The recent Applications for Good contest challenged developers to create apps that would help low-income Americans become connected learners, find jobs, get healthy, and build financial security. Developers submitted their ideas and creations from March 14 until May 16. The winners were announced during a live streamed ceremony on June 14.

One Economy and AT&T recently launched the Applications for Good Challenge. The challenge aims to encourage the development of fun and engaging mobile applications and games that can help ordinary people become connected learners, find jobs, get healthy, and build financial security.  The submission period began March 14 and runs until May 16. The winners will be announced June 1.

Sunlight Labs has announced its newest challenge: Apps for America!  Prizes go to developers who can use data from Sunlight and our partners that makes Congress more accountable, interactive and transparent.  Learn more and submit your idea.

Before committing resources to particular milestones & objectives for a fundraising campaign that employs groups, events, and applications on Facebook, OpenSocial, and other platforms, test (AB testing) the relative appeal of various assets (themes, messages, actors, stories, text, images, video, wikis, audio, speakers) and tools for your campaign on a representative sample of your target audience/engaged membership.

Some set of elements fit together and perform as a whole better than others. Find out which combinations create the best results.

Once testing is complete, estimate:

Quite a few non-profit organizations have set up a presence, primarily via groups, on Facebook. This is because the platform is very friendly to the development, deployment, and utilization of applications and integration that help an NPO to work more effectively on its'objectives.

Look at the early accomplishments on the Facebook platform by NTEN, "Non-Profits on Facebook", and TED to see a few good examples in their early going.