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The CTC VISTA Project is now accepting applications from nonprofit organizations that would like to receive a CTC VISTA volunteer for Summer 2008. 

If you don't know about CTC VISTA, you should: "The CTC VISTA Project is a non-monetary foundation that helps match highly qualified AmeriCorps*VISTA candidates with organizations that use, or would like to use better, information and communications technologies." Here at NTEN, we liked our VISTA volunteer (Karl) so much, we hired him full time.

The deadline to apply is February 22nd.  You can find the application guidelines and eligibility requirements at: http://ctcvista.org/apply/org

[Ed. Note: As you probably know, the Case Foundation, together with Facebook Causes and Parade magazine, is going to award $750,000 to charity. To help illuminate the process and generate discussion and ideas, the NTEN Connect Blog will be posting occasional updates from actual participants in the Challenges. This is the second from Scott Beale; you can also read his first post.]

Scott Beale, Atlas Service Corps (Atlas Corps)

A lot has happened since my last blog entry on NTEN so let me bring you up to speed. My name is Scott and I am the founder of Atlas Corps, a new international organization that brings nonprofit leaders from the global south to volunteer in the U.S. for one year (some call it a "Reverse Peace Corps"). We have decided to enter America's Giving Challenge in an effort to motivate a large number of people to give us $10 (or more) donations in order to win $50,000. We have entered in the GlobalGiving category, because we are a very international organization, despite our U.S. 501(c)3 status.

I am excited to share that we've gotten off to a great start: we are in first place with 171 people. This is what we've been able to do so far: