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Armed Services Arts Partnership
United States of America
The Armed Services Arts Partnership (ASAP) connects veterans service members and military family members to their communities through classes performances and partnerships in the arts. ASAP focuses on promoting artistic expression and skill development in supportive six to twelve week classes in stand up comedy improv creative writing and music. Thereafter ASAP partners with local colleges and arts organizations to provide its graduates with continuous opportunities for artistic and personal growth. In the process ASAP s programs can improve well being among participants allow them to develop a renewed sense of identity and purpose and bridge divides by connecting veterans and local communities through the arts.
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Art to Aid
United States of America
Art to Aid exists to cultivate a community around the idea that art can benefit the Creative the Consumer and the World. They believe that shopping for high quality creative goods does not have to be an individualistic endeavor. For every item that is sold here a contribution will be made to a worthy cause that is making the world better.
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CivicWhitaker
CivicWhitaker is a civic technology consulting firm based out of Chicago Illinois specializing in project management research and writing digital storytelling and community organizing. Specifically they help civic organizations understand software development research their needs and work with the organizations to procure technology solutions centered around the needs of their front line users.
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Colab.re
Brazil
Colab is citizen-to-government engagement platform that offers a social network for citizens, focused on issue reporting, urban improvement suggestions and public services evaluations, as well as participation in the decision making process. For governments, Colab.re offers workflow management, CRM and consultation tools.
| Information, communication & technology |
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Ones Up
United States of America
Ones Up works to hone the skills talents and passion of young adults ages 18 to 35 to transform disadvantaged communities. By helping participants determine what they want to do and what skills they possess the organization places members into an experience pathway that enables them to create facilitate and execute assignments. Program pathways include but are not limited to administration peer to peer mentoring community projects youth enrichment public speaking and entertainment. Ones Up s ultimate goal is to build and establish economic growth in disadvantaged communities empowered by young people.
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Perpetual Plastic
Netherlands
The Perpetual Plastic Project is all about the local recycling of bio plastics. Last summer the project was successfully launched at Lowlands festival 2012 as part of Llowlab. An installation was presented were visitors could recycle their own drinking cups into new products.
| Financial & Insurance activites |
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PublicStuff
United States of America
PublicStuff is a civic engagement platform that helps residents and local governments connect to improve their communities. Residents can submit track and view nearby service requests online through the smartphone app via SMS or traditional phone calls. Local governments leverage our backend platform to automatically route assign tasks and update residents on status. With populations ranging from 4000 to 1000000 PublicStuff works to meet the needs and budgets of cities of all sizes.
| Information, communication & technology |
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Seattle CityClub
United States of America
Seattle CityClub is a civic education non profit organization in Seattle WA. Seattle CityClub strives to create a community of informed and active citizens throughout greater Seattle. Since 1981 they've brought together leaders and the public to talk about complex issues across political professional and generational divides.
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Soliya
United States of America
Foster cross cultural understanding between the Western and Arab worlds by linking youth through social media technologies.Soliya is an international nonprofit organization preparing the next generation with the skills attitudes and commitment to engage with difference constructively. We operate at the intersection of technology peacebuilding and global education to foster local awareness and global perspectives.Our mission is to empower young people to establish more effective cooperative and compassionate relations within and between their societies by providing high quality global education that combines the power of dialogue with the reach of new media technologies.We want to see a world with inclusive and pluralistic societies where diversity is embraced and conflicts are transformed into opportunities for collaboration and collective learning.
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Textizen
United States of America
Textizen empowers social service organisations to more effectively track remind inspire and engage the people they serve. Rather than a case worker calling every participant individually Textizen's automated text reminders and surveys can inspire and track individual progress while freeing up resources to target those most in need of personal attention.
| Information, communication & technology |
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The New American Tavern
United States of America
The New American Tavern believes that they can reintegrate civic discussion and learning into the daily life of neighborhoods across the country. They believe that they can revitalize American democracy one neighborhood at a time.
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TMI Consulting
United States of America
The political and public appetite for social enterprise has come a long way since TW's predecessors Manchester Social Enterprise Forum and Manchester Progressive Enterprise Network merged back in 2007.rnrnTW formed with its mission to develop a strong independent and inclusive social economy in Greater Manchester that delivers outstanding financial social and environmental benefits to their communities.
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TwoSeed
United States of America
TwoSeed provides enterprise software that allows companies and foundations to effectively implement corporate community initiatives. TwoSeed platforms are turn key solutions that can easily be integrated into your company s existing intranet or social platform and customized to your needs.
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