Today at Epic Change, we’re celebrating what it really means to be lucky…as in, how lucky we are to have your support, friendship & collaboration.  I am so very grateful.

The celebration was inspired by a 10-year-old little girl at our partner school in Tanzania who knows what it means really to be lucky. I’m hoping, in the spirit of St. Patrick’s Day, that her story reminds you of just how lucky we all truly are.

Inspired by Glory’s story, I hope you’ll reach out to 7 of your friends and family members and tell them how lucky you are to have them in your life, and will pass along our new St. Patrick’s Day site and video so that Glory may inspire others to celebrate & relish their good fortune today too.  Here’s a message my friend Amanda created to forward to her friends – perhaps it will inspire ;)

Then, in honor of the little girl who has something to teach all of us about the true meaning of good fortune, I hope you’ll choose to spread the luck all the way back to Glory in Tanzania. We’ve created a St. Patrick’s Day giving campaign to build a boarding facility/orphanage at the top-ranked Arusha school where Glory and many of her classmates at Shepherds Junior can find a loving, stable, nurturing environment to learn and grow. You can get involved in creating luck for Glory for just $7.77, $7.77/month, $77.77/year or, if you’re really feeling lucky, $777.

We’re looking for 777 lucky people to participate at http://www.TweetLuck.org. If we meet that goal by the end of the day TODAY, then 5 donors have already agreed to give $777 each toward the effort. But, to do that, we need more than random chance – we need good luck that only you can create. So please give & pass the video and site on to everyone you know!

After all, the very best luck comes to those who give it away. Happy St. Patrick’s Day – and good luck!

Stacey

PS: At Epic Change, we’ve recently been very, very lucky. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to speak on a remarkable panel at South by Southwest, one of the largest interactive technology, film and music festivals in the world. I am so very grateful for the gracious invitation of Jeff Pulver and Porter Novelli. In addition, our St. Patrick’s Day campaign was referenced in a column on CNBC yesterday and on Change.org. Luckiest of all, last week I got news that a new classroom funded by our last loan was completed in Tanzania. To see the new classroom, check out these photos Mama Lucy sent from Arusha.

PPS: Our St. Paddy’s Day celebration is called “TweetLuck”, a term that references Twitter, a technology we’ve been using at Epic Change to spread the word and build a community of support for Epic Change. The language is irrelevant, so please participate regardless of whether you use Twitter. That said, Twitter’s a community where good luck just always seems to happen, so check out what I’m up to there and, if you’re feeling lucky, you may just want to join the conversation there too ;)