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Youth

Computers for youths

Challenges Entered: 
The service would be provided free to every underserve youth, only the parent's participation and input in their child's academics.

Location

Ehime Mbano
Nigeria
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Ehime Mbano

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
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Project Location: 
Lexington, MA

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
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Project Location: 
San Francisco, CA

Technology For Youth

Challenges Entered: 
This service is simply added to the present program. There is no extra charge, only the parent's participation and input in their child's academics.

Location

Miami, FL
United States
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Project Location: 
Miami, FL

Helping kids with a financial need in the motorsport world.

Challenges Entered: 
Our primary goal is to raise funds to assist children ages 5 to 18 involved in motor sports.  These funds provide equipment and cover other expenses to enable the children we sponsor to continue to compete in this exciting and challenging sport.  Every child deserves to be able to compete in their selected sport, regardless of their economic means. The average cost per child per year to be competitively involved in racing is $10,000.00; many can not afford to compete without assistance.  In this day and age, encouraging children to do something positive is of increasing importance.  A sport is one mechanism to provide the focus, discipline and self-esteem so many children need today.

Location

keller, TX
United States
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Project Location: 
keller, TX

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
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Project Location: 
Los Angeles, CA

Speaker Match

Challenges Entered: 
Ability for teachers to find and discover professionals from the industry based on school subjects, keywords, speaking availability, and geographical location. Ability for industry professionals to find and discover speaking engagements at schools based on school subjects, their professional expertise/background, geographical location, and available times.

Location

san francisco, CA
United States
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Project Location: 
san francisco, CA

Geogad Mobile Tours

Challenges Entered: 
With the new Web 2.0 and mobile communication and electronic tools, a traveler can take their own multimedia tour guide with them. How this works: Travelers can search Google Maps for tours and tour stops across the world.Tags associated with the multimedia tour stops help travelers focus on the subjects that are of most interest to the them. Fellow travelers can rate the tour stops and can add their own tags to help identify them for other travelers.Local people can upload multimedia tour stops about the history of local areas. Geogad will give them a chance to reach out to travelers and explain why their homes are definitely worth a visit.Ways to get the tour:The tour itself can be streamed from the Geogad website.For the more mobile travel, the tour can be uploaded to a portable media player to be viewed at the traveler's leisure when at the location. For travelers with access to the Internet on their phones, the tour stop video clips and audio/photo slide shows can be streamed directly to their phones. For phones with GPS capability, the traveler could spontaneously search for tour stops that are close to their location and are of interest to them.

Location

Santa Clara, CA
United States
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Project Location: 
Santa Clara, CA

Youth Action for Change (YAC)

Challenges Entered: 
Thanks to YAC online training courses and the above-mentioned programs, not only will hundreds of young people from all over the world have the chance to acquire new skills and bring about positive changes locally, they will most importantly be able to share their perscpetives and concerns at the UN and globally, hone their skills and become witnesses and speakers for the plights of their peers and communities. To be able to engage a global audience in young people’s projects and struggles, YAC will train young people to produce videos, podcasts, vodcasts, interviews and much more to showcase their work and projects. At the same time, it will provide them with interactive online tools to help them advance their ideas and initiatives. Global audiences will also be able to fully pertake by getting further information and materials by young people themselves, and will have the chance to engage in their work and help them in several ways, online.

Location

Mezzago, MI
Italy
Project Locations
Project Location: 
Mezzago, MI

Alchemlist

Challenges Entered: 
Alchemlist will merge information provided by thousands of non-profits with proven geolocation and mapping technology. Non-profits will provide the information on who they are, what their purpose is, who they serve, and (most importantly) what they need. Visitors to Alchemlist will provide information on what they have and where they are located.Users can search for specific items/categories of items they have to donate and find a nearby non-profit that needs them.Users can search for non-profits in their geographic area and see what items they currently needUsers will be able to see a map of non-profitsIn the future they will also be able to search for non-profits by category (Youth, etc) A Facebook application is also being developed that will allow people to see a map of non-profits near them. Non-profits with Urgent Needs are indicated with a different symbol. Leveraging Facebook's social networking capabilities with Alchemlist's non-profit wishlist compilation, people will be able to immediately communicate with each other and work together to help those in need In the next phase, users will be able to participate in a scavenger hunts feature where they can join teams and gather items for non-profits. Individuals and teams will be able to set goals, score points, and compete.

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