This Equalithon
Innovation Challenge for Black Founders
Being a Black entrepreneur comes with its unique challenges and you can be part of the solution through this powerful initiative sponsored by the Parentpreneur Foundation. For Black entrepreneurs, launching a business inspired by their vision is often met with the challenge of insufficient funding and resources to get the first product or service off the ground. You're invited to be part of a global community of coders who will work on this project to bring their ideas to life.
Use your talents to help Black entrepreneurs get their ideas to launch faster
Use your software development skills to build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
From March 1st to March 29, 2022, support Black founders. Join Essteem and ParentPreneur to change how the Black community can get fairer economic opportunities 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)
Beneficiaries: offer the challenge(s)
Companies / Nonprofits: Sponsor (pay) and send mentors.
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We will offer a best team prize of $5K shared among members as determined by beneficiaries, mentors and community votes.
Additionally, we offer 2 individual prizes of $1000 each;
one for the best developer of the event,
one for the best designer of the event,
both as determined by badges received by peers, mentors, beneficiaries, and organizers
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!