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Wolf Gardens Wildlife Center

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What will change in the world because this Project happens?

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.

HungerMaps.org / NYC Coalition Against Hunger - DonateNow Submission

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What will change in the world because this Project happens?

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.

tweet4good: Donate and fundraise using Twitter.

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What will change in the world because this Project happens?

tweet4good is a mashup that integrates Network for Good's donation processing platform with Twitter, allowing any user of this microblogging service to easily donate to any cause or organization.

Similarly, any nonprofit organization listed at Network for Good's database can start fundraising on Twitter just by creating a profile and tweeting about its cause.

As new social networks arise, reaching online users for fundraising becomes more of a challenge. The key for organizations will be to provide easy ways for people to send their donations, using each one of these networks and services.

How tweet4good works?

For donors:

1) If you are already on Twitter, follow tweet4good.
2) To donate to an organization, tweet $username (i.e. $techsoup). To donate to a cause, tweet $cause (i.e. $genocide).
3) You will receive a direct message with a link where you can place your donation.

For organizations:

1) Confirm that you are listed at Network for Good.
2) Create a Twitter account for your organization.
3) Start tweeting about your cause and invite your followers to donate.

Twitter gives nonprofit organizations the opportunity to share their stories and create a group of followers that later can be the support to a fundraising initiative. tweet4good allows users to easily donate to organizations that they follow and like.

We have a working demo of this mashup that you can test at www.tweet4good.org.

Community Living Connection (CLiC)

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What will change in the world because this Project happens?

The Community Living Connection (CLiC) addresses the need for accessible day program services for people living with brain injuries in rural areas.  Through both web-based and person-to-person interaction, this high tech - high touch approach to improving independent functioning of survivors of brain injury focuses directly on building cognitive, social, and vocational skill sets that increase quality of life and facilitate greater participation in the home and community environments.

CLiC will address through computer and assistive technology, the challenges inherent in delivering comprehensive brain injury rehabilitation in a rural environment where geography and distance have traditionally limited access.

Our first step is a pilot program to provide computers, internet connection and program facilitation to allow group interaction with web conferencing ability.

Under the direction of the online facilitator, the program will provide structured rehabilitation services such as cognitive rehabilitation, social opportunities, structured goal setting, discussions, education, vocational skills, and to plan for meeting times for participation in community activities.

A full copy of our concept paper is available upon request to:

adminassist@jasonfoundation.org

iFriend - The Central System... He who knows all..

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What will change in the world because this Project happens?

Just go through idea. It will make the earth trantor.

From my childhood going through sci-fi stories, i got a common character. CC, Central Computer that knows everything almost and can answer wisely...

For some days i am just running with a theme... and i named it "iFriend".

The theme is:

" Why not to make a system that can read and learn.
And i would throw it in world wide web. then let it learn.
Then use it as my friend...
which can talk with me, understand me
and can give me exactly what i want with alternatives.."

does it sound like funny or impossible? I don't think so. I like to dig deep..

So far i have thought, that is..
Chat robot (To define the problem) + Apache Lucene (search engine) + OLAP (to create the knowledge Base)

Problem:
whatever is happening in world one can define with
Time,
place,
subject,
object,
objective,
reason.. still studying...

I am thinking of a Data warehouse with such dimensions that can define anything.. i don't know yet how much logical it is.

Computers for youths

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What will change in the world because this Project happens?

Under the Youth empowerment program of Christian Fellowship and Care Foundation, Computers for Youths aims to close the gap in terms of education and opportunities. In areas where 75% of families do not own a personal computer in their homes, we hope that by establishing a computer center for youths in our community and utilizing educational software this would enhance learning and youth interest in computer age.

GoSomething: Go Somewhere, Do Something

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What will change in the world because this Project happens?

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.  

CAMEROON SWITCHBOARD

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What will change in the world because this Project happens?

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

StuffBee - Give & Take for mobiles

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What will change in the world because this Project happens?

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.

Uganda Economic Intelligence Unit

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What will change in the world because this Project happens?

This project will help highlight a balanced picture of events in Uganda and Africa. The world is rapidly globalizing and unfortunately Africa's momentum in the convergence aspects is slow. The process of drafting young people into responsible community builders is still snail-paced. Using technology, I believe I can tell the Ugandan and Africa story to the world in my own way. Yes, there is the traditional media but technology has provided me with tools to play my role in a quick, low-cost and effective way.

Uganda Economic Intelligence Unit is a media platform that projects the view of a Uganda citizen, a young man who at the age of 9 lost his parents due to civil strife. A young man who lost his childhood to a political insurection by crafting into the military thus dropping out of school in 1981. A young man who went back-to-school 5 years later(1987) and regained his freedom and today wants to tell the story based on his historical perspective.

Uganda Intelligence Unit(UIU) is a solution based media blog. It discusses public policy,IT solutions to common enterprise development, economic espionage, tourism, natural and environmental resource management in Uganda and Africa.

It is the African story of optism.

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