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.

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.

Our country is facing the Iraq War, the War on Terror, the Drug War, environmental policies, support for Africa, education, and health.

Our congressional representatives are supposed to represent our interest, but are under increasing pressure from lobbyist, corporations, and big money. 

Govit is a website that is inspired to help balance the power, and get your voice heard on the issues.

•  On Govit you can learn about popular legislation, and discuss it
• Vote on legislation and have your vote sent instantly to your representatives
• Compare your votes to your representative and other members
• Connect with other members and rally support for issues

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.

Human rights violations in far away places -- Americans will turn away if they feel a “certain hopelessness of remedying excessive and organic ill.” * If instead they work to end the injustice or bring about a fair rule of law by contacting their elected representatives and senators, the intervention can exact a positive outcome all the way across the world.

Elected representatives are more motivated to take action on behalf of any good cause, e.g. the environment, consumer safety, gun control, election reform, or, as in our work, international human rights, when the campaign is well articulated and constituents form broad coalitions with growing numbers. A feedback loop forms between the constituent group and the staffer as questions asked and concerns raised by the constituents are answered by the staffer when they call the state department and foreign embassies.

The Rebuilding Alliance seeks to create a set of web-based tools to show constituents they can make a difference when it comes to human rights violations in distant land – and how. The Rebuilding Alliance seeks to create the “Here Are Those Who Care,” Project by combining a set of web-based database, mapping, and teleconference tools and testing these tools with constituent groups focused on our current project, Saving the Kindergarten and Village of Al Aqabah. We want to show constituents see they are not alone, and help them find like minded people who are close-by in their congressional district. We want to help elected representatives learn about issues first-hand in a secure and trustworthy manner through face-to-face meetings and technology common to the business world so that these representatives can better respond to constituent requests and take action.

* Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-street, by Herman Melville, paragraph 93

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!

Young Racers of America was created simply due to the need of so many children that have a passion to participate in motorsports. Some children dream of playing Pro-football or Baseball when they grow up.  They see their favorite player out there playing the game.  They join the local little leagues and practice hard, they grow up and get scholarships and play in college and pray they make it pro.  Now what is the difference between the children who want to play ball compared to the child who wants to race?   Non-profit corporations that will help make their dreams come true.  Just about every sport or performing arts division has a financial support system to help them along the way; racing was left for those whose families had money, or connections.  We wanted to help

If we join the user base of Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger and AOL AIM, we have more than 300 million people around the world.
Plus, if we consider that the best method to communicate/inform about a cause is the mouth-to-mouth.
Then, we have the P2P Donation via Instant Messaging mashup.

My idea consist in a serie of Instant Messenger add-ons that permit the users donate and invite more users to get more information and
donate for a charity through the Network for Good API, giving quick and easy access to donation, and improving the donator experience.

The features of this add-ons are:
* Search for charities or volunteer oportunities
* Share/Tell your friends about a charity
* Make a donation for an specific charity
* Get news/information about the charities that you support
* Use Badges/images/icons for the charities that you support

Please, feel free to leave feedback/suggestions about this idea.