The Global Student Entrepreneur Awards has an amazing prize package available to the student entrepreneurs who can impress the judges and win the competition!  The total prize package for the 2008 Global Student Entrepreneur Awards is estimated at over $100,000 in cash and business products and services donated by Entrepreneurs’ Organization members.

Undergraduate students from the United States of America and from countries other than the three listed below please click this link to nominate:  CLICK HERE TO NOMINATE FOR THE 2008 GLOBAL STUDENT ENTREPRENEUR AWARDS!

Regional Competitions in Canada, Sweden, and Puerto Rico are hosted by Global Student Entrepreneur Awards Partners

How would you mashup the Network for Good donation processing service with other services to make it easier for nonprofits to raise money online? We’re working with Network for Good, the Case Foundation, and the NetSquared community to enhance the online donation process.

The DonateNow Mashup Challenge:

There are two categories to enter:

1. Build a mashup using Network for Good’s donation API, with a particular focus on enhancing the donor experience.
2. Build a mashup using Network for Good’s donation API,with a particular focus on improving or revolutionizing a nonprofit organization’s ability to fundraise.

Winners in the each category will be awarded a $10,000 prize by a panel of judges present at the N2Y3 Conference.

In addition, each winner will be granted a one-year license for the Network for Good API to be donated to an organization of their choice (if the winner is an organization, it can choose to donate the API to itself).

Network for Good’s donation API allows developers to integrate NFG's donation-processing functionality into their website or web application. Developers using the API should have a familiarity with SOAP Web Services.

Participants in the DonateNow Mashup Challenge will receive a developer license to the Network for Good Donation Web service. This free license is valid until June 30, 2008. Organizations interested in purchasing a developer license for use beyond this date should contact customerservice@networkforgood.org.

• Selection Criteria and Program Guidelines
• To Become A Social Innovator
• To Nominate A Social Innovator
• Eligibility Assessment

Now Accepting Applications for the 2008 Women PeaceMakers Program 

Becoming a Woman PeaceMaker

• 2008 Women PeaceMakers Application (Word Document)
• 2008 Women PeaceMakers Application (PDF)

Becoming a Peace Writer

• 2008 Peace Writer Application (Word Document)
  
• 2008 Peace Writer Application (PDF)

Summer Internship

Unlike the Fall and Spring semester internship program, the Summer program offers high school youth the unique opportunity to research and create the WORLDLINK READER, a classroom tool that provides youth with the important background knowledge regarding YTM topics. The Reader is distributed to over 30 classrooms in San Diego County and Baja California, Mexico.

The student-chosen 2008-2009 WorldLink theme is "On the Brink: Responding to Underlying Causes of Conflict." Youth will discuss the embers fanned in the fires of violent conflict and actions which need to be taken on the ground to address these. The 2008 summer interns will research five main topics to create the WorldLink Reader: gender inequality, global racism and religious intolerance, lack of economic development, xenophobic nationalism.

WorldLink interns will work closely with the program coordinator in weekly mandatory meetings at the institute. Most research will be done at the student’s home and all interns will come together once a week to review research progress, discuss current events, and watch theme-related movies.

WorldLink summer internships are highly competitive research opportunities for youth interested in international relations. Small scholarships will now be awarded to accepted interns. All high school students are strongly encouraged to apply. Internships will begin the week of June 16 and end August 14 with a formal research presentation to institute staff, parents, and WorldLink donors. The corrected deadline is Friday, May 23, 2008.

• Download an application form
• Review other materials

MTDN offers a FREE Basic Membership to all qualified US based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations.

• Use our powerful Web 2.0 technology to build capacity and better serve your existing supporters and members.
• Receive more exposure to new potential donors and supporters.
• Generate more direct donations to support specific projects or "Wishes."
• Build a powerful, interactive, "Cause-Oriented" social network of donors and supporters.
• Attract more visitors to your organization's Web site.

1. A Nonprofit Organization Page
2. 5 Wish Pages
3. The MTDN Direct Donation System (MTDN Does NOT take a percentage of any donation)
4. A Complete Social Network
5. The MTDN Video System
6. Access to MTDN Technology Training

The Pangea Day Mission & Purpose

Pangea Day is a global event bringing the world together through film.

Why? In a world where people are often divided by borders, difference, and conflict, it's easy to lose sight of what we all have in common. Pangea Day seeks to overcome that – to help people see themselves in others – through the power of film.

The Pangea Day Event

Starting at 18:00 GMT on May 10, 2008, locations in Cairo, Kigali, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, and Rio de Janeiro will be linked for a live program of powerful films, live music, and visionary speakers. The entire program will be broadcast – in seven languages – to millions of people worldwide through the internet, television, and mobile phones.

The 24 short films to be featured have been selected from an international competition that generated more than 2,500 submissions from over one hundred countries. The films were chosen based on their ability to inspire, transform, and allow us see the world through another person's eyes. Details on the Pangea Day films can be viewed here.

The program will also include a number of exceptional speakers and musical performers. Queen Noor of Jordan, CNN's Christiane Amanpour, musician/activist Bob Geldof, and Iranian rock phenom Hypernova are among those taking part.

Attend an event near you.

Host an event.

What if Africa had no borders? What if her boundaries extended as far as those living in the diaspora, or even further? What if you could fly directly from Cape to Cairo, Lagos to Luanda, Bujumbura to Abuja? Or what if you could drive to every city and every town and every village? What if the Internet was a reality for every African? What if you could call the world from atop the Kilimanjaro, or from deep in the forests of the Congo? What if a lingua franca was spoken and understood by every African? What if we could halve the number of poor Africans by 2015, or eradicate poverty altogether someday? What if there was a cure for every disease and the average African could live beyond the age of 33? What if Africa embraced innovative thinking, and in the process, reinvented her future?

What if we build the Africa we want? And what if the whole world could take another look and see Africa through the eyes of Africans? What would you see?

The TEDGlobal 2007 conference in Arusha, Tanzania, gave us a picture of Africa that many were not aware of. We saw how people on the continent are now taking matters into their own hands and redefining their future. TEDAfrica 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa, will take this discussion a step further and give us a glimpse of that unfolding future.

Architects, biologists, designers, musicians, economists, healers, entrepreneurs, philosophers, poets, adventurers, astronomers, storytellers, scientists and many others, will share experiences and reveal new possibilities. In the process, they will bring to life visions of what this complex yet incredibly exciting continent is becoming.

Expect the famous TED serving of profundity and challenge. Sprinkled, naturally, with a bit of African magic and wonder.