This Equalithon
Beginning on April 04, our community has the opportunity to support the fight against hate crime by mentoring kids in juvenile and at school in El Paso.
Join the Essteem #WeBelong community and Security NextGen to ideate solutions to the following challenges:
Help kids in schools & juvenile detention in El Paso outline a solution to address hate crimes. Inspire them, mentor them, guide them over various brainstorming and work sessions.
This event is in relation to the El Paso attack in 2019 in a Walmart, which "has been described as the deadliest attack on Latinos in modern American history".
Together, let’s fight for causes with more than just good intentions!
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We co-organize this Ideathon for students and kids to come up with ideas that can help change how we prevent and respond to hate crime.
Over a month, several sessions will be organized and will lead to the production of structured ideas and requirements for solutions against hate crime
Our community will vote for the winning team whose idea will be developed later in the year during an Equalithon. In that Equalithon, teams of developers and designers will try and develop a pilot app answering to the requirements produced in this Ideathon.
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Kids at School and in Juvenile
Nonprofits and Communities
Organizers (Essteem, Security NextGen)
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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!