This Equalithon
Beginning on May 31 2024 and ending in Paris at Vivatech 2024, support Women-focused Nonprofits and Womxn startup founders.
Join the Womxn #Equalithon and participate in teams that support Women!
Or mentor these teams.
Find solutions to all kinds of challenges (tech and non-tech) and help Women get better opportunities: we’ll scale the impact of nonprofits and we’ll help launch and fund Womxn startup founder’s startups.
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.
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Equalithons are Hackathons for Equality.
They include:
Various subevents (tracks) that you’ll choose in the short registration process.
Onboarding about everything involved for participants, and quick micro-challenges to know what to do for mentors.
Meetings to learn more about the nonprofit or founder challenges you’ll help with - and their expected impact.
For a few hours to a few weeks depending your track, you will help and hack to produce innovative, marketing, design or tech solutions for one or more nonprofit(s) or founder(s).
In the end you will have volunteered to produce a solution which 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
Bottega University
Flatiron School
FullStack Academy / Grace Hopper
General Assembly
Girl Develop It
NYU
nPower
Opentree Education
Per Scholas
The Tech Academy
Sponsoring allies
PTC,
Scope Art
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1 . Nonprofit: Global Deeds
Main idea: Supporting Students to create their own nonprofit or act for their community.
Context:
Quote: "TBD"
Challenge 1: Global Deeds Platform. Empower students to create their project, by themselves => see the blueprint of the platform GD built in the past, and reuse it. For GD, users are students who want to create projects in their community or want to become teachers; and schools who want to give scholarships, and companies who want to hire; as well as resource pages for students: related to under-represented communities and a training selection: training students to become teachers.
Challenge 2: Platform Module: Branding. Global deeds needs to create content that shows public recognition for students that participate in Global Deeds programs, empower them to search for grant money and investors. Help them to develop programs with schools, high schools, universities. Invent tech that can support branding. When creating a project, people need to create content: blurbs, pictures, their challenges, tik tok videos. Then easily sharable, and automated Reporting on what’s been achieved: number of students registered, projects finished, jobs given, and invite users to create content during the reporting phase: to finalize a project, people need to create xyz content.
Scope in practice: prioritize challenge 1.
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: Jesselyn Contreras
Main idea: Jesselyn is about to launch a DAO where the entry fee is an artwork - which value will grow with the members (you?)
Challenge 5. Help Jesselyn develop her DAO Trillionnaire Empress Club, a women’s hackathon marketplace.
Challenge 6. Also support her with NFTs and other elements related to her digital art.
Event Timeline (Calendar and details lower)
The timeline will shortly be added.
Note:
All times are given in US EST (NYC time)
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:
TechQueria (LatinX)
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
Events for you - by track
Role-based tracks: click to see events relevant for you:
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.