Congregation-Based Community Organizations create public meetings to leverage social change. To win hard issues grassroots leaders must engage more people to build larger events.

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 Grassroots.org Toolbox will empower nonprofit organizations by granting free access to a suite of fully configured & hosted online tools, including content management, online event registration software, and CRM.

The Huichol Indians are intact as a pre-hispanic people, but their cultural survival is in peril. Much hard work has taken place to protect this universal treasure, yet time is running out for the Huichols. We must increase our efforts now.

Walden III is an academic experiment that would explore whether Virtual Worlds, such as Second Life, can better facilitate the exchange of cultural artifacts across borders more harmoniously and equitably than the real world.

Future 5000 is the largest online directory and network of progressive youth groups in the country. It is designed to strengthen our networks, maximize our resources and leverage community power.

Edvolution, beginning with the issue of Education Reform, hopes to change the habits of uninformed voters. Using collaborative/social networking tools, we want to make learning about issues easier for typical voters.

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.

To develop better social software, we must use these very tools in the communities that are building them. We leverage social software to amplify the creative power of geeks and provide increased resources, efficiency, feedback and support.

Maps 2.0, a collaboration already under way, will launch the first online resource for nonprofit and humanitarian organizations to share best practices in geographic information systems (GIS) and digital mapping tools.