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Learn about the International Alliance of Inhabitants, focused on housing rights worldwide.
Help Changemakers identify and support innovative ways young people are making positive change in their communities. Open to young people ages 12-24!
Tips for building an amazing Web-based civic organization like MySociety... worth a read!!
What`s changing the business world? Read Ed Granger`s analysis, "The changing face of corporate social responsibility," in The Journal of New England Technology.
How amazing would it be to have a Citizens Solutions Council in the White House!?
Ashoka`s Changemakers + Citi: “Banking on Social Change: Seeking Financial Solutions for All.”
For each dollar your organization spends on Web design, programming or other media related work, Elevation Web Solutions will match that with a dollar of their own...
Check out the Web of Hope and its sustainability solutions worldwide!
Some amazing things can be done with Google Earth. How could this tool support your work?
Concerned about a dam project in which a Chinese company is involved? Check out this new guide from International Rivers.
The Girl Effect. Help start a revolution!
Wiser Earth is a community directory and networking forum that maps and connects NGOs and individuals addressing the central issues of our day.
Read community stories from the Global Links Initiative, featuring 900+ success stories worldwide.
EcoTube - the green YouTube. Check out EcoTube`s recs for a clean future.
"Putting the Last First: Gandhi and Communication for Social Change" by Arvind Singhal (from MAZI).
Become a bloomer! The BBC has a fabulous new climate change website. Register and participate in this `make change` online community.
Check out these free videos, simple tools and other resources on how foundations use Web 2.0 tools to build capacity!
Everything you could possibly want to know about rainforests... Mongabay.com.
Check out Dutch TV`s new program, Metropolis, with 50 correspondents worldwide reporting on diverse themes.
Is Earth Day a Wash? Read Utne`s blog on how Earth Day is changing, and changing the world.
Congratulations to Russian biologist Marina Rikhvanova for winning the 2008 Goldman Environmental Prize, announced Monday. Read an interview with Rikhvanova on Utne.com...
Want to understand the basic chemistry behind climate change? Check out this entertaining and educational video from NPR...
Seven fabulous tips for online outreach, from Network for Good!
Atlas Service Corps is now accepting applications for the 2008-09 fellowship program. Citizens of Colombia, Ecuador, India and the USA may apply!
Check out Fenton`s recommendations on how to create an effective online press center.
Last day to vote for your favorite social change mash-up ideas in the N2Y3 Mashup Challenge!
Now is your chance to create social change with your unique mashup idea, and have an opportunity to win cash prizes and attend the NetSquared Conference (N2Y3)!
Learn about Anahata International, using yoga and meditation techniques to assist victims of conflict.
Check out Dot Earth - a blog from the New York Times to help you thinking about environmental change...
CatComm received the following press release from organizers of Mercy Gate Children`s Home in Kisii town, Kenya, requesting support given the recent tragic events in Kenya.
Read this article from Social Signal sharing Best Practices for Nonprofits Using Web 2.0 to pick up innovative ideas for your org...
Share Your Story. Join this innovative online community started by the March of Dimes to help NICU families.
Take a look at Change Everything - a Canadian site for people wanting to "change themselves, their community or their world!"
Find villages your skills can support using Nabuur!
Check out the UN`s innovative Nothing But Nets campaign - to eradicate malaria using mosquito nets.
Each year, the International Centre for Tolerance Education`s International Guest Program welcomes 20-25 human rights leaders and peace educators primarily from the Global South for 2-3 month residencies in New York. Applications due by January 21st, 2008.
Search using GreenLinking.com and offset some carbon!
Download "HOME TRUTHS: A LOW CARBON STRATEGY TO REDUCE UK HOUSING EMISSIONS BY 80%," a report by Oxford`s Environmental Change Institute.
Does your neighborhood have a community garden? Learn about the Barracks Lane Community Garden Project by clicking here...
The Climate Outreach Information Network (COIN-UK) has developed a training that allows you to become a voice that is trusted who says `climate change is serious.` Learn more about COIN.
Join in the International Demonstrations on Climate Change this Saturday 8th December 2007... worldwide! Click on your country to learn more.
Show world leaders in Bali that we can tackle climate change community by community! Learn about and lead your city in becoming a Transition Town!
Spanish-speaking medical students or doctors are needed in rural Ecuardor this winter! Find out more here...
What Will Turn the Tide Towards Sustainability? An article by Alan AtKisson for WorldChanging.
Enter the competition with your project using Sport for a Better World!
Check out MobileActive, a resource for activists using mobile technology worldwide.
Lights Out! Learn about this October 20th initiative in San Francisco...
The Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest will grant a $10,000 cash award to one individual who has created, or led the effort to create, software of significant value to the nonprofit sector.
A large-scale innovation worth knowing about: why not link renewable energy resources worldwide? Daylight here, nighttime there... Learn about GENI!
Learn about Design for Development, a Canadian organization using the design process as a problem-solving tool to address poverty worldwide.
War News Radio - an example of the impact a few college students can have without ever leaving campus...
What is a social entrepreneur? Join in the discussion on Social Edge!
Check out Nonprofit Guide`s free grantwriting tools for nonprofits!
Throw a neighborhood party to get residents involved! Follow these 9 steps from the Project for Public Spaces to trigger change in your community...
Learn how two search engines are helping nonprofits raise funds and get publicity, from Tech Soup...
Check out the Environmental Working Group`s EnviroBlog with carefully researched data about the environment and your health...
The Gandhi Conference on Nonviolence will be in Memphis, TN, next October. Learn more about nonviolence here...
It`s Earth Day! What better way to celebrate than to calculate! Calculate your carbon footprint and find out how to offset your impact today...
Step It Up 2007. Communities Uniting for Climate Action. Learn more about the April 14th events being planned...
Check out 10 hot projects to keep your eye on in the Net2 Competition "remixing the Web for social change" -- fabulous projects!
Kiva lets YOU lend to a SPECIFIC entrepreneur in the developing world... Learn more and get involved!
Trying to keep track of your contacts and funders? Try the Global Youth Action Network`s free software, GSync!
Check out Brinkerhoff`s newsletter full of fabulous ideas for helping your organization meet its mission. Here`s info on tech tools for nonprofits...
"No Private Matter! Ending Abuse in Intimate & Family Relations" is the topic of Changemakers` latest competition. Submit your entry by March 28th.
Social Innovation Park (SIP) is a Singapore-based organization developing a self-reliant and thriving model for aspiring and budding social entrepreneurs, along with a robust and dynamic social entrepreneurial community, locally and globally.
Prix Ars Electronica 2007 - International Competition for Cyberarts - is considering several requests of artists and submitters and has extended their deadline until March 16, 2007!
Join in this important discussion on Social Edge: Changing the World is Not Enough! This Week!
Action items to fight global warming. See what you can do!
The UK`s Guardian newspaper has an excellent section on Climate Change, updated daily. Check it out!
GlobalGain announces their new site! Check it out and send in your blueprint for social change.
Network Philanthropy -- read this article about innovative new approaches to philanthropy thanks to Ebay`s founders!
Solar Electricity in the Developing World... Learn more!
Ten personal solutions you can implement to fight global warming -- from the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Learn about this interesting initiative to help you make your flights carbon neutral...
Start the year on the right footing by taking the ecological footprint quiz! Learn how your lifestyle impacts the Earth.
CIACAC, a Rio de Janeiro community NGO run by Neuza Nascimento, organizes its first campaign to throw a Christmas party for 200 neighborhood youth. Get involved!
Communities are getting organized on global warming, all over the USA! You, too, are invited to a screening of "An Inconvenient Truth," this Saturday. Find a house party in your area!
Take Back the Tech! Learn about efforts using technology to end violence against women.
Learn about the Community Development Exchange, working to tackle inequality and achieve social justice across the UK.
December 1st is World Aids Day. Learn from Oxfam how you can help guarantee AIDS medication is kept available to the world`s poor.
Check out Friendly Favors events for the coming months! FF is a community of people doing favors for each other...
Learn about the Backstrap Weaver`s Ergonomic Bench created to support Mayan women in preserving their weaving culture without the traditional health consequences...
Social Venture Partners is a community of social investors worth knowing about...
Today - November 16th - is the day! CatComm receives one of 25 Tech Awards from the Tech Museum of Innovation! Follow the Webcast LIVE, 7:15 pm PST.
Geekcorps’ international technology experts teach communities how to be digitally independent. Learn more about Geekcorps!
The Seawater Greenhouse offers a sustainable solution to the problem of providing water for agriculture in arid, coastal regions...
The Center for Development of Disadvantaged People develops schools and other supports for neglected villages in Tamil Nadu, India. Learn more...
Video Volunteers trains NGOs to produce their own videos for social change. Check them out!
In the News: Recent UK report on global warming may be the ticket in motivating rapid change! Follow the story...
Riders for Health develops motorcycle transportation for health workers in Africa. Learn more about these experts in transportation for development.
The Global Connection Project is working to use the power of images to connect people, places and events! Learn more here...
A testament to the potential of community solutions: Muhammad Yunus & Grameen Bank Awarded The Nobel Peace Prize for 2006!
Read Village Earth`s approach to sustainable village development here...
You can have a social impact with your investments... Learn about Community Investing!
US Diversity Fellowship on community foundations: APPLY NOW through October 31st.
Participate in the 2006 Bioneers conference from one of at least 17 Beaming Bioneers sites! Oct. 20-22!
An international success story: the ozone hole is recovering! Read the Guardian article here.
Outsourcing nonprofit canvassing. Is this good? Read one assessment from Utne...
CatComm wins 2006 Tech Awards!
Learn about Social Fusion - incubating non- and for-profit high impact social programs in developing countries!
Check out the Global Ideas Bank - suggest your social invention to others!
CatComm has been approved as a CFC charity for 2006 as a member of Aid to Africa! Learn more about how to support CatComm (CFC #9988) through workplace giving.
Read CatComm`s latest e-newsletter! Hot off the press!
The TL Foundation posts grants and foundation information in their online library - take a peak!
Connectivity in Africa - check out their Infobook!
Check out the UNDP`s Equator Prize, a prestigious award that recognizes local efforts to reduce poverty through the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity!
The Funder Directory at the Funder`s Network on Trade and Globalization (FNTG) contains a searchable list of funders in the areas of trade and globalization. Check out the funders working on these issues!
Use Your Community to Spread the Word Online: TechSoup interviews a pair of grassroots marketers...
Follow this stimulating post on Omidyar.net about recent trends in the Nonprofit Sector! Join in the discussion!
Global Gain creates positive social change by advising philanthropists on how to make smart, strategic investments in promising non-profit organizations in the developing world. Learn more...
Telecenter Operator Exchange Program Announces Launch! ´Trade places´ and come back to your telecenter ready to go!
The Development Gateway Foundation is accepting applications for its $100,000 "ICT for the Empowerment of Youth" award. Learn more here! Deadline: August 11th.
How to make the transition from fund raising to development? Read tips from Social Edge!
A Year of Living Generously. Learn about this creative initiative out of the UK!
July 20th is the last day! Place your vote for fabulous social projects across Africa, Asia and the rest of the world to receive support in 2007 through Global Giving!
A $100 Laptop May Soon Be a Reality! Read TechSoup`s interview with One Laptop per Child`s Michail Bletsas...
Do Big Names Really Draw Big Bucks? A recent study of Board prestige holds interesting results... (from the NonProfit Quarterly).
If every household in the United States replaced just one box of virgin fiber facial tissues (175 sheets) with 100% recycled ones, we could save 163,000 trees...
Highly recommended!... Participate in the Omidyar Network`s annual conference in Chicago! Come discover your own power to make good things happen! July 14-16, 2006...
Washington, DC folks! Join in for the Nonprofit Networking happy hour... this month`s topic: IMMIGRATION! June 21st...
What is wirearchy? The Web`s response to traditional hierarchy...
Learn about a new initiative - Grass Commons - to help people get the information they need to steer markets toward the common good.
It`s been 6 months since the HabitatJAM! The Summary Report is now out...
Learn about Elko, Nevada`s Peace Park, where citizens are working together to build "a peaceful public environment to encourage contemplation, reflection and introspection."
Learn about Urth TV, a place where YOU broadcast a positive future!
The Community Organizing Toolbox is a tool prepared by the Neighborhood Funders Group to guide funders on the issue of community organizing. Check out the Toolbox here!
Sign up now for the 3rd World Urban Forum - to take place in Vancouver, June 19-23, 2006! June 9 is the last day to register...
Make informed lifestyle decisions using The Green Life. From the food on your plate, to e-waste, it`s all here...
Learn about eTapestry fundraising software -- a tool made available for free to organizations with less than 500 donor records!
See how the UN`s Growing Connections program can bring agriculture to your urban community!
We are honored that the Omidyar Network has nominated CatComm for the Tech Museum Awards! Learn more about the Tech Awards here...
World AIDS Orphans Day was launched on May 7th, 2006 in Los Angeles. Read the release here...
"Rotarians seek to aid Brazil`s poor" - a story about Central Illinois Rotarians` work to support CatComm`s efforts in Rio - published today in the Bloomington Pantagraph.
Catalytic Communities mourns the loss of Jane Jacobs, a visionary whose contribution to the humanizing of city planning and related fields cannot be underestimated, or overappreciated. Learn more about Jacobs through the Project for Public Spaces...
Clinton Daily Journal covers CatComm`s visit to Clinton, IL. Check out their May 1, 2006 article...
Tech Forum Chicago is happening NOW! Learn more about it.
Keep up-to-date and get active to end genocide worldwide. Learn more on the Genocide Intervention Network.
In 2005 Dorothy Kennett of Bloomington, IL spent 9 months helping God`s Golden Acre, a South African community group, establish a community library. Follow her blog here!