$5 would pay for 1 youth to eat breakfast at the Youth Leadership Summit
$10 would pay for 1 youth to ride the bus to and from the Youth Leadership Summit for the whole week
$20 would pay for paper and markers for the GirlsFirst support group to participate in a group activity on one day
$50 would pay for learning materials for a whole semester of Safe Relationships, Safe Places (education program for youth with disabilities about internet and personal safety)
$100 would pay for supplies for an entire GirlsFirst peer support group (girls ages 9-14) semester session
$250 would pay for all the mailings needed to have a successful Disability Mentoring Day (matches 150+ High School and College Youth with disabilities with employers in their career field of interest in October)
$500 would pay for GirlsFirst peer support group to attend a social dinner event, meeting other youth and participating in their community.
$1,000 would pay for an entire advocacy event for youth to go to the capital in Madison to meet their legislators and participate in an advocacy training
$2,500 would pay for stipends for 25 youth participants in the Youth Leadership Summit
$5,000 would pay for the creation of an entirely new Youth project at IndependenceFirst
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IndependenceFirst is Metro Milwaukee’s primary resource on access and independent living for people with disabilities.
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The Official MKE Twestival Blog benefiting @Independence1st
January 31st, 2011 CommentHi Folks,
This is Ryan Thompson, co-organizer of MKE Twestival 2011. I wasn't involved last year, but was in 2009. Twestival was the first time any of us really saw Twitter "pop" on mainstream media. Twestival is a global meet-up of Twitter users who originally came together on the 12 February 2009 in over 170 cities around the world to take the online community surrounding Twitter offline as well as to raise money and awareness for, Charity: Water. (CHARITY: WATER - VIDEO)
I am happy to have the event this year benefit both the people of Milwaukee and the non-profit organization, Independence First. This will be the third year of the event and the second one I am part of. I threw Twestival 2009 at the Wicked Hop and had a huge amount of help from the staff there, @RadioMilwaukee, @KidMillions, Micha Olsan, @AugieRay, Miles, the staff of the @TheWickedHop, the people of Milwaukee & @Amanda, the Canadian expat & founder of "@Twestival."
This year we hope to have multiple locations and to have you be a part of it, we look forward to seeing you soon and tweeting about Twesitval in the hopes that we will raise both funds & awareness for Independence First.
So thank you for spreading this message. It's amazing that a few years later, we are a much stronger community and together with Twitter, we continue to change global & mobile communications, governments and our local communities. Thanks again for your support.
IndependenceFirst is a non-profit agency directed by, and for the benefit of, people with disabilities, primarily serving the four county metropolitan Milwaukee area.
Thanks @RyanThompson
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