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AARP's blog is an online resource for aging issues such as economic and retirement security, health and wellness, global aging, livable communities and mobility, and volunteering. They also have an online message board where readers can comments on the above issues and more personal issues such as grief and loss, care and family, and memories.

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The Ann Arbor District Library (AADL) system is composed of the Downtown Library, three branch libraries and a Bookmobile. AADL is using the open source software, Drupal, as their content management system and using a blog for the front page of their Web site.

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Benetech is a non-profit venture that combines the impact of technological solutions with the social entrepreneurship business model to help disadvantaged communities in our society and across the world.

The Benetech Initiative is a non-profit venture that provides social benefits by harnessing the power of technology. Benetech delivers these benefits using the new model of social entrepreneurship, which combines market forces with philanthropic capital and entrepreneurial drive. Benetech focuses the efforts of technology and technologists to solve important problems facing society.

Benetech's purpose is to use the high technology model to address pressing social problems. Many great technologies can easily be applied to social needs, but the profitability of such efforts rarely meets the financial expectations of high technology investors. Benetech specifically pursues endeavors that emphasize a strong social, rather than financial, rate of return on investment. Benetech explores the application of technology to social needs in the areas of disability, bridging the digital divide, education, literacy, human rights, employment of the disadvantaged, and the prevention of suffering.

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This free service enables anyone to tag a book with a unique I.D. number that is registered with the BookCrossing web site, and then to "release" the book by giving it to somone else or by leaving it in a public place to be discovered by a stranger. The recipient or finder of a released book can then go to the BookCrossing web site and read about the book's previous travels, adding notes of his/her own about how it was found, whether he/she enjoyed reading it, and how he/she plans to release it to the next reader. In addition to the basic activities of registering, reading, and releasing books, the web site has been a springboard for special projects such as book rings, online literary discussions, face to face meetups, and special themed releases in which books are given away to complement an occasion or location.

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Making use of data from the U.S. Census, the Greater Boston Social Survey, and the Boston Indicators Project, the Boston Renaissance Resource Kit allows anyone to create thousands of charts and tables with a few simple clicks of the mouse, forgoing the need for extensive training in sophisticated statistical software. This free downloadable tool kit enables individuals and organizations in the greater Boston area to make sense of inter-related trends in areas such as income, housing, employment, ethnicity, age, education within areas as small as a single census tract - and to create graphical displays of this information that can be included in presentations and reports.

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The authors of Campus Bread are interns, fellows and campus organizers with Bread for the World and and the ONE Campaign Here is the Vision Statement for their blog:

"This is a blog for students and campus activists! The vision for the blog is for it to be a place to facilitate dialogue about issues that affect hungry and poor people; create energy for advocacy; provide inspiration and motivation; and lift up through words and photos innovative events/ideas that students are doing."

"Bread for the World is a nationwide Christian citizens movement seeking justice for the world's hungry people by lobbying our nation's decision makers. Bread for the World Insitute seeks justice for hungry people by engaging in research and education on policies related to hunger and development."

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The Catalogue For Philanthropy (CFP), which began as a paper catalogue for philanthropically-minded individuals and families, has in recent years expanded to a web site format that enables donors to search for nonprofit organizations by keyword, location, or programmatic focus.

Chapters in Massachusetts, the greater DC area, St. Louis, MO and
Whatcom County, WA

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The Catalogue For Philanthropy (CFP), which began as a paper catalogue for philanthropically-minded individuals and families, has in recent years expanded to a web site format that enables donors to search for nonprofit organizations by keyword, location, or programmatic focus.

Chapters in Massachusetts, the greater DC area, St. Louis, MO and
Whatcom County, WA

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The Catalogue For Philanthropy (CFP), which began as a paper catalogue for philanthropically-minded individuals and families, has in recent years expanded to a web site format that enables donors to search for nonprofit organizations by keyword, location, or programmatic focus.

Chapters in Massachusetts, the greater DC area, St. Louis, MO and
Whatcom County, WA

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The Catalogue For Philanthropy (CFP), which began as a paper catalogue for philanthropically-minded individuals and families, has in recent years expanded to a web site format that enables donors to search for nonprofit organizations by keyword, location, or programmatic focus.

Chapters in Massachusetts, the greater DC area, St. Louis, MO and
Whatcom County, WA

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"Circle of Life operates from a deep belief in the interdependence and interconnection of all life. Our commitment is to transform the way humans interact with the Earth and with all living beings.

Circle of Life is a stand for peace, justice and environmental sustainability; and in that space, we create powerful events and meaningful opportunities for people and organizations to make a difference in the world we share." - From CoL web site

The Circle of Life site reflects the stated belief of interdependence from the start. The main page offers the viewer a number of different direction sin which to move. The focus of this case study, though, is on the integration of a blog, by Julia Butterfly Hill, into the main page content.

A blog can provide a very effective way of creating new front page content which can be easily updated by users without a boatload of technical expertise. By integrating latest blog posts on the main page, the Circle of Life site provides repeat visitors with a quick entry into fresh content and a snapshot glimpse into the current activities and thoughts of Julia Hill.

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"CivicSpace is a free open-source software platform for grassroots organizing and civic activity. It allows individuals and organizations to build online communities that communicate effectively, act collectively, and coordinate coherently with a network of other related organizations and communities."

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CommunityWalk, developed by Internet entrepreneur Jared Cosulich, is a website based on Google Maps technology. Its primary function is to allow users to to share their communities and their locations -- whether a user's own neighborhood, recent travel destinations, or locations based on specific interests -- with the rest of the online community. Each community is comprised of different locations that are displayed on a geographic map. Users can add their own photos to these locations and may be allowed to post comments regarding the locations or their respective communities. An upcoming feature will allow users to apply changes to the map, allowing for an even greater sense of community.

It's the service used to create this map!

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Creative Commons is a nonprofit project that offers "an alternative to a full copyright." Creators of original material can choose on a case-by-case basis which rights to they wish to reserve. All that prospective users of the material have to do is respect the clearly stated policy about attribution, commercial use, derivative works, and future licensing. Fortunately, Creative Commons provides explanations of the policies in something close to human (as opposed to legal) language.

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DonorsChoose is a nonprofit organization which facilitates support for education in the American public school system. Teachers can submit school project proposals on the website in any of the following categories: math & science, literacy & history, arts & music, physical education, field trips, and more. Individual donors, called Citizen Philanthropists, select which projects to fund, either partially or in full.

Once a Citizen Philanthropist chooses a school project to support, DonorsChoose delivers the requested resources to the school. The teacher documents the funded education project using a disposable camera (also provided by DonorsChoose), and sends back the camera with hand-written thank you notes from the students involved. DonorsChoose develops the project photos and sends them with an expenditure report, a letter from the teacher, as well as the students' thank you notes to the donor(s).

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"Earth Share of Washington is 66 leading environmental organizations that help to protect our environment and quality of life - locally, nationally and internationally. Earth Share of Washington partners with businesses and government agencies to encourage employees to give to the environment at work through payroll giving programs, volunteer projects and involvement in our annual Day in the Park."

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"This is the official weblog of The FOOD Museum, a non-profit organization. This blog will serve as an interactive forum for news, views and discussion about all things food: food history; growing; marketing, cooking; issues such as food safety, school lunch reform, GMO foods; diet/nutrition and just plain fun. Be sure to visit The FOOD Museum at www.foodmuseum.com.

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Participants begin by joining (or creating) a Freecycle list focused on the area where they live. If they have something to give away, they post a message with the subject heading "Offered: Toaster Oven." If they are seeking an item, they post a message with the subject heading "Wanted: Toaster Oven." When members of the list find a match for themselves, it's up to them to take it off-list and arrange for a pick-up; various guidelines are in place to ensure that this is done in a manner suitable to civil society.

There are Freecycle lists online for Canada, Germany, United Kingdom International and all regions of the US.

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Through their website, GhostCycle collects stories and other information from Seattle bike-riders who've had accidents on the road. They've used this data to create three distinctly interesting projects: an interactive map of dangerous cycling areas in Seattle, a growing catalogue of statistics for local cycling accidents, and a city-wide public awareness campaign, which places ghostly warnings at key intersections to alert cyclists of particularly scary places to ride.

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An aggregation of blogs from around the world, featuring citizen journalists who cover a wide range of political and social issues. The project also includes regional directories, so that readers can easily find sources of information from areas that interest them, and "bridge blogs" that encourage cross-cultural understanding of issues that are covered by bloggers around the world.

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This site introduces users to microfinance and one organization working to engage in social change through small scale loan, financial service and technology. It is effectively crafted to both introduce new visitors to the key concepts and works of the Grameeen Foundation and also allow return visitors to explore their projects in greater depth and take action by either contributing to the foundation or recieving email updates.

Te Grameen Foundation site uses feedburner (http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/home) to enable users to subscribe to their rss feed. Syndication provides another pathway to interested users, outside of the traditional email messages. RSS can be an effective method...if you wish to capture tech savvy users. For many old fashioned email provides the safe secure and known method for recieving updates. This site, like many others, offers both options which makes sense online, given the varying degrees of technical sophistication surfers bring to a site.

The sites "get Involved" tab brings users to a page offering a numer of ways a visitor may interact with the Foundation.This includes donating, subscribing to email updates and a "Spread the Word" section which includes a link to a unique (to me) service called Word of Blog ( http://www.wordofblog.net/index.php) which lets you create a "badge" for your own web page which links users back to (in this case) the Grameen Foundation site.

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Hands On Bay Area Day is an event during which twelve-hundred volunteers at 51 community service projects across the Bay Area completed more than 7,000 hours of service valued at more than $120,000. This day is also the biggest fundraising event for Hands On Bay Area, when a large part of its budget is acquired through donations raised by volunteers. It is an organization that provides year-round service to the community.

Hands On Bay Area is a unique organization with a mission to mobilize communities to action. Many people find it difficult to volunteer for several reasons: trouble choosing what activity to do; the long-term commitment often required by organizations; and the number of hours organizations request weekly or monthly of volunteers.

What HOBA does is eliminate these barriers by acting as a liaison between volunteers and organizations and coordinating projects that make it easy to volunteer and help organizations meet their needs. They use an interactive database and email to do so.

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Idealist.org, a project of Action Without Borders, connects people, organizations and resources to help build a world where all people can live free and dignified lives. Action Without Borders is independent of any government, political ideology or religious creed. Our work is guided by the common desire of our members and supporters to find practical solutions to social and environmental problems, in a spirit of generosity and mutual respect.

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The Innovation Funders Network web site provides an online clearinghouse for funders who are committed to the use of information and communication technologies to support the missions of nonprofit initiatives.

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nterplast is a client of Mentor Matching, the volunteer matching program that I manage at CompuMentor. They contacted me to find a volunteer to help with their blogs and to add RSS, podcasting, and live chat rooms. Their website describe themselves as: "... the first international humanitarian organization to provide free reconstructive plastic surgery in developing countries. It makes a direct and profound difference in the lives of 3,000 children each year who suffer physically or emotionally from a congenital deformity or injury."

The surgical volunteer staff upload information to the blogs from the worksite. It's a very powerful example of capturing what happens on the ground in these international volunteer projects. In addition to this blog they also have what they call "Ground Rounds", which helps to fulfill another area of their mission which is to provide medical education and tools for collaboration with surgeons in developing countries.

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Our nonprofit organization aims to build a network to foster global citizenship.


INTHEFRAY encourages public discussion and grassroots activism through its digital community, campaigns, events, media, and programs, bringing together individuals and organizations around the world in support of our shared values.

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Ironweed is more than a monthly film club... ...it's a growing movement of people like you championing independent filmmakers who tell engaging, important, human stories. Extraordinary films are produced each year that never get beyond film festivals in coastal cities and high mountain ski resorts. With you as our partner, Ironweed scours the festival scene and brings the best new films to your home each month. As a subscriber, your membership fees help support filmmakers and our non-profit partners.Here's what you get for $15/monthDVD-of-the-MonthEach month you'll receive a DVD with a feature film, short films and special surprises, selected with the help of members like you. Best of all, the DVD is yours to keep. You never have to send anything back, ever.

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Library Success is a wiki that enables librarians and other knowledge management professionals to pool information about effective professional and organizational strategies, especially those that make innovative use of technology.

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Make Poverty History is prominently displayed by one of their corporte partners the jeans retailer Diesel. Make Poverty History is about grassroots activism using a spectrum of tools to draw attention and create action opportunities. View their members. I was struck by their use of texting with mobile phones, which has become so ubiquitious in the developing world.

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This is distributed philanthropy, using the internet to empower geographically dispersed individuals to provide others in need with small one-time gifts of financial assistance.

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Moving Ideas provides the background information for citizen activism via the Internet.

The website is a one-stop shop for resources from more than 180 partner and member organizations that focus on issues such as foreign policy and national security, education, civil liberties, jobs and the economy, retirement security and more.

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Music For America (MFA) seeks to reach young adults and encourage them to be more politically active by building on their musical interests. Through its web site, MFA recruits volunteers to use free tickets to music shows in exchange for doing outreach and registering voters at the events.

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This case study describes a unique mapping project now being undertaken by the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, an umbrella group for New York's more than 1,100 charitable soup kitchens and food pantries. Most social service agencies exist in a culture of scarcity, unable to invest resources in anything beyond coping with immediate needs. This project, the first of its kind in the nation, demonstrates a complementary use of ArcGIS, ArcWeb Services, and the Google Maps API allowing such agencies to utilize online mapping systems in order to network, recruit volunteers, and see themselves as part of a larger movement. Simultaneously, these maps serve as both a public disclosure of need and a gap analysis, encouraging targeted charity and volunteerism while sparking the political will to confront the size and complexity of the hunger problem. Currently, this project is in the beginning stages - users may look up emergency feeding programs by zipcode, or see a map of the entire city. In the near future, static GIS maps highlighting specific neighborhoods and themes will be created, and layers consisting of various food access streams (farmers' markets, CSAs, community gardens) will be incorporated into the interactive mapping system.

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Pambazuka News is a weekly electronic newsletter covering news, commentary, analysis and a range of other resources on human rights and development in Africa.

Every week we commission work to provide original commentaries on key events in Africa, combined with a comprehensive weekly round-up of news on human rights, conflict, health, environment, social welfare, development, the internet, literature and arts in Africa.

Produced by Fahamu South Africa and using volunteers based in Africa, Pambazuka News produces 30-40 text pages of information about Africa on a weekly basis. with content categorised into 28 content themes, making it easy for subscribers to access information that is relevant to their needs.

The newsletter has become Africa's most widely distributed electronic newsletter on social justice with a readership estimated at 60,000. Major newspapers have reprinted editorials and since June 2003, AllAfrica.com has also carried all issues of Pambazuka News in full on their Peace Africa subsite (allafrica.com/peaceafrica/).

Headquarters are in the UK, but much of operations go on in SA.

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This is a tool for citizens and organizers who are willing to take action to make a difference if a certain number of others will also agree to take action. PledgeBank holds these commitments in a sort of moral (but not legally binding) escrow until the necessary number of pledges have been collected online, and then notifies the organizer and the pledgers of the outcome. Examples of commitments range from donating money to start a new nonprofit organization to volunteering time to a community project to purchasing a hybrid automobile. Pledgers can choose to become involved in both global and local initiatives.

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RealTalk is a series of face-to-face discussions designed to foster civic participation in Massachusetts. Each participant is provided with a wireless device - supplied by a firm called Machine Dreams - that enable him or her to give responses to survey questions that are posted by moderator. These responses are instantly tabulated and displayed on a large screen, and the same devices also functioned as wireless microphones, so that participants can interact with the panelists in the discussions that follow each question.

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Relay For Life is a series of events to celebrate cancer survivors and raise money for the American Cancer Society. Over the summer of 2005, Christopher Dover also established a blog to document and discuss various online strategies that would complement the Relay For Life events.

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SeniorNet, an international organization of computer-using adults, age 50 and older, closes the Digital Divide for seniors enhancing their lives and enabling them to share their knowledge and wisdom by providing education for and access to computer technologies. We develop our own curriculum. Our curricula is highly interactive and our teaching methodology is peer-based.

Founded in 1986 SeniorNet supports over 230 Learning Centers throughout the U.S. and in other countries. In 2006 seniorNet will launch a year of 20th anniversary events starting with a celebration in washington, DC in october.

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Sponsored by the March of Dimes, Share is an online community for families of infants who were born prematurely or spent time in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Members are encouraged to participate in online discussions, meet other families and build support for each other. Share has over 7400 registered members and is one of the most powerful web-based social support sites for NICU families available.

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Stop Global Warming seeks to create a virtual "March On Washington" around global warming issues. The site explores global warming and its effect on the environment and social communities by providing concise information on its causes and direct consequences on environmental destruction, weather changes, and public health.

The website also allows visitors to join the "virtual march" and start implementing change on an individual level. By offering simple action tips, which range from repairing plumbing leaks to recycling and transportation, Stop Global Warming makes global change easy to adopt.

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The web site is an online meeting place for concerned citizens, policy makers, educators, and activists through the world who are working to ensure that everyone benefits from digital technology.

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The Sahana project links a Sri Lankan community affected by the December 2004 tsunami with other communities in a long term partnership dedicated to recovery. The goal is to engage a number of groups, each of which focuses on a different component of recovery for the Kalametiya village in Sri Lanka and seeks to build an enduring relationship.

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With 12 branches and program offices in the Raleigh-Durham area, and 2 residential camps several hours away on the coast, this North Carolina YMCA faced serious challenges in its information technology infrastructure. Connectivity, bandwidth, software management, hardware maintenance, user support asnd training were all complicated by the number of sites and the distances involved.

All these issues were made far more managable by the adoption of thin-client computing, using Citrix to publish Windows applications over their internal net as well as the public internet, as the basis of their in-house computing.

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Providing Internet access, website hostng, media development and training for partnering organizations and communities effected by the Hurricanes Rita and Katrina.

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Witness is an international organization that promotes the use of video documentation to support campaigns against human rights abuses.

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"Word of Blog is a new and free service that helps you spread the word about things you like, events you care about and worthy causes you want to support. Bloggers: You can pick and choose any of the badges appearing on this site and display them into your blog or website. Simply copy the HTML code appearing below the badge and paste it where you wish it to appear. The badges have been formatted to fit into most blog columns. - Organizations: If you want to post a badge on this site so that bloggers can start spreading the “word of blog

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The mission of The Museum of the African Diaspora, MoAD, is to promote the universal connection of humankind to Africa and to explore and appreciate the impact people of African descent have had on contemporary life the world over. Reminding us that we are all part of one family, MoAD will seek to transform the way we perceive each other and ourselves. The new museum will be a world-class institution that utilizes art, culture and history to tell the story of the African Diaspora.

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Urban Sprouts is a San Francisco nonprofit using school gardens to teach youth to grow, harvest, prepare and eat vegetables from the school garden in order to help youth actively engage in school, eat better, exercise more and connect with the environment and each other. They recently started a blog.

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Best Buddies International is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to enhancing the lives of people with intellectual disabilities by providing opportunities for one-to-one friendships and integrated employment.

Founded in 1989 by Anthony K. Shriver, Best Buddies has grown from one chapter on one college campus to a vibrant, international organization. Our programs today reach all 50 of the United States, and Best Buddies has active international programs in Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Egypt, Ireland, Mexico, the Philippines and Sweden; with additional programs under development in Australia, Austria, Denmark, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

e-Buddies is one of the six friendship programs offered by Best Buddies. e-Buddies seeks to build e-mail friendships between children and adults with intellectual disabilities and their peers who do not have intellectual disabilities.

Individuals with intellectual disabilities are matched in one-to-one e-mail friendships with non-disabled volunteers - matches are made based on age, gender, geography, and sharedinterests. Matched participants are asked to exchange e-mails once a week.

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"Connect for Kids makes the best use of communications technologies, specifically the Internet, to give adults—parents, grandparents, guardians, educators, advocates, policymakers, elected officials and others—the tools and information they need to improve the lives of children, youth and families."

Under The CFK Umbrella, the blog for Connect for Kids, provides a space for staff and guests to share their views on news and events that effect children and teens. Visitors to the blog can join in on the conversation by adding a new comment to each posting

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"SF0 is a collaborative and immersive game set in San Francisco. The goals of play include meeting new people, exploring the city, and participating in creative non-consumer leisure activities."

The game seeks to be an open structure, a context for interacting with the city and the people who live in it. Players are asked to engage in a variety of collaborative activities (also known as "tasks") relating to different aspects of city life. They are also given the opportunity to create activities for other players. Although the game interface is web-based, actual game play almost always takes place in the real world.

The site combines elements of social networking, blogging, messaging and file sharing to produce an effective mechanism for collaborating on projects of any kind.

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Supports the effective use of ICTs in Southern African civil society organisations by providing quality services and initiatives.

Executive Director David Barnard will present at the Net Squared conference.

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M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) was registered in 1988 as a non-profit Trust. The basic mandate of MSSRF is to impart a pro-nature, pro-poor and pro-women orientation to a job-led economic growth strategy in rural areas through harnessing science and technology for environmentally sustainable and socially equitable development.

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The Technologies for Conservation and Development (t4cd) project, run by ResourceAfrica and Fauna & Flora International, is finding ways to apply new information and communications technologies (ICTs) to conservation and development.

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TakingITGlobal.org is an online community that connects youth to find inspiration, access information, get involved, and take action in their local and global communities.

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"The Institute delivers reliable analysis, data and solutions to institutions and individuals to spark new collaborations and foster new initiatives, policies and programs to better understand and address homelessness and poverty."

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Inveneo combines VoIP, Wimax, cheap components, energy consumption reduction and free-software.

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Rural Innovations Network is an innovation network for the rural world in India. Based in Chennai, south-east coast, the RIN helps to ‘move’ products created “from” and “for” rural zones. For example, someone decides to upgrade or design a new tool for agriculture, just like a ‘rain gun’ or some kind of “stem injector”, and the networks helps him/her on it’s development, marketing studies, distribution, etc…

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H2otown is a community blog by and for the residents of Watertown, MA. It combines on-site user blogging with aggregated informatsite is a great example of how new media like blogs and online video can help create a sense of place and voice for people who might not otherwise have access to this kind of community conversation.

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The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is an international network of civil society organisations dedicated to empowering and supporting groups and individuals working for peace, human rights, development and protection of the environment, through the strategic use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), including the internet.

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This non-profit Internet café in Potchefstroom (a northwest province of South Africa) specializes in the usage of, distribution of, and training and technical support for open source software. All profits from these services will be used to set up new open cafes and run open source style projects.

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Blacktie is an organization that provides a variety of internet tools tononprofit organizations and philanthropists. We form "community" around a centralized website.

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Founded in 1991, FAMM works to overturn mandatory sentencing laws that impose inflexible and excessive penalties and remove a judge's discretion in making the sentence fit the crime. FAMM supports legislation that gives the judge the ability to set a sentence based on the facts of the case and the seriousness of the offense. To support the organization's outreach and public education goals, the FAMM website has two stated purposes - to educate people about unjust mandatory sentences and to mobilize a powerful sentencing reform movement. This one of the few sites I've seen that lays out not just the purpose of the organization, but of the website itself - a level of clarity that can only help focus development efforts.

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"The Green Coast Foundation is a nonprofit public benefit organization dedicated to supporting and accelerating the growth of California's market for clean, renewable energy ("Green Energy")."

The foundation recently launched a blog called The Green Coast Post. Each post to the blog will contain news articles or links to articles.

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When the men accused of murdering Gwen Araujo, a woman they beat, bound and strangled after they discovered that she was biologically male, went to trial, Andy Shie Kee Wong, the Development Director of Community United Against Violence decided to use a blog to document the trial. Volunteers, including CUAV's Speaker's Bureau Program Director, Connie Champagne, followed the trial's proceedings and recounted them on the blog. They recorded the defendants' testimonies word for word and filled in the blanks for readers who may not have understood the subtleties of the proceedings.

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Over a hundred and twenty environmental and conservation organizations make up the North Carolina Conservation Network. Heather Yandow, the Network's Director of Development and Communication's says that they see their internet presence as a key component of their ability to advocate publically for their concerns. Because of this, they have been willing to take the risk of employing numerous emerging web-based communication techniques on their site.

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Never Again, an international youth network, was founded at the Institute for International Mediation and conflict Resolution’s 2001 Symposium at The Hague by a group of students and young graduates from around the world who created a collaborative international partnership. Never Again aims to alert the international community to both the causes and effects of genocide and facilitate the exchange of ideas between young people - those who have lived through genocide and those who wish to learn from them. Never Again aims to provoke ideas and action for the prevention of future conflict by bringing people together to cross borders.

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SchoolNet Africa is an independent non-government organization which promotes education through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in African schools. SchoolNet is the first African-based, African-led, Pan-African school networking institution and works in partnership with national schoolnet organizations in up to 33 African countries. SchoolNet Africa stands for the right of every African child to have access to Information and knowledge and to be a global citizen.

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SMASHcast is a podcast produced by youth in San Francisco's Summer Math & Science Honors Academy. The podcast covers issues of interest to young people regarding their aims to study math and science in higher education.

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Voices on Genocide Prevention is a free podcast service from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Through this podcast series, you can stay up-to-date on the crisis in Darfur as well as the continuing challenge of preventing and responding to genocide and related crimes against humanity around the world. Voices include human rights defenders, experts, advocates, and government officials.

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The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN maintains a web presence in several different sites. One of these is a blog site in which different departments maintain blogs. This blog is for the Education and Community Programs area, and contains postings from art center staff and others describing recent and future community programs, and educational information about exhibits and programs at The Walker. http://blogs.walkerart.org/ecp/

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WaZoBiaSOFT is an open source software translation project, initiated and supported by the WaZoBia Community Project in Nigeria.

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This wiki was used to plan and dynamically record the agenda and event proceedings for the Africa Source 2 Conference that took place in Uganda, Africa from January 8-15, 2006. Africa Source II was an eight day hands-on workshop aimed at building the technical skills of those working with NGOs in Africa. The wiki also contains feedback from participants, reports of the event, blog entries and more. The group also kept a blog and used tags on the wiki.

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The Volvox project is a new project created in response to the EC call: FP6-2003-Science and Society-5. The official title is: 'Co-ordinated internet-linked networks for promoting innovation, exchanging knowledge and encouraging good practice to enhance bioscience education in European schools.' It is a partnership between the Association of Danish Biologists (Denmark); The Max-Planck-Gymnasium (Germany); University of Tartu (Estonia); COINOR, University of Naples (Italy); University of Padova (Italy); the European School (Luxemborg); Science Festival School, The International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (Poland); Ciencia Viva, National Agency for Scientific and Technological Culture (Portugal); Goteborg University (Sweden); the National Centre for Biotechnology Education (NCBE) and The University of Reading (U.K.).

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Community NI has been developed by the Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action (NICVA) to promote the voluntary and community sector in Northern Ireland. The website was launched in April 2005.

The goal of the site is to give community, voluntary or charitable organizations an opportunity to promote theselves on the Internet and to share resources and expertise.

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Generation Why is Oxfam Great Britain's website for students and young people who want to change the world, and still have fun. The Generation Why blog posts information about Oxfam-related news and events, all with calls to action.

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Euforic is a forum for information exchange and dialogue on international cooperation and development

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The GROW Parenting Podcast is dedicated to family counseling, and early childhood education, advocacy and therapy. Topics include autism, IEP negotiation, child advocacy, parenting, and raising a child with special needs. Keeping with its mission to provide access to family support and counseling services, GROW is one of the very first nonprofit organizations nationwide to utilize podcasting to offer these services.

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The International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) assists developing countries to realize locally owned sustainable development by harnessing the potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs). IICD works with its partner organizations in selected countries, helping local stakeholders to assess the potential uses of ICTs in development. They are presently working in Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Ecuador, Ghana, Jamaica, Mali, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.

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Tupiniquim is a Portugeuse-language blog that raises awareness about the plight of the indigenous population in Brazil, other Central and South America. The content is primarily a reposting and translation of Brazilian and international news articles.

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Founded in 1988, the North-East Centre for Popular Medicine is a Brazilian NGO which trains, organizes, and structures community-based groups to be more effective in advocating for a public health policy, through programmes in:

* Food Security
* Health and Social Accountability
* Youth Health and Participation

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wildlive! UK provided conservation news and information including field diaries, discussion forums and SMS competitions and alerts to Vodafone live! users. In addition, a range of animal ringtones and wildlife wallpapers were sold on the platform, along with a range of conservation-based Java games. wildlive! - the first conservation-based mobile phone fundraising and awareness-raising portal of its kind - was launched at the Natural History Museum on 11th December 2003 at an event which coincided with FFI's centenary celebrations.

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Until now, many NGOs have independently implemented SMS systems, some going as far as designing and developing their own applications from scratch. This is of little use to the wider community. FrontlineSMS was launched towards the end of 2005 specifically to bridge this gap – aiming to provide an affordable, standalone turn-key SMS solution to NGOs. FrontlineSMS allows them – many for the first time – to access 'bulk' SMS technology giving them the ability to carry out small- to medium-scale trials before embarking on possible larger project proposals.

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The New Media Consortium (NMC) is an international 501(c)3 not-for-profit consortium of nearly 200 leading colleges, universities, museums, corporations, and other learning-focused organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies. NMC member institutions are found in almost every state in the US, across Canada, and in Europe, Latin America, and Japan. Among the membership are an elite list of the most highly regarded colleges and universities in the world, as well as a growing list of innovative museums, research centers, foundations, and forward-thinking companies.