This is a simple mashup using Network for Good’s donation API, with a particular focus on enhancing the donor experience with a virtualization of recent donations.

The NFG API mashed-up with a Google map would show all donations made to specific causes (by location) for a given time period over a US or World map.

This could be used on the homepage of Network for Good - to inspire others based on the action currently taking place.

Under the Youth Leadership program, Technology for Youth aims to close the gap in terms of education and opportunities. In areas where 50% of families do not own a personal computer in their homes, we hope that by establishing a computer center for youths in our community and utilizing educational software this would enhance learning and youth interest in technology.

The Nonprofits of the SF Bay and Silicon Valley become better networked and informed of like-minded people and groups they might not have been aware of, right in their area. Promote local organizations that really make a difference and how you can help.

Today Grameen Phone has more than 10 million subscribers, connects 100 million people through 250,000 phone ladies, who buy phones on microloans from the Grameen Bank and lease air time to villagers to make a living after paying off their loans. Today a phone lady earns on an average $750 a year, which is double the average annual income of a Bangladeshi. Grameen Phone has revenues of $1 billion and annual profits of $200 million.

Despite the success of microfinance around the world, nearly two billion people still lack access to financial services. In several countries, technology approaches are emerging that have the potential to bring financial services to those that microfinance has found difficult to reach up to now. Brazil’s banks use 90,000 electronic terminals in retail outlets as a low-cost channel for hard-to-reach areas. Millions of people in the Philippines receive remittances and make purchases using their mobile phones. Banks in India are sharing their technology platforms with microfinance institutions (MFIs) to expand their product range and reduce costs. Mobile technologies can be used to serve those without access to formal financial services.

Mobiles will be the PC for the people who don’ t have the resources to get computers and connect to the Net. Some 70-80% of poor consumers in the world are still without mobile phones, but millions of subscribers are added each year as the price of handsets drops and coverage expands.

Research by the London Business School has shown that 10 phones per 100 people add 0.6% to the GDP of a country and the United Nations estimates that 0.6% growth cuts poverty by 1.2%. 4 billion people living on less than $2 at the bottom of the pyramid. A recently report estimates that these 4 billion people in poverty are a $5 trillion market.

Our inspiration is the notable story of Grameen Phone. The project will provide rural families in the Andes of Peru with access to microfinancial services in their communities for the first time. The project will in particular employ an extremely economical open source technology for cellphones, " OpenMoko ", which support all Web2.0 services and an unique, cost-efficient and effective way to deliver, commercialize and financing these services.

By seeing an animated model of a changing world, people will better apprehend their context and the context of others.

Our mashup links an interactive map generators, our own and google earth and others, with bulk statistics on a wide range of issues. At our site, we host videos and snapshots of 3D interaction with the mapped data, AND we output KML files that load easily into Google Earth and other geobrowsers. As such, we are a multipurpose bridge between statistics and mapping environments, and by connecting these two domains will improve understanding of local and global concerns.

In regrad to the Net Squared community in particular, all NGO Issue advocates will have a new top-notch tool for drawing attention to their causes. By supporting their concerns with relevant data AND by making it easy to absorb the data, their issues will recieve more attention. For example, when looking at life-expectancy in Africa, and then seeing it drop during the genocide in Rwanda, and again as AIDS spread through the south, viewers will apprehend the gravity of these issues much better than if they only hear numbers or see tables.

The same impact can usefully be applied to charting changing unemployment patterns or crime statistics in a city and countless other issues. Our team is keen to work with the Net Squared community, to serve as a bridge for them, to bring in and forge connection to whatever data they are interested in seeing. We are presently providing access to the data of many international organizations and also have brought in data for neighborhoods and cities across the US. We are eager to expand our data offerings and have automated tools for creating connections to new sources.

A global wealth mashup would help students and people from various countries understand and visualize the disparity in wealth among countries and cities around the world. Often, people recite statistics about the US being in the top X percent in terms of per capita wealth globally- (generally a figure around 1%) with most other countries lagging far behind. Hearing this statistic is compelling, but seeing it would be compelling in a very different way, and would allow for easier comparisons. For educational purposes, I'd love to see a mashup that takes per capita income by country and city (info available from many sources) and 'color codes' that on a Google map or Google earth map. A country view would show the average per capita income by country for comparison globally- (shades of green from darkest green as wealthiest to white for the poorest countries) and then users could zoom in to a country to see how wealth changes across a countries regions and by city. Users could also input 2 country or city pairs to compare two places to each other, adjusted in a specific currency. Why? I think seeing regions with vast swatches of white, and only pinpoints of green, would help people understand the disparity of wealth across regions better than a list of countries and numbers, which are often just listed alphabetically.

By some counts, there are more than 18,000 civil society nonprofits/NGOs registered in Lebanon, but only a fraction of them are actually operational. Information about where they’re working, their funders, their successes, and their grantees is often hard to find. The lack of organization of and access to this data not only reinforces rampant corruption but also makes it difficult for donors and volunteers to find partners to whom they are willing to contribute funds or time. In addition, there is a lot of overlap between NGOs. Our mashup would help identify areas of redundancy and neglect, render them visually, and become a call to action to distribute resources accordingly.

There is nothing like this in Lebanon, or perhaps the world? If we were able to realise our concept, it could become a model for other countries in similar circumstances and/or link into a global network.

What is the state of social and economic justice where you live? This project will inform people on several measures of social and economic justice in their area. It will help them to see that some problems they are having are part of a larger societal issues and to connect with others with similar or related problems. The social and economic justice indicators will include:

* Housing Affordability: income vs. rents/housing costs
* Health Care Accessibility: number of uninsureds/underinsureds
* Jobs: unemployment, trends in wages, unionization,
* Income Inequality: trends in share of total income received by the top earners, middle class, and lower income.
* Race, Gender, and Age disparities in the above.
* User-posted stories about issues they are facing in the communities or at work.

Hundreds of environmental organizations will be able to collaborate, add/see/utilize each other's posted environmental events from all over the world.

Work has already begun and well on its way, but we need a programmers to implement certain features.

We have found over 100 event calendars so far (and are still receiving an average of 1-2 per day) and contacted many of them. It is very difficult for an event planner to submit to so many calendars, as well as people looking for events needing to search many calendars. We aim to allow one submission which will spread to all calendars/social networks/websites/widgets to easily find events. All organizations will spend less time inputing events, approving events, and finding events.

Events will be spread virally across the internet to spread awareness of local events which showcase events, workshops, classes, film festivals, conferences, etc. Those events bring awareness to environmental efforts and education for protecting and enhancing nature and the environment around us.

This all includive calendar will also allow event registration, social networking around the events, carpooling to events, and a place to share photography/video of the events.

Thousands of communities will be able to access data and map resources in their neighborhoods quickly, easily and at no cost to them. Advocates and service providers will be able to use a high-quality, well-designed, reliable platform for uploading data of their choosing and mapping that data against a wide range of demographic data, area resources, and other variables. This project will also allow nonprofit and community advocates across the U.S. to share and learn from each other how they can better use the power of mapping to advocate for and inform change. Not least, communities will be spared countless hours of effort and scarce dollars trying to build such tools from scratch, enabling them to focus more on the important work of finding the right data locally and interacting with people and organizations in their communities. The goal of our project is to make the public functionality of HealthyCity.org, the mapping tool we developed to serve Los Angeles, available throughout the U.S., free of charge, to nonprofit and community organizations. We believe this can be done in a fairly cost-effective and sustainable way, and we are looking for good thinking on how best to do it.
Examples of how Healthy City has worked in Los Angeles include:
- Mapping of overcrowded, multi-track calendar schools, to support a proposal of $25 billion in school construction bonds approved by California voters
- Analysis of areas of highest need for preschool facilities in Los Angeles, leading to over $100 million commitment of funds to develop preschool space
- Mapping of violent crimes and analysis of prevalence of gang crime, to identify priority areas for the City of Los Angeles
- Mapping the mismatch between concentrations of homeless people and availability of shelter space
- Grants analysis for foundations, including determining the location of grantees, the dimensions of their service areas (with information gathered by survey), and the magnitude of grant dollars relative to target population in grantees’ service areas