CitizenGulf NC: National Day of Action

Mark your calendars for CitizenGulf's National Day of Action on August 25, 2010!

Citizen Effect’s CitizenGulf project will become a National Day of Action on August 25th, in alignment with the week of the fifth anniversary of Katrina. The benefit — to be promoted by Gulf Coast Benefit — seeks to help fishing families find a new, more sustainable future by providing education resources for their children.

CitizenGulf Education Program for Gulf Oil Spill Families

All ticket sales and donations from CitizenGulf Day of Action events will give families living in affected areas the extra support they need to get their children off to a great start this school year and to help ease stress on families with after school support services and activities.

The most vulnerable victims of the disaster are children. As part of our response to helping fishing families, Citizen Effect and Catholic Charities of New Orleans have created an education fund that will provide assistance to families in the form of school supplies and uniforms, as well as after school programming that includes tutoring and homework assistance, enrichment classes, recreational activities, and healthy snacks.

Chuck Hester from iContact and a national advisory board member with the Social Media Club will be speaking and giving us inspiration on living, business and social media as it relates to the Gulf crisis.

Tammy Friedeck, Nonprofit Marketer, Social Media Addict and chief tweeter for Triad Goodwill is giving an inspirational talk about how to use social media for nonprofits and how Goodwill Industries of North Central Carolina uses social media, which is also described in John Cass' interview with Tammy discussing the case study. Tammy wrote a post about this event as well.

The event is being held at the same time by many other social media clubs around the country, so you will be networking with people both here in Greensboro, and San Antonio, New York, Washington DC, Boston and more.

Door prize includes a $50 gift certificate to Longhorn Steakhouse!

Thank you to iShake! They are donating the proceeds from the purchase of their apps to CitizenGulf. Check out their Apps at the iPhone store and tell everyone attending your CitizenGulf event!

CitizenGulf is a collaborative initiative between Andy Sternberg, Citizen Effect, el-studio.com, Live Your Talk, Sloane Berrent, Social Media Club, Taylor Davidson and Zoetica.