I read over all the proposals and picked the ones I liked best. The criteria I used were pretty simple: I looked for projects that had a clearly defined mission, were global in scope, and looked like they might actually work as planned. I stayed away from proposals that wanted to “enable” other non profits because I find most of them to be ineffective. Here is the list in alphabetical order:

A Global Neighbor Network

My Five Faves:

Farmer2Farmer Learning

Because when I asked them why they didn't list themselves in the "education" cause category, they said 'because there's so much more to it than education.' That pretty much sums it up for all of us who seek to engage the social web for collaborative learning and social change.

NCPC-Prevention Communities