TOPIC: ONENESS (45)
Search for Common Ground
http://www.sfcg.orgSearch for Common Ground works to prevent and end violent conflict in countries that are experiencing violence, facing the threat of it, or dealing with its effects. With a 31 year track record, we work to equip individuals and societies with the knowledge and skills to find alternatives to violent conflict. By understanding and tackling the root causes of conflict, we help communities to deal with their differences constructively.
PeaceTube Project
http://thepeacetube.comThe PeaceTube Project connects people from different countries and cultures, especially those in conflict, thus creating a basis for tolerance and dialogue.
If we peek over the borders that separate us, we are sure to find more in common than in contrast.
100 People Foundation
http://www.100people.orgThe 100 People Foundation helps students to better understand the complex issues facing our planet and the resources we share. By framing the global population as 100 people, our media makes education more engaging and effective, and improves students' abilities to remember and relate to what they learn.
Nextdoor
https://nextdoor.comNextdoor is a free and private social network for neighborhoods. On Nextdoor, neighbors create private websites for their neighborhoods where they can ask questions, get to know one another and exchange local advice and recommendations. Nextdoor’s mission is to use the power of technology to create stronger and safer places to call home. The inspiration behind Nextdoor was to give people a social network to connect them to one of the most important communities in their lives - the neighborhood. Nextdoor believes that when neighbors start talking, good things happen.
Global Lives Project
http://globallives.orgThe Global Lives Project is a video library of life experience. A nonprofit, volunteer-driven effort of filmmakers and translators, we create and curate films that capture 24 continuous hours in the life of individuals from around the world. We use visual media to cultivate the ethics of global citizenship and cross-cultural empathy for a global audience.
Crowdtilt
https://www.crowdtilt.comWe all love doing things as a group. Like with a lot of experiences, it's not what you do – it’s the people you do it with that matters more.
At Crowdtilt, we’re trying to make it easier for groups to do things together. Whether it’s a party-bus to the next Phish show or pooling money for a cause you know your close friends are passionate about – we just want to make that process of grouping those funds as easy as possible.
The Acoustic Guitar Project
http://theacousticguitarproject.comThe Acoustic Guitar Project was created to help musicians reconnect to the original moment that inspired them to be singer-songwriters.
Musicians participating in The Acoustic Guitar Project are given one week to create an original song using only the guitar and recording device provided. There’s no editing on the computer, and they have to get it all in one live take.
Gigglers.tv
http://gigglerstv.milab.idc.ac.ilGigglers.tv is an online video channel that plays hundreds of video clips of people laughing from around the globe. The platform allows users to upload their own videos of people laughing and share specific laughs with friends.
The site operates by curatorship; we search for the funniest videos on the web and edit the most entertaining parts into a 10 second clip.
Laughter is a border crossing universal language with proven therapeutic effects on the mind and body. Giggles.tv aspires to make this fact known through our motto spread the laugh, and turn the world into a happier place.
Humans of New York
http://www.humansofnewyork.com/HONY resulted from an idea that I had to construct a photographic census of New York City. I thought it would be really cool to create an exhaustive catalogue of the city’s inhabitants, so I set out to photograph 10,000 New Yorkers and plot their photos on a map. I worked for several months with this goal in mind. But somewhere along the way, HONY began to take on a much different character. I started collecting quotes and short stories from the people I met, and began including these snippets alongside the photographs. Taken together, these portraits and captions became the subject of a vibrant blog, which over the past two years has gained hundreds of thousands of followers.
Thunderclap
https://www.thunderclap.itSocial media is an easy way to say something, but it’s a difficult way to be heard. Thunderclap is the first-ever crowdspeaking platform that helps users be heard by saying something together. It allows a single message to be mass-shared, flash mob-style, that rises above the noise of your social networks. By boosting the signal at the same time, Thunderclap helps a single person create action and change like never before.
The Simple Good
http://www.thesimplegood.comThe goal of this global project is to bring into focus the incredible things that surround us in our every-day world by sharing images and perspectives from around the world.
Whether it is a delicate flower, random street art, a kind gesture, or anything and everything that is simply good - these images represent the extraordinary yet basic things that connect us to one another and to our world.
Way
http://www.makeourway.comWay is a game where two players on separate screens have to solve a puzzle together, nonverbally. Both lack a common language yet are joined by a shared goal,
Shareable
http://www.shareable.netShareable is the online magazine that tells the story of sharing. We cover the people and projects bringing a shareable world to life. And share how-tos so you can make a sharing real in your life.
The Universal Peace Wheel Celebration
http://www.universalpeacewheel.netThe Universal Peace Wheel celebrates what it means to be alive, and life itself. You are invited, as individual, team, or organization to create practical acts of peace on a shared date to honor our precious human experience here on earth.
Uniiverse
https://www.uniiverse.comUniiverse is an online community marketplace for people to create and discover services and activities near them. Users can share their interests, resources, time, space, skills, and knowledge in real life - for free, or to make a little bit of money. We enable users to share their passions, become entrepreneurs, meet like minded people, and live smarter.
