I believe that we can all benefit from learning how to cook and eat consciously. If you have a healthy recipe, please post it in the comments. We want to empower people to eat healthier and lower the rate of obesity in the U.S. We plan to publish and sell an e-cookbook if there is enough interest. Ingrid and the Holistic Health Club Team at http://yoga.meetup.com/552/

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.

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.

This will make it so easy to donate small amounts that it will rapidly gain acceptance, and raise oodles of money like never before. Hopefully, this will allow us to find the cure for brain tumors.

The idea is to create a mashup that would allow major online retailers like amazon, ebay, buy.com, etc to add one line of code to thier checkout form, which interacts with the network for good API.  This API will allow people to manage thier preferences - which would be to select a non-profit to donate to, as well as to elect to round up the purchase price to the nearest dollar - and then add 1 dolllar to it. For example: Once a user registers, there is a cookie set in thier profile which says they want to support the musella foundation and to OK the addition of the donation to the order. They go to amazon.com, and when they checkout, the network for good API alerts the checkout form that we are participating - and to add the donation to the total. If the total is 25.25, this would round up to 26, then add 1 for a total of $27.  Of this, the $1.25 goes to the charity.

   Nobody will really object - it is such a small amount at each transaction, but there are millions of such transactions each week, which could raise over a million dollars in donations per week!

Unfortunately, I don't have the know how to program the api part and would need a volunteer to help!

Hundreds of environmental organizations will be able to collaborate, add/see/utilize each other's posted environmental events from all over the world.

Work has already begun and well on its way, but we need a programmers to implement certain features.

We have found over 100 event calendars so far (and are still receiving an average of 1-2 per day) and contacted many of them. It is very difficult for an event planner to submit to so many calendars, as well as people looking for events needing to search many calendars. We aim to allow one submission which will spread to all calendars/social networks/websites/widgets to easily find events. All organizations will spend less time inputing events, approving events, and finding events.

Events will be spread virally across the internet to spread awareness of local events which showcase events, workshops, classes, film festivals, conferences, etc. Those events bring awareness to environmental efforts and education for protecting and enhancing nature and the environment around us.

This all includive calendar will also allow event registration, social networking around the events, carpooling to events, and a place to share photography/video of the events.

Thousands of communities will be able to access data and map resources in their neighborhoods quickly, easily and at no cost to them. Advocates and service providers will be able to use a high-quality, well-designed, reliable platform for uploading data of their choosing and mapping that data against a wide range of demographic data, area resources, and other variables. This project will also allow nonprofit and community advocates across the U.S. to share and learn from each other how they can better use the power of mapping to advocate for and inform change. Not least, communities will be spared countless hours of effort and scarce dollars trying to build such tools from scratch, enabling them to focus more on the important work of finding the right data locally and interacting with people and organizations in their communities. The goal of our project is to make the public functionality of HealthyCity.org, the mapping tool we developed to serve Los Angeles, available throughout the U.S., free of charge, to nonprofit and community organizations. We believe this can be done in a fairly cost-effective and sustainable way, and we are looking for good thinking on how best to do it.
Examples of how Healthy City has worked in Los Angeles include:
- Mapping of overcrowded, multi-track calendar schools, to support a proposal of $25 billion in school construction bonds approved by California voters
- Analysis of areas of highest need for preschool facilities in Los Angeles, leading to over $100 million commitment of funds to develop preschool space
- Mapping of violent crimes and analysis of prevalence of gang crime, to identify priority areas for the City of Los Angeles
- Mapping the mismatch between concentrations of homeless people and availability of shelter space
- Grants analysis for foundations, including determining the location of grantees, the dimensions of their service areas (with information gathered by survey), and the magnitude of grant dollars relative to target population in grantees’ service areas

We have found 2 major problems that the Internet presents for both the western world and the 3 billion people living on less than $2/day (see http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Facts.asp):
1) Those without Internet have comparatively no information
2) Those with the Internet have information overload

What if we were to solve 2 problems at one time? What if we delivered information to people without Internet access via the quickly expanding 2 billion cellular phone users worldwide? And what if we did it all through keyword-filtering of RSS feeds of their favorite sites and information?

What if we created a partnership of CellAlert.net with non-profits that can apply to use a CellAlert Open API which allows them a completely customized mashup of their own design (within the CellAlert Open API rules)?

In short, we have so many mashup possibilities, we hope you'll want to mash CellAlert.net and FreeAlert.org with non-profit organizations anywhere they need to distribute urgent content to the 2 billion cell phones in the world. So why not go with the approach of an "API mashup"?

I am the co-founder and CEO of FreeAlert.org and of CellAlert.net. My applications are RSS search technologies that instantly notify subscribers 24 hours per day by cell phone and/or email of the items that the subscribers are seeking when the item appears in any RSS feed they search worldwide. The flagship application we started with is called FreeAlert.org. Since that time, we've expanded to include http://www.cellalert.net and expanding soon to http://www.Africalert.org, http://www.Asialert.org and http://www.Americasalert.org

FreeAlert.org is an RSS search technology that instantly notifies subscribers 24 hours per day by cell phone and/or email of the *free* items that they are seeking on Craigslist whenever the item appears in any Craigslist RSS feed they search worldwide.

We hope that one of our mashup ideas will be something that you will facilitate.

Currently we are focused on El Salvador, but we see tremendous potential for good purposes being served and facilitated by text alerts in developing nations worldwide!

We hope the site will be a place where Californians can see how various aspects of their communities affect their health. The information displayed will be a catalyst for online conversation and action, and hopefully infuse the public discourse on health care reform with new voices advocating for both equity and access.

Based on feedback from partners, The Opportunity Agenda will map a number of state-wide health issues, integrating data at the smallest feasible geographic level (e.g., Census tract or zip code level). For example, these maps could display the location of key community-level health resources, such as the presence of community health centers and hospitals, the availability of language assistance services, as well as health risks, such as concentrated poverty, sources of environmental degradation, industrial waste sites, etc. We will also present a demographic data overlay on the map, to show how the distribution of health risks and resources across communities contribute to health disparities. The demographic data will be periodically updated and changed using a geoserver, so that the map will change as neighborhoods do. User-generated content—stories, ideas, and activism contributed by everyday Californians—will also be a feature of these maps, which will allow users to understand how to use the site and enter their own content. To support partners’ advocacy, we will incorporate a letter-writing capacity and a networking function in the form of either a blog, forum, or organic groups. The site has the potential to be a platform for members of all communities to become citizen journalists, community researchers, or simply more informed about the health resources in their neighborhood.

Through this project, international travellers will be better informed about health risks in their destinations. Before they travel, they can find out if any vaccination is required for the destination country, and if there has been any recent outbreak of infectious diseases. With this information they can take appropriate precautions to protect themselves from contracting infectious diseases which can sometimes quickly pose threat to a large population.Destinations where accommodation is of poor quality, hygiene and sanitation are inadequate, medical services do not exist, and clean water is unavailable may pose serious risks for the health of travellers. In these settings, stringent precautions must be taken to avoid illness. The mashup can provide such information to travellers.The impact of this awareness can be immense considering the volume and growth of international travel. World Travel Monitor data shows that air travel now accounts for some 52% of all outbound trips globally and there were 846 million international arrivals in 2006. And holidays account for more than two-thirds of all trips.According to the World Tourism Organization (http://www1.messe-berlin.de/vip8_1/website/MesseBerlin/htdocs/www.fair.i...) the growth in travel continues to exceed expectations; a 5.7 % increase was forecast for 2007 alone. With such increasing travel, the risk of a rapid spread of infectious diseases is real. And the strategy to prevent it has to include steps to ensure health protection of international travellers.