#LITweetup Helps! A Success for Island Harvest

For the past few weeks, I have been involved in planning the #LITweetup Helps! Food Drive.  After just a few short weeks, myself and a great group of 4 other people planned a series of 3 events to benefit Island Harvest.  It feels so good to help others, especially during this time of year.

During the 9 hours of LITweetup Helps! :

  • Approximately 155 pounds of food was collected
  • $117 was raised (according to Island Harvest $1 provides 2 meals)

You can see LITweetup.com for more detailed blog posts about each event by myself, Jeff Namnum (@Namnum) and Steve Haweeli (@SteveHaweeli).  Many thanks to all who attended and donated.  It was great seeing everyone in person and meeting some new tweeps! Also, thanks to the great managers at Panera Bread who were kind enough to offer to hold our donations until Island Harvest comes to pick up their Thanksgiving donation.

On a side note, I just want to say thank you to the rest of the LITweetup Helps! Organizing Committee (Jeff Namnum, Mitch Hagler, Jean Prytyskacz and Steve Haweeli).  You are truly a fantastic group of people and together we did a really good thing!  It has been a great few weeks and I look forward to the next set of charity events that we hold.





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  • http://bloganthropy.org Candace

    Hi! I wish I had seen this earlier! I am in Suffolk and would love to be part of future TweetUps (I’m @candaceapril)–especially if they are benefiting charity!

    My blog partner @mamanista and I just launched @bloganthropy — I hope you will come check it out.

    Right now, we’re helping a Long Island organization get launched on Twitter: @Volunteer4LI

    Volunteer 4 Long Island works with Island Harvest–so in a way you actually have helped them out already!

    I’m going to be volunteering with them assembling packages of food, clothing, and personal items for the homeless on Thanksgiving morning. Everyone can come assemble (even those bringing kids) and then a group who does not have kids with them goes and distributes the food.

    Would you come help and/or spread the word? If you go to their twitter profile, the link is to their facebook page! There is an AMAZING video of what they did last year.

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