Housing & Shelter
Givvy - Giving Management + Network for Good
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:
- easily create and manage their giving plan
- research over 1 million charities/nonprofits
- execute their giving (donate thorugh Network for Good) and track donations made via other methods (mail, phone, etc.)
- 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.
We are mashing up IRS data on 1.4m charities, user reviews and ratings, wiki pages for each charity, and more. In addition, we are joining this data to merchant-funded rebate malls to generate donations through shopping, auction services and more.
This is our first social venture.
We need funding to cover license fees and initial launch activity.
Network for Good: http://www.fundraising123.org/files/NFG_DonateWebSvc_Guide.doc
IRS Data: www.irs.gov
Online Mall: www.mallnetworks.com
Network for Good & Google Maps Donation Mashup
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.
As with any Google Map, all the "bubbles" will be clickable to show detailed information.
The WITNESS Video Hub map is a good example of other work we have done similar to this project:
Financial resources to make it happen.
Simply the Google Maps API and the NFG API.
Map This!
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
HealthyCity.org currently offers users access to over 120 demographic and community characteric variables, from 9 different data sources. Our data and sources are described in detail at: http://www.healthycity.org/c/help/sc/indicator. For the proposed national service, some of the California-specific data sources may not be available nationally (such as data from the California Health Interview Survey or from the WIC program), but their functions may be replaced by other data sets. There are a number of health and economic data that state and federal offices use that are only available at the county level (so they cannot be displayed on our current site); offering a national view will make comparisons and disparities between counties and states accessible to users. Users will be able to:
- Upload their own data sets
- Overlay data points on top of demographic and other data
- Map and analyze data within a radius around an address, or within a ZIP code, city, legislative districts or other jurisdictions
- View core demographic and other data for the selected geography in tables and charts
- View assets, such as schools, parks, fire and police stations, on an interactive map, with types of service (identified by icons)
- Identify information about assets or service providers by scrolling over their icons
- Cut and analyze data by over 60 demographic, health and other indicators
Healthy City is entering its 5th year of service, and will be launching version 3.0, featuring new and upgraded capabilities and features, this June. Using an adaptation of open source software we developed, and the Los Angeles region’s most comprehensive database of public and nonprofit resources (schools, parks, community centers, health clinics), HealthyCity.org enables community residents, nonprofit organizations, advocates, public officials and civic leaders to see and analyze the distribution of critical community assets in relation to essential demographic information, electoral and school district boundaries and the like. HealthyCity.org offers unprecedented access to the largest public database of community resources, demographic and health data for the region, paired with best-of-breed database and GIS mapping technology.
We need help with the design of this planned expansion. Specific questions we will need assistance with include:
- What technical infrastructure will be necessary to support this national service, and enable it to handle high loads with high reliability?
- Should we phase in the development? Should we begin, for example, with covering California, or a specific region, or the most populous states, first, or should we roll out a basic level of service nationally?
- What county, state and federal-level data should we offer to users? (Since our current focus is on Los Angeles County, our data is rich from the level of census blocks up to the county level).
- How can we financially sustain this project as a free service, including the costs of storing data uploaded by thousands of users, going forward? Is there a revenue model (advertising, or custom services for subscribers)?
http://www.healthycity.org/
http://www.healthycity.org/c/help/sc/indicator - Data sources and descriptions
RezSpace
Portland, Oregon has a homeless “problem,†one it is working devotedly to addressing with its 10 year plan (begun in 2005) to end homelessness by 2015.
At the same time, many pundits and politicians feel that resources are going unaccessed or improperly accessed. An often bandied about figure is that the majority of resources devote to homeless support go unused, either because they are unneeded or the incorrect type of support. A Space to Start believes that resources and their access are spatially bound and by understanding this relationship, resources can be better applied in the community. This project seeks to create a better understanding of where specific types of resources are needed based on where the homeless typically engage in daily activities. By utilizing our rich background in ethnographic research, we wish to create a “map†of homeless individuals – where they exist and how they travel, where they go and where they don’t. This will be entered into a GIS map using GPS locations.
This is only half of our dataset, the other half will consist of the locations and utilized rates of the over 95 homeless support organizations in the Portland metro area. We will track maximum support capable of being given along with the amount that is actually given with a particular emphasis on where funding is allocated and where it is not.
By using our combined skillsets – ethnographic research and GIS creation – we will create a visually rendered map mash up that challenges the flawed concept of a surplus of resources. Instead illustrating the importance and specificity of space and its deterministic character in an urban environment.
This will create something useful both by homeless advocates and policy makers attempting to enact Portland’s 10 year plan successfully. It will give everyone a visual representation of their policies in action and enable the better allocations of resources. It will also provide an understanding of why some resources are used while others abandoned.
Our goal is to create new, actionable knowledge illustrated by our map that can then be used both by homeless individuals, to find available resources, homeless advocates, to maximize the utilization of resources, and policy makers to better understand and address the complex issue of ending a social injustice.
The completed map and its related data will be hosted on our website and submitted to local government officials and homeless-support organizations. Similar in design to Portland’s existing “crime†map this resource will be used, rather than to enforce fear and injustice, but to alter fundamental assumptions of the issues at stake – creating, for the first time, a visual representation of the correlation between the spaces used in daily activities and resources. Hopefully this can strengthen the use of resources available to Portland’s homeless population by creating or strengthening resources in spaces that are already occupied by the population in need.
Within this specific cause area, we have only done our on the ground volunteering, at shelters, pantries, and the like, working on the immediate problems and their alleviations.
A Space to Start has an extensive background in ethnographic research as well as a basic understanding of GIS.
We are fully capable of transferring databases into the GIS platform, what we lack is legal access to ArcGIS and would require the help of an advanced user for specific technical support.
Alchemlist
Alchemlist will make donating (stuff) as easy as item, zip, search while creating and expanding community around donation. People will discover non-profits that exist in their own communities, perhaps right next door, that they never knew existed, become aware of their needs, and be inspired to take action to help meet those needs.
Non-profits (especially small non-profits) will receive increased donation of in-kind items and greater visibility that leads not only to donations but to more volunteers and monetary donations as well. The site will help raise awareness about all the non-profits working in our communities and their needs as well as the issues that they formed to address so that we can help ease the needs of our neighbors.
Alchemlist will help save landfill space (and closet space!) as people find homes for items they would have thrown in the trash or gathered dust in their home.
A greater sense of community and altruism will be fostered.
Alchemlist will merge information provided by thousands of non-profits with proven geolocation and mapping technology. Non-profits will provide the information on who they are, what their purpose is, who they serve, and (most importantly) what they need. Visitors to Alchemlist will provide information on what they have and where they are located.
- Users can search for specific items/categories of items they have to donate and find a nearby non-profit that needs them.
- Users can search for non-profits in their geographic area and see what items they currently need
- Users will be able to see a map of non-profits
- In the future they will also be able to search for non-profits by category (Youth, etc)
- A Facebook application is also being developed that will allow people to see a map of non-profits near them. Non-profits with Urgent Needs are indicated with a different symbol. Leveraging Facebook's social networking capabilities with Alchemlist's non-profit wishlist compilation, people will be able to immediately communicate with each other and work together to help those in need
- In the next phase, users will be able to participate in a scavenger hunts feature where they can join teams and gather items for non-profits. Individuals and teams will be able to set goals, score points, and compete.
Most recently, I led/coordinated a "scavenger hunt" using Alchemlist to gather items for a local teen shelter, ROOTS. The shelter got a big influx of supplies and is now on all of our radars in case we come across the needed items throughout the rest of the year. It was a great team-building, community building endeavor. We shared laughs, ideas, and made lifelong friends in the process.
Volunteer/intern in a variety of non-profits: refugee resettlement (IRC), accessible cross-country ski trips with environmental education (ETC), Habitat for Humanity...
I make efforts to reduce, reuse, and recycle in my daily life!
Business/Legal Advice to determine if Alchemlist.org should be a 501c3, a social enterprise, or a for-profit business that donates a chunk of proceeds and help writing a business plan
Advertising/Marketing Assistance to determine what communities would receive the greatest benefit from Alchemlist and how to expand into them (marketing to non-profits and potential in-kind donors)
Graphic Design assistance to produce a cutting-edge look and feel which will compel users to use Alchemlist over and over.
Technical/Programming Assistance- to be able to link directly to non-profit wish lists listed on their sites, to fine-tune the FaceBook feature, create a map/directions feature, and implement the scavenger hunt
Some example non-profits are:
- Environmental Travelling Companions
- Northwest Center
- Roots Young Adult Center
- A full listing of currently registered non-profits is Here.
Alchemlist is currently beta-testing a Facebook application
Habitatmap
The built infastructure of our cities will come to reflect the ambitions and priorities of all the city's inhabitants, not just those with political and financial clout.
Historically, in every major city in America, poor communities of color have been burdened with more than their fair share of toxic infrastructure (e.g. waste transfer stations, power plants, sewage treatment facilities, freeways etc. etc.). Habitatmap's online community mapping platform will highlight these disparities, and our social networking tools will empower people to mobilize for equitable and livable cities.
Together, we have created a preliminary version of Habitatmap.org that is up and running on the web. Currently we are working to significantly extend the sites capabilities to include the following four tools:
1) Community Mapping: Points of interest on this map will be plotted by Habitatmap participants. All entries are open for edits and additions by other participants.
2) Community Forums: This is where participants come to share information or hash out their differences
3) Air Pollution Tracker: Individuals will go about their daily routines outfitted with portable air monitoring and GPS devices. Their route will be mapped with the accompanying air quality information and compared with EPA data.
4) Household Utilities Tracker: By punching in their zip code and selecting from a few drop-down menus, participants will find out where their natural gas, electricity, and water come from and where their sewage and trash wind up.
This suite of online tools have been designed to achieve two goals: 1) to represent the frequently nebulous connections between pollution and human health by tracking toxic substances as they are released, move through the environment, embed themselves in the human body, and manifest themselves as disease days, months, or years later 2) to establish a platform for participants to share local neighborhood information, debate community issues, arrange meet-ups, and organize politically.
We are currently campaigning for clean low sulfur heating oil in New York City.
For more information, download our fact sheet "Heating New York With Biodiesel, A Bad Idea" (pdf 452kb)
We are almost finished building the community mapping and forums portion of our as of yet unreleased site. We've got the designs and know where we want to go, but we need programmers who have significant experience with mashups and the Google Maps API, Ruby on the Rails, Javascript, and Ajax and are proficient in html and CSS.
Current site:
www.habitatmap.org
Renderings of the new site: http://habitatmap.org/CombinedPages_Habitatmap2.0.pdf (pdf, 14.7mb)
African Soul, American Heart
The African Soul, American Heart humanitarian project, supporting Sudanese Lost Boy and war orphan Joseph Akol Makeer, will build a orphanage / orphan center in Duk Payuel, southern Sudan, to provide food, shelter, school supplies, and other basic life needs for the 2,000+ orphans of that village. A really successful fundraising campaign will allow us to build other orphanages / orphan centers for the 16,000+ orphans in Duk County, southern Sudan. The project team has 30 hours of video footage; we are working towards a 30-50 minute documentary about Joseph's life and his goal of building an orphanage in his home village. The documentary will be complete by fall 2008; a fundraising goal of $100,000 has been set for fall 2009, the orphanage / orphan center will be operational by fall 2010, although some aid can be delivered as funds are raised.
- The complete documentary, African Soul, American Heart.
- Joseph Akol Makeer--he will be available for speaking engagements and screenings.
- YouTube shorts--comments enable, video replies welcome.
- Project blog--comments enabled.
- Project photos.
- A fundraising challenge: we are asking schools, churches, families, etc. to try and raise $2,500 in support of the project to be listed on the project website and subsequent printings of the documentary as major contributors.
We raised $30,000 in the fall of 2007, largely from local support and friends and family network. That money allowed four team members to travel to Sudan for filming and information gathering. We were also able to provide small-scale aid (food, school supplies, clothes).
The team is new to this kind of work, but we are working with other similar aid groups (The John Dau Foundation; The Colorado Friends of the Lost Boys and Girls of Sudan).
We can envision two mashups--old school and new school.
Old school: we would like to mash-up some of the data in a compelling way as an opening (or early) montage for our documentary. Possible elements include basic facts of modern history of Sudan, Google Earth movie showing Joseph's walk from Sudan to Ethiopia to Kenya--then resettlement in Fargo. We especially need help with the Google Earth Video component. This montage could also be a stand-alone video on YouTube and other video sharing sites.
New school: We would like to use some of the same material, but set up an interactive tour of (or perhaps educational quiz about) the history, geography, and contemporary situation of the region of Sudan we are working to bring aid to. Lots of help needed here.
We have much of the data in the form of photos, video footage, interviews and secondary sources, but we would really like to bring in Google Earth data. Joseph's village is about 50 miles from the location where Kevin Carter shot his Pulitzer Prize winning photograph in Sudan--now a data point in Google Earth.
TechMission Online
There is enormous potential in using the Internet to marshal the resources of faith-based communities to more effectively provide social services to under-resourced communities. Faith-based organizations make up 22 of the top 100 nonprofits in the USA, and over 90% of these organizations’ budgets are focused on social services. Faith-based volunteers in the USA provide over $51.8 billion in volunteer time each year. Christian organizations globally have a combined budget of $390 billion, and Christians together have a combined income of $18.17 trillion. Our vision is to use the Internet to greatly increase the amount of these resources that is going toward social services serving under-resourced communities.
Over the next ten years, the goal of our TechMission Online program is to use the Internet to deliver over $700 million in resources from the faith-based community to provide social services to under-resourced communities. Over the next 10 years, this will include serving over 50 million web visitors, placing 1 million volunteers, providing 150,000 items of creative commons content for nonprofits, providing nonprofit college courses to over 6,500 students and funding 700 full-time interns. The end goal is that these increased resources would enable organizations to serve millions more individuals in under-resourced communities, with hundreds of thousands of individuals participating in youth programs, being placed in jobs and college, receiving educational certification and participating in rehabilitation programs.
TechMission Online is a mashup utilizing partnerships with the largest Christian social service organizations in the world that serve over 15 million individuals from low-income communities each year. Our partners include the Salvation Army, the Association of Gospel Rescue Missions, World Vision, Youth Partners Net, Christian Community Development Association, Urban Youth Workers Institute and thousands of local social service agencies. We enable these partners to rebrand our online volunteer matching service and Web 2.0 portal to serve their individual communities. This enables us to provide a common database of opportunities and set of tools across many different partners. We also provide both Christian and secular brands of our online services so that we can effectively target Christian social service organizations while also providing resources without faith-content to other communities.
TechMission Online integrates thousands of faith-based social service organizations into our open source system which is a mashup using Drupal, Moodle, CiviCRM, Google Maps, Amazon, Flickr and YouTube. It includes:
•A directory of over 2,000 faith-based social service organizations mashed with Google maps to show where these services are offered. Goal: 10,000+ organizations in 5 years.
•A directory of 2,600+ volunteer opportunities in FBOs which will soon be a mashup with Google maps to show their locations through www.ChristianVolunteering.org (Christian brand) and www.iVolunteering.org (secular brand). Goal: 25,000 opportunities in 5 years.
•A Web 2.0 portal for the faith-based social services sector through www.UrbanMinistry.org (Christian brand) and www.UrbanResource.net (secular brand). The site Wiki contains 5,600+ free creative commons licensed workshops, podcasts (iTunes), videos (YouTube), documents, books (Amazon), Stock Photos (Flickr) and curriculum materials (goal: 25,000 items in 5 years). We have partnered with the top faith-based social service conferences to provide an archive of audio, video and materials of 15+ years of workshops on nonprofit training.
• www.CityVision.edu is our accredited online college integrated with the above services that provides courses in nonprofit management targeting the faith-based social services sector. Course materials are provided for free online under a creative commons license.
TechMission has 18 full-time staff and 40 full-time interns that help provide technology resources and online services to the faith-based social services sector:
•Association of Christian Community Computer Centers (AC4) is the largest group of faith-based organizations addressing the digital divide with over 400 member organizations. Last year, these organizations served 69,716 participants with 19,890 taking computer classes, 4,749 receiving computer certifications, 1,625 being placed in college, 3,933 being placed in college and 1,238 receiving GEDs.
•TechMission Corps provides 40 full-time AmeriCorps members to serve in after-school programs serving at-risk youth.
•ChristianVolunteering.org has placed over 2,000 volunteers since it started in 2006.
•UrbanMinistry.org currently has 10,000 users and over 5,600 items of content.
• www.SafeFamilies.org provided free online safety training and software to 74,055 families in the past year.
For this project, we have 5 full-time programmers/designers that work on the site and 5 staff that manage content, partnerships and volunteers. We need additional funding to continue to sustain these staff and to hire additional staff and consultants. We could use some additional consulting support in Drupal, Moodle, CiviCRM, PHP, JSP and SQL.
We also need partnerships with other online social change organizations that view us as complementary to their services. We need introductions to these potential partners as well as to corporate foundations and other potentially interested funders.
On a technical level, we still need to finish the integration of our volunteer opportunities into Google maps.We would also like to add a Mashup that would enable us to automatically display local volunteer opportunities and maps to users based on their IP address. We would also like to integrate our portal with Google Translate to auto-translate our content into other languages.
www.urbanministry.org/civicrm/profile?reset=1&gid=21&force=1 ORG MAPS www.urbanministry.org/wiki/encyclopedia-urban-ministry WIKI
www.christianvolunteering.org VOLUNTEERS
www.urbanministry.org WEB 2.0 PORTAL www.urbanministry.org/faceted_search/results/taxonomy:120 AMAZON www.urbanministry.org/image FLICKR www.urbanministry.org/faceted_search/results/taxonomy:116 YOUTUBE www.urbanministry.org/urban-ministry-podcasts ITUNES
www.cityvision.edu ONLINE COURSES
City of New Orleans: A Mashup for Citizen Monitoring of the Recovery
Currently, in New Orleans, there is a run away process for the demolition of housing.
From Kelly Voight in the comments of Squandered Heritage.
My house at 5537 Franklin Avenue was demolished without proper notification to me or the mortgage company. Out of 4 notification channels, the city only followed 2 of their 4 channels.
We had been waiting for the city to issue us a renovation permit for almost 18 months. I had called and traveled to the 5th floor of City Hall. I had taken pictures and filled out all correct forms for my permit. As of the day that they knocked my house down, the permit was still “pending.â€
My house was a 1945 Gentilly bungalow with double parlor, original floors, the Gentilly tile, and deco molding. It was in no danger of falling down. My contractor drove by, called, and asked why there were bulldozers on the property the morning they tore it down. Before he could reach us, the house was gone.
I cannot return to the city now. I feel such pure fury when I think of my house being torn down. City bulldozers trespassed on my property and tore down my lovely Gentilly bungalow. New Orleans has nothing to do with America anymore. New Orleans is dead to me, and I will not lift a finger to help or give back to it again.
Was this an accident? No. I is a pattern of negligence on the part of the city. An unimaginable abuse of power.
People have returned for the weekend to work on their homes, only to find them gone as noted in the Wall Street Journal story Katrina Survivors Face New Threat: City Demolition . People have been awoken to the sound of Entergy cutting the wires to the house in which they live as described in this NPR story New Orleans' Wrecking Ball Levels Healthy Homes.
The Recovery School District is now requesting permits to demolish dozens of schools, while HUD is in the midst of destorying thousands of units of public housing.
It is all happening quietly, while we struggle to rebuilding our homes. This project will tell people which structures are being demolished and where.
The mashup under development a Think New Orleans will provide a citizen driven tool for the notification of demolitions.
Not only that, it will provide an interactive map of the recovery.
- Permit overlay – Citizens will be able to view the pace of construction and the nature of construction with an overlay of city building permits. The permit information exists as a set of EditGrid spreadsheets, geocoded using Google Geocoder. It is updated automatically, every day with the latest permits, extracted from the city website. This is data that is ripe for the mashing.
- City demolition overlay – We wrestle with the city to get an accurate list of the houses they intend to demolish. When we do, we will add that information as an overlay to the mashup.
- Permit and demolition notification – Neighborhood groups are the driving force of New Orleans’ recovery. We want to provide them with a notification tool, that will allow them to get daily updates on who’s rebuilding, who’s coming back.
- Incentive Eligable Inventory – As further tax incentives for restoration become available, the map will outline the historic districts and map the eligible housing inventory. The marker’s balloon will include the purchase price + estimated renovation – tax incentives = total cost to own, with links to financing at local banking partners. This will trun the mashup into an antidote to demolition.
We've provided the technical support for Squandered Heritage, which has recorded the houses slated for demolition at their website an on Flickr. Think New Orleans has developed a geocoded list of every permit issued in New Orleans since January 2005, updated daily this resource is available as an EditGrid spreadsheet. This resource is used by neighborhoods to track demolition permits. We've also begun creating maps of the demolition list, using the data submitted to FEMA. This series of maps is the basis for ongoing development.
We've received technical assistance from EditGrid and Mapufacture in the development of the mapping. We've begun to assemble a team of developers who can implement the application. We would love any additional technical support.
We need to draw attention to the project. We seek expertise in marketing and promotion of the website, help with advertising and marketing strategies, and partnerships with other municipalities.
We've extracted data from the city's online permit database and online database of blighted and adjudicated properties. We will also cross reference the city assessors database and integrate the resources available at the city GIS website, including lot overlays.
We've begun GIS workshops, using ArcGIS licenses generously donated by Harvard's Kennedy School, to create work with neighborhoods to create entirely new data sets using professional GIS software.
Transitions
- Thousands will find local services like food, shelter, jobs
- Thousands of web users will be more aware on homelessness
- Access to immediate information for the displaced available
- 10 people will start new businesses
- 20 people will imagine and build their new virtual home
- These 20 people will become peer mentors for another 20.
After building their virtual homes, the 40 virtual world participants will be able to tell us whether they feel closer to being able to design a RL reality that includes a home.
Their findings will help determine whether virtual worlds like Second Life are an appropriate tool for people to use in redesigning their lives.
A resource for finding local service providers quickly, a widget tool flexible enoug to import and embed across webspaces and virtual worlds.
Serving to move people forward to new opportunities through virtual world interaction, building homes and new communities and businesses while learning new skills.
A series of safe spaces and buildable communities donated by partners for this Transitions pilot project.
Access to free phone voicemail, email, training, education through our project partners and friends worldwide.
Simple downloadable resource for libraries and CTC services to make it simple to find all needed resources in just a few minutes.
Developed in collaboration with pilot experiment and partners, managed by Floaters with the pilot project experiments in virtual worlds and live in Phoenix.
Service providers recognize the need for aggregated information; we gather to mashup in Second Life. Together we provide services to thousands; this project is a natural collaboration between our organizations. We bring different tools to share for those in transition.
Floaters Technology training for displaced out of Phoenix, Sandra Andrews will be overseeing the pilot with Floaters in Second Life.
Community Voicemail Services include free voicemail, Jessica Dally is active in Second Life.
Amoration New media consulting for nonprofits, Evonne Heyning serves communities on virtual worlds, advising on design with Vesuvius Group volunteers.
StreetSmart Detroit Video game takes players through the experience of trying to get a job and new home while homeless, Brad Jensen is the technical lead.
- Programmers to create mashup widget for search
- Web developer for portal buildout
- Additional graphic/content volunteers (web and other virtual)
- Mentors for those in transition (some currently available)
- Community technology partners to provide computers, access
- Development support (financial, talent, PR and partnerships)
- Donations of equipment for successful pilot
The Floaters Homeless Arts Project lays groundwork for the pilot projects to happen live with this web mashup.
Visit New World Notes for why we approach homelessness with virtual worlds.
This group will bring together tools from our Nonprofit Commons partners to share in an easy to search tool.
