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Echoing Green has some exciting news for all you social change techies! The Tech Awards is now accepting nominations for 2010.

Less than a month remains to support a number of great ideas in the Unreasonable Finalist Marketplace.

We’re excited to announce our participation in the Social Entrepreneur API project.  This open source database is a collection of data about individual changemakers taken directly from funders of social entrepreneurs (such as Civic Ventures, Draper Richards Foundation, PopTech, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, and

Posted by: Anthony
February 23, 2010 - 4:26pm

2009 Echoing Green Fellow Esra'a Al Shafei and founder of Mideast Youth would like you to stand for freedom of speech.

March 18, 2009 Omid Reza Mir Sayafi died in Evin Prison in Tehran. An Iranian blogger and journalist, Omid was in prison for "allegedly insulting religious leaders, and engaging in propaganda against the Islamic Republic of Iran."

In Omid's memory, Mideast Youth created the March 18th Movement. From this year forward, Mideast Youth asks that bloggers, journalists, and all supporters unite on March 18th to show their commitment to free speech.

2008 Echoing Green Fellow and co-founder of Embrace, Jane Chen delivered a powerful presentation at TEDIndia.

A 2009 TEDIndia Fellow, Jane's speech about Embrace's cost-effective solution to high infant mortality of premature babies appears on the front page of TED.com this week.

To learn more about Embrace and what inspired Jane to take on such a huge challenge, check out "Jane Chen: A warm embrace that saves lives" at TED.com.

The 2010 PopTech Social Innovation Fellows Program application is now open!

PopTech is looking to invest in the leadership of people with big ideas and innovative solutions to economic, environmental, and social challenges. PopTech Social Innovation Fellows recieve training from influential, prominent leaders in the social sector. Additionally, fellows participate in the annual PopTech conference (October 20-23, Camden, ME) where ideas and inspiration are spread.

In the third second edition of the Jobs for Change partnership, Britt Bravo interviews Zach Knowling, a consultant for M+R Strategic Services.

Echoing Green President Cheryl Dorsey is featured in this week's U.S. News Leadership for the Next Decade series. Cheryl discusses how social entrepreneurs have the ability to unite people across sectors for a specific cause, and the impact social entrepreneurs have in post-disaster regions like New Orleans and Haiti.

This Sunday at 8PM EST, be sure to tune in to ABC for Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.  This week is a special two-hour edition that features a home renovation in Buffalo, NY.   The lucky recipient of the makeover is Delores Powell and her four children.

Two Echoing Green Fellows were featured on Monday in an article titled, Managing Disasters with Small Steps.  The article highlights “innovative approaches to building or rebuilding infrastructure in developing countries, to help forestall disasters or, as in Haiti, recover from one."