I was just thinking about fireflies yesterday (as a visual image to communicate Twitter’s geotagging feature…)

Anyhow, I too was struck by the sincerity of Mr. Patrokil’s email.

The current paradigm in the non-profit world is that giver and receiver exist separately – rarely do these two groups unify in the fight for a cause. I’ve never seen a fundraising event for homelessness where homeless people are joining in as equal participants to raise money or spread awareness. Yet, here we have parents and children working together with everyone in tweetsgiving.

I see three benefits to knocking down these existing walls:

1) More powerful stories
2) A deeper understand of the human element
3) A greater commitment from “both sides”

Tweetsgiving 2009 will go down in history, Stacey! And it all started with a chicken farmer in Tanzania, and a woman in the US who lost her brother.

John