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The Social Web Can Be Warm and Fuzzy Too

Britt Bravo — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:03:55 -0500

I read a lovely book this winter called Knitting for Peace: Make the World A Better Place One Stitch at a Time which profiles 28 stories of people and organizations who are using knitting for good. One of the organizations, Afghans for Afghans, collects knitted goods for orphanages, clinics and children's hospitals in Afghanistan, and has a Frappr map that I thought was really sweet. When you view it, it automatically rotates through the different knitters on the map and shows a pop window with a photo and a message from each one like, "I am a musician who likes to knit socks."

Nonprofit Technology Conference Frappr Map

Britt Bravo — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:23:47 -0500

Check out the cool Frappr map that the Nonprofit Technology Conference is using to help attendees find out who is coming and to make connections even before the conference starts. Attendees can create a profile, add themselves to the map, participate in forums and post photos.

Youth and the Web: Adam Fletcher from Free Child Project

marshallkirkpatrick — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:20:55 -0500

The Olympia, Washington based Free Child Project engages in a large number of activities to support youth led social change. Their mission reads: The Freechild Project seeks to advocate, inform, and celebrate social change led by and with young people around the world, particularly those who have been historically denied the right to participate.

Adam Fletcher is the founder and director of Free Child. We talked last week about the group's work.

Free Child produces presentations, trainings and publications around the US and internationally that highlight youth-led social change efforts. The group emphasizes doing work with youth, as opposed to the normal models of doing work for youth. Free Child seeks to give young people the tools they need to more effectively make signifigant social change wherever they are.

Their projects include service-learning, topic-specific workshops and activist group incubation. The group does consulting with local and national non profit groups in strategic planning, capacity building and product development all with youth empowerment at the center of their priorities. They also perform networking services through conferences and online communications. You can read more about the group's work on the Free Child Activities page. The FreeChild resources page is a huge directory of youth led social change resources.