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Cultural Diversity Day Equalithon


This Equalithon

Beginning on, May 17, 2022, Support the fight for avoiding violence against women.

Join the Essteem #WeBelong community and TSP (The Serenity Project) To support the movement of avoiding violence against women and make a high impact in this world.

Together, let’s fight for causes with more than just good intentions!

  • Equalithons are Hakcathons for Equality.

    • Introduction about all the aspects of what’s involved

    • Discussion about the potential challenges and their potential impact

    • A decision about what challenge to offer in the Equalithon based on (vote for the best challenge pitch)

    During a day to a week (choose your track) you will hack to find solutions for one or more nonprofit(s) having a tech challenge.

    Your solutions will enable the nonprofit(s) to scale better, and faster with their audience and their impact.

  • Nonprofits and Communities

    SMB’s & ESG leads

    Organizers (Essteem, TSP)

    Educational Partners

    Avocademy

    Bottega University

    Flatiron School

    FullStack Academy / Grace Hopper

    General Assembly

    Girl Develop It

    NYU

    nPower

    Opentree Education

    Per Scholas

    Sponsor (Adobe, PTC, Reddit, Wells Fargo, Nasdaq, Techstars)

    The Tech Academy

    Directly invited by Essteem

    Other

  • The Serenity Project challenges the increasing stigmatization of mental health and suicide, the shame survivors experience after trauma, and a lack of resources for at-risk women through our 3-step method:

    1) Charitable Fashion Show hosted yearly on International Day of Self-Love.

    2) Our 12-month “Soaring Curriculum” with guest speakers and evidence-based research exercises to cultivate confidence among survivors.

    3) Our 1-1 women mentorship program to empower women survivors to chase their dreams through developing meaningful passion projects alongside women entrepreneurs and leaders.

This Equalithon is an opportunity to:

  • address a critical Societal challenge;

  • improve and scale our impact, together!

  • All times are given in US EST (NYC time)

  • Location: entirely remote

To Go Beyond this Equalithon

Recurring Allies

 

Keynote speaker

Anoosha Trehan, The Serenity Project.

Past nonprofits partners supported:

Adelante Student Voices (LatinX)

  • Beyond the Talk (BIPOC)

  • Blacks in tech (BIPOC)

  • Blended Communities (Accessibility)

  • Code for America (COVID 19)

  • Girl Develop It (Women)

  • Episo Foundation (Women, Incarcerated)

  • Felt Education (Refugees Inclusion)

  • French American Chamber (Foreigners)

  • Institute for Career Transitions (Ageism)

  • Listen First (Rural Gap, Bipartisanism)

  • NaamHouse (Veterans, Accessibility)

  • Open Police Complaints (BIPOC, Police Violence)

  • ParentPreneurs Black Founders (BIPOC) Parity Productions (Women, LGBTQ, Artists)

  • Premiere Urgence International (COVID 19)

  • Protest Away (BIPOC, All communities)

  • Startout (LGBTQIA+)

  • Stanford Pride (LGBTQIA+)

  • Safe Place International (LGBTQIA+)

  • Sanitation Foundation, NYC DoS (Environment)

  • TechQueria (LatinX)

  • The King Center MLK (BIPOC)

  • The Serenity Project (Women, Mental Health)

  • US Department of Veterans Affairs (Veterans)

  • WCAPS (Women, Mental Health)

  • Women Who Code (Women)

More on our past impact

In-Kind Sponsors

  • Airtable for their support to BIPOC-led companies (of which ourselves)

  • Bubble for no code discount and instructors during EqualiCamps

  • Chatterworks for enabling access to tons of Tech talent

  • Hypedocs to join an Essteem-pod: peers who support each other, weekly

  • Slidebean to create great presentations for teams

  • Sojo Signal for free personalized coaching from our Slack

  • Twilio and Sendgrid for text and email contact opportunities

Tracks

You can choose among the two

  • Tech Track. Work at your rhythm, with teams of developers, designers,

  • No-Code Track. For those who want to learn no-code tools or help through marketing etc. Note: if you are a designer, project manager or data scientist and you want to work with others as a team, please prioritize the Tech Track!

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