February 14th is the last day to vote as a member of Changemakers' online community in the 8th Changemakers collaborative competition, "Entrepreneuring Peace: Innovations in Managing Group Conflict."  11 finalists were chosen out of 158 organizations from 42 countries.

Changemakers is a project of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public.

The process they use to find and judge the projects allows for transparency and community input along the way:

"Competition entries are posted transparently online and available for anyone to view and collaborate with by providing new ideas, asking insightful questions, and providing connections to new resources. The collaboration provides the competitor information to be used in refining their entry until the entry deadline, meaning the earlier you apply the more you gain.

Collaborative competitions last roughly 3½ months and begin with the creation of a Mosaic of Solutions. Entries are accepted for roughly 11 weeks. In the following three weeks judges select approximately 12 finalists. In the last 2 weeks the Changemakers community votes for 3 winners that each receives $5,000. During the entire competition period the exposure entries receive leads to a series of collaborations that have included multi-national companies replicated entries in new countries, entries connection to new donors, and entrants forming partnerships."