N2Y2Con: WiserEarth Intro Presentation

WiserEarth is a Featured Project at the NetSquared Conference.

Project Summary

WiserEarth links organizations and people in new and powerful ways.

• The media, academics, students, politicians, and the non-profit world itself can better visualize the extent and comprehensiveness of global civil society
  
  
• WiserEarth's structured data format combined with its comprehensive taxonomy makes it among the most powerful search tools 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 with broader pool of prospective talent.
  
  
• WiserEarth provides grassroots groups that cannot afford a web presence with visibility and access. Organizations have the full benefit of a database, clearinghouse and web presence without having to build their own.
  
  
• WiserEarth acts as a no-cost communication network for all organizations through the publishing and encouragement of voice-over-internet-protocol hook-ups (ex: SKYPE).
  
  
• WiserEarth generates geographic maps to locate individual organizations, or any collection of organizations, from street level to continents.
  
  
• It offers free postings for recruiting staff, volunteers, and interns and marketplaces to share surplus resources and materials.
  
  
• WiserEarth is scalable and doesn't require extensive ongoing funding once built. Data will be user-generated as opposed to centrally managed, requiring few staff after public launch.
  
  
• WiserEarth provides funders a comprehensive landscape of organizations engaged in specific program activities, a helpful tool to better evaluate programs and dockets.