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Grassroots.org Toolbox

Challenges Entered: 
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.

Location

Bethesda, MD
United States
Project Locations
Project Location: 
Bethesda, MD

Huichol Cultural Survival

Challenges Entered: 
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.

Location

Oakland, CA
United States
Project Locations
Project Location: 
Oakland, CA

Future 5000

Challenges Entered: 
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.

Location

Oakland, CA
United States
Project Locations
Project Location: 
Oakland, CA

Hear Our Pain Action Network

Challenges Entered: 
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.

Location

Chicago, IL
United States
Project Locations
Project Location: 
Chicago, IL

Sourcetree Commons: Geeking our way to a better world

Challenges Entered: 
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.

Location

Lakewood, CO
United States
Project Locations
Project Location: 
Lakewood, CO

Open Source, Open Standards Video

Challenges Entered: 
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.

Location

Worcester, MA
United States
Project Locations
Project Location: 
Worcester, MA

MicroMentor 2.0 - Social capital for microentrepreneurs

Challenges Entered: 
MicroMentor 2.0 is an online community connecting microentrepreneurs (low-income entrepreneurs growing very small businesses) with a network of volunteer business experts to help them build their businesses (think LinkedIn for the little guy).

An Anti-Genocide Community: Building the Political Will to End Genocide

Challenges Entered: 
Empowering anti-genocide activists with the tools for community-based education, user-generated content and strong shared connections, the anti-genocide community will pool the collective knowledge of a growing movement for change.

Location

Washington, DC
United States
Project Locations
Project Location: 
Washington, DC

Open Source Urban Tree Map

Challenges Entered: 
The Tree Map project is an open-source, web-based, tree-map that helps community-based tree organizations work with city agencies and the community to track, manage and quantify urban forest data, as well as calculate the environmental benefits.

Location

San Francisco , CA
United States
Project Locations
Project Location: 
San Francisco , CA

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