GAwards: Best Application of Gamification in Social Good

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Recyclebank rewards people for taking everyday green actions with discounts and deals from local and national businesses.

MOGL is the new fun way to get cash back from your favorite restaurants and businesses. It's Meal for a Meal Program donates one meal to Feeding America each time a member spends $20 at any of MOGL's restaurant partners. In less than a year, MOGL has contributed nearly 60,000 meals to people in need.

Opower is a company that has partnered with dozens of energy utilities across the country to send customers “home energy report cards” that let people know how their energy use compares to their neighbors. According to his calculations, households receiving these reports lower their overall energy consumption by 2% on average.

PlayMob has created a platform to quickly and easily apply some magic into your games. Their platform enables you to connect with partners such as charities and brands, who can help boost your player base, increase your existing users engagement, and convert your non-payers into paying players.

The HALO awards is an annual awards ceremony for teens who are Helping And Leading Others (HALO).

The 2011 HALO Awards was on its way to success. Nickelodeon wanted to create a marketing campaign to drive teens to engage with HALO content on TeenNick.com. They developed a campaign that relied on the use of gamification.

Nickelodeon redeemed all 3,000 Donorschoose.org cards and gave away $15,000 for the Donorschoose.org charity way ahead of schedule (2,500 cards were redeemed in the first 11 days of the game).

Causecast’s Employee Impact Platform engages your workforce in CSR, matching donation campaigns, volunteer days of service and instant disaster response in an integrated online solution.

Simple Energy lets people compete by saving energy. With utilities around the country, Simple Energy is letting people earn virtual and real-world prizes for themselves and local schools and non-profits. People can compare their savings against their friends.

Omaha Food Fight, an app that challenges users to guess the cleanliness of local food establishments, won first place over the weekend at the inaugural Hack Omaha, a programming competition, in the style of Startup Weekend, that required teams to base their projects on datasets of public government information.<br> <br> The event, produced and hosted by the Omaha World-Herald, brought out more than 50 developers, designers, journalists and civic instigators. The World-Herald supplied datasets to the competitors and required each project be, in the spirit of the event, open-sourced. …

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The Mutual is a social enterprise that rewards you for donating to environmental charities with Perks, deals and rewards from great brands. Get Perks. Do Good.

TerraCycle provides free waste collection programs for hard to recycle materials. We then turn the waste into affordable green products.

Crowdrise utilizes game mechanics to encourage participation as well as some pretty engaging and snort-out-loud copy to improve the viral nature of campaigns.

Cause.it, a new mobile app connecting local business, nonprofits, and people interested in volunteering, has found a way to stimulate business locally while helping people find ways to get involved with charitable organizations. The app allows users to receive discounts at local stores in exchange for volunteering or helping to promote nonprofit causes through social media.

Grantoo is a free social gaming platform where college students play casual games to win tuition grants and donate to charity. Grantoo partners with national brands that sponsor gaming tournaments to help college students and the causes they care about. The platform helps businesses connect with the college student demographic and better showcase their corporate giving.

Researchers at Delft University of Technology recruited 20 student households in Rotterdam to play a month-long game called Energy Battle, to compete against one another to see who could cut their energy consumption the most.

The winning team cut its energy use by 45 percent, with an average cut of 25 percent across all teams.

Read about it here: http://www.futureoftech.msnbc.msn.com/technology/futureoftech/energy-battle-game-spurs-students-hand-wash-dishes-study-dark-724206

The winning idea of the Fun Theory Award, submitted by Kevin Richardson, USA. Can we get more people to obey the speed limit by making it fun to do?

Greenpeace is all over gamification with its Star Wars-based parody site acting as an appeal for petition signatures:

VW is threatening Earth by opposing cuts to C02 emissions. Join the Rebellion and turn Volkswagen away from the Dark Side.

Connect with friends on Facebook to build virtual cities and spread real-world aid to various non-profits around the world through the use of a currency called "Joy."