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The American India Foundation is devoted to improving social and economic conditions in India by mobilizing resources in the US for impoverished Indian communities.
The Apache Software Foundation, formed by the open source developer community it supports, provides hardware, communication, and business infrastructure for Apache software projects.
Ashoka helps create systemic social change by providing social entrepreneurs with funding and a global network of relationships, knowledge, and resources.
Backfence provides highly localized Web sites that enable members of local communities to post their news, share what's happening within their own neighborhoods, and connect with others who care about the same issues.
The Carter-Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform is a nonpartisan, independently funded commission assessing the effectiveness of and recommending improvements to the US electoral system and the Help America Vote Act.
The Center for Public Integrity provides the public with the findings of its investigations and analyses of public service, government accountability and ethics-related issues.
The Center for Responsive Politics seeks to create a more educated voter, an involved citizenry, and a more responsive government by tracking money in politics and its effect on elections and public policy.
CircleLending manages loans between relatives, friends, and other private parties, giving individual lenders the rights and capabilities of lending institutions and individual borrowers greater access to capital.
Collaborative Drug Discovery's web-based database enables scientists to collaborate in novel, global efforts to more effectively develop new drug candidates for commercial and humanitarian markets.
Creative Commons breaks down barriers to sharing creative content imposed by existing copyright law, using private rights to create public goods.
Digg harnesses the collective wisdom of its online audience by allowing it to prioritize the overwhelming amount of content available on the Internet.
DonorsChoose is the online marketplace where teachers and citizens connect to give students the resources they need to learn.
Electronic Frontier Foundation works to educate press, policymakers and the general public about civil liberties issues related to technology, and acts as a defender of those liberties.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center works to promote the public voice and protect privacy, freedom of expression and constitutional values in decisions concerning the future of the Internet.
EVDB (Events and Venues Data Base) is a collaborative, online information resource that helps people discover events and share their discoveries with others, allowing those who would not otherwise have connected to meet and interact.
Federated Media Publishing is developing a suite of publishing services that will enable a network of established, high quality, independent authors to thrive through partnerships with endemic and national advertisers.
Feedster is an RSS search engine that enables the public to create a richer, more diverse and connected exchange of information.
The FreeBSD Foundation promotes collaborative research and development involving the open source FreeBSD operating system.
GlobalGiving is an Internet-based marketplace for international philanthropy, connecting individual and institutional donors directly to locally run, social and economic development projects around the world.
The Global Social Venture Competition actively supports the creation and growth of successful social ventures around the world.
Grameen Foundation USA empowers the world's poorest people to lift themselves out of poverty with dignity through access to financial services and to information.
Grassroots Media is a project to apply the best practices and principles of professional journalism to the emergent fervor and knowledge of citizens, who want to bring their own voices to the journalistic process.
Hagar's Reintegration of Trafficked Women Project helps Cambodian women and girls who are victims of human trafficking successfully begin a new life in mainstream society.
The Institute for Justice is a public interest law firm providing strategic litigation, communication and outreach to secure consitutional rights such as economic liberties, private property rights, and freedom of speech.
KaBOOM! empowers civic participation nationwide by working with communities to design, build and maintain their own playgrounds, skateparks, and athletic fields.
Keystone aims to provide the first global reporting standards for donors in the nonprofit market, akin to what generally accepted accounting practices provide for investors in the stock market.
Kids Voting USA fosters an informed, participating electorate by educating and actively engaging students and their families in citizenship, civic responsibility, democracy and the importance of political participation.
Linden Lab is the producer of Second Life, an online world imagined, created and owned by its residents and guided by its participatory democracy.
Through a series of regional and global events, microfinance stakeholders gather to advance the field of microfinance and, ultimately, reduce poverty among 100 million of the world's poorest families.
The Microfinance Information eXchange is an online information marketplace that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration between microfinance institutions and prospective investors and clients.
MicroVest is an investment firm providing microfinance institutions with access to new sources of commercial capital, helping to build capital markets that work for the poor.
Modest Needs helps keep struggling families from entering the cycle of poverty, allowing them to cover small, but unexpected expenses by pooling what others can afford to share.
The Myelin Repair Foundation is driving innovation in multiple sclerosis research by creating a collaborative environment in which disparate scientists work together on a shared research plan as a single community.
The New Voters Project is a nonpartisan, grassroots campaign focused on increasing the turnout of young voters for the 2004 election.
OneWorld is a global information network developed to support communication media of the people, by the people and for the people — everywhere.
Platial is a collaborative, web-based atlas that allows users to create, manage and share custom maps, creating communities of interest around the places that matter to them.
The Project on Government Oversight strives to make the federal government accountable to its citizens by investigating, exposing, and remedying the government's abuses of power, mismanagement, and subservience to special interests.
Project Vote empowers low-income and minority citizens to increase voter education, registration, and turnout rates within their own communities, and helps them protect their voting rights.
Prosper, America's first people-to-people lending marketplace, was created to make consumer lending more financially and socially rewarding for everyone.
Public Interactive is developing interactive tools to connect public broadcasting's on-air and online communities in ways that will lead to more relevant programming and richer dialogue among listeners and viewers worldwide.
The Python Software Foundation supports the developer community devoted to advancing Python, the open source programming language easily learned within a few days.
Science Commons encourages scientific innovation by making it easier for scientists, universities, and enterprises to share scientific literature, data, and materials.
Secrecy News aims to increase transparency and accountability of the democratic process by challenging excessive government secrecy, providing alternative channels for public access to government information, and promoting public oversight.
Socialtext, the leading enterprise social software provider, makes it easy for workgroups to communicate effectively and build group memory, social capital and trust.
Solar Electric Light Fund works with rural communities in the developing world to establish solar-powered electric infrastructure, laying the foundation for economic development and an improved quality of life.
SourceForge.net is the world's largest open source software development website, offering the most comprehensive repository of open source code and applications for free.
SpikeSource makes open source software safe for the enterprise by providing testing, certification and support services.
United Villages enables people in underserved, rural areas of developing countries to communicate by email and voicemail through cost-effective, "store-and-forward" wireless networks.
Unitus works to accelerate the growth of the highest-potential microfinance institutions in developing countries, demonstrating that MFIs can be operated as large-scale, commercially funded, regulated financial institutions.
Votewatch.us is a nonpartisan organization working toward a fully transparent and accountable election system to ensure all votes are counted as they were cast.
Voxiva's information applications leverage the existing communications infrastructure of developing countries to help organizations and their field staffs to track diseases, monitor patients, manage projects and respond to disasters in real time, significantly reducing response times and ultimately saving lives.
WITNESS helps local human rights defenders in the U.S. and around the globe use video to transform personal stories of abuse into powerful tools of justice.
World of Good brings ethically sourced, handcrafted gifts and accessories into the US market under one brand, providing microentrepreneurship and a sustainable living for thousands of individual artisans from developing countries.
YackPack combines the richness of voice communication with the convenience and simplicity of email, allowing even non-technical people to strengthen connections with those closest to them.
YouthBuild works to unleash the intelligence and positive energy of low-income youth to rebuild their communities and their lives.
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