Future 5000 - Beta

The Future 5000 website is up and running. It looks like it might be in beta - I'm not sure if it has been officially released.

It is a database of around 600 youth organizations which plans to grow to 5000.

The site has great graphics, but a number of usability issues. My top suggestion would be make the browsing option more obvious. In my experience with Campus Activism, users really don't like searching. This is unfortunate if you have a database of several thousand things, but then you can turn the "search" experience into a simpler "browsing" one. For instance, by providing a link to "browse" all the groups in a state (instead of requiring that they search). Or to browse the most active groups.

They have some browsing, but it's tricky to find. Whereas searching is heavily promoted.