YouthStribe is an innovative youth-focused interactive tool to connect and empower youth online as well as off-line to advance the social justice cause of closing the inequality gap felt by marginalized youth in terms of quality education and transformative life-changing opportunities

TechMission Online integrates thousands of faith-based social service organizations into our open source system which is a mashup using Drupal, Moodle, CiviCRM, Google Maps, Amazon, Flickr and YouTube. It includes: •A directory of over 2,000 faith-based social service organizations mashed with Google maps to show where these services are offered. Goal: 10,000+ organizations in 5 years. •A directory of 2,600+ volunteer opportunities in FBOs which will soon be a mashup with Google maps to show their locations through www.ChristianVolunteering.org (Christian brand) and www.iVolunteering.org (secular brand). Goal: 25,000 opportunities in 5 years. •A Web 2.0 portal for the faith-based social services sector through www.UrbanMinistry.org (Christian brand) and www.UrbanResource.net (secular brand). The site Wiki contains 5,600+ free creative commons licensed workshops, podcasts (iTunes), videos (YouTube), documents, books (Amazon), Stock Photos (Flickr) and curriculum materials (goal: 25,000 items in 5 years). We have partnered with the top faith-based social service conferences to provide an archive of audio, video and materials of 15+ years of workshops on nonprofit training. • www.CityVision.edu is our accredited online college integrated with the above services that provides courses in nonprofit management targeting the faith-based social services sector. Course materials are provided for free online under a creative commons license.

Projects like SETI@Home have showed that massive computational problems can be solved when a distributed group of people donate their computers’ spare CPUs to crunch data. This project will explore the possibility that this same theory can be applied to spare human “CPUs.” We believe that it will reveal a massive untapped capacity to do good by merging human location data with volunteer opportunity data. Since posting this project to Net2, we’ve heard from all kinds of people who want to help with the project! Some volunteer organizations (and related orgs who support them) have indicated that exporting their volunteer opportunity data to a common XML format is a real possibility. We propose to work with the community to define this common format so as to build a data-bridge across nonprofit volunteer organizations. So, this is the first piece of data. The second piece of data relates to the volunteer him or herself. It’s personal data about the volunteer: 1) The latitude and longitude of the volunteer (transmitted automatically via the volunteer’s mobile phone) 2) The statement of ‘here, now, and willing’ intent. In other words, the volunteer clicks “Volunteer Now!” at the moment when he or she is available and interested in volunteering. Harnessing this type of intent - these spare and "contributable" periods of time which interspese our lives - is really very hard without a mobile device.