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"It's the final day of Mashable's Social Good Summit and Thursday is all about startups. The Startups for Good Challenge has finally arrived. Eight game-changing startups will pitch a panel of experts for a chance to win $10,000 and the high-powered applause of the Summit audience.\nBe sure to tune in to our livestream at 2 p.m. ET to see all eight startups present their ideas and watch one crowned champion by judges including experts from Mashable, the UN Foundation and the 92nd Street Y.\nBelow, we've got a brief breakdown of the eight startups (in alphabetical order) that you can look forward to seeing Thursday.\nAwaaz De\n\nAwaaz De means \"give voice.\" Awaaz.De provides hosted and open source voice solutions that help organizations engage communities in any language, leveraging the power of voice and mobile phones to make social media accessible for everyone.\nCatchafire\n\nCatchafire connects professionals who want to apply their on-the-job skills to non-profits and social enterprises that need their help in areas such as marketing, public relations, design, social media, strategy and finance.\nKopernik\n\nKopernik provides life-changing technologies to the developing world. They connect technology providers, technology seekers and investors to provide local products that are proven to reduce poverty and disease but are often unavailable to the people who need them most.\nem[POWER]\n\n em[POWER] seek to revitalize waste-scavenging communities by improving the sorting efficiency of recyclables, turning organic waste and waste water into electricity, creating high quality compost and providing the nucleus for a host of community-owned businesses.\nProve My Concept\n\nProve My Concept is an online enterprise platform that allows young people to create, develop and test their business ideas.\nSparked\n\nSparked offers convenient online volunteerism for busy professionals who don\u2019t have time to lend their expertise through traditional channels. They make volunteering as fun, social and easy to use as Facebook, Farmville, or Twitter. It's volunteerism for the digital age.\nSimple Energy\n\nSimple Energy is revolutionizing how energy utilities engage their customers. The startup combines energy industry experience, behavioral science, game mechanics and social networks to change how people save energy\nSunSaluter\n\nRoseicollis Technologies aims to deploy technologies that can disrupt both developed and emerging markets. Currently they are implementing the SunSaluter, an inexpensive solar panel rotator, to push solar technology to the forefront of the alternative energy in the developing world."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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