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. See the DonateNow and Yahoo! Green winners on the Challenges and Awards page.

Random Project Proposals

Here's a randomly generated list of projects!

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.

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.

SElearninggames

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Social entrepreneurs make an elearning game together. Our collective intelligence solves the mystery of nonprofit earned income venture profitability. Game goal: make more real-world money to support social missions.

Youreel Video and Web Project

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

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.  

Project ABC: Community Literacy in the Bateyes

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Project ABC works in Haitian-Dominican communities of the Dominican Republic establishing community-based literacy programs. ABC utilizes the resources of social web to innovate its programs, build solidarity, and broaden its impact.

OpenStreetMap

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

OpenStreetMap does for maps what Wikipedia does for Encyclopedias.

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.

Share Your Story: an online community for NICU families

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

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.

Open Source Urban Tree Map

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

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.

Prevention Communities

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.

GreatNonprofits

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Online "Zagat" guide to nonprofits.

The Nata Village blog. A unique opportunity to witness the battle to control the spread of HIV/AIDS in an African village

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

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.

Nonprofit Support Yellow Pages

The World Café GiGis (Girl Geeks) Project

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

SixDegrees.org

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

SixDegrees.org taps into the small world phenomenon made popular by Kevin Bacon that we are all connected. The vision is for www.SixDegrees.org to be more than a game or a gimmick; it's social networking with a social conscience.

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.

WOW: The Wonder of 'WE'

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

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.

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.

Point K Learning Center Community Features

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

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.

Stop Prisoner Rape Information Outreach

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

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.

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

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.

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.

Records Quest

Uppity Wisconsin - Making Wisconsin Progressive Again

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Uppity Wisconsin is a collaborative news and blogging site for progressive politics in Wisconsin. Our proposal is to add action items, membership database, and to fund further collaboration with other progressive groups.

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.

SITI Company's Extended Ensemble

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

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.

kindbeauty.org

The Cedar Cultural Center - World Understanding Through Music

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

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.

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.

The CTC VISTA Project

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

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.

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.

Venture Outdoors: The GO Guide - Linking the Community to all Things Outside

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

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.

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.

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.

Targeted development for social, economic and gender empowerment

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

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

Youth Are Working

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

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

YNPN Information Network

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.

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.

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.

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.

ChipIn - Scalable, Affordable Distributed Fundraising Tools

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Uddami Computer Training Centre for youth from low income communities in Kolkata, India

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Uddami Computer Training Centre empowers youth from low-income communities in urban Kolkata, India through ICT training so they can develop sustainable livelihoods in the ICT sector.

The Second Road - an online support community for those in recovery from addiction

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Substance abuse in our country is destroying families and taking lives. The Second Road is an online support community that encourages millions of recovering addicts to stay clean through the use of customizable tools and support from peers.

SFZERO.ORG

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

SFZero is a free game and online social network that challenges players to complete social, cultural and artistic projects. Our goal is to develop a system that allows anyone to use our model to create powerful, socially relevant games.

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.

Prevent Human Trafficking using technology to tell stories of empowerment and successful micro philanthropy

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

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.

ParkScan.org

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

ParkScan.org is a public portal that empowers San Francisco residents to submit observations to responsible city government agencies regarding maintenance issues that need attention in parks, playgrounds and trails.

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.

Walden III: Digital Utopianism and the Virtual World

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Walden III is an academic experiment that would explore whether Virtual Worlds, such as Second Life, can better facilitate the exchange of cultural artifacts across borders more harmoniously and equitably than the real world.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Info Island Brings the Renaissance Era to Its Second Life!

Sourcetree Commons: Geeking our way to a better world

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

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.

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.

THRONGZ: The Online Discussion Space That Comes and Gets You

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

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.

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.

Open Community Radio: KRUU-LP 100.1 FM

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

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.

Reversed Rural Electrification

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

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.

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.

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!

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.

iEARN (International Education and Resource Network)

World's Biggest Problems

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

The WBP web portal aggregates, sorts, and classifies information about Climate Change, Water Crisis, Peak Oil, Species Extinction, and Economic Collapse. It also creates a space where people can collectively generate solutions to these issues.

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.

Virtual Virtuous Circle

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Through its website SPF will showcase leaders transforming rural communities using community organizing to break through isolation, improve economic infrastructure, clean up environments and overcome racial inequities endemic to the region.

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.

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.

rabble local

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):