Live from the Netsquared conference in San Jose, CA: 21 non-profit finalists are competing to win $50,000 in prize money for the most innovative use of social media for social good.

Here’s an interesting one:

Ben Rigby of Mobilevoter.org’s Volunteer Now! project, which gives users mobile alerts on volunteer projects they can partake in at that very moment

My take: Very cool idea. Meets people where they are. Makes altruism easy. Big fan.