This Equalithon
Beginning on Earth Day, April 08, support the movement for equitable access to opportunities for women of low income.
Join the Essteem #WeBelong community and Episo Foundation to design and build solutions to the following challenges:
How to unlock economic opportunities for women with low incomes. Build a website and access to resources for Episo Foundation.
Together, let’s fight for causes with more than just good intentions!
Challenge 1: Episo’s Website
Episo Foundation wants to help mothers with low income, and Marnie, Episo’s founder, wanted to teach them tech to propel themselves out of poverty.
Challenge :
Episo needs a website.
Episo is a boot camp with 5-6 courses. So its website could look like a description of the summary description of the program of courses.
Enable visitor to learn about the audience, the outcome, statistics
About us section: the company, Episo’s ambition, statement and board members.
Enable to register to courses.
An embedded payment system would be preferred, can be made through a simple embed.
Landing pages designed for strategic partners so they can invite their contacts there directly.
Contact us.
Challenge 2: (non-tech) Episo’s website visibility
For Digital marketers mostly: how can we bake in the right words in Episo’s content, online and in their marketing or videos, so that they get a great visibility?
Understand who will be users and Episo’s strategy
Keep the Designer teams for Challenge 1 informed.
can you gather information about the text-content side of Episo’s website and wirk with Episo to produce appealing and Google-SEO impacting texts
Can you produce an appealing video?
How and where to embed viral marketing in the website?
Can you recommend a marketing / communication strategy and implementation steps to Episo, taking their resources or lack of into account?
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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.
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Nonprofits and Communities
SMB’s & ESG leads
Organizers (Essteem, Wells Fargo)
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Imagine and build new open source solutions for women of lower income, that can be implemented by real organizations partnering with the event!
Challenges will be determined ASAP with the Episo Foundation.
Then, Equalithon participants will try and build these solutions.
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
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NFT sale events will be organized as twin events for the initial Black History Month and Women History Month NFT-a-thons - date TBD.
On that date, we will sell the NFTs initiated or developed during Equalithons.
From February to June, we will gather Artists, Partners, and Sponsors thanks to you!
check out our other upcoming events to learn more!
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For BIPOC, we will also support Parentpreneur’s laureate BIPOC founders.
Register March for our first BIPOC EqualiCamp (4 weeks)
Large Dollar Prize!
Recurring Allies
Keynote speaker
TBD.
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)
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!