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</span></div>The Motorola Mobility Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Motorola Mobility, is accepting applications for the 2012 Empowerment Grants, a funding program designed to help United States-based nonprofit organizations develop mobile applications and use mobile technology that will help transform and benefit the communities they serve. The program addresses four areas of focus — education, health and wellness, community, and arts and culture.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:16px"><br>
Successful applications must demonstrate the ways that digital, mobile, and social technology can be used to further a nonprofit organization’s mission. Examples include producing a crowd-sourcing site for community resource mapping, creating a digital storytelling application that captures oral histories of a community, developing a resource for social media use to further engage volunteers, and using new ideas of “gamefication in education” to engage students.<br>
<br>The total amount of funding for the Empowerment Grants program is $500,000; the program will fund approximately twenty grants. The average grant size is $25,000.<br> <br>After March 1, organizations can visit <a href="http://www.cybergrants.com/motorolamobility/empowermentgrants" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">www.cybergrants.com/motorolamobility/empowermentgrants</a> <br>
to apply.<br>Visit the Motorola Mobility Foundation Web site for complete program information and application procedures: <font color="#0000FF"><a href="http://responsibility.motorola.com/index.php/society/emp" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://responsibility.motorola.com/index.php/society/emp</a></font></span><br>