Givvy is a comprehensive online giving management system launching in early June. This is a real project with a dedicated team working without funding at this point.

Charitiable giving is personally and emotionally rewarding. By providing a framework and set of tools to improve the way we support our causes, Givvy users will feel more satisfied and successful with their giving.

Givvy is a system to enable donors to accomplish the following:

1. easily create and manage their giving plan
2. research over 1 million charities/nonprofits
3. execute their giving (donate thorugh Network for Good) and track donations made via other methods (mail, phone, etc.)
4. analyze their giving footprint - what types of charities, what geographic reach, how close their actual giving is to their plan, etc.

At Givvy we believe that better tools for giving can result in a better world.

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.

Young Racers of America was created simply due to the need of so many children that have a passion to participate in motorsports. Some children dream of playing Pro-football or Baseball when they grow up.  They see their favorite player out there playing the game.  They join the local little leagues and practice hard, they grow up and get scholarships and play in college and pray they make it pro.  Now what is the difference between the children who want to play ball compared to the child who wants to race?   Non-profit corporations that will help make their dreams come true.  Just about every sport or performing arts division has a financial support system to help them along the way; racing was left for those whose families had money, or connections.  We wanted to help

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

The scores from the 2006 Program for International Student Assessment showed that U.S. 15-year-olds trailed their peers from many industrialized countries. The U.S. students were further behind in math and science, trailing counterparts in 23 countries. How are our children going to be able to compete with the children of the world? The answer is not well. In addition, we are not graduating enough students with the necessary skills to sustain and improve our economy. We really need to get our kids to be inspired about subjects like math and science early as possible.

This is where Speaker Match comes in. Speaker Match is an online service to help teachers discover and invite professionals from the industry to speak at their classrooms. For example, a highschool instructor teaching algebra can use Speaker Match to invite game designer or NASA scientist to speak about their career and how they use algebra for their work. Getting the students excited about their studies and what they could do with it - is the primary goal of Speaker Match. Success our economy and society will depend on it.

Travel destroys prejudice and expands tolerance. Travelers are pushed outside of their comfort zones and exposed to different ways of living. Local people get economic opportunities and a stage by which they can continue to develop and share their unique culture with others.

As the Internet provides more links directly between individuals, travelers can find more detailed information on places, but searching for this information is still time consuming. The latest Web 2.0 tools can help travelers find information down to the smallest street corner.

Why this matters:

As the world gets smaller, it seems everything is becoming the same. But if you dive a little deeper, every place is unique and has its own story to tell. Short of hiring a local guide, you might never find this out. Greater understanding of others and their view of the world is vital to achieving peace as the world becomes smaller.

For example, in the first few days after Hurricane Katrina, people from outside the New Orleans area were suggesting that New Orleans not be rebuilt. To the residents of New Orleans, this is unthinkable. The people of New Orleans can use the tools that Geogad provides to help others see beyond the current damage and to virtually tour the city that they love and are rebuilding.

Background:

1. People love to travel and to learn about new places. As vacations get shorter and free time disappears, people don't have time to research the local histories of the places that they visit.

2. Travelers have limited time and cannot always meet the scheduling constraints of organized tour group. These mass-marketed tours may waste a traveler's time with places that do not fit their interests.

3. Local people have a wealth knowledge about their homes and favorite places but are not easy for travelers to find.

What Geogad Mobile Tours will do:

1. Create a tool for travelers and local people to share information on a very detailed level on a location-by-location basis.

2. Let travelers share and rate information on individual tour stops that influenced them with others.

3. Build a community to share the local histories of places with the people across the world.

YAC is a global, youth-led organisation harnessing the power of ICTs to inspire and empower young people worldwide to become active changemakers in their own communities.

Since 2005, YAC has been offering young people in over 120 countries worldwide free online courses on a vast array of subjects – so as to equip them with the knowledge, tools and skills they need to design and implement youth-driven community development projects.

As of now, YAC has empowered over 1,000 young people, mainly in developing countries and economies in transition.

Thanks to our online courses, young people have been able to reach out to their communities and empower them, have successfully lobbied for local policies, have created new organisations and socially-minded businesses and above all, have gained self-confidence and a renewed hope and understanding that everyone can ‘be the change they want to see in the world’.

To be able to help young people worldwide even more, YAC is currently planning for three new and exciting projects that should: 1. help young people speak up for themselves and their communities at the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, 2. organise initiatives and programs thanks to a brand-new, fully interactive website with innovative features and 3. help young people from conflict areas share their perspectives and story.

Alchemlist will make donating (stuff) as easy as item, zip, search while creating and expanding community around donation. People will discover non-profits that exist in their own communities, perhaps right next door, that they never knew existed, become aware of their needs, and be inspired to take action to help meet those needs.

Non-profits (especially small non-profits) will receive increased donation of in-kind items and greater visibility that leads not only to donations but to more volunteers and monetary donations as well. The site will help raise awareness about all the non-profits working in our communities and their needs as well as the issues that they formed to address so that we can help ease the needs of our neighbors.

Alchemlist will help save landfill space (and closet space!) as people find homes for items they would have thrown in the trash or gathered dust in their home.

A greater sense of community and altruism will be fostered.

Youth may enter this site angry or depressed but they will leave feeling great because it will be the only site on the web that only has images, photos, videos and stories that are positive and uplifting. The web is the one place where you can abandond the "bleeds it leads" mentality and be successful at attracting millions of viewers or vistors.

After youth experience this site they will be more constructive and less destructive. Violence will decline and caring will increase. Today's young will grow to be the empathic adults of tomorrow and that will change the world.