This Equalithon
Beginning on March 1, support Women-focused Nonprofits and Womxn startup founders.
Join the Womxn #Equalithon and participate in teams to support Women in our Society.
Who can participate?
Technologists, engineers, designers, marketers, project managers, and just simply anyone who’s available. You can also mentor these teams by following the same registration link.
What will you do?
Find “solutions” to all kinds of “challenges” (tech and non-tech) to help Women get better opportunities. We will scale the impact of nonprofits. We will help Womxn startup founder launch. And we will help women artists digitalized through NFTs and fund the other projects when they sell art!
Together, let’s fight for causes with more than just good intentions!
This Equalithon is an opportunity to:
address a critical societal challenge,
improve and scale our impact, together;
all while building your experience,
and getting exposure to employers, investors, and an amazing community!
Learn more below (click on each title):
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Equalithons are Hackathons for Equality.
For a few hours to a few weeks depending your track, you will hack around to produce innovative, marketing, design or tech solutions for one or more nonprofit(s) or founder(s).
Equalithons include the following elements:
Various subevents for all participants or for some participants only depending on who you support
You’ll select what kind of beneficiary you support among nonprofits, founders, and artists in the short registration process. They are all important to support a community so please don’t only focus on nonprofits ;)
Onboarding about everything involved for participants, and quick micro-challenges to know what to do for mentors.
Meetings to learn more about the nonprofit, artist, or founder challenges you’ll help with - and their expected impact.
In the end, you will have volunteered to produce a solution that is hopefully functional.
Your solutions will enable the nonprofit(s) or startups to scale better, and faster with their audience and their impact.
Share your impact
Vote for the best solution pitch
Give out badges and recognitions to teams, peers, and mentors!
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Students out of university and boot camps
Young professionals
Mentors from ally companies
Nonprofits and Communities
HR, DEI, CSR, ESG, ERG, Recruiting & startup leads
Artists
Educational Partners
Avocademy
NYU
nPower
Opentree Education
Per Scholas
The Tech Academy
Sponsoring allies
PTC
Scope Art
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1 . Nonprofit: Girl Develop It
Main idea: Will be added soon
Context:
Quote:
Challenge 1:
Challenge 2:
Scope in practice:
2. Founder A: Yolaris Garcia
Main Idea: Develop a new way for people to avoid neck pain.
Context: There are hundreds of millions of people working in front of computers everyday. Most suffer from neck pain after a few years.
Challenge 3 : New website https://www.awesomechiropractic.com/ . Yolaris’ SEO needs improvements. She’d like to revamp her digital marketing, website design, and add a few things.
Challenge 4: New chiropractic product. Ideation stage. Think of a product used by patients, connected to an app on their phone, with data potentially shared with doctors. Set up requirements, design, and prototype.
3. Founder B: TBD
Main idea:
Challenge 5.
Challenge 6.
4. Artists:
We are currently supporting 4 artists and can support up to 10.
Discover more on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/equalithon/ (please follow us there and on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/company/88881441 )
Event Timeline (Calendar and details lower)
The full timeline will shortly be added.
Launch: Feb 3, 2023
Week 1: Marketers & Project Managers mostly. (and any other business skills). Others can support.
Week 2: Designers mostly. (others can support)
Week 3 and 4: Developers mostly. (others can support)
Pitch event: March 8, International Women’s Day 2023!
Links to the events will be shared when you sign up.
Also see at the bottom of this page.
Note:
All times are always given in US EST (NYC time) by default in this Equalithon
Location: entirely remote except noted otherwise.
Recurring Allies
Allies
Keynote speakers
Kameelah Benjamin-Fuller | PTC, Chief Diversity Officer
Paula Hudson | PTC, Principal, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
Kelley Ndoye | Scope Art, Executive Director and Finance VP
Nonprofit Partners
We are very grateful to Nonprofit partners supporting BIPOC, Women, LGBTQ, Latinx andHispanics, Seniors, Foreigners in the workplace and their allies - as well as environmental causes and Happiness more generally.
In this Equalithon:
Girl Develop It
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 Allies
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
How this Equalithon works
Tracks
You can choose among the following, depending on your skills or your interests. For instance, if you are a developer, you are welcome to participate in the Marketer & Project Manager’s event. If you are a Marketer, it might however be harder to participate in a developer’s event - but you can also provide support there as well.
Altogether events. Anyone should attend these events: ask questions to the nonprofits and founders, show support to the teams and meet each other.
Marketer and Project Managers events. Events to qualify the requirements of nonprofits and founders, and plan for in-product and other kinds of marketing.
Designers events. Events to leverage your design skills, for instance, to prepare a website’s design, according to the specs given by PMs or the previous group, or to prepare an artist’s webpage using a CMS for an NFT-a-thon.
Developer events. Work with other developers primarily and data scientists, working altogether or by themselves to implement the solutions defined and designed previously.
Artist events. Events for artists
Mentors/Partners/Sponsors events. Events dedicated to these kinds of stakeholders so we can organize, onboard, or connect them with each other.
Calendar (will soon be updated)
Events for you - by track
Role-based tracks for:
Partners
Sponsors
Nonprofits
Artists
Founders
Mentors
Developers, Data Wiz an Engineers
Designers
Marketers
Project Managers
NFT-a-thon, events:
A rewarding experience
Why participate?
Get exposure with potential recruiters, and volunteering, remote teamwork experience.
Connect
Meet tech professionals as peers or mentors, and build up a long-lasting network
Impact
Experience a new way to give back, change the world, endorse, engage, and mentor.
Code
Experience working on a team & crediting contributors. Prove your tech and leadership skills.
Grow
Get meaningful experience and tips to boost your career, learn, innovate, or get hired.
Proud of your talent
We support your talent brand through dedicated
job opportunities & tips,
certificates & achievement badges,
resume support coaching & resume videos.
Mentors feedback
Why participate?
Actually impact
This quarter Impact a cause in ~3 hours of your time*.
Scale nonprofits
Empower millions of people
Launch founders
Enable artists
How?
Just Show Up!!
Or leverage skills.
Anyone finds a role
with our onboardings.
Empathize
with underserved communities.
Enable
a unique experience mixing art and tech.
*Note: Your time commitment will vary depending on the events and challenges you choose to attend. Ranges vary rom 1 hour to 3-4 hours per month. Agenda volatility? just let us know and we’ll adapt to you.