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

Congratulations to the N2Y3 Winners, in order: Ushahidi, KnowMore.org and Social Actions! Continue to show your support for all 21 Featured Projects. Watch conference sessions on Fora.tv's NetSquared Channel.

Project proposals in alphabetical order

Here you can see all projects in alphabetical order.

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

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

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.

A DreamNow: Providing Follow-Up for Organizations

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Thousands of organizations run programs which excite people but the momentum created doesn’t translate into action. DreamNow ensures hundreds of thousands of people inspired by programs go home and do something, achieve goals and change the world.

A New Reality - Changing the World one play and one artist at a time

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Race, age, ethnicity, gender or disability don't matter. Artists with talent should work. With us they do and find a home. We mesh artists of all kinds for a new reality in theatre.

Access to Markets and Education: Fair Trade Language Tutoring via Webcam (http://www.SpeakShop.com)

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Speak Shop reduces poverty by creating a global marketplace of language tutoring via webcam, linking tutors in developing countries with a world market of learners, forging microentrepreneurs and fostering cross-cultural learning and respect.

Amplafi: A Social Network for Organizations

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Amplafi turns up the volume on the good stuff. Our web-based communications tool allows orgs to build responsive interest-based coalitions. We harness tagging—connecting change-makers—and cut background noise to increase desired communications.

ArtHeart

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

ArtHeart project’s goal is to affect a positive, physical change in the Bulgarian natural environment by stimulating the creation and propagation of digital artwork in order to call attention to Bulgaria’s natural beauty, or its destruction.

ATSTAR - Assistive Technology: Strategies, Tools, Accommodations and Resources

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Our program is aimed at helping K-12 children with disabilities level the playing field in school using assistive technology within the classroom. We empower teachers and parents with a process to help implement AT and keep kids included.

Avatar Action Center

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

The Avatar Action Center is an educational organization constructed in the virtual world Second Life to raise awareness around sustainability issues and encourage people to take action toward positive change in the real world.

Best of online collaboration and communities

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Improve how people use online community and collaboration tools by publishing best practices and case studies as a "Top 10 List," five screencasts, a community blog, an email and Web forum discussion group, and a free downloadable Guide.

Building a Community of Modern Abolitionists

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Abolition Central will be home to the growing community of abolitionists fighting modern day slavery. It will combine the best practices of the physical world’s social organizations with the best community building/social networking tools.

buttons of hope "putting a face on fundraising"

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

A place where you can personalize your fundraising by making a single photo button to honor a loved one or support a friend. Photo buttons inspire people to share and spread their powerful stories helping with the hardest part of giving…the asking!

Cauzoo- Give. Together.

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Cauzoo is MySpace for charities and users, mixing viral and grassroots marketing to connect folks around common charitable interests. Uniquely, Cauzoo will give charities 100% of the money generated from user donations and affiliate shops.

Central Vibe

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Web 2.0 social networking wireless, tools to link and find new friends using major networks,chat, video and SMS based messaging.An easy to use software suite that charities,churches,villages, and members of the outside can look in.

Change.org

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Change.org is a social network for hundreds of social causes and over 1 million organizations.

China Digital Times

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

China Digital Times is an uncensored news portal covering China's political and social transformation. CDT uses the power of the Internet to bridge the language and cultural gap and overcome state censorship.

ChipIn - Scalable, Affordable Distributed Fundraising Tools

Community Technology centres for children and young adults in low and moderate income communities,Madurai,India

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

This is a digital opportunity initiative for children and young adults in low and moderate income Indian communities.

Community-Owned Telecenter Project

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Narrowing the existing digital gap in Malawi through Telecenters

CommunityGoals - The Online Goal Marketplace

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

CommunityGoals is a goal marketplace. Post a goal, even if you don't know the solution! Small individual contributions are transformed into funded community projects.

CoolPeopleCare.org

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Want to change the world, but you don't (think) you have enough time? Visit CoolPeopleCare for ideas on how to make a difference in less than 5 minutes a day. While you're there, connect with like-minded people at nearby nonprofit events.

CT EarthNet: Empowering Community-based Environmental Management

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

CT EarthNet empowers a grassroots groundswell led by community groups in Connecticut that is known to hold great promise for resolving urgent issues such as sprawl, air and water quality, conservation and environmental education.

Dgroups 2.0

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Dgroups.org is the home for groups and communities working to achieve international development goals. Dgroups current platform, Dgroups 1.0, is long overdue for a modernized replacement, Dgroups 2.0, based on Drupal, Sympa and web2.0 services.

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.

DonorTrust Technology (ChristmasFuture.org)

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

We are empowering everyday people in North America to participate in eradicating extreme poverty by redirecting one gift at Christmas...and then watch the world change because of the decision they've made to do Christmas differently.

Dreamfish

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Sustainability requires that we get creative and work together now. The mission of Dreamfish is to help change makers to make the world thrive with creative environments and tools, across culture, generation and profession.

Dropping Knowledge

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

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

Edvolution.net: E-learning and Social Networking for Education Reform

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

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.

Fallout - Bootcamping Progressive Candidates and Serving Local Communities

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

We fast track progressive political candidates and community activists through a well connected network of charitable organizations and non-profits, rapidly building up their political resumes and community exposure.

FelonResources

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

To provide information and resources to formerly incarcerated people to help them become productive, tax-paying members of the community and deflate their burden to society.

Foik Micro-Philanthropy Network

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Foik aims to do to philanthropy what eBay did to the auction house: increase participation by helping people connect with people.

freeFormed

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Use your phone, document your life, don't make friends, make circles.

FreePledge

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

FreePledge turns every day online shopping into charitable acts, providing nonprofits with an innovative way to raise funds, empowering customers to support their nonprofits at no cost and helping retailers build a social responsible brand.

Fundraising For The U.S. Veterans

Future 5000

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

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.

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.

General SocNet for Politics (name TBD)

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

SparkLoop is a politcally focused social networking tool where anyone who cares about democracy - from the barely activated to the committed activist - can go to respond to stories, communicate priorities to elected leaders, and connect with others.

GiveWell: the world's first transparent grantmaker

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Grantmaking with the doors open. Our website will make THOROUGH analysis of charities (the kind now exclusive to foundations) usable to all donors, large and small – and open the dialogue on how best to improve the world to anyone with an opinion.

Global Lives Project

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

An online video encyclopedia of human life experience; a unique video installation that can be assembled anywhere on earth; a chance to jump out of your reality and into one you would never have known. Collaborative, volunteer-driven, open source.

Globaloria: Empowering youth worldwide to create and collaborate online

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

The Globaloria Program uses virtual and scalable edu-social networks-comprised of programmable websites and related Wikis and Blogs–to teach young people from underserved communities how to take control of their new-media world.

Grant Wrangler

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Grant Wrangler is a free grants listing service for teachers, librarians and parents to find funding for schools. Grant seekers and grant givers will use our site to share, communicate and collaborate outside of the application and award process.

GreatNonprofits

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Online "Zagat" guide to nonprofits.

Grow Link

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

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.

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.

HIV ATLAS: Serving positively proud people

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

HIV ATLAS is an international technology initiative connecting Wants and Haves in the field of HIV/AIDS with a local perspective and global mindset.

HIV Collaborative Fund

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Shouldn't people living with AIDS be involved in figuring out how AIDS money is spent? We raise the money. People living with HIV/AIDS around the world decide where the money goes through a process relying on social networking and technology.

Hooze & Wagn: Organically Grown Public Data on Products and Companies

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Hooze.org and its Wagn underbelly are for collaboratively gathering and broadcasting convenient, trustworthy public data about products and companies. With wiki spirit and database power, Hooze gives citizens a new economic voice.

http://www.myBLOC.net // password: bloc 2007

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

MyBloc.net Uses web 2.0 tools and the skills of emerging people of color organizer-technologists to increase the effectiveness and impacts of base-building organizations while laying the foundation for the progressive youth leadership pipeline.

Hub Software

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Hub Software is free. Installation, if required, is cheap. Update regional human services information with community emailing, build more listings for refferalls -- see MVHub.com for searchability.

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.

HungerMaps

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

35.1 mil Americans face hunger and food insecurity. HungerMaps fuses new visualization and collaborative technology with the wisdom of advocates, transforming local data into a national portrait of needs and resources as the basis for direct action.

Idealware Nonprofit Software Knowledge Sharing Initiative

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

We will use collaborative communication tools to understand the extensive software knowledge that already exists among nonprofit software practitioners and then publish it in summary articles that compare the available software tools.

Ideas Unleashed Your Ideas... Our Support

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Ideas Unleashed provides an easy to use web based communication platform to serve the needs of a variety of communities of interest to achieve shared learning, collaborative activity with an eye toward developing public policy change and support.

iEARN (International Education and Resource Network)

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

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

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.

iMentor - iPower eMentoring Platform

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

An online social network designed exclusively for non-profits, iPower allows any organization to add mentoring to what they do or to enhance their mentoring programs. Now in use with over 1,500 participants, iPower is preparing for national roll-out.

Info Island Brings the Renaissance Era to Its Second Life!

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.

Inter. Act!: the Future Nigeria

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Following the return of democracy to Nigeria, there has been an explosion of Non-Governmental organizations. We want to employ the social web to build needed credibility and visibility for those NGOs who are honestly committed to making change.

International Network of Victims of Terrorism and War

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

The INVTW seeks to unite victims of political violence, war and terrorism to amplify the voices of victims speaking out for nonviolence and to create grassroots structures which support a culture of peace and common security.

kindbeauty.org

Local Issues Forums - E-Democracy.Org's Online Townhalls in US, UK, and now NZ

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

The online townhall made real where citizens have a say and make a difference locally.

Low-Cost, Shared GIS Resource for Advocates

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Create an easy to use template and engine that will lower the cost and technological barriers that advocates face in using GIS in their issue activism.

Making Connections -- Bringing Rural and Urban Students Together

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Our project connects students from urban and rural school districts through a Weblog-based writing space with the goal of creating an online community of learners empathetic to the experiences of others.

ManorMeta

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

The living learning lab ManorMeta is a visionary multimedia series sharing problem solving adventures, diverse young leaders, musical stars and AI characters in an amazing mashup for web, virtual worlds, television, film, comics and print media.

Media Saves The Day

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

"Media Saves The Day" aspires to be an online community connecting volunteer creative arts and media talent with non-profits in need of these services, and to inspire schools to incorporate non-profit related projects into their creative courses.

Memorial De Colosio

MicroMentor 2.0 - Social capital for microentrepreneurs

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

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).

moulin Wiki - the Offline Wikipedia

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

The moulin wiki project is our attempt to improve the access to basic information and reference material in developing countries by making it possible to access Wikipedia, the world’s largest, free encylopedia, offline.

My Colorado™

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Rather than seeking a gift from those with means, My Colorado™ offers young people the means to give! My Colorado is a social networking tool engaging young Coloradans in philanthropy and community engagement.

My MoSoSo

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

My MoSoSo is a free wireless software application that helps people meet virtually and then collaborate in real life to achieve mutual or complementary goals. My MoSoSo users enjoy a sense of community that is unprecedented in human history.

Neighbor to Neighbor: Embedding Citizen Journalists

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

The Neighbor to Neighbor project will embed citizen journalists throughout our city to create media seeking to broaden civic engagement. By utilizing technology in innovative ways, the project has the potential to serve as a model nationwide.

New Independence New Abilities

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Medical Rehabilitation Facility in India for People with Disabilities offering Mobile Units equipped with Remote TeleMedicine&Employment Technologies&latest Assistive&Mobility-Aids Programs&Services&MedicalTeam=RECOVERY

NewsCloud Open Source Media Platform (Expanding Access to...)

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

NewsCloud is an open source platform that reduces barriers for community groups integrating news-based social networks into their existing Web sites. NewsCloud seeks funds to make its platform as easy to install and extend as Wikimedia, Drupal, et al

NewsTrust

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

NewsTrust.net is a free online social news network that helps people find and share good journalism. Members rate articles based on core journalistic principles such as evidence, fairness and context, and discuss their findings with others.

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

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

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.

Nonprofit 2020: Issues and Answers for the Next Generation

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

NP2020 will allow emerging leaders to raise their voice on the future of leadership in the nonprofit sector. Open space technology & online communities will help emerging leaders generate ideas & continue to create solutions after the conference.

Nonprofit Organizations MySpace

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

The Nonprofit Organizations MySpace is a powerful tool for grassroots mobilization that seeks to create an online global community of 100,000+ social change activists.

Nonprofit Support Yellow Pages

Not Just a Number

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Not Just a Number is a violence prevention, community journalism website, created to give Oakland California a place to share stories, connect and develop solutions for social change.

Online Tax Tools and the Earned Income Tax Credit

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

NPower’s EITC Project partners with nonprofits that serve low-income communities to teach their clients how to use technology to calculate EITC eligibility and file tax returns which helps move them out of poverty.