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ScaleWell, a project organized by Jelly members Sean Corbett, Andy Angelos and Ziad Hussain, had their launch party last night and announced the first winner of the project. Scalewell provides grants of up to $1000 to ventures looking for early seed capital.

The first round had 42 submissions from entrepreneurs, which were narrowed down to five finalists, including Jelly member Jake Lumetta’s WinkVid. The winner ended up being Unatronics, a manufacturer of minimalist, retro electronic musical instruments, founded by Michael Una. Congrats to Michael, and to the ScaleWell team on a successful launch!

Jelly member Patty Huber is leading a volunteer trip to New Orleans January 30 – February 7 with the volunteer organization One Brick to help rebuild homes with the St. Bernard Project.

Anyone 21+ is welcome to come and there will be other volunteers from all over the country in this group. The fee is $200 and covers housing, project materials, and breakfast and lunch M-F. For details and to sign-up visit their Google Group page or email Patty.

We’ve updated the members page and redesigned it to better highlight the projects that various Jelly members are working on – we hope you like it!

Don’t see yourself on the page? Let Sean or Jeff know and we’ll be sure to add you!

Jelly pal Jason Goodrich is a public relations dynamo. Dude was on ABC News with Diane Sawyer last night, talking about coworking and the freelance lifestyle. Nice cameo of Andy Angelos as well at OfficePort!

Watch Jason in action (no embedding = boo!):

Texthog (@texthog), an online expense tracking application developed by Noble Tree owner Phil Tadros and Jelly pal Darren Marshall (@dpmarshall), was featured on CNBC’s special program “Planet of the Apps“. Congrats guys!