Do you have hands-on expertise, products and services that you would like to share with an innovator who is using the Web for social impact?

We have over 150 projects proposals for you to choose from. Although we were only able to have 21 Featured Projects go to the NetSquared Conference, there are many other amazing nominated projects that need your support.

Over the next couple weeks we'll be highlighting nominated projects in regions within, and outside the US, in the hope that you will find one near you to help out. If you need assistance connecting with a project, contact Billy Bicket at bbicket@compumentor.org.

NOMINATED PROJECTS IN THE NORTHEASTERN US
Connecticut (1), Maine (1), Massachusetts (7), New Jersey (1), New Hampshire, New York (20), Pennsylvania (3), Rhode Island, and Vermont.

Connecticut

CT EarthNet Empowering Community-based Environmental Management
Elevator Pitch: CT EarthNet empowers a grassroots groundswell led by community groups in Connecticut that is known to hold great promise for resolving urgent issues such as sprawl, air and water quality, conservation and environmental education.

Maine

Idealware Nonprofit Software Knowledge Sharing Initiative
Elevator Pitch: We will use collaborative communication tools to understand the extensive software knowledge that already exists among nonprofit software practitioners and then publish it in summary articles that compare the available software tools.

Massachusetts

Building a Community of Modern Abolitionists

Elevator Pitch: Abolition Central will be home to the growing community of abolitionists fighting modern day slavery. It will combine the best practices of the physical world’s social organizations with the best community building/social networking tools.

Dropping Knowledge
Elevator Pitch: Dropping knowledge is participatory democracy and idea generation for the 21st century.

Hub Software
Elevator Pitch: Hub Software is free. Installation, if required, is cheap. Update regional human services information with community emailing, build more listings for referrals -- see MVHub.com for searchability.

Making Connections -- Bringing Rural and Urban Students Together
Elevator Pitch: Our project connects students from urban and rural school districts through a Weblog-based writing space with the goal of creating an online community of learners empathetic to the experiences of others.

Neighbor to Neighbor: Embedding Citizen Journalists
Elevator Pitch: The Neighbor to Neighbor project will embed citizen journalists throughout our city to create media seeking to broaden civic engagement. By utilizing technology in innovative ways, the project has the potential to serve as a model nationwide.

Open Source, Open Standards Video (N2Y2 Featured Project and Second Place Award Winner)
Elevator Pitch: We are to Google, AOL and YouTube what public television is to the big networks. We are a nonprofit, fully open source and open standards, dedicated to creating the next Firefox of web video.

The CTC VISTA Project
Elevator Pitch: The CTC VISTA Project—the most popular program in AmeriCorps' online recruitment system—coordinates the recruitment, placement, training, and support of VISTAs (domestic Peace Corps volunteers) in nonprofits using technology to help poor people

New Jersey

Media Saves the Day
Elevator Pitch: "Media Saves The Day" aspires to be an online community connecting volunteer creative arts and media talent with non-profits in need of these services, and to inspire schools to incorporate non-profit related projects into their creative courses.

New York

A New Reality - Changing the World One Play and One Artist at a Time
Elevator Pitch: Race, age, ethnicity, gender or disability don't matter. Artists with talent should work. With us they do and find a home. We mesh artists of all kinds for a new reality in theatre.

freeFormed
Elevator Pitch: Use your phone, document your life, don't make friends, make circles.

Games for Change
Elevator Pitch: Dubbed an early “Sundance of Video Games”, G4C is an exciting new activist movement and supporting non-profit dedicated to using games for positive social change.

GiveWell: The World's First Transparent Grantmaker
Elevator Pitch: Grantmaking with the doors open. Our website will make THOROUGH analysis of charities (the kind now exclusive to foundations) usable to all donors, large and small – and open the dialogue on how best to improve the world to anyone with an opinion.

Globaloria: Empowering Youth Worldwide to Create and Collaborate Online
Elevator Pitch: The Globaloria Program uses virtual and scalable edu-social networks-comprised of programmable websites and related Wikis and Blogs–to teach young people from underserved communities how to take control of their new-media world.

HIV Collaborative Fund
Elevator Pitch: Shouldn't people living with AIDS be involved in figuring out how AIDS money is spent? We raise the money. People living with HIV/AIDS around the world decide where the money goes through a process relying on social networking and technology.

HungerMaps
Elevator Pitch: 35.1 mil Americans face hunger and food insecurity. HungerMaps fuses new visualization and collaborative technology with the wisdom of advocates, transforming local data into a national portrait of needs and resources as the basis for direct action.

iEARN (International Education and Resource Network
Project Summary (partial): iEARN (International Education and Resource Network) is a non-profit that works to connect schools and youth organizations via email, web and video technologies, in order to empower young people to connect classroom learning with real world issues, and to work collaboratively to find solutions to these issues.

iMentor - iPower eMentoring Platform
Elevator Pitch: An online social network designed exclusively for non-profits, iPower allows any organization to add mentoring to what they do or to enhance their mentoring programs. Now in use with over 1,500 participants, iPower is preparing for national roll-out.

Innocence Project Learning Center
Elevator Pitch: Our new interactive learning center will raise awareness among young people about wrongful convictions and DNA testing by providing them with a set of web-based tools including Flash animations and videos to create mulitmedia classroom presentations.

International Network of Victims of Terrorism and War
Elevator Pitch: The INVTW seeks to unite victims of political violence, war and terrorism to amplify the voices of victims speaking out for nonviolence and to create grassroots structures which support a culture of peace and common security.

Low-Cost, Shared GIS Resource for Advocates
Elevator Pitch: Create an easy to use template and engine that will lower the cost and technological barriers that advocates face in using GIS in their issue activism.

OpenPlans.org
Elevator Pitch: OpenPlans is a free, hosted, and integrated suite of web-based tools intended to give active citizens the resources they need to organize virtually to effect real world change.

Share Your Story: an online community for NICU families
Elevator Pitch: Share Your Story is an online community created by the March of Dimes for families of premature babies who are or have been in a NICU. It is a place where parents can come and know others will truly understand what they are going through

SITI Company's Extended Ensemble
Elevator Pitch: SITI believes ensemble theater is an ideal context for bridging virtual and “real” worlds. SITI’s Extended Ensemble (SEE) is an online tool for building and strengthening a collaborative, international community of artists and audiences.

Stop Family Violence (N2Y2 Featured Project)
Elevator Pitch: Stop Family Violence will use Web 2.0 technologies to empower local programs, enhance information sharing, help people find the services they need, promote local leadership, and coordinate activism that will keep women and children safe.

The Hub
Elevator Pitch: Imagine a MySpace meets You Tube for human rights - an online destination where global citizens could learn the strategies and access the tools they needed to use their visual documentation of abuses to create community action and change.

the REAL hot 100
Elevator Pitch: The REAL hot 100 is a grassroots media project that recognizes and celebrates young women who are working to make the world a better place and provides the resources and networking necessary to help these remarkable women succeed.

WOW: The Wonder of 'WE'
Elevator Pitch: Teams stuck in their thinking or limited in their impact can visit a one-of-its-kind web site. Here team members can engage in self-guided exercises that will refresh their vision regarding how best to grow their impact together and with others.

YouthAssets - Connecting the World's Most Vulnerable Youth (N2Y2 Featured Project)
Elevator Pitch: YouthAssets will develop a web-based knowledge management tool that utilizes the latest mapping technologies and collaboration tools to enable youth and their supporters to share critical information about and for HIV/AIDS orphans in Southern Africa.

Pennsylvania

Big Brothers Big Sisters: Going to SCALE Using Agency Info Mgt System (N2Y2 Featured Project)
Elevator Pitch: AIM replaces a network of incompatible systems with a single, web-based system. This allows our 450 agencies to go-to-scale using a true work-flow system with powerful performance management capabilities.

GreatNonprofits
Elevator Pitch: Online "Zagat" guide to nonprofits

Venture Outdoors: The GO Guide - Linking the Community to all Things Outside
Elevator Pitch: The Great Outdoors Guide is the focal point for a comprehensive outdoor recreation campaign. The GO Guide allows nonprofits to post content to a shared central source, and allows users to access content from any participating organization's website.
Photo Credit: Fall in Vermont by Zdenek Svoboda