We can empower others to do more with scarce resources.
We want to provide the Top 25 American Express Members Projects (and their recommended fulfillment organizations) with custom software-as-a-service to ensure that their projects will not only be implemented, but sustained—for years to come. Without technology it’s hard for people and organizations to do the things they want to do on a scale they want to do it. Technology improves long-term sustainability. Custom software delivers real-time intelligence, leading to better visibility across the organization, and faster decision-making. The problem is charities often have small technology budgets. So they’re left with inefficient paper-based processes and spreadsheets to solve life-sized problems. That makes it difficult to solve those problems effectively.
Some projects and their fulfillment organizations may want custom software-as-a-service to report their impact to evidence-based funders. Others may want dashboards to track performance indicators on demand—to understand what’s working and what’s not, to prevent problems, and to be more effective. Others may need software to manage logistics, improve collaboration, connect with volunteers, tap into people-centered community platforms, or create knowledge-banks.
We’ve seen time and time again how when people have better visibility into their programs, and when they can more effectively communicate and collaborate, they can more effectively advance their mission, and expand their impact. Technology is playing an increasingly vital role in helping nonprofits create large-scale, sustainable impact.
And when it comes to improving sustainability, research shows that funders would give more to charities if they were able to determine the impact of their gifts, and if they received a better Social Return on Investment (SROI). And that’s where advanced reporting technologies come in.
The Top 25 Members Projects have a huge opportunity to make a broad, positive impact in our world—but only if their impact can scale exponentially. Without technological capacity, it’s hard to turn ideas into large-scale impact that lasts. Few ideas create change that extends beyond what a few people can achieve alone. Customized software increases leverage, but barriers to access are high. Imagine what would happen if we squashed those barriers to magnify the impact of ALL 25 Members Projects?

WOlf Gardens Wildlife Center is loacted in the East Centtral mountains of Alabama. Over half of Clay County is located in the Talladega National Forest.

We are home to a number of endangered adn protected wildlife species.

The completion of Wolf Gardens Wildlife Center which is a Wildlife Rescue, Rehab adn Education Center, animals that have been left to live or die in their own will be able to have help.

Our education program will teach not only about the badly needed conservation needs but will also work to create protected boundaries in National Forest ares for wild release of rehabilitated animals.

Our education orogram will also focus on the ills of breedin gwild animals for pets.

On the up said we will also develop interpretive trails and educational programs on environmental conservation,wildlife conservation and the need for volunteers and interaction through general public interest.

Nature based and wildlife based tourism will be developed in order to make Wolf Gardens Sel Supportive inclding campgrounds and RV parks in order to improved economic community development for our local communities.

By using Wolf Gardens Wildlife Center we will be able to teach other very rural communities how do develop good, strong economies for theri areas without destroying their environments.

Wolf Gardens wants to set te standards for Wildlife Centers not simply follow the standards.

Wolf Gardens Wildlife Center is  the community development prooject of the First Nations Outreach Project a 501 (c) 3 Native American Religious Non Prooooofit Organization.

Rural farmers in Butaleja District will commercialize their agricultural activities. Farmers will integrate GPRS,Mobile SMS technology and Community Radio for market intelligence sharing on agro-enteprise. The project through strategic public-private partnerships aims to revamp the defunct public warehouses to establish the Warehouse Reciept System(WRS) to facilitate collective storage of produce, market information sharing and thus improved incomes for poor rural farmers.

The liberalization of the agricultural sector in Uganda resulted into the collapse of the cooperative movement which was a public vehicle for collective marketing and transportation of enterprises with the support of government. Farmers relied on this infrastructure such as government silos, warehouses and the transport chain with a one stop-center for export called the Uganda Commodities Exchange(UCE). Economic liberalization rendered public intervention and therefore these parastatals in irrelevant living farmers to the dictates of the market economy.

Uganda is a land-locked country.80% of the citizens are rural-based and engaged in subsistence agriculture. The net effect of lack of market access has aggravated poverty. It is the most vulnerable cohort of the population that requires strategic interventions to stimulate enterprises and market development.

This project is bringing in a new vision in the relation between government and citizens, government and private sector. It is a different vision from the present one in the sense that it practically opposes the ongoing methods which has brought my country and many others to the summit of corruption world wide in which every form of information related to public and even private services are marketed.  To distinguish itself, the project, will facilitate access to information for both public and private use for free (through our website, telephone calls and sms), to all stake holders and citizens thus abolishing barriers that in the past encouraged corrupt practices, discouraged investors and slowed down development.In a nutshell, this project will bring the world (through information and services) closer to the people, with the aim to encourage investors to partake in the nation building process. This project will be providing genuine information both from the private and public services; involved in establishing official documents in all sectors of life: business, private and public initiatives, micro finance, partnership, opportunities in diverse

Those who want to contribute while traveling will be able to get the information and support they need; they will also be able to give back information and support needed by others.

The world will change because contributive travel will become easier and more commonplace: more contributive acts -> more good examples, more help given, traveler is better in touch with a community, community is better in touch with the traveler. we all learn, we all improve.  

1.3 million New Yorkers face hunger and food insecurity. This project will combine the nationally-recognized map-making software of HungerMaps.org with New York City's most comprehensive database of over 1,200 soup kitchens and food pantries and the Donate Now API to increase the capacity of hunger response in NYC. 

As a result, users will be able to use an existing Google Maps interface lauded by TechSoup to locate and donate to emergency food providers in their neighborhood. This grassroots fundraising strategy will both address the under-capacity of many NYC soup kitchens and food pantries to feed a growing number of clients and personalize the monumental scale of hunger in NYC, allowing donors to target their contributions at the local level.

HungerMaps.org is the nation’s first GIS mashup to support anti-hunger advocacy and service provision, transforming local data into a national portrait of needs and resources as the basis for direct action. At the heart of HungerMaps is a free, user-friendly GIS mapping interface that enables registered users to upload local data and create interactive, online maps on-the-fly.

The New York City Coalition Against Hunger (NYCCAH) represents the more than 1,200 nonprofit soup kitchens and food pantries in New York City and the more than one million low-income New Yorkers who are forced to use them. The Coalition works to meet the immediate food needs of low-income New Yorkers and enact innovative solutions to help them move "beyond the soup kitchen" to self-sufficiency.

StuffBee aims to promotes “give and take” on Mobiles

StuffBee gives the opportunity to anybody having redundant objects to avoid trashing them by meeting other persons in need of those objects within the same geographic area, thanks to their mobile and Internet.

Benefits are multiple: increasing interaction between unknown persons, save time and money, avoid recycling.

At first sight, this project may seems exactly the same as "Freecycle Cellular Osmosis" but the application is operational and the project scope is broader:

- Deploy the ultimate "give & take" application in hands of 3 billion users.

- Broadcast the free object database created by mobile users with existing "give & take" websites to unify users of Internet and Mobile communities.

- Help bulky object departments to broadcast reusable stuff to persons living within the publication area instead of recycling usable objects.

- Help local humanitarian associations by increasing visibility of available items and give a better service to people in need.

StuffBee has been designed initially for Android mobiles. It will soon be ported to all other mobiles.

StuffBee is operational and shows an attractive, compelling, multithread design optimized to offer a rich give & take user experience.

Languages available are English and French.
In June, StuffBee will feature 10 Languages scaled to a total of 70 languages in September.

People over fifties who are actually a marginal population will have the  opportuntity  live with dignity.

We cannot change the world with this project but  we can make a better world. 

Givvy is a comprehensive online giving management system launching in early June. This is a real project with a dedicated team working without funding at this point.

Charitiable giving is personally and emotionally rewarding. By providing a framework and set of tools to improve the way we support our causes, Givvy users will feel more satisfied and successful with their giving.

Givvy is a system to enable donors to accomplish the following:

1. easily create and manage their giving plan
2. research over 1 million charities/nonprofits
3. execute their giving (donate thorugh Network for Good) and track donations made via other methods (mail, phone, etc.)
4. analyze their giving footprint - what types of charities, what geographic reach, how close their actual giving is to their plan, etc.

At Givvy we believe that better tools for giving can result in a better world.

This is a simple mashup using Network for Good’s donation API, with a particular focus on enhancing the donor experience with a virtualization of recent donations.

The NFG API mashed-up with a Google map would show all donations made to specific causes (by location) for a given time period over a US or World map.

This could be used on the homepage of Network for Good - to inspire others based on the action currently taking place.