That’s what We Media and Ashoka’s Changemakers are asking in a Power of Us contest that has a Jan. 21 deadline. The sponsors describe the competition as …
… the search to find the best new ideas for inspiring a better world through media and technology. We are looking for business and non-profit venture ideas and will award $50,000 in seed funding to the innovators who can bring the best ideas to life. Submit your entries by January 21, 2009 6 pm EST
You can also read the 46 entries, many of them story-driven, that have been submitted as of this writing.
Changemakers.net also offers a section of stories. (I wish the site gave more context for these stories).
Changemakers, its web site says, “is building the world’s first global online ‘open source’ community that competes to surface the best social solutions, and then collaborates to refine, enrich, and implement those solutions.”