NetSquared enables social benefit organizations to leverage the tools of the social web.

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Stop Family Violence

Voting Summary (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.

Type of expertise needed: 
Technical Expertise

NEAR TERM: help us determine open source options vs. custom build. ONGOING: advice on state of the art server, website and user security features since our members are at high risk of cyberstalking.

Type of expertise needed: 
Marketing/Media Expertise

NEAR TERM: Develop collateral materials to market our new website. In-kind gifts for printing, mailing. ONGOING: Identify strategies to increase site visibility. Corporate sponsors for advertising to help drive traffic to our site.

Type of expertise needed: 
Other

~ Program evaluation to assess social change
~ Mobilizing from online to community activism
~ Building engaged online community
~ Message development and dealing with backlash
~ Financial support, planning
~ Board members

Submitted by Stop Family Violence on April 7, 2007 - 1:59pm

PulseWire: Connecting women to transform our world.

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch): 
We envision PulseWire as an electrifying new tool with the power to unleash the transformative potential of women’s and girl’s voices ─ at a time when empowering women is recognized as the most effective way to solve global problems.
Submitted by jensine on April 7, 2007 - 1:54pm

Games for Change

Voting Summary (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.
Submitted by SuzanneSeg on April 7, 2007 - 1:27pm

100 Innovators - the world's most important story has started to unfold

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch): 

This decade, the impacts of leading social entrepreneurs will explode. It's the world's most important story, and Innovatorz.org will tell it. We produce and distribute killer online media for award winning social entrepreneurs.

Type of expertise needed: 
Management Expertise
We need a startup guru for advice on project management, fund raising (goal: $200K), business planning. Guidance from people who've been through this process.
Type of expertise needed: 
Technical Expertise
Our platform is built on Wordpress MU. We need the assistance of a PHP coder with expertise in the Wordpress platform and someone with expertise in server administration.
Type of expertise needed: 
Marketing/Media Expertise
We want to create as much visibility as possible for the social innovators we work with and the niche online media properties we create. We have a marketing plan, but we would love the input of an online marketing/buzz creating genius.
Technology Vision: 

We want to make it dead simple for social entrepreneurs to integrate amazing online media into their sites and to find an audience interested in their stories. Our media platform is built on Wordpress MU, SimplePie RSS, and a variety of web services like Amazon S3. We use a process called “assisted podcasting” to enable even the least tech saavy, busiest social innovator to tell their personal story online by recording podcasts with their ordinary telephone.

We are developing a system enabling organizations to not only create their own content for their web sites, but to simultaneously pull in relevant feeds and stories from other organizations and sites.

Submitted by jessep on April 6, 2007 - 12:08pm

Innocence Project Learning Center

Voting Summary (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.
Submitted by mkelley on April 6, 2007 - 12:05pm

Digital Divide Data's project: A networking resource for disadvantaged people in Cambodia and Laos

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch): 
DDD provides socially responsible outsourcing services to clients and creates better futures for our employees in Cambodia and Laos. DDD will build an online forum for our graduates as a way to provide ongoing networking and growth opportunties.
Submitted by bryn on April 6, 2007 - 11:59am

Huichol Cultural Survival

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch): 
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.
Submitted by Rich Reader on April 6, 2007 - 11:58am

Venture Outdoors: The GO Guide - Linking the Community to all Things Outside

Voting Summary (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.
Submitted by devitol on April 6, 2007 - 11:56am

Hear Our Pain Action Network

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch): 
People are fed up with quality/availability of communications services. Markets and policymakers fail to listen. We aggregate data/public pain across media/telecom services, and provide means for that pain to put weight on levers of power.
Submitted by MichaelMaranda on April 6, 2007 - 11:48am

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