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#1 PULSEWIRE!!!!
#2 Farmer 2 Farmer Learning
#3 Change.org
#4 Games for Change
#5 ManorMeta

... as I type this my colleague just leaned over and said "Hey! Vote for Dropping Knowledge!!!" ... hey, get your own votes!

... maybe I need to work next on my 6 - 10 votes.

... i can also always change it through Saturday.

... but PulseWire will continue to be my #1. I just love you!

My Favorite Submissions

I read over all the proposals and picked the ones I liked best. The criteria I used were pretty simple: I looked for projects that had a clearly defined mission, were global in scope, and looked like they might actually work as planned. I stayed away from proposals that wanted to “enable” other non profits because I find most of them to be ineffective. Here is the list in alphabetical order:

A Global Neighbor Network

A Light on Money and Politics: MAPLight.org

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch): 

MAPLight.org illuminates the connection between money and politics. We connect campaign contributions and votes for U.S. Congress, providing groundbreaking transparency so that bloggers, journalists, and citizens can hold legislators accountable.

Type of expertise needed: 
Technical Expertise
Need: Programmers to write scripts to scrape state government web sites and translate bills and votes data into XML; and programming to automate searches for legislation in U.S. Congress, using Google and news databases.
Type of expertise needed: 
Technical Expertise
Need: Robust hosting services and additional servers.
Type of expertise needed: 
Management Expertise
Need: An experienced development/fundraising consultant to improve our fundraising plans, and to consult with occasionally going forward.
Technology Vision: 

Our site is built on the Drupal open-source content management system, with extensive custom coding. However, the programming to scrape state websites (mentioned in Needs section above) does not have to use Drupal.

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