This Equalithon
In honor of the Women’s History Month in March, support the fight for women in the workplace.
Join Essteem and Girl Develop It for a great opportunity to do something and change how women can get fairer opportunities in the workplace through tech!
Together, let’s fight for causes with more than just good intentions!
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Equalithons are Hakcathons for Equality.
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, faster with their audience and their impact.
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Talent: hack (it’s free to participate)
Nonprofits: offer the challenge(s)
Companies: Sponsor (pay) and send mentors.
Optional: partners to support NFTs from artists to art galleries, and platforms. NFT sales can then bring sustainable revenues to causes.
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With Girl Develop It and Essteem, enable communities of women in tech to get support for searching jobs, applying to them and developing their network for their next career move.
Create an open-source app that GDI, Essteem, or really any community can use!
Problem: many developers, designers, data scientists do not want to spend their time looking for jobs. They’d like others to do that for them as much as possible, while they spend their time working in their current jobs, or learning new skills and developing their portfolio.
How to solve this? We are currently working with freelancers to enable a service called “Apply Wiz” to do just that.
Enable 3 kinds of users: talent looking for jobs, freelancers researching jobs, admin/manager
More details when you sign up!
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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National Women’s History Alliance website.
Women’s History Month - webpage hosted by the Library of Congress.
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An NFT sale events will be organized as a twin events for this initial Women History Month NFT-a-thons launch event. - Date TBD.
On that date, we will sell the NFTs initiated or developed during the Equalithon.
From March to July or later in the year, we will gather Artists, Partners, and Sponsors thanks to you!
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!