The French American Charitable Trust (FACT) Social Justice Challenge seeks to surface innovative Projects that leverage web and/or mobile technologies that foster collaboration around social justice issues.  The FACT Challenge's 90 innovative Projects were put to the community last week, the vote results selecting the 15 Featured Projects to receive development support and move on to the round of expert judges for final selection.

I recently had the opportunity to connect with John Brennan, the driving force behind OpenAction.org, which empowers individuals and organizations by helping them tell the world about the positive impact their actions have.  John participated in the Change the Web Challenge from Social Actions in 2009 and received $5,000 for his winning Project: Social Actions Interactive Map.  You ca

The French American Charitable Trust (FACT) Social Justice Awards were a unique part of the N2Y4 Challenge. Five Featured Projects were awarded a 'bonus' prize of $5,000 a piece (you can see the winners here), but FACT's commitment to this year's crop of finalists didn't end there. To help each of the Featured Projects become sustainable and grow their base of financial support, they provided support for NetSquared to do outreach on behalf of the finalists as well as collect fundraising resources, tips, and tricks into one place.

At N2Y4, a number of projects received an extra, $5,000 prize as part of a grant from the French American Charitable Trust (FACT). In addition to these awards, FACT has generously funded NetSquared and TechSoup Global to provide development assistance to all of the finalists from N2Y4.

At N2Y4, a number of projects received an extra, $5,000 prize as part of a grant from the French American Charitable Trust (FACT). In addition to these awards, FACT has generously funded NetSquared and TechSoup Global to provide development assistance to all of the finalists from N2Y4.

At N2Y4, a number of projects received an extra, $5,000 prize as part of a grant from the French American Charitable Trust (FACT). In addition to these awards, FACT has generously funded NetSquared and TechSoup Global to provide development assistance to all of the finalists from N2Y4.

The N2Y4 Conference brings together the 15 Featured Project teams for a chance to pitch ideas, find collaborators, and be in the running for the cash awards.  To help them shine, we are recruiting Project Champions! Interested?

Find out more below and connect with us to support a Featured Project!

N2Y4 Project Champions

Everything you need to know about being a Project Champion is right here:

The role is focused on helping the Featured Project team do (3) straightforward things:

Last week, the NetSquared Community voted on the N2Y4 Mobile Challenge to determine the 15 Featured Projects who will be invited to compete for $50K in cash-prizes and additinoal in-kind resources at this year's N2Y4 Conference.

The NetSquared Team extends a big thanks to all  Project-submitters, voters and community members who participated in this process.  Your participation this year has been tremendous! 

It's been a little over 2 months since the NetSquared Conference (N2Y3) where the 21 NetSquared Mashup Challenge Featured Projects presented their ideas.  The Conference may have ended, but their work has not. 

I've created a list below of the 21 Projects' web sites, blog feeds, Twitter feeds, news feeds and Facebook groups so that you can follow their work as it progresses. (Note: Many of the proejcts also have e-newletters or mailing lists that you can join through their sites).  If I've missed any feeds or sites, please let me know in the comments and I'll add them to the list.

If you are interested in helping a project out, you can contact them directly, or contact Billy Bicket at bbicket AT compumentor DOT org about joining the NetSquared Innovator Support Network.

A Mashup of 29+ Social Action Platforms -- Social Actions
* Third Place Winner

Project site: http://mashup.socialactions.com/
Supporting org site: http://www.socialactions.com
Blog: http://blog.socialactions.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/socialactions
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