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Opportunity Hack 2015

Opportunity Hack 2015

Hillary Hartley

  • Set realisitc expectations
  • Attract talent to your team
  • Tools & framworks to get to work quickly
  • Gov web standard
  • Envision your perfect demo and work backwards

Non-Profit Pitches

Upstander - School Bullying
Downtown Street Team - Homeless
  • 113952 homeless people in California

  • Work-First Job Experience

  • 370 Graduates

  • 75% 6-months Retention

  • 3M earned since 2011

  • 154 people housed last year thru touch rental market

  • Graffiti, trash, & outreach to people in need

  • Like Fixster?

ACEH Home: 48 Boys and Girls
  • Helping orphan Problem:
  • Create a tool to personalize Donor/Orphan relationship
  • Create a platform to build a strong community global volunteers
City of Campbell
  • Document Repo
  • Calendar
  • Push Notification
  • Submit Questions
  • Links
  • Poll
Samaritan House
  • Modernize the worker resource center in San Mateo
  • Worker data into database
  • Employer data into database
  • Match worker and employer
Services for Seniors
  • Help seniors and disabled persons feel connected and remain independent
  • Remove the stress and concern family and friends feel when they don't know how their loved one is doing
  • Improve family communication
  • Need an easy way for senior and disabled persons to inform loved ones about what they are doing
  • Allow them to record events during the day
  • Automatically send a notification to family or friends
eQuality for All
  • Lack of Qialit Education in Developing Countries
  • Developing a platform to help kids to learn their own pace
  • Low cost platform
  • Math Whiz
  • Develop supplemental reading instruction application prototype
Opportunity Funds
  • Small business owner need help determining the best ledning options that maintain their required cash flow and profitability
  • Need tools to find business loan opportunity
ReentryHousing.Org
  • Incarcerated - Difficult to find housing for them
  • Huge information gap
  • Lack of knowledge of find housing and lack of knowledge of rules
  • Need to print on paper, computer in jail Progress:
  • Drupal based - A CMS
  • Need search function
  • Better search function
THINK Together - After school program
  • Access multiple resources
  • Limited time to prepare for each lesson
  • Implement strategies with students
Literacy Lab
  • Homepage
  • Poverty Children has less chance to success
  • Literacy lab is looking for tablet app
  • 20+ curated apps
  • 750+ Family
  • 7+ Languages
  • Tablet app for children?
Saburi Charitable Foundation
  • Children are living on the street in India
My Path
  • Help low income to get bank
  • To create a tool to show access, map out bank instition
Kira
  • Micro lending internationally
  • Small business reject by bank, especailly minority and early business
  • Help to build a tool to connect financially capitalist and venture capitalist to small businesss owner, Yelp rating, personal connection, Linkedin?
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