NetSquared enables social benefit organizations to leverage the tools of the social web.

net2 updates

Building community in your area? Check out the newly-launched Community Organizers Handbook! Everything you need to start and grow a NetSquared Local group or any other community-powered program.

Human Rights

Against Seniors Discrimination

Challenges Entered: 
We need to create a new way of  business opportunities to provide a source of employment for people that cannot access the local employment market due ¿age discrimination.  Ww will need to retrain this people to live according the times in this way people will be still productive for our nation. Peruvian elderly population is going to increase in the next three years to be over 12% of the total population that it is actually over 28 Millions.

Location

Lima, LI
Peru
Project Locations
Project Location: 
Lima, LI

Givvy - Giving Management + Network for Good

Challenges Entered: 
We are mashing up IRS data on 1.4m charities, user reviews and ratings, wiki pages for each charity, and more. In addition, we are joining this data to merchant-funded rebate malls to generate donations through shopping, auction services and more.

Location

Lexington, MA
United States
Project Locations
Project Location: 
Lexington, MA

Here Are Those Who Care

Challenges Entered: 
Our current campaign is to save the kindergarten of Al Aqabah (our earliest project) and its village. When newcomers join this campaign, we would like to show them a web-based map of others in their congressional district who have registered and invite them into a discussion forum. People will be interacting with our staff, with those directly involved with the cause there on the ground, with other constituents who are concerned with the village, and possibly with others nationwide or worldwide who want to help develop a particular idea or aspect of the case. They’ll use a web interface that includes event management and constituent mapping in each congressional district to gain a sense of how we all fit together. We use “Contact Congress Teleconferences” to link constituents with the people directly involved and senior staffers for their senators and representatives. Below is a film we made in 2004 about Al Aqabah, when it seemed as if an "eastern wall" was the reason for the mass demolition order.

Location

Palo Alto, CA
United States
Project Locations
Project Location: 
Palo Alto, CA

Network for Good & Google Maps Donation Mashup

Challenges Entered: 
As with any Google Map, all the "bubbles" will be clickable to show detailed information.

Location

San Francisco, CA
United States
Project Locations
Project Location: 
San Francisco, CA

Every Human Has Rights

Challenges Entered: 
People will have the opportunity to contribute their own stories to our website, which will be added to our Every Human Has Rights world map. They'll also have opportunities to interact with the various campaign partners (that have already joined, and that will join througout the year), to stand up for their re-affirmed beliefs.

Akha Project

Challenges Entered: 
political activism, documentation, spreading the word

Location

Salem, OR
United States
Project Locations
Project Location: 
Salem, OR

Map This!

Challenges Entered: 
HealthyCity.org currently offers users access to over 120 demographic and community characteric variables, from 9 different data sources. Our data and sources are described in detail at: http://www.healthycity.org/c/help/sc/indicator. For the proposed national service, some of the California-specific data sources may not be available nationally (such as data from the California Health Interview Survey or from the WIC program), but their functions may be replaced by other data sets. There are a number of health and economic data that state and federal offices use that are only available at the county level (so they cannot be displayed on our current site); offering a national view will make comparisons and disparities between counties and states accessible to users. Users will be able to:- Upload their own data sets- Overlay data points on top of demographic and other data- Map and analyze data within a radius around an address, or within a ZIP code, city, legislative districts or other jurisdictions- View core demographic and other data for the selected geography in tables and charts- View assets, such as schools, parks, fire and police stations, on an interactive map, with types of service (identified by icons)- Identify information about assets or service providers by scrolling over their icons- Cut and analyze data by over 60 demographic, health and other indicators

Location

Los Angeles, CA
United States
Project Locations
Project Location: 
Los Angeles, CA

Anti-Genocide Action Tracker: Genocide Scores for Every Legislator and State

Challenges Entered: 
GenocideScores.org would provide four main assets to the anti-genocide community: Aggregate anti-genocide data. Not only records on Darfur legislation, but on any anti-genocide bills relating to our areas of concern, or recognition of historical genocides such as in Armenia. Each state would also display its status on divestment and genocide education. Subsequent campaigns could also be added.Clear illustrations of legislative status. Instead of simply being an entry on a scorecard, each bill would have its own graphical timeline, and members would be able to track progress of a bill through e-mail alerts or RSS feeds.Most importantly, cross-indexing, allowing specific alerts to be generated for members based on location. When a bill is coming up for a vote in Congress and a senator from Connecticut is the key vote, Connecticut members automatically receive an alert. When a divestment or genocide education rally is planned at the Nevada statehouse, all Nevadans on the site know about it. This information — where geographical power lies in each case — is viewable on the bill's timeline, so members can notify their friends in CT or NV of the need to take action.Finally, embeddable badges to allow people to display the current genocide score of their state and district.

Location

Washington, DC
United States
Project Locations
Project Location: 
Washington, DC

The Disappeared

Challenges Entered: 
1. Google Maps/ Earth*Incidences of disappearances 2. EPAF Information Sources: * EPAF's database of ante-mortem data for missing persons. This has documented and verifiable information on people who went missing * EPAF's spreadsheet of information on the missing.* Records (hardcopy files) on government activities during the time frame specified. There is a need for EPAF staff members to still comb through mountains of files to get data that is then used to collaborate information on the missing people. * Information from accredited sources (e.g. the Peru Registry of Victims etc.) with information on locations of places of alleged atrocities and where specific people are thought to have been disappeared.3. Visitors to the Website: *Information on places/ locations providing support to the families of people who were disappeared.*An interactive forum where people could provide information and stories of the missing (if possible). 

Location

Lima & Ayacucho
Peru
Project Locations
Project Location: 
Lima & Ayacucho

OneWorld Connect

Challenges Entered: 
People will be able to create a My OneWorld page with a dynamic world map that allows people to easily select the countries in which they are interested. They will also be able to select issues that interest them. Whenever a new article is published about a country or issue that interests them, they will be able to sign up to receive it via email, rss or sms. Oneworld currently has more than 400,000 articles published in 12 languages. They will also be able to share their stories about global issues and find out how they can get involved.

Location

Washington, DC
United States
Project Locations
Project Location: 
Washington, DC

User login

Sponsors

  • Microsoft
  • Yahoo
  • Business Objects
  • Raincity Studios
  • Mozilla Foundation
  • Ready Talk
  • .
  • Adobe
  • Linden Lab
  • Network For Good
  • Wild Apricot
  • Stanford Social Innovation Review
  • L'Atelier North America
  • The Panelist
  • Good
  • Fora.tv
Partner with Net2
An initiative of TechSoup Global

Sitemap