Reposted from the TechSoup Blog:

TechSoup Global has entered The Financial Times-Justmeans Social Innovation Awards competition with winners selected by a panel of judges and presented in a New York City on March 23.

The Mobile Premier Awards (MPA) 2010 are due to take place in February as part of the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona.  These awards offer recognition for Mobile Startup Innovation, and provide an possible opportunity to pitch in front of investors, bloggers and press, media companies and peers. 

MPAs are being offered in the following areas

Both large and small nonprofits earned top honors this week for their attention-getting taglines, demonstrating again that an organization of any size can craft a powerful, pithy motto to build awareness and connect with its key audiences.  Organizations of all sizes participated in the Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Awards, hosted by president of Nancy Schwartz & Company and publisher at GettingAttention.org.

Find Out Who the 13 Winners Are!

The Yahoo! Green Award is back for a third year at the NetSquared Conference.  Yahoo! is committed to empowering our communities to make a positive impact on the environment, and has reviewed the project submissions included in the “Environment & Energy ” Cause Area of the NetSquared Global Project Gallery on the NetSquared Web site looking for the most innovative green technology project to receive a $5,000 Yahoo! Search Marketing award.  And the winner is...

DatAgro Receives the Yahoo! Green Award!

Applied Materials and The Tech Museum and Innovation have announced the 2008 Tech Awards Laureates! The 25 winners come from around the world, representing 12 countries, with projects applying technology for social change.

Britt Bravo is on a much-deserved vacation, so I'm stepping in for her to keep news and information about the social change web coming your way!

The UK Catalyst Awards highlight examples of individuals or groups putting social technology to use in connecting people and doing good. "It doesn't matter if you're a community group, a charity, in business, or just doing something smart in your own time – we can all do our bit." These stories offer ideas and inspiration about innovative uses of social technology that you or your organization can learn from.

But who won? The eight winners include:

Change Everything - the site we built for Vancity Credit Union - never seems to run short on surprises.

Shortly after it launched in 2006, a self-organized drive delivered more than 70 big bags of warm clothing to homeless shelters in Vancouver's downtown east side. Not long after, a Change Everything member called EnviroWoman captured our imaginations (and those of folks like WorldChanging and The Guardian) with her tales of living plastic-free for a year.

According to the Second Life Insider blog, Linden Labs, the creators of Second Life, are accepting nominations between now and July 22nd from the Second Life open source community for the 2007 Linden Lab Innovation Awards.

Here is how it is going to work:

The 2006 conference was great and I think the organizers had a great idea to make N2Y2 focus on 20 great projects. Everyone is going to learn a ton.

Here are my top 7 proposals:

Have you been thinking about nominating a project for a NetSquared Innovation Fund Award but aren't sure if it is a fit? Or did you already submit a project proposal and want to know how to