Apps for Change – Help Green Ribbon Schools
Hey Gang!
Friend of the Blog Steve Amos pointed this cool Nokia (Yes! Nokia) contest out to us this weekend.
Can you help support Green Ribbon Schools when you get a second?
Steve writes: This app would integrate with the core features on www.greenribbonschools.org, allowing students and teachers to use their mobile phones to create projects, collaborate, capture media and publish the results of their many earth friendly and student health activities.
Mobile phones should not be left at the school doors, but rather embraced as a valuable tool in the process of learning and doing great things for the planet. With this app students could unite around a project, capture pictures and videos of their activities on the phone and then upload the files and build the publishable results pages right from their phone…providing immediate unifying and inspiring action.
http://www.ideasproject.com/login.jspa — to register
http://www.ideasproject.com/ideas/3866 – to vote for Green Ribbon Schools – adding a comment on the importance to support educators with meaningful mobile apps, while helping our environment, will be super
http://ideasproject.com/community/challenges/apps_for_change – leader board
Invent your own Nonprofit Mobile App!
The folks at Smart Online, Inc. are calling all nonprofits and individuals with brilliant app ideas for nonprofits– small, medium, and large, focusing on anything from health, government, education, to human rights, animals, arts, and more. They want you to participate in this contest and help your nonprofit go mobile.
What would your ideal app be? How can you capitalize on this growing Smartphone market? Tell us your thoughts in the contest form. And enter to win from among a number of different prizes ranging from an iPad 2, an iPod, iTunes gift cards and a year of NTEN membership! Let those creative juices flow while helping your nonprofit Go Mobile! What do you think? Do nonprofits need mobile apps?
Prizes:
Grand Prize: Second Generation iPad + $100 iTunes gift card
Second Prize: iPod Touch + $100 iTunes gift card
Third Prize: One Year NTEN Membership + $25 iTunes gift card
Special Prize: Entry with most number of votes will win a $200 Amazon gift card
Bonus Prize: One entry will receive a bonus prize – $100 Amazon gift card
Crowdsourcing Housing for Japan
Boulder nonprofit “Sparkrelief” responded immediately with housing relief for Japanese earthquake victims. Sparkrelief created Quakehousing.org where those displaced can find offers of housing posted by people with free rooms.
A crisis of this magnitude can have far reaching emotional effects. Providing easily accessible information through a simple interface reduces stress when searching for relief.
Often, people who want to help feel powerless and are uncertain how to help. The Sparkrelief platform connects people who want to help with victims in immediate need.
Quakehousing.org has a simple to use interface that allows victims to select their housing preferences. Housing can be searched by geographic location, children and pet preferences, bathroom and even parking options.
Fourmilefirehelp.com, a Sparkrelief platform used during the Colorado fires last September, quickly became the leading forum for relief with 23,000 unique visits making over 900 posts to help in just 10 days.
Quakehousing.org is available for free and is used by those in need of housing, those that want to give housing, government agencies posting shelters, and other non-profit agencies and corporations who wish to help or donate.
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