Build a Better Mashup, Get $10K

Thursday, May 8. 2008

Via Jono Smith, Director of Marketing for Network for Good:

Do you know a talented Web strategist or developer interested in coming up with new ways to use the Web for social good? Network for Good & the Case Foundation are sponsoring two $10,000 prizes for Web developers who do just that.

We are challenging developers to mash-up the Network for Good online donation processing API with another Web service to either (a) enhance the online donor experience or (b) revolutionize a nonprofit's ability to fundraise online. As if changing the world was not enough, the two winners will each receive a $10,000 prize.

For more information, you can check out the information page: http://www.netsquared.org/mashup/donatenowchallenge

Seeing as we've built our own little API for the CARMA site, I could envision something that let you look up local power plant emissions and then buy carbon offsets for the typical American's yearly usage.

EULA: If you use this idea and win, you have to buy me a beer with the $10,000. And I get to pick which beer.

Posted by Sandy Smith at 06:42 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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