Check out my org — socialmarkets.org — we implement a lot of Web 2.0 technologies and we will be using crowdsourcing to determine the value of the social goods that a nonprofit creates in an upcoming release. In fact, I’m one of the earlier people to have written about Nonprofit 2.0 at http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/nonprofit-20

Well there’s the NGO: ‘Open Architecture Network’ which is basically a platform for ‘Open Source’ architectural solutions. There slogan is ‘Improving living standards through collaborative design’. http://www.openarchitecturenetwork.org/

It’s funny you mention using Second Life for prototyping, because the ‘Studio Wikitecture’ group recently submitted a competition entry to the ‘Open Architecture Network’ that was composed and designed collaboratively in Second Life by a loose, diverse network of people.

The final boards can be viewed here…
http://studiowikitecture.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/the-final-design-wikitecture-30-thank-you/
The project is a Health Clinic in western Nepal.

Over and above just using Second Life, they also developed an inworld interface (essensially a 3D-Wiki), that allowed contributors to save iterations of their model throughout the design phase. This versioning system then allowed other contributors to cycle through these designs in SL, in addition to voting and commenting on them as well.

This video gives a quick overview of the SL ‘plugin’ as well as a quick timelapse of how the design ‘evolved’ throughout the design phase.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amCi90zH3VI

A couple of months ago I posted a few pointers on the Wikinomics Playbook under the heading of “Sustainable development 2.0″

http://www.socialtext.net/wikinomics/index.cgi?development_2_0_collaboration_in_the_development_sector

Hope this helps

Giulio

Though not directly relevant to the focus of NGO 2.0, you might also want to take a look at “iSimulate @ World Bank” http://isimulate.worldbank.org

[...] for a disruptive new paradigm is, quite fittingly, Anthony Williams – author of Wikinomics. His vision for NGOs 2.0 is remarkably similar to some of the ideas presented in this blog. For instance, the proposal to [...]

[...] PSD World Bank blog� talks about NGO 2.0, tying� back to Anthony’s post� a couple of weeks back. [...]

http://betterplacede.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/ach-waren-wir-doch-so-wie-betterplace/

WiserEarth.org is a (nonprofit) web 2.0 project (created on an open source platform) that is attempting to map out the extent and scope of the work of nonprofits around the world. It is also provides some elements of social networking too, but it could have the potential to be to nonprofit world what the human genome project was to genetics research. Ideas on where this could go would be welcome though…!

YOUTH – ADULT DEVELOPMENT

No 32 DANFODIA STREET

NEWTOWN BAKAU

BANJUL GAMBIA

TEL; +2207401314

SIR/MADAM,

Unehalf of the Youth and Adult Development in Gambia, I am appealing to join as a member benefiting information from the organization ideas, conferences, materials and otherwise to help this non governmental organization grow. We started operation last year september with the help of the executives here as we are giving meaning to life of the, widows, hospice, orphans and others.

These are youths and adults who maybe orphan, widows (not Aids victims) and those from less priviledge background economically as a result of perculier circumstances, some of them end up as exploited house helps, unemployed, unplanned pregnancies, Hospices and others. These people deserves good health, good food, shelter, moral education, knowledge of skilled works and assistance.

Youth and adult women in these circumstances are evidently likely to suffer serious adverse consequences with their children regards to their health, well-being, technically development and others.

However, because of the severity of the deprivation, it is likely that multiple and sustained interventions will need to be taken by YAD more or less simultaneously give the relative short time frame to women development growth and the nature to aspects of poverty in reinforcing each other.

Yours sincerely,

Uzoma Phoday

The organization I’m part of is looking to champion NGO 2.0. We’re about transperancy, choice, and proof-of-impact.

The organization is called ChristmasFuture.