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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.
Stop Family Violence
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
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.
Grassroots.org Toolbox
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
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.
Technology Vision:
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.
- The Toolbox will automatically:
- provision and install these technology tools,
- configure them correctly for immediate use,
- host them permanently,
- -provide comprehensive training and support resources (both in traditional text and in new media, such as screencasts and training videos)
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.
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.
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.
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.
OpenPlans.org
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
OpenPlans is a free, hosted, and integrated suite of web-based tools intended to give active citizens the resources they need to organize virtually to effect real world change.
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.
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.
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.
