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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

Stop Family Violence

Challenges Entered: 
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.

Location

New York, NY
United States
Project Locations
Project Location: 
New York, NY

iLoveMountains.org - an online campaign to end mountaintop removal coal mining

Challenges Entered: 
www.iLoveMountains.org is an online campaign to end mountaintop removal mining. Using innovative new technologies, the site tells the story of more than 470 mountains destroyed and 1000 miles of streams buried to meet our demand for cheap energy.

Location

Boone, NC
United States
Project Locations
Project Location: 
Boone, NC

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

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

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

Maps 2.0 – Geospatial Tools for Nonprofits and Humanitarian Relief

Challenges Entered: 
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.

Location

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

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