Millennials Mobilize to Address Money In Politics
By Ian Storrar
Posted on Thu Sep 11, 2008 at 03:15:10 PM EST
www.mobilize.org
Thanks to sponsorship by the Sunlight Foundation and Common Cause, Mobilize.org is bringing Millennials together to address the critical issue of Money In Politics. On September 19-21, 2008, our organization will be holding our national summit on Money in Politics, the Democracy 2.0 Entrepreneur Grant Summit. We are looking for Millennials to come and discuss the issue and then propose grassroots solutions that make use of Web 2.0 tools such as texting, Facebook, Twitter, wikis, mash-ups and blogging.
The Money in Politics Grant Summit presents members of the Millennial Generation with the opportunity to identify a need for change at the local, state, or national level for clean elections practices and develop an innovative idea. Participation is FREE.
While the summit focuses on the ideas and participation of the Millennial entrepreneurs, we are excited to welcome keynote speakers including Nancy Watzman (
Sunlight Foundation) and Sam Rasoul (
Change Congress Pledge Candidate for U.S. Rep. VA-6). Other speakers will be announced when they are confirmed.
The Democracy 2.0 Grant Summits are designed to proliferate new ideas to promote Democracy 2.0 compliant governance. The winners of this competition must advance a new solution that changes the pattern in the field of civic engagement. Grant summit winners will each receive a grant of up to $5,000. More importantly, they will receive the support of Mobilize.org and its extensive partner network to champion their proposal and create systemic and long lasting change in the way elections are run.
These ideas will be evaluated against existing projects and initiatives, as Mobilize.org is focused on the real "change potential" afforded by the projects it selects to fund in the next two years. The selection process, featuring a panel of expert judges, funders and the peers of competition participants, will measure:
* Relationship to Democracy 2.0
* Use of Innovative Technology and Databases
* Creativity / Entrepreneurial Idea
* Plan for Sustainability
* Social Impact of the Idea
Visit
www.mobilize.org for more information, click on the widget on
www.commoncause.org or go
here to sign up. I hope you can join us at this groundbreaking event.
Tags: Mobilize.org, Millennials, Democracy 2.0, Money In Politics, Public Financing, Change Congress, VA-6, Rasoul (all tags)
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