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Want to help MoJo link investigative reporters to global activists in the field via mobile tech? Well, here’s your chance.

We’ve submitted a prototype project idea to the NetSquared/UC Berkeley Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge, but we need our community (that’s you, dear reader) to vote us up before 3 pm PDT Friday if we’re to make it to the next round. (Don’t worry, the NetSquared crew encourages entrants to ask for community voting support.)

This particular project would follow up with the Indonesian local groups most directly affected by multinational corporate misbehavior uncovered during this investigation into why biofuels are wrecking the Indonesian rainforest. Cool idea, right? We thought you’d say that.

If you’re ready to vote, it’ll only take 15 minutes. But be prepared for those 15 minutes to be a little challenging. Here’s a step-by-step how to:

1. Register or Login here.

2. Go to the HRC-UCB Project Gallery.

3. Sort through projects here to find those that interest you. The Mother Jones project is titled: Mother Jones Human Rights Citizen Investigation: Indonesia Biofuels

4. Click on a specific project to add to your ballot.

5. Click on the “Add Project to Your Ballot” link on the top of each profile.

6. To add more projects to your ballot, click on the link to “Return to the HRC-UCB Project Gallery.” (You’ll need to vote for 3-5 projects.)

Editing Your Ballot

1. To view or edit your ballot at any time click on the ballot icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen.

2. To Remove a Project from your ballot, either click on the ballot icon or the specific project link and select “Remove Project from Your Ballot.”

Reviewing and Casting your Ballot

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That’s it. Much appreciated, good hellraisers of the world! We’ll keep you posted if we make it to the final round March 31.

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WE CAME UP SHORT.

We just wrapped up a shorter-than-normal, urgent-as-ever fundraising drive and we came up about $45,000 short of our $300,000 goal.

That means we're going to have upwards of $350,000, maybe more, to raise in online donations between now and June 30, when our fiscal year ends and we have to get to break-even. And even though there's zero cushion to miss the mark, we won't be all that in your face about our fundraising again until June.

So we urgently need this specific ask, what you're reading right now, to start bringing in more donations than it ever has. The reality, for these next few months and next few years, is that we have to start finding ways to grow our online supporter base in a big way—and we're optimistic we can keep making real headway by being real with you about this.

Because the bottom line: Corporations and powerful people with deep pockets will never sustain the type of journalism Mother Jones exists to do. The only investors who won’t let independent, investigative journalism down are the people who actually care about its future—you.

And we hope you might consider pitching in before moving on to whatever it is you're about to do next. We really need to see if we'll be able to raise more with this real estate on a daily basis than we have been, so we're hoping to see a promising start.

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