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.

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.

Throngz is a tool that calls people together for discussion from different parts of the Internet in real time. Once you’re brought together into a single cyber-salon, you can discuss topics of mutual interest. Throngz comes and gets you.

Selling and deploying software tools to fund a strategy proposal which will leverage funding to deploy further technology yeilding revenue for a major reform of institutional childcare and the seeding of self-help enterprise, to prevent future repet

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.

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.

KRUU is community radio attempting to go beyond simply airing content. It is a means for a diverse community to collaborate openly and build a better society through the vehicle of community radio.

"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.

The Martus Project – Greek for “witness” - is a free, open source software tool that helps non-technical users in the human rights field capture, backup and protect their most valuable asset: information.

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.

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.

Before every major global event, people around the world begin having explicit dreams and intuitions about it. WHETHEReport will be a web portal that will aggregate and analyze these dreams to generate maps/scenarios of these potential events.

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.

If innovation is your thing, take a real life walkathon and execute it in a virtual world, just for the virtual residents. Raise money for research, increase cancer awareness, and educate participants and that is the Second Life Relay For Life!

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.

The Upper Kirby Citizen Participation Platform promotes transparency and accountability in local government by utilizing new technologies to allow constituents to directly participate in the decision making process.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The CTC VISTA Project—the most popular program in AmeriCorps' online recruitment system—coordinates the recruitment, placement, training, and support of VISTAs (domestic Peace Corps volunteers) in nonprofits using technology to help poor people.

SONGFISH, a unique collaboration portal brings artists, writers, specialists, affiliates, professionals and buyers together in an open exchange of products and ideas. It's the entertainment business re-imagined for the age of digital delivery.

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.

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.

Village is an online world and strategy game designed to get people addicted to third world development. Form a team, build sustainable enterprises that eradicate poverty, and discover the power you have to transform the real world.

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

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.

The People, Yes is about hitting the streets (shelters, jails and other avenues found on the other side of the digital divide) to find new voices to add flavor to a local community blogosphere.

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.

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.

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.

Share Your Story is an online community created by the March of Dimes for families of premature babies who are or have been in a NICU. It is a place where parents can come and know others will truly understand what they are going through.

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.

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.

The Cedar Cultural Center brings musicians from around the world to the Midwest to provide an exchange of cultures. We propose improving our theming, doing in-house online ticket sales, and adding an on-line member and donation tracking system.

SITI believes ensemble theater is an ideal context for bridging virtual and “real” worlds. SITI’s Extended Ensemble (SEE) is an online tool for building and strengthening a collaborative, international community of artists and audiences.

1.5 billion people spend $38 billion/yr on kerosene lighting, having no electricity. Barefoot Power will help 1 million people access modern, clean electricity, using digital LED lighting and advanced microenterprise-creation freeware.

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).

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.

Everyday people can prevent human trafficking! We use digital media to educate and empower by making human-to-human connections, & showcasing amazing, sustainable solutions that anyone can be part of as a new micro-philanthropist or activist.

Point K, a free tool for measuring effectiveness in the social sector, serves an online community of 9000 people and 1800 organizations. Net2 support would accelerate the power of our community to collaborate and communicate the impact of their work.

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

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.

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.

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.

Your vote gives young people an oportunity to learn professional media production, and provide thousands of ministries with quality digital media.If 200 churches with 400 members  download a students video, 80,000 people will see it.  

OpenStreetMap does for maps what Wikipedia does for Encyclopedias.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Empower Empower That is our philosophy. Youth Are Working encourages youth at risk to make positive changes in their turbulent lives. These youth are asking us for more training on internet related technologies to help make them more employable

Nata, Botswana is a village of hope. Donations from the blog:
http://natavillage.org are used to help the 400 orphans, people living with HIV/AIDS, Nata clinic, and a youth group.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Teams stuck in their thinking or limited in their impact can visit a one-of-its-kind web site.  Here team members can engage in self-guided exercises that will refresh their vision regarding how best to grow their impact together and with others.

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

Stop Prisoner Rape is the only U.S. organization exclusively dedicated to combating sexual violence in detention. SPR will create an interactive on-line repository that incorporates first-hand survivor accounts, media coverage, and policy analysis.

rabble local will:
* Further democratize media access and activity in Canada (and beyond)
* Build the capacity of local communities to share information and their
perspectives on issues within and affecting their communities

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.

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.

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.

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

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