The 2nd Annual NYC Twestival Raises Nearly $20,000 For Concern Worldwide

March 29, 2010 - PRLog -- The 2nd Annual NYC Twestival on March 25, 2010 brought digerati to Good Units by Hudson, a former YMCA gymnasium in the Hudson Hotel basement, for an evening of music and mingling to benefit Concern Worldwide, raising nearly $20,000.  An entirely volunteer-organized event, 100% of ticket sales and donations are donated directly to the cause.

With musical performances by Brooklyn-based hip hop/rock band Shinobi Ninja and DJs Mister Disco and Axis Powers, drinks courtesy of headline sponsor PepsiCo, photography by Mo Pitz and renowned origami artist Sok Song designing giant origami Twitter birds for the raffle, guests had plenty to “tweet” about.  The event hosted over 350 attendees and raised over $19,000 for Concern Worldwide, placing New York City in the top five cities that participated in the global Twestival event.

Concern Worldwide also received a $100,000 national challenge grant from the Entrepreneurs Foundation/Austin Ventures. The group will match every dollar raised by Twestival Global, up to $100K.

NYC Twestival was sponsored by PepsiCo, The Barbarian Group, Bing, Boxee, CNN, Foursquare, OneDerr Inc., PopChips, Rypple, Syncapse and Thrillist.

For more information, please visit newyork.twestival.com or follow @NYCTwestival on Twitter.

About Twestival
Twestival (or Twitter Festival) is a global celebration of technology’s power to unite people and achieve social good. Last year, on February 12th, 2009, the first Twestival Global was held in 202 cities around the world to support charity: water. Over 1,000 volunteers and 10,000 donors raised over $250,000, which charity: water used to construct more than 55 wells and bring clean water to 17,000 people. This year, cities around the world participated on March 25th, 2010 and tentative numbers place the total amount raised for Concern Worldwide over $350,000.

About Concern Worldwide
Concern Worldwide is an international humanitarian organization transforming the lives of the world’s poorest, most marginalized children through access to education. Concern’s mission is the reduction of suffering and the ultimate elimination of poverty in the world’s poorest countries. Concern has more than 3,600 personnel working in 28 countries in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean focused on the root causes of extreme poverty through programs in education, as well as in health, HIV and AIDS, livelihoods and emergency response and disaster relief.

Concern’s work is informed by a vision for change and the organization’s education programs target the poorest people in the poorest countries in the world, with particular emphasis on reaching out-of-school children such as girls, orphans, street children, working children, children affected by conflict, children affected by HIV and AIDS, and children with disabilities. Concern’s education programs currently reach over 700,000 people in 25 countries across the regions of Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. Follow on Twitter to get a glimpse of their staff tweeting from around the world, including their efforts on the ground in Haiti.

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