Category Archives: Social Innovation
June-July Updates
Things are moving along at PolicyPitch.com! Among the biggest news, we were selected and honored by New Orleans City Business for The 2009 New Orleans Innovator of the Year! We were selected as a top honoree from hundreds of submissions. … Continue reading
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Change the Web Challenge Finalists Announced! Winner to be selected April 28
As a strategic partner with Social Actions, Policypitch is excited about all of these amazing widgets and applications! Which apps do you think could be of most use to enhancing the ideas on Policypitch? NetSquared and Social Actions are proud … Continue reading
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Social Actions’ Change the Web Challenge
Our friends at Social Actions have worked long and hard putting together their Change the Web Challenge. The contest, which began February 23, awards $5,000 to best web-based application created that makes use of the Social Actions open API. Second … Continue reading
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Social Actions Round-Up #24: Government Enters Social Media for Social Change Movement
Originally posted by Peter Dietz and our friends at Social Actions on February 5, 2009. As a child of the 80′s (okay, very late 70′s), I am used to government having very little (if any) involvement in technology driven initiatives … Continue reading
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Web 2.0 has to have a purpose, says Al Gore
Al Gore spoke at the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco on November 7, 2008. He emphasized the necessity of the purpose driven web and the future of civic participation in shaping our nation’s policies. Among other things, Gore discussed … Continue reading
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Armchair Revolutionary developing apps for crowdsourcing social change
Armchair Revolutionary develops software and related technologies for crowdsourcing, task management, and information management related to social change. The first app, Armrev1.0, will be launching Fall 2008. Still in private Beta, no one is sure exactly how the process works. … Continue reading
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$10,000,000 from Google for your ideas!
Do you have an idea that could improve the world? Google is giving away $10M to up to five ideas that have the biggest impact on world change. Submit your ideas by October 20th, 2008 to Google’s Project 10 to … Continue reading
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504ward.com: successful community crowdsourcing for local change (Part II)
The initial meeting took place in November 2007. About 25 New Orleans residents showed up, brainstormed, met in focus groups, and exchanged ideas. Many community meetings followed. In February 2007, the group wrote an RFP for the website design and … Continue reading
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funding opportunities for young social entrepreneurs
Ashoka Youth Venture has launched two new contests supporting social entrepreneurship for young people. The @15 Challenge, in partnership with Best Buy, offers 15 social entrepenerurs the chance for $10,000 in seed money. Participants submit entries and the public votes. … Continue reading
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PolicyPitch finishes 3rd in Ideablob Competition
(Originally posted Monday, September 15) Policypitch was entered into the Ideablob competition to win $10,000 last week. We needed to get into the top 2 in votes received within a week in order to make it to the “final showdown.” … Continue reading
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