Posted by: LeapFish Media Team on: November 15, 2009
LeapFish and Make-A-Wish Foundation® team up with Twitter users to help fund an ill child’s wish to go to Disneyland
PLEASANTON, Calif. – November 16, 2009 – LeapFish has joined forces with the Greater Bay Area Make-A-Wish Foundation® to adopt an ill child’s dream and help make that dream come true. Tweet-a-Cause, a social media initative, will give Twitter users the power to help fund an ill child’s dream to go to Disneyland, one Tweet at a time. LeapFish will make a donation per Tweet sent to the Make-A-Wish Foundation until $10,000 has been raised and the child and his family can go to Disneyland. LeapFish is inviting people to tweet to raise awareness of children that need your help. LeapFish will make a donation to create magic and make their wishes come true.
Jacob, age 4, has a rare and life-threatening disease that has affected him since birth. He has one big wish in life –- to go to Disneyland with his family. LeapFish and the Make-A-Wish Foundation have joined forces to help fund his wish through Twitter. “We are privileged to be able to make a difference in young Jacob’s life by helping to fund his wish,” said Ben Behrouzi, CEO of LeapFish. “What better tool than Twitter to get the community involved and allow everyone to share in making a difference for someone,” said Behrouzi.
The Make-A-Wish Foundation of America is the largest wish-granting organization in the world. The Foundation has granted wishes to more than 174,000 children with life-threatening medical conditions nationwide. Through the Adopt-A-Wish® program, a donor, such as LeapFish, can cover the entire cost of a child’s wish. To raise awareness of the Adopt-A-Wish program and to help get the social media community involved in granting an ill child’s wish, LeapFish is sponsoring the Tweet-a-Cause and Make-A-Wish campaign.
The campaign will run from November 16 through December 4th, 2009. LeapFish invites people to Tweet-A-Cause to honor Jacob’s wish.
For more details on the campaign and how to help visit LeapFish.com/MakeAWish
About LeapFish
LeapFish is an evolved search engine that captures the traditional, multi-media and real-time Web, through a single, connected search platform for both searching and sharing content. Founded by Ben Behrouzi (co-founder of Reply.com), LeapFish is a privately held, 100-person corporation headquartered out of CARR America Corporate Center in Pleasanton, California. For more information, visit blog.leapfish.com.
About Make-A-Wish
The Make-A-Wish Foundation grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy. For more information, visit www.makewish.org.
3 | S Kelly
Nice cause, its a pity little children have to go through such suffering. I am glad big corporations are using twitter to raise funds in the community. Keep up the Good work. I tweeted
4 | Eileen A
Very creative! I even enjoy watching the progress meter.
Oh and I tweeted! Jacob is on his way!
Thank you to all for supporting the cause!
Team LeapFish
7 | kelly Borg
Definetely worth the tweeting. Thanks for the post and awareness in the twitter community. I fully support tweet a cause.I wish more corporations do this.