Pepsi Refresh Project is giving away millions each month in an effort to find people, businesses, and non-profits with ideas that will have a positive impact. Yup that soda company is giving away boatloads of money in 2010 for “refreshing ideas that change the world” and Freedom Speaks, a LA based company, has made the finals. They have a chance to win a $250,000 grant! But they can’t do it alone, they need your votes to accomplish their goal.
Kurt Daradics is the co-founder and President of FreedomSpeaks and an all around stand up guy. He feels they have a pretty refreshing project. They want to build the worlds first complete database for elected officials (there are over 513,000 elected officials in the US alone!)
The database would be a one-stop web site for citizens to identify their elected officials at all levels of government. By identifying these officials, citizens will be more informed of who represents them down-ballot and thus be able to make a more informed decision about who should represent them on important local issues.
“We know this may not be as fun sounding as sending kids to camp, or art projects. However, we think that building this database and making it available over the internet can accomplish quite a bit of change. Local officials impact our daily lives more then any other politician but getting information on them is almost impossible. We make this info free to you at FreedomSpeaks.com so that you can outreach directly to your public officials and help make your government suck less.”
Currently they are ranked 34th and only the top 2 ideas will receive the 250k funding. You have until February 28th to get your vote in. My advice, don’t wait to the last minute. Procrastination never helped anyone. Plus I’m pretty sure you can vote more than once, sneaky! According to the site you can vote for 10 of your favorite ideas every day. You hear that, you can vote EVERY DAY! So get to it!
Get to know them
Freedom Speaks – FreedomSpeaks has built the largest database of elected officials to date. It is the only completely non-partisan political social network that allows its members to write letters to their publicly elected officials. With the click of a mouse, a single letter can be delivered via both email and fax to one or all of the public officials you select! We currently have data for Federal, State, County & City officials, including their addresses, telephones, faxes, emails and websites. It’s time for you to speak out and be heard America – with FREEDOMSPEAKS.COM, it’s easy!
