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Tsehai Loves Learning

"Tsehai Loves Learning," an award-winning educational children’s TV show in Ethiopia, reaches an estimated 5,000,000 children, most of whom have no alternative access to Early Childhood care. It educates children in their local language about issues such as literacy, environment, health, character building and more. "Tsehai Loves Learning" is the only mass-scale preschool or kindergarten program in Ethiopia, and educates children very cost-effectively.

whizkidsworkshop.com Bruktawit Tigabu [email protected]

12-In-One system to achieve the MDGs

Targeting poor, based on new revolutionary awarded technology, unlike comparable costly mono function products we provides 2 new generations of solar powered affordable multifunction systems, usable year round to heat, purifying water and drying, disinfests crops with a social impact of increasing food security, improving health, well being and empower the productivity of the poor particularly women by creating low cost sustainable income generation opportunities.

spaces.msn.com/megahedpatentsdesigner Ahmed Abdallah [email protected]

4Capital Center of the RM Institute Pursuing excessive material capital and

intellectual capital, with little effort to achieve social capital and spiritual capital, in current management practice has produced the current financial crisis. We, the 4Capital center of the RM Institute, will use our unique technologies of measuring 4capital, modeling 4capital and mitigating risks to help make corporations sustainable, by developing a harmonious 4capital strategy.

rminst.org Alex Liu [email protected]

Ability-in-Disability Initiative

Poverty, hunger, disease, lack of skills to carry out small scale businesses or to engage in self-employment, discrimination, social exclusion, poor access to education, shelter, and health care are some of the problems ravaging People living with Disabilities in Enugu State, Nigeria. With little financial support we can change the situation by providing such people with the appropriate training, education, and psychological support that will make the difference.

abilityindisability.com Barrister Daniel Ugwo Eze [email protected]

AIESEC International

We are a network of 35,000 young people in over 100 countries committed to peace and positive impact. As the 'digital generation', we are telling our stories of change across social media. The 'I'm an AIESECer 2.0' initiative is about scaling up and spreading more stories of change in more places!

aiesec.org Lucy Symons [email protected]

Alight Learning

National research institutions, cognitive psychologists, teachers, educational visionaries and others all seem to agree, we have the tools available to provide personalized and self-driven student learning. Alight Learning is a free software tool with which we hope to advance the cause of personalized learning in middle schools. Contact us if you are interested in finding out more.

alightlearning.com Marco Morales [email protected]

Another being creative

Another being creative is a new approach to creativity, that no one's creativity is better than another's and that it is The Creation (Life as we know it and the act of creating) itself we should acknowledge and co-exist with. By highlighting sustainable practices of universal ecology using multiple mediums and platforms, the project aims to share knowledge and perspectives with the global audience. PEACE!

anotherbeingcreative.com anothony birkholz [email protected]

Apathy is Boring Citizen Factory Citizen Factory will offer real time info about

Canada’s democratic process through a website created for youth by youth. It should be easy to be informed of the activities of your representatives. By taking civic information that is currently inaccessible to youth and “Web2.0”-ing it, Citizen Factory will ensure that Canadian youth can easily access government information, in addition to educational resources explaining this information.

apathyisboring.com Ilona Dougherty [email protected]

ArtSpark

ArtSpark ignites the funding, making and sharing of art. This online venue for interactive art-making connects fans and patrons with their favorite artists and art projects. Tapping into current and emerging web tools (micro-funding, online media, social networking and volunteerism), ArtSpark will activate communities to support the vibrant flourishing of art.

Kristine Maltrud [email protected]

Baine Ney Foundation

Calciphylaxis is a terrible disease. It will kill up to 25000 people per year. Our Idea is to educate the public as well as health care professionals about this threat. At present we are starting a calciphylaxis registry to disseminate and collect information so doctors can make important decisions about calciphylaxis treatment. The only true cure is to never get this disease.

bney.org Julian Ney [email protected]

Banyan Project

The Banyan Project is a group of senior journalists and their allies who are devoted to creating a wholly new and robust business model to support a large-scale structure for quality journalism that can thrive in the digital future. Banyan aims to revitalize journalism and help mend our frayed democracy while serving a significant segment of the huge, journalistically ill-served population of less-than-affluent Americans.

banyanproject.com Tom Stites [email protected]

Bhavya Srivastava, MCCS, Culture Digitization Cultural indifferences stand on ignorance of

knowledge, we can provide it on one click; make the wisdom of world on one place for all who cares for the views of everyone. A data bank of all available wisdom of every culture and society make us more open to humanity. This works as a place of common understanding. It starts from collecting all available epics, books, scriptures, data, stories and verbal recitation practices.

bhavyakiduniya.blogspot.com BHAVYA SRIVASTAVA [email protected]

Blossom Nigeria Projects

DIGITAL ADVOCACY CENTRE is a tool to empower youths and curb youth restiveness in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. We will train 200+ young men and women, who are strategic leaders from the nine states comprising the region. We will also set up a Digital Printing Press and Publish Blossom Nigeria Projects Magazine/Newsletter as a platform for expression. The project will cost $500,000.

blossomnigeriaproject.com Elizabeth Oghoro [email protected]

Campus Blogging Network

Enable every campus to start and maintain a blog where the students can showcase their creativity to the entire world.

campusblogs.org Kenney Jacob [email protected]

CANVAS Philippines

Original children's stories from some of the best Filipino writers brought to life by some of the best Filipino artists, freely downloadable in English or Tagalog ... CANVAS Stories. Real Life Told Beautifully.

canvas.ph Gigo Alampay [email protected]

ChairLift

Many innovative organizations are striving to provide a wheelchair to every disabled person, but even with a wheelchair, the disabled are not truly mobile because they rarely have reliable and affordable access to public transportation. The ChairLift is a device that permanently attaches to any minibus, allowing wheelchairs to be quickly and easily lifted, secured, and carried whenever a wheelchair user needs a ride.

Tina Nguyen [email protected]

change our world

Let’s change our world by catering for the less privileged, we plan to create jobs and empower the widows especially and prostitutes, we want to touch lives.

Ochonma Henry [email protected]

Civic Media

Civic Media Inc. is a Philippine-based media organization that primarily resides on the internet to bring to light issues concerning the community. CMI tells the stories of individuals and communities engaged in charity, volunteerism, social entrepreneurship, and philanthropy in hopes of generating awareness and inspire a following. CMI is a new endeavor that provides a platform to the unheard voices in society.

greatergood.i.ph Jay-R Patron [email protected]

CommKit: Darfur Refugee Journalism Technology CommKit, an innovative technology,

makes two-way communication between grassroots communities, advocates and public policy change makers and Darfur refugees living in camps possible. This creates a global community, supports the voice of the voiceless, and inspires action for Darfur that leads to social change. stopgenocidenow.org/iact Katie-Jay Scott [email protected]

CoPress

CoPress aims to create a technical ecosystem for college media. We provide collaboration of resources with an open-source hosting environment, foster a community of tech-savvy journalists, and act as a knowledge repository to enable the community to collectively pool knowledge. Better hyperlocal college media, means better journalism training for the mainstream journalists.

copress.org Joey Baker [email protected]

Crown Sephira Productions/Media Alliance WOMEN RISING radio series has for the

past five years aired on 200 stations in the US, and also in Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands and South Africa. It is a collaboration with the successful MAKING CONTACT program of the National Radio Project. Now we want to launch the WOMEN RISING WEBSITE which will mentor girls and women worldwide on their own paths of visionary activism.

radiproject.org Lynn Feinerman [email protected]

CuCoo - Cultures Cooperating: online platform for social cultural endeavors You don't need to be Coca-Cola to sponsor cool

events :) There's an open, easy and collaborative way to sponsor culture and the arts! Through CuCoo.org, the independent platform for social cultural endeavors, YOU make things happen: just choose what you like and put your 'personal brand' at the service of the amazing human creativity and cultural diversity. Leave YOUR mark and DO your part!

cucoo.org (under construction) Jia Lyng [email protected]

Darstan Association for Children's Media and Culture In some parts of Iraq, women and female

teenagers are subjected to different kinds of persecution such as honor killing, defacing, compulsory marriage, -etc. This project will use some of the real stories collected from real life and present it in the form of animated film (to be produced in Iraq). The film then can be used and shared with others including Media Outlets, webs, -- etc to advocate for female's rights.

darstan-iq.org Ayoub Abdullah [email protected]

Pay yourself first

“Pay yourself first” is a common phrase in the financial world. Typically this refers to a direct payroll withdraw into a 401k or other investment account. Similar to a 401k “Pay Others First” will allow people to donate funds, before taxes, directly from their payroll check. It will offer tax benefits and time savings to donors while creating a consistent revenue stream for charities.

payothersfirst.blogspot.com Dave Veldkamp [email protected]

Debatepedia

Debatepedia, a project of the International Debate Education Association, is "the Wikipedia of pros and cons". It open-sources the ambitious mission of creating an encyclopedia of debates, arguments, and supporting quotations. Debatepedia helps centralize public debates that are scattered across hundreds of pro and con resources into a single pro/con encyclopedia, where citizens and leaders can view all the arguments and, finally, effectively deliberate.

wiki.idebate.org Welcome_to_Debatepedia! Brooks Lindsay [email protected]

Dog-Trax North America

70% of Dog-Bite-Related Fatalities are children. Current efforts to eliminate dangerous dogs rely on punishing dogs/owners after-the-fact, which does nothing for prevention. What is needed is a mechanism for identifying dangerous dogs BEFORE they bite. Dog-Trax is the only database in the world to offer that. Dog-Trax uses trending analyses to recognize “high-risk” dogs and alert authorities BEFORE the attack. (Seeking $20K for summer pilot.)

PreventDogBites.com Tamara Follett [email protected]

Donateer

Donateer provides an essential platform for connecting publishers, non-profits and businesses in a win-win-win situation. Each participant facilitates new connections with engaged readers, generous donors and online consumers. Publishers get revenue, businesses get referrals and non-profits get donations. Aligned with the Triple Bottom Line concept, Donateer involves people, the planet and profit - measurable and substantial social, sustainable and economic benefits.

donateer.org Kurt Kohlstedt [email protected]

IndianWildlifeClub.com

IndianWildlifeClub.com (IWC) networks nature and wildlife enthusiasts. With over 4000 registered members, IWC involves the common man in the cause of environment protection and conservation. We are looking for seed money to evolve into a Community of Practice (CoP) focused on Indian Wildlife. The CoP will champion the causes of conservation with the masses whose political support for protective legislation is crucial in a democracy.

IndianWildlifeClub.com Susan Sharma [email protected]

Educate!

Educate! empowers students in Uganda to become socially responsible leaders using an innovative leadership and mentoring curriculum that includes the creation of a social enterprise. Educate! catalyzes the sequence of relationships, empowerment, leadership and has the potential to reach one-third of all students graduating secondary school in Uganda by 2015. Educate! students will solve the pressing challenges facing Uganda and Africa in years to come.

ExperienceEducate.org Eric Glustrom [email protected]

ugscholar.com

www.ugscholar.com is an online web portal running an extensive database of educational and research material for all education levels in Uganda. The material is to be reviewed by a specially selected panel of experts from the academia. This project is aimed at enabling all people in any part of the country to access academic information through the internet to simplify their studies.

ugscholar.com Egesa Ronald [email protected]

emPower magazine (Liu Karama Productions LLC) emPower, an interactive magazine, not only

reports on issues affecting people of color, but also encourages readers to become activists and volunteer using our content (such as: nonprofits, blogs/vlogs, short documentaries, podcasts, networking, webinars and email campaigns). Each year, emPower focuses on one main issue; not only allowing readers to become educated on the cause but also letting them take action.

emPowernewsmag.com DeShuna Spencer [email protected]

Epic Change

"We help hopeful people in need share their stories to acquire resources that will improve their lives." Epic Change believes that people's stories are assets that can be used as resources to improve their lives. We help people in need share their "epic" true stories in innovative, creative and profitable ways to help them acquire the financial resources they need to create positive "change" in their communities.

EpicChange.org Stacey Monk [email protected]

Experience Talks

Experience Talks is a radio magazine that celebrates stories of Boomers and beyond, inviting notable guests from all walks of life who are re-visioning the world, reinventing their lives and leaving a legacy in creative ways. Experience Talks broadcasts Tuesdays from 2-3 pm from KPFK studios with an audience of 250,000 in Southern California from Santa Barbara to Tijuana, and on the web at www.kpfk.org.

experiencetalks.org Tim Carpenter [email protected]

Faith Nkomo (Women'sNet, Girls'Net) South African girls are ignorant about the

looming phenomenon: Human Trafficking, particularly in light of 2010 Soccer World Cup, South Africa. A mobile- site targeting girls with toolkit, games and chat is efficient as cell phones are a popular ICT tool. The site will prevent human trafficking as it educates and girls having a voice about it will break its silence and share the information.

womensnet.org.za/girls-empowering-girls Faith Nkomo [email protected]

FAN Fundacion Atencion a la Ninez ComPutErs For PEacE in COLOMBIA

An incentive to introduce technology and teach underprivileged children from Medellin city, the advantages of knowing their world. In addition to the OLPC model we work with the parents, lacking study and knowledge, so they can support their children in long process of education. We hope that our children will have a brighter future thus will our country.

fan.org.co Abel Salazar [email protected]

Fashion or development latina Looking at the communities, organizations and people

which inhabit Latin America’s underdeveloped regions, we found ancient and modern skills and knowledge which are invaluable for setting in motion a sustainable process of development. We think that if we were able to coordinate these capacities, or help in the formation of networks that integrate them, we could make an outstanding improvement in the well being of those communities. We want to foster ethical fashion with full transparency, using Internet as the support for coordinating activities, like the management of the artisans network, the link between designers and artisans, the diffusion of knowledge to consumers, etc, so that they are aware of the effect of their shopping decisions, and the relationship between producers and retailers.

fashion4development.net adriana marina [email protected]

Fireside International

Jesus Christ - Galileo Galilei - Rosa Parks - Mahatma Gandhi - Mother Teresa. Where would we be if all of their stories had been lost? In the maddening crowd, it's the biggest ideas that slip right by you. The age of the storyteller is upon us.

ageofthestoryteller.com Luke Renner [email protected]

FM Global

FM Global is a project connecting communicators in Radio, Print Media & Internet, & bridges the U.S., Mexico, Central & South America, focused on indigenous & popular movements. Colectivo Alternativa Americas Alliance, Radio Las Americas, accesses journalists, grassroots activists, covering political, cultural & educational projects w/prime information sources; convenes grassroots, elders & student leadership, opinion makers & organizes connecting community with media providers, empowering continental communities with pertinent news.

Dorinda Moreno [email protected]

Fractor

Fractor is a breakthrough technology that gives news-readers instant access to opportunities for positive civic engagement. Connecting news with relevant actions you can take to make the world a better place, Fractor answers the question of concerned, but overwhelmed, citizens: "What can I do?" By bringing a new level of interaction to news readership and activism, Fractor bridges the divide between inspiration and action.

fractor.org Josephine Dorado [email protected]

Global Advances Digital Solutions Without Borders We utilize internet technologies and IT

training to strengthen the identities, effectiveness, and technical know-how of social ventures and non-profit organizations (NGOs). Our solutions enable NGOs to move from local, isolated operations to gaining a global voice through the web.

globaladvances.com Fabien Nervais [email protected]

Global Small Islands People Society The people settled in tiny islands is seas, oceans and

lakes of the world are suffering as the world watches. Disasters like tsunami, cyclones and storms have killed millions of small island people in the last 10 years as the world simply watches. About 40 percent of people living in small islands are poor and vulnerable. The world has done a lot to the people of the mainland there by marginalising population in small islands. These people have a role to play , they can fish and farm to feed themselves and the world. Small islands are potential tourism and conservancy areas. A global society of small island people networking by an interactive web site, getting disaster newsletters is too little investment that the world is so rich to finance. The poor are poor because of natural catastrophes beyond their control. So man MUST help. Does mankind get entertained watching death of mankind?

charityforsmallislads.com Joshua Okomo [email protected]

Groopi.es

Groopi.es is an online trust network that connects you with your friends for personalized advice about a product or service. It’s the best way to find out which of your friends like things you might like (and loathe things you'll likely loathe) to help you make happier purchases. It's also the first social platform for highly relevant marketing that is actually appreciated by users.

groopi.es Dominik von Jan [email protected]

GRROUP

If Obama used the Internet to become the most powerful man in the world, why can't you? GRROUP is a website that enables everyone to run campaigns and form coalitions. By tooling the changemakers of the 21st century, GRROUP is giving you the power to organize without organizations, to transform your outrage into action and into meaningful change. Start a movement today.

grroup.com Lloyd Nimetz [email protected]

Hampton University Scripps Howard School of JAC We provide themed special project student

reporting from a year-round news service, enewsu.com. Last fall, we covered the youth angle of the '08 election. Last spring, stories focused on the Go Green movement. This spring, student reporters and editors will cover technology at the annual HU Black Family Conference. With resources, we are poised to extend coverage through the summer.

enewsu.wordpress.com Wayne Dawkins [email protected]

Hana Sustkova - Solidarni pro Gomu The situation in Goma, Nort Kiwu, Zaire, is

critical. Our aim is to support that young people there by educational and other long-term help, therefore we will earn money for it by poetry readings. We ask for providing such events also by you and collect the money in the call: Solidarity for Goma. This way sponsorship will be provided and by plane the collected help will be given to them in need.

talnet.ic.cz/Poetry_days17_12_08.rar Hana Sustkova [email protected]

Heekya: Wikipedia for Stories Heekya is a social storytelling platform

that is changing the way we create, share, and discover stories.

heekya.com David Adewumi [email protected]

HolyLandTV

HLTV is a team of Palestinian and Jewish video journalists - working with Jewish teens in Jerusalem and Palestinian teens in Dheisheh Refugee Camp (the two teen groups only 20 kilometers away, but worlds apart). HLTV is a multigenerational training program, small business (video production studio & internet vid news service), and rich coexistence project (via web 2.0 site and physical meetings), all rolled into one.

HolyLandTV.com Harvey Stein [email protected]

The Centre of Democratic and Strategic Management 25 villages syndicated to blog and podcast

local news using phones and laptops to connect with the world, circumvent local draconian laws suppressing press freedom. Rural youths will do citizen journalism. Jobs are created, poor rural dwellers given a voice they have never had on issues that concern them most. For the first time in Tanzania, people's voices will come from, not go to, villages.

Ansbert Ngurumo [email protected]

Ideas Point Foundation

Yearly, the valuable results of about 80,000 research projects conducted by scholars in Nigeria literally end up in trash cans. These results and prototypes if harnessed could transform Nigeria's ailing economy into a global economic force and massively enrich investors and innovators in the process. Ideas Point Foundation leverages the internet media to deliver these vastly over-looked financial benefits for investors and innovators.

ideaspoint.wordpress.com Abel Akeni [email protected]

Iduna Enterprises

Surviving cancer twice inspired me to create a “Thought Package”. This is a compilation of 50 emotion cards. The first 5 cards are the stages of crisis: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. The remaining 45 cards help with the stresses and feelings one may encounter fighting cancer. The focus of the entire package is to help one reach acceptance and ?fight the good fight.?

Natalie Harms [email protected]

INICIA, emprender para el futuro This project intends to translate our

entrepreneur community to its online version, removing geographic obstacles and allowing it to expand. The network will connect commercial entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, public, social and cultural entrepreneurs between themselves and with other organizations. Hence, the sustainability of SME´s and endeavors in Argentina will be increased, as they will be prepared to withstand the frequent economic crisis suffered by the country

inicia.org.ar Jimena Huarte [email protected]

inione

inione introduces “i am ME dia!”= i am my day! If I am not what I say, am I all that I know or do knot-now? Discover how & why mother’s language changes our destiny &/or/v.v. why father’s never could; with “The Mother Language of Consciousness” (C²), your tongue may once again allow you to season/taste life with an entirely new globally-colored pallet! I’m MEDIA! inione.

changemakers.net/en-us/node/17687 å. b. [email protected]

INSTINCT

INSTINCT is a pioneering company that is at the forefront of the development of Socially Intelligent Marketing®. Our focus is on targeted marketing that has a positive impact on people's lives. We aim to supply solutions to everyday problems in underdeveloped areas that also allow advertisers to connect with their consumers in a meaningful way.

mediafordevelopment.com Magali Bongrand [email protected]

Institut du Nouveau Monde

Conveyors of Hope is a media platform for good news. It is a community of citizen-witnesses who share and propagate information about positive, innovative, socially impacting, sustainable social entrepreneurship projects. In the face of traditional media?s inclination to tell the negative stories these projects can become a regular source of hope and inspiration, and even action.

Miriam Fahmy [email protected]

InventSuccess

A HANDS-ON approach to educating, training, supporting and sustaining youth with Asperger's Syndrome and High Functioning Autism. To build 3 regional centers that house education, virtual community, respite, camp, research and professional / teaching continuing education. To have satellite centers in local schools tied to the main centers by innovative technologies so all may benefit. Help make a difference that will be realized by many.

inventsuccess.org Christine Knapp [email protected]

Iringa Development of Youth, Disabled and Children Care (IDYDC)

NURU FM COMMUNITY RADIO AND HIV/AIDS: MAKING A DIFFERENCE!IDYDC believes that community radio has high potential, which has not been tapped yet, to reach out to local communities and to disseminate health information to Iringa’s community by taking the local culture, traditions, concepts, and believes with regard to HIV/AIDS into account. Community radio has a vital role to play in this “life-saving” challenge.

idydc.or.tz Jörg Henkel [email protected]

JANERA.com, The Voice of Global Nomads

JANERA.com is an online magazine and social network for Global Nomads. We also hold events. Our aim is get international subjects out of the academic and activists circles, and in front of a large urban audience. We focus on the human perspective of global culture and economics and make international affairs sexy.

JANERA.com Janera Soerel [email protected]

KobreGuide.com (Web's Best Videojournalism)

Online guide to the Web's best videojournalism. Imagine a selective, easy-to-navigate "TV Guide" to short video feature stories produced by the world's top media organizations. "YouTube for smart folks." Our staff of professional journalists locates, identifies, annotates, organizes and showcases the highest-quality short-form videojournalism that is being produced by major media organizations -- and frustratingly difficult for consumers to find.

KobreGuide.com Jerry Lazar [email protected]

Krishi Patrika publication, Nepal

Nepal, a country of the poorest farmers. Farmers are voiceless but innovative, lack awareness and access to new technologies. "Krishi Patrika"-an agricultural newspaper (Nepali); first of its kind in media are publishing farmers' experiences, raising contemporary issues, recommend resolutions to policy makers; enhancing skills and knowledge, needs support to expand my endeavour to empower the poor Nepalese farmers.

krishipatrika.cfsites.org Rameshwar Singh Pande [email protected]

Les Medias Emage-Media : Virtual Youth TV Studio

www.Emage-Media.com - a collaborative Virtual TV Studio for Youth

Collaborative and Mentored with Access to Broadcasters

Bridging cultures and building capacity as youth producers

Entrepreneurial niche development like Bzzzy.TV and BzzzCLIP

keeping kids Bzzzy since KIDS? creativity deserves credit

Opportunity for Enterprise to believe in young people while youth Engage in Society, Career development, and Business-marketing, using their creativity.

www.emage-media.com Ely Bonder [email protected]

Link TV

With LinkTV’s Real Conversations citizens become the pundits questioning the politicians. This Web and television series allows people to engage their leaders and neighbors worldwide via webcams and cell phones. Viewer call-ins make this live studio crackle with unpredictability and authenticity. We’ll upload diverse video, audio, text ?call-ins? to the studio. Online and TV viewers can participate during and after the live broadcast.

linktv.org Erica Marcus [email protected]

LoudSauce

LoudSauce: crowdfunded ad placement to magnify your cause's impact. Like Kiva for social advertising, LoudSauce helps users push Ads they most believe in onto websites, billboards, and televisions across the country to make a tangible difference beyond their social network. LoudSauce is also an innovative tool for social enterprises to leverage their supporters to help buy media to maximize the impact of their campaigns.

loudsauce.com Colin Mutchler [email protected]

Machik - Digital Tibetan Cultural Mapping Project

The Tibetan Cultural Geography Initiative seeks to mobilize digital media technology to promote Tibetan language and culture and to build Tibetan capacity in Tibetan areas of China. Machik proposes to launch an innovative and multidimensional community-based mapping project that will depict the cultural landscape of Tibetan rural communities from the villagers? point of view and for their own use.

machik.org Losang Rabgey [email protected]

Magic-Moon Productions

“Send Me An Angel” is an international, interactive Internet / TV Series and Website using new technology to encourage people to help one another. Each Internet show is designed to fulfill a need that can't be met any other way and every episode will feature a videotaped version of a request that’s been selected from postings submitted to the series? website’s request blog.

sites.google.com/site/magicmoonproductions/Home Erica Diamond [email protected]

Maher H. Wahba "Zero Waste Management Project" To Cultivate more Food NOT to fabricate

more fired clay bricks. MHW brick is made from 85% waste for no value, while clay brick is made from 100% clay rich fertile soil crucially needed for agriculture industry not to construction industry

Maskworx & The Hot Mask Project

Let's Face It - the world's getting hotter! Through mask making lessons in classrooms worldwide "The Hot Mask Project" helps students learn about important environmental issues such as global warming and empowers them to make a difference through "artivisim" using Multimask. Multimask is a superior concept 'neutral mask' (NPOV) that allows students to simplify the creative process and uncover the powerful communicative ability of mask media.

maskworx.co.nz Annette Rose [email protected]

MediaStorm (finalist)

We aim to change the face of multimedia storytelling on the web by creating an international community and new syndication models around a multi-language subtitled media player, incorporating workshops to teach journalists from around the world the best practices in multimedia reporting and post-production, elevating the craft globally.

mediastorm.org Jessica Stuart [email protected]

Mediate

Mediate gives you the opportunity to stand in the gap and help someone’s live take off. Education, which many of us take for granted, is barely affordable by an average Joe in Cambodia. By sponsoring a very affordable scholarship in Advance English and Media Education (accredited) to youths-at-risk in Cambodia, you can help change many precious lives of this wounded nation. Visit mediaterunway dot com!

mediaterunway.com Jan Lin [email protected]

MIT Climate Collaboratorium

The MIT Climate Collaboratorium allows large numbers of people to develop ideas about what to do about climate change. It combines the features of blogs, wikis, simulation models, and on-line voting. Our goal is for the Collaboratorium to become a place that draws everyone who has relevant knowledge and interesting perspectives. We all need to pitch in to solve this central problem of our time. cci.mit.edu/research/climate.html Robert Laubacher [email protected]

MixedInk (finalist)

MixedInk's powerful collaborative writing tool enables publishers to crowdsource op-eds, articles, reviews, and other high-quality content. In minutes, anyone can launch a website where hundreds or thousands of people can vote, compete, and collaborate to craft text that reflects the community's best ideas & opinions. MixedInk's platform is available as a hosted, white-label solution that can be customized and integrated within any website.

mixedink.com David Stern [email protected]

MoveSmart.org

Information on communities is buried in the back of reports, pinned to bulletin boards, and locked in data sets, inaccessible to those who would benefit from it the most: housing seekers looking for a better neighborhood. MoveSmart.org will leverage the power of this information by combining multiple data sources and step-by step guides into a map-based site designed to foster racial and economic integration.

MoveSmart.org Justin Massa [email protected]

mPedigree

The WHO estimates that up to 30% of all drugs sold in developing nations are counterfeits. MPedigree allows anyone in a developing nation with a cell phone to check their drugs before use with a simple text message. Patients scratch-off a panel on uniquely marked drugs, revealing a code that is sent by SMS to a service number, producing an instant drug verification response.

mpedigree.org Ashifi Gogo [email protected]

Municipal Police Institute

Change the culture of law-enforcement and lower the cost of mandatory Police officer professional development by providing daily training support over the Internet. Create a learning environment that protects civil liberties by capturing and publishing law-enforcement "best-practices" and rewarding officers for professional conduct. Foster a constructive police-citizen relationship through shared information. Improve public services by liberating municipal funds previously used for training and liability insurance.

mpitraining.comT Ted Resnikoff [email protected]

myfrog Frogstop

myfrog Frogstop links online kids' games to an interactive Frog kiosk, located in communities across the world. Using GPS, webcams, and wireless, kids will help determine the health of their frog, by keeping their community green.

myfrog.ca LIsa Doyle [email protected]

Nebula by SuperNova7 Productions

SuperNova7 Productions provides an internet-based open source platform called Nebula, an interactive, transparent, measurable program offering real-time information for social entrepreneurs worldwide. Nebula seamlessly integrates a central contact management system, mobile applications and comprehensible metrics enabling social entrepreneurs to create, collaborate, and implement projects on a grander scale. By identifying individuals, resources, and organizations with common goals, Nebula results in a larger coordinated impact.

supernova7.org Tegy Thomas [email protected]

NeoAid.com

Donate at no cost to you by shopping online, searching, using free software and signing up to great special offers. It is the money paid by the advertisers which is donated to the causes that are important to you! Choose your cause, donate for free today with NeoAid.com

neoaid.com Vincent Cassar [email protected]

Ocean Revolution

SEEtheWILD will boost efforts to protect endangered wildlife through conservation tourism by promoting alternatives to destructive activities, increasing critical funding for conservation, and inspiring new wildlife activists. We will promote field conservation projects that offer a way for travelers to directly support their efforts and partner with top responsible tourism operators to get people to these sites.

seethewild.org Brad Nahill [email protected]

Open Forum Foundation

Connect with Change. Change the Connection. How can government and individuals communicate in a more effective and transparent way? Utilizing new media and Web 2.0 connectivity, the DC-based Open Forum Foundation is developing an open-source, online platform to expand political dialog; bringing a more functional level of discourse to the decision making process. Contact us today to discuss the possibilities.

openforumfoundation.org Wayne Burke [email protected]

Open Green Map - finalist

OpenGreenMap.org strengthens local networks and promotes global well-being by mapping important green living options, natural, cultural and social justice resources and collecting diverse public viewpoints. Inclusively sharing and comparing local sustainability initiatives, this innovative platform measures impact assessments while spurring valuable community participation and skill-building. Quick to publish, easy to update, expand and explore, Open Green Maps illuminate crucial resources and celebrate progress without barriers.

OpenGreenMap.org Wendy Brawer [email protected]

Peace it Together Society

Films have no borders, and neither should filmmaking. “Peace it Together” brings Palestinian and Israeli teenagers together to collaborate on short films that explore their experiences as youth in a conflict. Help us construct an interactive online filmmaking portal to allow these "adversaries" to continue to create together and stimulate constructive engagement within their respective communities -even when they cannot be together physically.

peaceittogether.ca Reena Lazar [email protected]

Policybrief

Policybrief aims to help the civic conversation around policy to compete with the often-deafening political debate. We?re building an attractive useable open source web facility to make this happen. It will enable professional producers and users of high-quality policy-related content to index and promote it. We want to break the beltway monopoly on this conversation and ensure that it can add value to policymaking processes.

policybrief.org Paul Evans [email protected]

reduction of prostitution by empowering them.

We wish to reduce prostituion by empowering young women to be financial stable and in turn reduce HIV and AIDS.

Reporters for an Interactive, Cooperative and

Specialized Information

?GLocal? Reporting Web Platform - Bridging North/South communities through participatory cross-border investigative stories targeted on local media/audience. Developing an open-source multilingual platform (integrating digital team-working and communication tools) on our Freereporter.info website, to produce, market and distribute investigations on development issues (human rights, life resources and corporate/public accountability) affecting two or more communities located in distant geographical areas: Western World Communities and Developing World Communities

freereporter.info stefano valentino [email protected]

Robert Joseph: The Saving History

Agenda

The Saving History Agenda efforts to digitize, index, archive and make public indigenous content that represents near 100 years of history on medium that is deteriorating in Local Cable Access closets. The SHA builds a work force of archiving specialist trained to use a small configuration of tools, protocols and a database driven by an intelligent ?story-discovery? engine to build hyper-local public/private content archives.

i2iconcepts.net/nm Robert Joseph [email protected]

Ronda's Dream Center

Ronda?s Dream Center will be a visual therapy center at Fairview Developmental Center in California. The Dream Center will provide a creative and stimulating visual environment for developmentally disabled residents. The Dream Center is divided into two rooms: Create and Explore. The Create room uses an interactive projector that responds to movement. The Explore room allows users to view wall-size imagery in a 360-degree space.

firstgiving.com/RondasDreamCenter Julia Cohen [email protected]

Rooms For Peace

Rooms For Peace www.roomsforpeace.org connects folks traveling with lodging money and like-hearted people with guest rooms. The travelers stay in a donated guest rooms which liberates that lodging money to be redirected to affiliated peace, justice and environmental charities like yours. Because both traveler and host choose a favorite recipient charity for part of the money, charities and their supporters replace competition with cooperation.

roomsforpeace.org John D Brown [email protected]

Rutas Perú

Create a multimedia site for tourists to present new trips and adventures in Peru, from an independent traveler's perspective. To publish reports, tour plans, videos and photos in excellent quality to convince visitors to take the same routes. The web site would include stories, advices and important information. Furthermore, to open a travel community, for people who wants learn more about trips and places.

[email protected] (511) 996405191 http://twitter.com/rutasperu

Samasource, Inc.

Samasource helps small tech firms in marginalized regions connect to a global client base under a common brand, creating much-needed jobs for the 130M skilled workers in Africa and rural Asia that remain unemployed. In six months and with minimal seed funding, Samasource brokered over $85K in contracts for 8 small firms in Kenya, India, and Nepal, and trained 300 young developers in social networking technology.

samasource.com Jennifer Hugo [email protected]

Sapna Magazine

A multi-media platform for the south asian american women that gives them the tools, community, and platform to build their unique history and live their best lives.

sapnamagazine.com Natasha Khan [email protected]

SeeClickFix (Finalist)

SeeClickFix is a free web-tool that allows citizens to document non-emergency problems and to report them to those accountable for the public space. See a problem in the world, click it on the web map or via your mobile phone, and SeeClickFix automatically notifies interested parties. Anyone can collaborate to ensure the right people know about the problem and are held accountable for solving it.

seeclickfix.com Miles Lasater [email protected]

Self-Chec

Can you imagine what it would be like to live in a nation that was driven by prevention and wellness care, instead of sickness care? We would all be able to help change our odds of getting sick in the first place.

SELFCHEC.ORG Joan Peckolick [email protected]

SHELTER2HOME

SHELTER2HOME (S2H) has developed an innovative Emergency Shelter that can be deployed to provide relief for those displaced by natural disaster, war or poverty. What?s unique about S2H is that our shelters can be converted into permanent homes that are highly resistant to future disasters, fire, termites, etc. Nothing is thrown away when converted thus making them environmentally friendly and sustainable.

shelter2home.com Donald Stevens [email protected]

Social Capital Value Add (SCVA)

(finalist)

Social media is emerging globally as the dominate media. SCVA is a valuation and management method that links social media to corporate value. It focuses executives on changing their game. Ah ha! Corporate success depends on social accountability. With WeMedia support we can design a SCVA open source software solution and obtain the commitment of several large corporations to trial SCVA and report the results.

socialcapitalvalueadd.com Michael Cayley [email protected]

Song Of A Citizen

An innovative web video series exploring what it really means to be a responsible citizen in modern times, and why it matters. Using a unique visual style, we feature prominent thinkers, artists, and self-governance experts sharing insights on the urgent need to upgrade our roles as citizens -- not only as an obligation to the common good -- but because it's in our own self-interest as well.

songofacitizen.blogspot.com Jeffrey Abelson [email protected]

SpaceforGOOD

SpaceforGood.org is a place for nonprofits and other charitable organizations- using video, pictures, and sound- to tell the compelling stories about the good work that they do; and more importantly, to give a voice through these media to the people and places that benefit from their work. SpaceforGood.org invites charitable organizations to post short, compelling videos on its website free of charge. SpaceforGood plans to work with other online media, particularly news media, to draw a viewing audience to the videos on its site. As the viewing audience for the videos grows, SpaceforGood.org will become a key resource for charitable organizations to reach out to new donors and for the public to learn about and support charities. SpaceforGood plans to underwrite its operational cost by inviting select for-profit sponsors- good corporate citizens who produce environmentally-friendly products and/or raise money for charitable causes- publish short videos on the site that show how they contribute to the greater good.

SpaceforGood.org Kristen Milhollin [email protected]

Sugar Head

Post-glam media of post-consumerism era. Thanks to both global financial and environmental crises, glam is dead. So does its standards of over-consumerism, ignorance and carelessness, along with the glossy media that have promoted them over last dozens of years. Another media is needed to replace glam mythology, to transfer, disseminate and support contribution against consumption, social and environmental responsibility against ignorance, participation against advertisement.

Galina Raguzina [email protected]

Tales from Enchanted Lands

An international film project that connects people in fragile ecosystems around the world with exceptional filmmakers, to craft a treasure of extraordinary short films.

enchantedlands.wordpress.com/ Nitin Das [email protected]

The Abraham Fund Initiatives

ACCESS serves as a virtual platform that provides ACESSibility for Jewish and Arab educators in Israel to form new ventures in the teaching of coexistence in Israeli schools. The bilingual participatory website provides a platform where schools, NGOs, the Ministry of Education and other educators can share and collaboratively develop ideas, programs and resources promoting values of tolerance, democracy, equality and social responsibility.

Tamar Tsamir [email protected] 972-2-534-9300 ext 856

The Extraordinaries

Smartphone software that allows someone to use micro amounts of spare time for social good. We deliver volunteer tasks on-demand directly to the phone like a stream of new adventures, that people complete on the phone in a few minutes, while riding the bus or waiting in line. It'sinformation age volunteerism, enabling doctors, scientists, organizations, and more to harness the power of the crowd.

BeExtra.org Jacob Colker [email protected]

The Generation Project

The Generation Project isn't about our idea. We're all about your ideas. We're about bringing your vision for education, society, and the future to life. You are the heart of The Generation Project. We need you, and you need us. Learn more at www.thegenerationproject.org.

thegenerationproject.org Jessica Rauch [email protected]

The Global Community Project

Do you believe that to solve enviroment and poverty issues we must work together as a critical mass? If so, visit www.thegcproject.org to see a plan and a framework for how we can do this. The Global Community Project.

thegcproject.org Hélène Julien [email protected]

The TIDY (Talents Identification and Development for everYone) centre After interviewing thousands, I found that

many were not practicing a profession that was enabling them succeed in life. I developed a system in 1988 to re-orient people live better lives by identifying and developing Talents/Strengths and building human relationships. I am seeking funds and partners to broadcast the system that enables people to live meaningfully and the world to have talented leaders. Join me!

tidycentre.com Sunimal Alles [email protected]

TV Republic

TV Republic, structured virtual world for Massive Multiuser Online Roleplay Generator - MMORPG. Gameplay emphasizes the role of medias in public diplomacy and possible ways to use or misuse it in modern society.

vrinternal.com/tvrepublic/index.html Zlatomir Zarkov [email protected]

TVbyGIRLS

Teenage girls, leadership and media tools. Girls change the media universe by making films about their lives. TVbyGIRLS works with girls, ages 11 to 19, to develop leadership, cross cultural communication and social change using the tools of media. Every girl has the potential to shape a better world and TVbyGIRLS does just that. Girls learn to make media, TVbyGIRLS brings those stories to everyone.

tvbygirls.tv Rebecca Bullen [email protected]

Twin Cities Media Alliance

Our idea is to combine an old community development tool ? community asset mapping ? with digital-age tools-- GIS map mash-ups, the Drupal online content management system, and crowdsourcing-- to create a new resource that community members can use to share information about the economic, social and cultural resources in their community.The digital update makes asset mapping more accessible, useful and affordable.

tcdailyplanet.net Jeremy Iggers [email protected]

Venturi Wind Ventures (FINALIST)

We are changing the world: Providing- AFFORDABLE RENEWABLE CLEAN NATURAL ENERGY Sub 100 Watt = Windbelt: "The Breeze" 100 Watt and greater = Wind Turbine "The Jet Stream" Coupled with 100% recycled electronics components, solar and reclaimed copper wire Providing hydrogen fuel cell powered water purification to needy countries in dire need of clean water Energy must become CLEAN GREEN AFFORDABLE This is NO LONGER optional!

venturiwindventures.blogspot.com/ Allen Gagle [email protected]

VillageVelocity

Village Velocity (www.villagevelocity.com) advances the mission of microfinance through education. Our website hosts videos of microfinance events, which can be accessed for a fee. By hosting events online, the content (including best practices from field practitioners, hot button industry issues, moral or ethical dilemmas, and industry challenges) can reach a broader base of practitioners and industry participants and further advance the mission of microfinance.

villagevelocity.com Kathy Walter [email protected]

Volunteers Against Smoking and

Tobacco

Smokers! Thro away CIGARETTES and become a Non-Smokers with REGURETTEs. It is a look-alike a Cigarette - but filled with energy-drinks and a Smoking Cessation Tool. No Nicotine. No Smoke. No pollution. Only Energy, Health and so good and so well for you, your family, Society.

Regunathan V [email protected]

VV Chandra Mouli & V Veena

Headlines appear and disappear; many a time for ever, leaving behind unanswered questions, truth & policy changes followed half way through. More times than not, this is because, media?s focus keeps moving, and so does policy makers priorities. ForgottenHeadlines.com, will aggregate public opinion about issues which were “yesterday’s headlines” and ensure that they are followed through to their logical conclusion.

forgottenheadlines.com Chandra Mouli Vissa [email protected]

Women Business Center

We aim to create specific actions at an individual, organizational, community as well as at national level a shared understanding of the key factors driving economic hardships and HIV and AIDS epidemic so as to minimize hunger and the effect of the AIDS epidemic respectively. Our interest is to forge action and advance the rights of women and social justice in Africa.

womenbizcenter.wordpress.com Isaac Aggrey [email protected]

Women News Network - WNN + World Voice International - WVI

Disadvantaged global woman = NEED NEED = ACTION How? Let them speak! Citizen journalism is powerful. Articles can post on Google Earth. WNN + WVI will host from Zambia, Nigeria, Egypt, Nepal, Afghanistan, Central India and Bulgaria. Change global women's lives! Say YES!

womennewsnetwork.net Lys Anzia [email protected]

World Food Garden

WorldFoodGarden.org proposes to create an online tool to transform any layperson with internet access into a sustainable gardening expert. By applying sustainable gardening "rules" from the most in-depth research today to a set of inputs provided by the potential gardener, our system will yield a visible garden plan, planting calendar, tutorials on planting those crops, and suggested seed varieties according to the gardener's location.

worldfoodgarden.org Eve Sibley [email protected]

Write On! Books

In a recent national assessment of fourth-grade students, 13% reported never reading for fun on their own; an additional 16% only read for fun once a month. In a world saturated with electronic media, teachers are having an increasing problem getting their students excited about reading. Write On! Books will publish collections of poems, stories and essays written by young people that are relatable, exciting and fun to read for young audiences, because who knows kids better than kids themselves? We will sell our books directly to schools and teachers. The customer pays up front when ordering; a discount for pre-orders will encourage a large number of customers-in-hand when printing the books ? we already have pre-orders from two California schools! In addition, we will funnel a portion of the proceeds directly back to the schools to fund libraries and school arts programs.

writeonbooks.org Dallas Woodburn [email protected]

Yenza

Yenza will partner with travel-exchange program and empower American and African youth with 21st century global citizenship skills, teaching them to use story-telling, research, technology & collaborative media to work on year-long global citizenship projects. We will help them continue their connection & share stories in a global frame and will disseminate projects through podcasts, radio stories, photo exhibits, mainstream media, children?s books etc.

yenza.org Czerina Patel [email protected]

Youth Interactive Portal for

Enterprise (Yipe.org)

Yipe.org is an online portal providing free business startup information and resources for East African youth entrepreneurs, in a region where over 70% of micro, small and medium enterprises do not survive their first year of operation. The portal is the first of its kind in East Africa that is specifically aimed at promoting entrepreneurship development amongst the youth.

yipe.x10hosting.com Fiona Mati [email protected]

Normal Folks

Take Two is a nonprofit organization dedicated to getting students involved in global issues through the use of digital media. Each year, professional-quality video footage will be made available to educational institutions free of charge. Students will edit this high-definition video in classroom projects, developing global citizenship and social responsibility. Students will ultimately take their work on the road to educate a wider audience.

Karin Muller [email protected]

Locccal

Locccal gets your community to tell you everything it knows about what is happening now. We are a mainstream news platform that turns freely generated user content into valuable property. Instead of telling our audience what is happening, we create an interface that enables them to tell each other."

locccal.com Cody Brown [email protected]

LOCAL.NEWSDESK.ORG

A network of independent but affiliated LOCAL.NEWSDESK.ORG bureaus can transform local journalism nationwide! Non-politicized, commercial-free, these bureaus will put professional journalists to work, spur civic dialogue, and focus on underserved communities and important but overlooked issues. The bureaus will fund themselves with earned income AND philanthropy, and develop peer-run newsrooms linked in a cross-promotional network, nurturing innovation on the ground and multiplying impacts and outcomes.

newsdesk.org Josh Wilson [email protected]

Ben White

Raise awareness; improve accountability and transparency in development aid through independent local monitoring and evaluation of community Water and Sanitation projects. Train local African reporters in key issues related to sustainability, socio-economic and health impacts, corruption prevention and monitoring and evaluation basics. Empower the participants with new media tools needed to document local stories for local and international audiences. Share the lessons learned.

Ben White [email protected]

The Extraordinaries

The Extraordinaries: Smartphone software that allows someone to use micro amounts of spare time for social good. We deliver volunteer tasks on-demand directly to the phone like a stream of new adventures, that people complete on the phone in a few minutes, while riding the bus or waiting in line. It's information age volunteerism, enabling doctors, scientists, organizations, and more to harness the power of the crowd.

theextraordinaries.com Jacob Colker [email protected]

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