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A Citizen Meeting for Justice with Local Faith Communities. R.S.V.P.

Challenges Entered: 
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.

Location

Cincinnati (demonstration project site), OH
United States
Project Locations
Project Location: 
Cincinnati (demonstration project site), OH

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

Challenges Entered: 
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.

Location

Battambang & Phnom Penh, Cambodia & Vientiane, Laos
United States
Project Locations
Project Location: 
Battambang & Phnom Penh, Cambodia & Vientiane, Laos

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

NiJeL: Community impact through mapping – Harnessing the local knowledge of refugees

Challenges Entered: 
Refugees spend valuable time searching for nearby services and a social network. NiJeL will create an interactive mapping tool to give refugees and their providers a valuable baseline of spatial data and allow refugees to map their new communities.

Location

Tempe, AZ
United States
Project Locations
Project Location: 
Tempe, AZ

Dropping Knowledge

Challenges Entered: 
dropping knowledge is participatory democracy and idea generation for the 21st century.

Location

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

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

The World Café GiGis (Girl Geeks) Project

Challenges Entered: 
The GiGi’s project applies understanding of social networks, community development, and online technologies, to enable the World Café global network to become increasingly self-organizing, self-sustaining on behalf of life affirming futures.

Location

Mill Valley, CA
United States
Project Locations
Project Location: 
Mill Valley, CA

Grow Link

Challenges Entered: 
Grow Link is a social marketplace to host wholesale-direct trades between regional farmers and food buyers. It will enable traceable product aggregation and distribution, through both existing distributors and contracted logistics providers.

Location

Portland, OR
United States
Project Locations
Project Location: 
Portland, OR

xigi.net

Challenges Entered: 
Think of xigi (ziggy) as the Bloomberg of the emerging capital market for good. It provides news, research, analytical tools and due diligence for investors and wealth managers who care about financial and social impact in their decision-making.

Location

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

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