The Society for New Communications Research (SNCR) has awarded Goodwill Industries International with an Excellence in New Communications Award for its internal website, MyGoodwill, which has had more than 20,000 unique visitors so far this year. Professionals who work for the 165 local, independent Goodwill agencies in the United States and Canada use MyGoodwill to gain valuable information that increases their effectiveness at work and their agencies' ability to provide job training programs and career services to people in their communities.

Tilling a fertile new field where online game lovers can feel driven to Play for Good ^TM, Sojo Studios today announced the preview launch of WeTopia (http://apps.facebook.com/wetopia, a community-building game where players develop a better world for children - both on Facebook and in the real world.  The first company to combine social games with nonprofit beneficiaries on an ongoing basis, Sojo Studios has concurrently forged long-term, exclusive partnerships with talk show host Ellen DeGeneres and "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."

The Clean Technology and Sustainable Industries Organization (CTSI) today opened the third Utility Technology Challenge (UTC). This year, CTSI and its partner, Fraunhofer TechBridge, are ex