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To effectively change democracy in America we must uniquely understand the problem.

At Glassbooth we have taken great care to look deep into the heart of American democracy. Our findings led us to surprising and troubling trends that became the foundation of an organization. We believe these findings are actionable opportunities to create new solutions in a changing political environment.

Glassbooth is the place where innovation and democracy meet. We are an interdisciplinary network of creatives and developers focused on bringing people into the political process by leveraging technology and media.

Connecting a dynamic set of thinkers and makers around a vision of change is a powerful process from which we think the next great democracy tools will emerge.

Glassbooth has already developed its first tool – an online model to engage and educate people on political candidates.

The impetus for the project rose out of a wealth of research that revealed our democracy is plagued with identity politics, shallow press coverage, misinformation, and a disengaged citizenry. In our beta run, we released the model for the 2008 presidential candidates:

> In its first four months two million people have utilized the site
> We have created working partnerships with likeminded organizations and corporations
> We have won numerous awards and major press accolades

Glassbooth is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt nonprofit. With only $15,000 in seed funding, we have already created real and immediate impact. Our ability to make a lot with a little speaks to our entrepreneurial spirit. It is now our goal to stabilize this network, expand our current products, and release new ones:

“Glassbooth 2.0” - Here’s our thesis: Education + Opportunity = Vibrant Democracy. On Glassbooth.org we educated people on the presidential election and then directed them to register to vote (the opportunity). In 2.0, we plan to provide education on a diversity of issues and help users identify the different opportunities to get involved based on their newfound knowledge.

National Rollout – Glassbooth.org is a model. In our first run we applied it to the presidential elections, but you could easily imagine it being made available at the state and local level. Glassbooth plans to partner with local organizations to roll out our model into pilot states in 2010.

Make Tank – Glassbooth.org is the product of creative minds with time and resources getting together to make change. The goal of our "make tank" is to foster the same innovation and institutionalize it within the context of our mission and purpose.

GB TV – Television is still the most relied upon channel for receiving political information, but it deeply fails at supporting democracy. Glassbooth is working with a production company to bring our mission of education to the airwaves on a major network.

The solutions live in experimentation and innovation. We encourage you to get involved.

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As our end of the year class project we dicided to take a deeper look at the availibility of steroids sold through the internet. We found out you can be any one, any age it is all annonymous. Our plan to STOP this problem is to create a program for the police to use and track/shadow online sales. If this goes through we will eventually find a way to use this program to track all drug sellers. We need this grant in order to make the program. Some results of this program would be to have less drugs sold on the internet and fair games both professional or at any level, there will be less unfair team advantages.If you play a sport you know it is not fun to lose when you woul have naturally had a chance of winning. Steroids are a growing problem;the sooner we stop the illegal spread the faster they will disappear. Steroids should only be used when prescribed by a doctor for a reasonable medical reason, other wise there are disasterous side affects.

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ClipAid.com was started in the November of 200. The way the site works is simple. We post videos, pictures, and other interesting content, and our raise funds through paid advertisements. The money earned through these advertisements than goes to support the United Nation’s World Food Program. The inspiration comes from FreeRice.com, a site where users can answer vocabulary questions and donate grains of rice for every question they correctly answer. At ClipAid, you donate for watching videos and pictures.

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Free culture at NYU is a chapter of a national student movement exploring the nature of innovation in the context of American Copyright law and media distribution. Free Culture is dedicated to the promotion of thoughtful and progressive discourse and debate, as well as relevant social activism. We stand behind the principles of a “common sense” approach to intellectual property rights as presented by Lawrence Lessig in his book “Free Culture”. We hope to serve those members of the NYU community with an intent in preserving an open exchange of creative issues.

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The mission of Safe Connects is to promote Internet literacy and to teach Internet safety and online etiquette to elementary and middle school children through an interactive workshop conducted by teen facilitators. The Safe Connects lesson plan and accompanying worksheets cover important topics such as Passwords, Chat Rooms, Computer Viruses, and Internet Predators. During 2006, the Safe Connects program was presented at local middle schools and the first Safe Connects summer program was held at IUPUI. During the Safe Connects summer program, IPS students learned about Internet safety, leadership, and college preparation.