WiserEarth, TakingITGlobal

https://orgs.tigweb.org/wiserearth

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Providing the tools and a platform for non-profit organizations, funds, social entrepreneurs, students, organizers, academics, activists, scientists, and citizens to connect, collaborate, share resources and build alliances.

Paul Hawkins, in 2012, wrote and talked about "Blessed Unrest" and the Movement of Movements that is largely invisible. This website was created to address that situation.

WiserEarth links organizations and people in new ways.

* WiserEarth's structured data format combined with its comprehensive taxonomy makes it the most advanced search tool available in the environmental and social justice fields.

* WiserEarth encourages social entrepreneurs, students, scientists, consultants and volunteers to construct personal profiles that will create opportunity and visibility for them, while providing organizations a broader pool of prospective talent.

* WiserEarth provides grassroots groups that do not have a web presence visibility and access.

* WiserEarth provides funders a comprehensive landscape of organizations engaged in specific program activities.

* Academics, students, politicians, and the media can better visualize the extent and comprehensiveness of global civil society.

* WiserEarth acts as a low-cost communication network for all organizations through the publishing and encouragement of voice-over-internet-protocol hook-ups (e.g. SKYPE).

* WiserEarth will generate geographic maps to locate individual organizations, or any collection of organizations, from street to continent level.

* WiserEarth will be viewable in multilingual interfaces so that information can be entered and understood in users' native languages.

* WiserEarth offers free postings for recruiting staff, volunteers, and interns and will offer a marketplace to share surplus resources and materials.

* WiserEarth is scalable and doesn't require extensive funding once built. Content is user-generated, requiring few staff after public launch.

The WiserEarth unfolds into wonder once you register.

Tags

Does: Educational Programs; Does: Networking; Does: Connected Learning; Issue: Youth Action & Social Innovation; Serves: Youth; Teaches: Creativity & Digital Skills; Teaches: Indigenous Stories; Where: global online

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Shannon McArthur, Our Heart Gardens