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American Express' Members Project 2008 is in full swing, and we want to do our part to participate in their crowd-sourced philanthopic efforts. The Members Projects is your chance to vote on which world-changing projects get a share of $2.5 million in funding. The top five projects will receive funding based on the total number of votes.
Several Echoing Green Fellows are participating this year, and we've invited them to post links to their projects in the comments below.
Here's what you can do:
1) Follow the links to the each project (in the comments below)
2) Read about the project
3) Click on "Nominate this Project"
4) Login as an American Express Card Member, or sign up as a guest member. **You do not need to be an American Express Cardholder to participate**
5) Then click "Nominate this Project" again
Nominations close September 1st.
Thanks for your help!
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Luxury yak fiber = new income for Tibetan herders
We want to introduce yak down as a new luxury fiber to the fashion world to catalyze sustainable economic development on the Tibetan plateau. Yaks have been the life source of Tibetan herders, providing everything from food, clothing, shelter, to transportation. However, few people have recognized the income generating potential of its soft, downy fiber. By launching a unique lifestyle brand using yak down as its focus, we will revolutionize the yak fiber market.
http://www.membersproject.com/project/view/5QWZGV
Please nominate!
The Under-8 Initiative For Early Childhood Development
The Under-8 Initiative will grant $10 million over 5 years to grassroots organizations focusing on the potential of children under age 8. It will support and strengthen 100 community-based organizations in 20 countries that are providing quality early childhood development for children under 8 to ensure their psychosocial and physical development. It will also invest in children’s books, documentaries, and photography that raise awareness of the importance of early childhood development.
Click here to vote for our initiative: http://www.membersproject.com/project/view/SLJQLI
Building Tomorrow-One School at a Time
Building Tomorrow (BT) needs your help to invest in the education of sub-Saharan Africa's future generations! BT has been nominated as a potential Member's Project and will use these funds to help construct self-sustaining primary schools in rural areas that will give thousands of vulnerable children their first opportunity to learn inside a classroom.
Vote us in and join in Building Tomorrow!
http://www.membersproject.com/project/view/PN0KH0
AIDG in member's project
AIDG's member's project is trying to get major corporations to hook up with development engineers to start some mass production of technologies for people living under 2 dollars a day. We are focusing on energy, water, sanitation and agricultural processing equipment. Basically we want to get great technologies that are produced by NGOs and saving lives on a regional level taken up by large corporations to start distribution worldwide.
Nominate AIDG here:
http://www.membersproject.com/project/view/S399RQ