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CrisisMedia.tv selects a partial view from year 24 of the hottest headlines in Philanthropy's Entrepreneurial Revolution and attempt save the world from capitalising the wrong way round truth and sustainability's 7 final tipping points info @worldcitizen.tv us tel 301 881 1655

March 007: The internet was always going tp globalise a media crisis without precedence -quite liable to end human sustainability before C22. At broadcast tipping's point our senior economist's network correspondent has only been able to imagine 2 ways to save humanity - the BBC (as world's largest public and non-commercial broadcaster) gets its act together and champions 30000 social entrepreneurs with more gusto than commercial channels attend to sports and pop idols; or a reality tc show changes the relations between celebrity superstars I wouldnt want my 10 year old daughter to shake hands with and unseen heroes (the 21st C Mother Theresas) whom I would. Enter American Idol Gives Back and rumors of marriage to African Idol. Be that as it may: Bravo Richard Curtis, Bravo Simon 1, Simon 2; Bravo Ryan and Paul - may you rock around the world every night from April 24.
  • This April, "Idol Gives Back" -and its audince of 32 million Americans - will raise awareness of the effects of poverty on children and young people in the US and Africa.
  • Tuesday April 24, your vote will count more than ever. Each time you call, sponsors will make a donation to Charity Projects Entertainment Fund to help children and young people in America and Africa.
  • Wednesday April 25, a very special results show will feature a star-studded extravaganza of celebrities and artists.

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    winners announced competitions

    Entrepreneuring Peace
    Entrepreneuring Peace
    (Oct '06 - Jan '07)
    Housing competition small photo
    How to Provide Affordable Housing
    (Jun - Sep 2006)
    Health for All small photo
    How to Improve Health for All
    (Mar - Jun 2006)


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    Ashoka
    Ashoka helps create systemic social change by providing social entrepreneurs with funding and a global network of relationships, knowledge, and resources.
    Backfence
    Backfence provides highly localized Web sites that enable members of local communities to post their news, share what's happening within their own neighborhoods, and connect with others who care about the same issues.
    Balkan Financial Sector Equity Fund
    The Balkan Financial Sector Equity Fund, managed by Switzerland-based dfe partners, provides equity capital to banks and non-bank financial institutions in Southeast Europe for investment in advanced stage, micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises that are driving the region's economic development.
    Benetech
    Benetech combines the power of the human mind with a deep passion for social improvement, addressing the needs of underserved communities worldwide with innovative technology solutions.
    BlueOrchard Microfinance Securities
    BlueOrchard and Developing World Markets structured the first-ever issuance of debt obligations backed by a portfolio of loans to provide attractive, longer-term funding to microfinance institutions and stimulate broader participation in microfinance from mainstream investors.
    CellBazaar
    CellBazaar connects buyers and sellers through a mobile phone-based electronic marketplace.
    Center for Effective Philanthropy
    The Center for Effective Philanthropy provides management and governance tools to define, assess, and improve overall foundation performance.
    CircleLending
    CircleLending manages loans between relatives, friends, and other private parties, giving individual lenders the rights and capabilities of lending institutions and individual borrowers greater access to capital.
    Collaborative Drug Discovery
    Collaborative Drug Discovery's Web-based database enables scientists to collaborate in novel, global efforts to more effectively develop new drug candidates for commercial and humanitarian markets.
    Common Sense Media
    Common Sense Media is a national, non-partisan organization dedicated to improving the impact of media and entertainment on kids and families.
    Community Patent Review
    The Community Patent Review Project is piloting an online system for open peer review of patents that uses distributed, decentralized and collaborative expertise in order to increase efficiency, improve patent quality, and ultimately spur innovation.
    Creative Commons
    Creative Commons breaks down barriers to sharing creative content imposed by existing copyright law, using private rights to create public goods.
    digg
    Digg is a user-driven, social content Web site and news aggregation platform that enables individuals to prioritize the overwhelming amount of content available on the Internet.
    DonorsChoose
    DonorsChoose is the online marketplace where teachers and citizens connect to give students the resources they need to learn.
    Enthusiast Group LLC
    The Enthusiast Group builds online communities for people who are passionate about different types of participant sports and activities, utilizing citizen-media methods to enable sharing of adventures, photos, and videos.
    Ethos Water
    Ethos Water helps children get clean water and raises awareness of the world water crisis.
    Eventful
    Eventful is a collaborative, online information resource that helps people discover events and share their discoveries with others, allowing those who would not otherwise have connected to meet and interact.
    Federated Media Publishing
    Federated Media Publishing offers a suite of publishing services that will enable a network of established, high quality, independent authors to thrive through partnerships with endemic and national advertisers. 
    Feedster
    Feedster enables individuals and organizations to create a richer, more diverse and connected exchange of information through online search, syndication, and publication of dynamic content.
    GAN-Net
    GAN-Net builds, promotes, and connects multi-stakeholder Global Action Networks (GANs) that address critical global issues.
    Global Commercial Microfinance Consortium
    The Global Commercial Microfinance Consortium is an investment fund that aims to build stronger ties between local banks and microfinance institutions (MFIs), facilitating access to local currency loans and helping to remove foreign exchange burdens for MFIs, thus lowering end-borrower costs.
    Global Social Venture Competition
    The Global Social Venture Competition actively supports the creation and growth of successful social ventures around the world.
    GlobalGiving
    GlobalGiving is an Internet-based marketplace for international philanthropy, connecting individual and institutional donors directly to locally run, social and economic development projects around the world.
    Grameen Foundation USA
    Grameen Foundation USA empowers the world's poorest people to lift themselves out of poverty with dignity through access to financial services and to information.
    Green Media Toolshed
    Green Media Toolshed enables nonprofits to mobilize the time and interest of volunteers in the development of shared information resources, allowing those organizations to achieve greater collective impact.
    Harwood Institute for Public Innovation
    The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation seeks to improve public life and politics so that people can tap their own potential to make a difference and join together to build a common future.
    InnoCentive
    InnoCentive is a Web-based network that enables innovation-based companies to rapidly engage uniquely qualified individuals around the world to solve scientific R&D challenges.
    International Development Law Organization (IDLO)
    IDLO is an intergovernmental development organization dedicated to promoting the rule of law and good governance in developing countries.
    KaBOOM!
    KaBOOM! empowers civic participation nationwide by working with communities to design, build and maintain their own playgrounds, skateparks, and athletic fields.
    Keystone
    Keystone aims to provide the first global reporting standards for donors in the nonprofit market, akin to what generally accepted accounting practices provide for investors in the stock market.
    Krugle
    Krugle accelerates the pace of software development by providing programmers with a single place to find appropriate source code, the information to evaluate it, and the tools to share it.
    Linden Lab
    Linden Lab is the producer of Second Life, an online world imagined, created, and owned by its residents.
    Meetup
    Meetup.com helps people find others who share their interest or cause and form lasting, influential, local community groups that regularly meet face to face.
    Metaweb
    Metaweb is building a new infrastructure for the Web that enables individuals and communities to organize personally relevant information and share it with anyone online.
    Microcredit Summit Campaign
    Through a series of regional and global events, microfinance stakeholders gather to advance the field of microfinance and, ultimately, reduce poverty among 100 million of the world's poorest families.
    Microfinance Information eXchange, Inc. (The MIX)
    The Microfinance Information eXchange is an online information marketplace that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration between microfinance institutions and prospective investors and clients. 
    MicroVest
    MicroVest is an investment firm providing microfinance institutions with access to new sources of commercial capital, helping to build capital markets that work for the poor.
    Mifos Project: Grameen Technology Center
    Mifos is an open source management information system that increases capacity for microfinance institutions and enables them to connect to formal financial systems and capital markets.
    Modest Needs
    Modest Needs helps keep struggling families from entering the cycle of poverty, allowing them to cover small, but unexpected expenses by pooling what others can afford to share.
    Myelin Repair Foundation
    The Myelin Repair Foundation is driving innovation in multiple sclerosis research by creating a collaborative environment in which disparate scientists work together on a shared research plan as a single community.
    Patients Like Me
    PatientsLikeMe is a global online community that gives patients the power to track their diseases, share outcomes, and learn what treatments work best for patients just like them.
    Pay Rent, Build Credit, Inc. (PRBC)
    PRBC enables consumers and small business owners with no or limited credit history to build a PRBC credit history by self-reporting their bill payments, which are typically not reported by traditional credit bureaus.
    Platial
    Platial is a collaborative, Web-based atlas that allows users to create, manage and share custom maps, creating communities of interest around the places that matter to them.
    Prosper
    Prosper, America's first people-to-people lending marketplace, was created to make consumer lending more financially and socially rewarding for everyone.
    Rare
    Rare provides training and support to a global network of local conservationists and is developing an online community to support their collaboration, innovation, and collective impact.
    Science Commons
    Science Commons encourages scientific innovation by making it easier for scientists, universities, and enterprises to share scientific literature, data, and materials.
    Socialtext
    Socialtext, the leading enterprise social software provider, makes it easy for workgroups to communicate effectively and build group memory, social capital and trust.
    Solar Electric Light Fund
    Solar Electric Light Fund works with rural communities in the developing world to establish solar-powered electric infrastructure, laying the foundation for economic development and an improved quality of life. 
    Solidus Investment Fund
    Solidus is an investment fund managed by Cyrano Management that provides quasi-equity investment to rapidly growing and commercially-oriented Latin American microfinance providers.
    SpikeSource
    SpikeSource makes open source software safe for the enterprise by providing testing, certification and support services.
    Sunlight Foundation
    The Sunlight Foundation uses information technology to enable citizens to learn more about the activities of Congress and other elected representatives, helping ensure greater transparency and accountability by government.
    The ImagineNations Group
    The ImagineNations Group is a global alliance of entrepreneurs, investors, financial institutions, corporations and media working together with young people to develop access to the knowledge, capital, and networks that young people in developing nations need to create their own economic opportunities.
    United Villages
    United Villages enables people in underserved, rural areas of developing countries to communicate by email and voicemail through cost-effective, "store-and-forward" wireless networks.
    Unitus
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    Unitus Equity Fund L.P.
    The Unitus Equity Fund makes strategic equity investments in highly scalable microfinance institutions, primarily focusing on those with operations in India.
    V2V
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    Voxiva
    Voxiva's information applications leverage the existing communications infrastructure of developing countries to help organizations and their field staffs to track diseases, monitor patients, manage projects and respond to disasters in real time, significantly reducing response times and ultimately saving lives.
    Wikia
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    WITNESS
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    World of Good
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    YouthNOISE
    YOUTH NOISE is a social network that allows young people to engage in dialogue and collective action to address the issues that matter to them most.