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USAID Development 2.0 Challenge: Check out what's new!

amysampleward — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:03:31 -0500

The 2008 USAID Development 2.0 Challenge is underway and proposals are stacking up in the USAID Project Gallery. You can read proposals, star your favorites, leave comments and collaborate with project teams, or submit your own! Here are some of the most recently submitted projects -

USAID Development 2.0 Challenge: Share your ideas!

amysampleward — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:06:06 -0500

From the Project Gallery:

USAID Development 2.0 Challenge: New Proposals!

amysampleward — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 06:20:20 -0400

USAID Development 2.0 Challenge: Proposals in the Project Gallery

amysampleward — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:00:33 -0400

The 2008 USAID Development 2.0 Challenge is underway and proposals are already stacking up in the USAID Project Gallery. You can read proposals, star your favorites, leave comments and collaborate with project teams, or submit your own!

There are four easy steps to participate:

Interview with Jim Slama of FamilyFarmed.org (N2Y2 Featured Project)

Britt Bravo — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:17:00 -0400

In our last N2Y2 Featured Project Profile of the week, we talked with Jim Slama of FamilyFarmed.org. You can listen to the audio recording of the interview, and FamilyFarmed.org's 5-minute pitch at the NetSquared Conference on the NetSquared Podcast.

JS: My name is Jim Slama. I'm the President of Sustain and the Founder of our FamilyFarmed.org project. FamilyFarmed.org connects local and organic farmers with both consumers and trade buyers. We do that in a number of ways, one is through our website, which has profiles and stories and pictures of farmers from states throughout the Midwest as well as Ontario, Canada.

We also have the FamilyFarmed.org Expo, which is both a consumer and a trade show. It's really all about introducing people to these farmers, and artisanal food producers, and helping them connect with them, learn what they do and what they grow, and really building that direct relationship with these producers.

Interview with Peggy Duvette of WiserEarth (N2Y2 Featured Project)

Britt Bravo — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:34:42 -0400

Below is a transcript of a podcast interview conducted this summer with Peggy Duvette, the Director of WiserEarth. WiserEarth was one of the 21 Featured Projects at the 2nd NetSquared Conference. You can hear the audio recording of the interview on the NetSquared Podcast and hear WiserEarth's 5-minute pitch at the Conference here.

Peggy Duvette: Hello! My name is Peggy Duvette and I've been the Director of the WiserEarth Project for the last two years. We are based in Sausalito, California. I'm thrilled to be here today with you, Britt, and the whole NetSquared community.

WiserEarth is a website that helps people and organizations working towards sustainability and social justice to locate each other, share resources and build alliances. And just like Wikipedia, it's a community-based platform where all the content related to environmental and social justice is traded and updated by the community.

You can quickly and easily see who is working on what and where. So for example, if you are a funder, and you're trying to identify organizations working on specific issue areas, like human rights, and you want to learn about that work, you would do your research on WiserEarth and then you could connect with them directly. WiserEarth is really trying to allow people to connect and collaborate, especially when they're doing similar work.

Another thing to note is that whether you're a small organization or a large one, on WiserEarth, we are all on a level playing field. Everyone has the same visibility and a place to share their work and request what they need.

Britt Bravo: Where did the idea for WiserEarth come from?

Waz Up With the N2Y2 Featured Projects? August Update

Britt Bravo — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:54:05 -0400

Here's the latest round up of news about some of the Featured Projects from the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2).

N2Y2 Web for Social Impact Innovations: International

Britt Bravo — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:59:11 -0400

We'd like to conclude our round up of N2Y2 project proposals by location with a look at the proposals that came from outside of the United States, as well as a couple that are virtual or don't have a centralized location offline.

If you would like to become a member of the Innovator Support Network and help out one of these projects with your expertise, services, products, or other resources, contact Billy Bicket at bbicket@compumentor.org.

N2Y2 Web for Social Impact Innovations in the West (US)

Britt Bravo — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:59:16 -0400

We're finishing up our review of US-based projects that were nominated for a chance to go to the NetSquared Conference with a list of projects from the Western United States.

Next week we'll show you the projects that came from Canada, South and Central America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia.

N2Y2 Web for Social Impact Innovations in the South (US)

Britt Bravo — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:59:03 -0400

Today we are heading South!

We've looked at N2Y2 project proposals that originated from the Northeast and the Midwest, and today we'll look at ones in the South.

Obviously, you can offer support to any of these innovators, wherever you live, but I'm dividing them up by location just 'cause I think it is nice to give back to your local community and to be able to meet with an innovator face-to-face.