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Poverty

Saharo Welfare Organization

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Flood 2010 Pakistan

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Pakistan
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YOU decide what gets funded -- a Hands-On Democratic Bank for the Common Good

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Common Good Bank™: profits to the community, a social mission with a bank

Common Good Bank™ is a planned online bank that will allow any geographic community to have its own democratic virtual bank easily, simply as a depositor group within Common Good Bank. Depositors in each community will discuss and decide what types of new and expanding local businesses to fund for local self-reliance and sustainability, creating employment for everyone.

Over the course of seven years, Common Good Bank has been collaboratively designed as the framework for a more just economic system. All profits will go to a Community Fund to support schools and other nonprofit organizations -- half locally and half to empower people elsewhere in the world. Depositors in each community decide what to invest in and how to use the bank's profits, using an innovative combination of democratic systems -- an online platform for brainstorming, discussion, and voting.

Location

Common Good Finance Office
PO Box 21
Ashfield, MA 01330
United States
42° 31' 16.0716" N, 72° 48' 40.176" W
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Ashfield, MA

OhmSMS

Micro-Lending Widget

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The Gift Of Giving Every Penny Count Fundraiser

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The Gift Of Giving Every Penny Count Fundraiser collects in-kind donation of gift cards, gift certificates, auction items, memorabilia, collectible coins and paper monies ranging from $1000.00 to 10,000.00 and/or auction item to help support us The Gift Of Giving Every Penny Count Fundraising Event. This event will raise funds to help support The Gift Of A Helping Hand Emergency Shelter.

Location

Toledo, OH
United States
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Toledo, OH

OhmSMS

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A mobile device that sends an SMS to a person letting them know their power is on or off.

Location

Kampala
Uganda
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Kampala

Micro-Lending Widget

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This widget will be embedded on the "landing page" where Lend4Health.org lenders will be taken after they make a loan. Pulling data from the Social Actions API, it will present to the lender three microlending opportunities available on other Social Actions platforms (e.g., Kiva, Wokai). Lend4Health microlending opportunities will be excluded from the widget since the lender has already made a loan on that site.

Location

Vienna, VA
United States
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Vienna, VA

Cell Phone Mashup: Mobile Microfinances to Eradicate Poverty

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In lay terms, we want to be an open platform to make it easy to reach the lowest-income markets using cell phones as an input device and a sales channel for companies and organizations serving the bottom of the pyramid.

Location

Lima, LI
Peru
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Lima, LI

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  • Microsoft
  • Yahoo
  • Business Objects
  • Raincity Studios
  • Mozilla Foundation
  • Ready Talk
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  • Adobe
  • Linden Lab
  • Network For Good
  • Wild Apricot
  • Stanford Social Innovation Review
  • L'Atelier North America
  • The Panelist
  • Good
  • Fora.tv
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