Be NetSquared: Year 3
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Here's a randomly generated list of projects!
HIV ATLAS is an international technology initiative connecting Wants and Haves in the field of HIV/AIDS with a local perspective and global mindset.
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.
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.
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.
A telemedicine-based on-line community of physicians, financial donors and emergency personnel bringing advanced medical assistance to disaster zones and areas of chronic humanitarian need around the world.
One of the big challenges is making sure everyone (hospital networks, physicians and the public) can communicate on this platform.
Both ISDN and IP teleconference protocols need to be enabled so Polycom and Tandberg (two biggest teleconference medical platforms) can be used. The problem is those two companies don't play nice together. Thus we need another system that can talk to both. I met with Global Media (based in Scottsdale AZ) at the ATA conference earlier this week. They have a platform that could work. I'm not sure if they are just re-selling or if this is OEM they placed their logo on.
We need network building, blogs, etc. What ever works best is fine with me.
We need to keep in mind bandwidth requirements on teleconferencing as many times this will be done from remote locations with limited abilities.
We need satellite BGAN units (higher speed) and various broadband and wifi capabilities for use in various countries. While we have used the INMARSAT network, ideas of how to lower high sat costs would be great.
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 does for maps what Wikipedia does for Encyclopedias.
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 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 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.
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.
Online "Zagat" guide to nonprofits.
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.
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.
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.
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.
By empowering globally local social networking, we have created a gift economy/community. The magic: it’s easier to give something away than throw it away & keeps it out of landfills; a cyber-curbside; a digital segue from commodity to community.
They have come, so build it already! For the first time an organization has succeeded in combining social networking with the environmental movement, with over 3.5 million members in 75 countries demanding social networking tools on our site.
AIM replaces a network of incompatible systems with a single, web-based system. This allows our 450 agencies to go-to-scale using a true work-flow system with powerful performance management capabilities.
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.
The Grassroots.org Toolbox will empower nonprofit organizations by granting free access to a suite of fully configured & hosted online tools, including content management, online event registration software, and CRM.
Many of the tools we are integrating into the Grassroots.org Toolbox are open source, and thus have been freely downloadable for years. However, “Free” though they may be, these tools cost thousands of dollars to install, learn, configure and support. In short, these tools may have no list price, but they are far from free to implement. The result? They're not empowering as many nonprofits as they could be.
All for free.
To achieve this, we'll build an integrated user interface to manage Toolbox applications and services, under which we'll develop a flexible and scalable automatic provisioning system. We are assigning multiple staff members to develop exhaustive training and support materials in response to the needs of incoming clients and creating a publicly-available end-user guide for each of the tools we offer. The goal is the technological empowerment of nonprofit organizations everywhere.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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, 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.
The Quality of Women's Leadership equals the Quality of Life on this planet
GWLN will use web technologies, distance learning, conferencing systems, cell phones, and other electronic means of delivering training and creating social networks. Specifically, GWLN’s collaborative social network will provide a vital information lifeline. As GWLN establishes regional academies, the social network will grow exponentially.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.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 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.
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.
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—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" 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 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.
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.
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.
Farmers in developing countries can become more efficient and market oriented when they learn from experiences of themselves and their colleagues. Our tool will provide them with the means to learn by comparison.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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, 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.
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 empowers youth from low-income communities in urban Kolkata, India through ICT training so they can develop sustainable livelihoods in the ICT sector.
The Social Source Commons helps nonprofits find appropriate software to support their work, and share knowledge about tools. It is the only venue on the net striving to build a complete inventory of what software is available for nonprofit needs.
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.
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.
A revolution in Web-delivered digital maps and map-based analysis is under way and will change the way nonprofits solve social, environmental, and humanitarian problems. It is vital that nonprofit and humanitarian teams leverage these proven and powerful technologies.
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.
Use your phone, document your life, don't make friends, make circles.
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.
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 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 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 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 aims to do to philanthropy what eBay did to the auction house: increase participation by helping people connect with people.
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.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.
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.
MAPLight.org illuminates the connection between money and politics. We connect campaign contributions and votes for U.S. Congress, providing groundbreaking transparency so that bloggers, journalists, and citizens can hold legislators accountable.
Our site is built on the Drupal open-source content management system, with extensive custom coding. However, the programming to scrape state websites (mentioned in Needs section above) does not have to use Drupal.
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.
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.
This is a digital opportunity initiative for children and young adults in low and moderate income Indian communities.
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.
Yankana is a project designed to help non profits located in developing countries to adopt and benefit from social web tools in their fields of work, without technical skills, financial resources for infrastructure or english language knowledge.
Web based services working on GNU/Linux servers. Open source customized tools: CMS/Blog (i.e. Joomla, Drupal), Web based e-mail (i.e. Squirrelmail + Sendmail + Spamassassin), Community website (PHP based), Wiki (MediaWiki) and others.
Marries power of Web 2.0 with passion of 950+ African orgs in our network. Savvy Web 2.0 Ambassadors will collaborate through the Kabissa site and face to face to develop and promote homegrown strategies for employing Web 2.0 for social change.
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.
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.
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.
We are to Google, AOL and YouTube what public television is to the big networks. We are a nonprofit, fully open source and open standards, dedicated to creating the next Firefox of web video.
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 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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What if youth everywhere came together to inspire each other, get informed about social issues, and involved in their communities? TakingITGlobal evolved from this idea to a Social Network for Social Good, inspiring youth to create a better world.
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.