Crossroads Charlotte provides opportunities for organizations, institutions and individuals to examine four plausible possible futures for the Charlotte community and then to take action to steer the community towards positive aspects of those futures.

In a project funded by the Corporation for National and Community Service, students (and others) are invited to put nodes and links on a graphical map of Boston's organizations, issues, and people. This map becomes a resource for research, volunteering, recruitment, and activism. It will also be accessible via Facebook and MySpace applications.

DOTCOM is a program for media-savvy and civically-engaged youth, designed to offer training and opportunities for young people to create socially conscious media that will impact communities across the U.S. and the Caucasus. The program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, and supported

The Banyan Project is a group of senior journalists, technologists, researchers, strategists and advocates for strengthening democracy who are devoted to creating a new large-scale model for quality journalism that can thrive in the digital future.

Tom Stites, founder and moderator; see Advisory Board at http://www.banyanproject.com.

People’s Voice Media is a new and innovative social enterprise, based in Manchester UK that works in local communities. We believe in the power of social media to get communities talking to each other, to spread news, and to give everyone a voice and a platform from which to use that voice. We offer a range of services that offer a complete package of media development opportunities, primarily to people living in digitally excluded communities.

Welcoming Incorporated is a grassroots collaborative that utilizes direct community dialogue as well as communications technology to promote understanding and respect between "arriving" immigrants and "receiving" communities in towns and cities across the United States. In Welcoming communities, underlying tension and misunderstanding between groups is gradually replaced by acceptance and cooperation.The ultimate goal of the collaborative is the development of a full-fledged welcoming movement, in which immigrants across the world feel welcomed in the places where they choose to live. There are currently twelve states in which significant Welcoming campaigns are currently underway.

The Project will provide an international project-based participatory learning experience that:

Project-based educational programs will be delivered to teams that combine Chinese and US students through online, interactive environments making maximum use of social media, social production, collaboration, and communication (text, audio, video) tools. New School Student Ambassadors has fully developed and piloted joint US-Chinese participatory learning, project-based programs using open source course management, electronic portfolios, and activity management systems. Through a network of collaborating professionals and organizations, we support teacher/coaching professional development in both China and the US.

As the Internet becomes central to civic, commercial, community, and cultural life, those with the best tools and understanding of its capabilities will prosper. Using research, education, training, and outreach, Connecting.nyc Inc.'s mission is to prepare the city for our networked future. To do so, we will use the .nyc TLD (like .com or .org but just for New York City) to plan, to organize, and to empower New York City's residents, institutions, and businesses to better connect with one another and the world.

The opportunity to acquire the .nyc TLD will arise in 2009.

Our Mission: “To provide access to collaborative tools for educational discovery and communication about the real world impact of product supply chains.”

Without knowing the socially responsible impact of purchasing a product, we’re all still shopping in the dark.

Together we are modeling how specific companies perform on a variety of socially responsible interests. Buy It Like You Mean It helps students and volunteers cooperate to review and rate the real world effects of industry supply chains. We provide these ratings, free of charge, to help shoppers decide which products support their own unique values. Our users will soon be able to find a chocolate product scores through text messaging.