Join the Net2 ThinkTank: How Can Nonprofits Use Flickr. Please respond by August 27, 2008.
NetSquared is an initiative of TechSoup
NetSquared enables social benefit organizations to leverage the tools of the social web.
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A Citizen Meeting for Justice with Local Faith Communities. R.S.V.P.
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
Congregation-Based Community Organizations create public meetings to leverage social change. To win hard issues grassroots leaders must engage more people to build larger events.
Stop Family Violence
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
Stop Family Violence will use Web 2.0 technologies to empower local programs, enhance information sharing, help people find the services they need, promote local leadership, and coordinate activism that will keep women and children safe.
Digital Divide Data's project: A networking resource for disadvantaged people in Cambodia and Laos
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
DDD provides socially responsible outsourcing services to clients and creates better futures for our employees in Cambodia and Laos. DDD will build an online forum for our graduates as a way to provide ongoing networking and growth opportunties.
Huichol Cultural Survival
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
The Huichol Indians are intact as a pre-hispanic people, but their cultural survival is in peril.
Much hard work has taken place to protect this universal treasure, yet time is running out for the Huichols. We must increase our efforts now.
Hear Our Pain Action Network
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
People are fed up with quality/availability of communications services. Markets and policymakers fail to listen. We aggregate data/public pain across media/telecom services, and provide means for that pain to put weight on levers of power.
OpenPlans.org
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
OpenPlans is a free, hosted, and integrated suite of web-based tools intended to give active citizens the resources they need to organize virtually to effect real world change.
Sourcetree Commons: Geeking our way to a better world
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
To develop better social software, we must use these very tools in the communities that are building them. We leverage social software to amplify the creative power of geeks and provide increased resources, efficiency, feedback and support.
The World Café GiGis (Girl Geeks) Project
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
The GiGi’s project applies understanding of social networks, community development, and online technologies, to enable the World Café global network to become increasingly self-organizing, self-sustaining on behalf of life affirming futures.
Maps 2.0 – Geospatial Tools for Nonprofits and Humanitarian Relief
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
Maps 2.0, a collaboration already under way, will launch the first online resource for nonprofit and humanitarian organizations to share best practices in geographic information systems (GIS) and digital mapping tools.
Technology Vision:
A revolution in Web-delivered digital maps and map-based analysis is under way and will change the way nonprofits solve social, environmental, and humanitarian problems. It is vital that nonprofit and humanitarian teams leverage these proven and powerful technologies.
CT EarthNet: Empowering Community-based Environmental Management
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
CT EarthNet empowers a grassroots groundswell led by community groups in Connecticut that is known to hold great promise for resolving urgent issues such as sprawl, air and water quality, conservation and environmental education.
