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Gencocide Intervention Network

Using Facebook to get an anti-genocide Bill Passed + More!

• http://www.netsquared.org/blog/britt-bravo/interview-ivan-boothe-genocide-intervention-network-n2y2-featured-project
• http://phillynet2.wordpress.com/join-us-at-net-tuesdays/
• http://www.slideshare.net/forumone/ivan-boothe-v2/

The Coca Cola Rehydration Campaign

• http://beamends.typepad.com/simons_blog/2008/06/the-first-26-da.html
• http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=18947780476

One Million Voices Against FARC

• http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/08/business/protest11.php
• http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0204/p04s02-woam.html
• http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6684734468

Support the Monks' protest in Burma

• http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=24957770200

Help Fouad Mourtada

• http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10427212196
• http://www.zapboom.com/content/view/144953/Fouad_Mourtada_is_Free.html

STAND for Housing

A grassroots movement across Vancouver - individuals cluster throughout the city on Saturdays,

to STAND for an hour, drawing attention to the need for social housing.  

Other than e-mail Facebook is the major method of communication.

• http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=13948225118

Applications:

The 'Lil Green Patch'

• http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2008/06/the-lil-green-p.html
• http://www.searchkindly.org/blog/2008-04-21_Coverage_By_The_Wall_Street_Journal.php

Razoo - SpeedGranting -

• http://apps.facebook.com/speedgranting/ 

Causes

• http://apps.facebook.com/causes/ 

How Love Without Boundaries Won the Causes Giving Challenge ($94,000 + $50,000)

• http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/28/causes-reports-on-its-first-year/ - 2.5 million to nearly 20,000 nonprofits
• http://www.frogloop.com/care2blog/2008/2/13/how-they-did-it-lwb-wins-facebook-causes-giving-challenge.html
• http://apps.facebook.com/causes/51591?facebook_url=true&recruiter_id=773320

Issues:

Union Organizer banned:

* http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/05/09/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-blackadder/#more-244

* http://yishaym.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/adios-facebook/ 

* http://www.binaryfreedom.info/node/306