Opportunity Hack 2015

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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?