Three tech for social impact opportunities came across my desk this week:

Rising Voices Micro-Grants Applications due June 15

Rising Voices, the outreach arm of Global Voices, is now accepting project proposals for the first round of microgrant funding of up to $5,000 for new media outreach projects. Ideal applicants will present innovative and detailed proposals to teach citizen media techniques to communities that are poorly positioned to discover and take advantage of tools like blogging, video-blogging, and podcasting on their own.

For more info read David Sasaki's blog post on Global Voices.

ZeroDivide Fellowship, Class III Nominations due June 29

The Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest has selected six exciting dewelopers and products that are being considered as finalists for its inaugural prize.  The final prize recommendation will be made by an advisory panel but we would also like to hear from you.  We would like to invite you to share your impressions of the products, their usability, elegance and relevance.  The finalist developers and products are:

• George Hotelling, Citizen Speak
• Donald Lobo, CiviCRM
• Jamie McClelland, Basebuilder
• Ethan McCutchen, WagN
• Zack Rosen, Civic Space
• Kevin Smith, The Martus Project

If you are familiar with these products or would like to take some time and explore them a bit and share your insights with the Prize Advisory Panel, we welcome your feedback.  This is the first year of the Pizzigati Prize and we need your guidance as we select a prize recipient who has created an elegant and usable tool, had a practical impact on the effectiveness and capacity of nonprofit organizations, and also has promoted an ethic of collaboration and sharing.  You can find more about the Prize and the finalist products, and share your thoughts at http://forums.pizzigatiprize.org/index.php#5.