PictoKit: Retirement Toolkit
The Retirement Toolkit is a reproducible workshop kit that through the innovative use of co-design seeks to address the gap in retirement financial literacy for low income, young working adults. The Toolkit’s application of co-design for education allows the participants to actively shape their learning experience as opposed to conventional, one-sided forms of teaching. Through … Continue reading “PictoKit: Retirement Toolkit”
- Team Members: Olivia Zhao, Amanda Zhao, Lynn Wang, Terrie Yang
- Financial Inclusion
- UC Berkeley
- 2016
SocialForce
SocialForce is an impact management platform that leverages the core business competencies available locally to meet the needs of a community in a strategic and sustainable way. SocialForce is based on the premise that community-grounded organizations and their active members understand the needs of their communities best, but lack the ability to harvest the … Continue reading “SocialForce”
- Team Members: Susanne Schöneberg, Denisse Halm, Joh Schöneberg, Mitul Bhat, Reneé Selanders, Vaisakh Shankar, Sid Ghosh
- Financial Inclusion
- UC Berkeley
- 2016
MÄk
MÄk is a social enterprise devoted to empowering urban low-income high school juniors and seniors to become 3D designers. The mission of MÄk is to provide these young people with exposure to various STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) fields while also providing them with training in marketable skills and an income source so … Continue reading “MÄk”
- Team Members: Michelle Nie, Aubrey Larson, Ankita Joshi
- Financial Inclusion
- UC Berkeley
- 2016
Empowering Women through Entrepreneurship
Women living in the squatter settlements of Ulaanbaatar are among the most financially and educationally disadvantaged in Mongolia. The squatter areas—commonly known as “ger districts”—are mainly comprised of recently-migrated nomadic herders. Ger districts make up over 60% of the capital city’s population and have tens of thousands of new arrivals each year. The newly-settled nomads … Continue reading “Empowering Women through Entrepreneurship”
- Team Members: Peter Bittner, Katie J. Niemeyer
- Financial Inclusion
- UC Berkeley
- 2016
Project Numa: Low Cost Disposable Battery for the Developing World
Current lighting and phone charging solutions in off-grid regions are hazardous, expensive, and inconvenient. The Low Cost Disposable Battery project addresses these major drawbacks using cheap and safe materials, representing a major shift in the way traditional batteries are made. Users will purchase and assemble the batteries themselves, replacing components as necessary. This solution … Continue reading “Project Numa: Low Cost Disposable Battery for the Developing World”
- Team Members: Mohamed Amine Oueslati, Benjamin Williams, Jerry Wang
- Climate, Energy & Sustainability
- UC Berkeley
- 2016
ViaeX: Biowaste to Nanofilters for a Sustainable and Clean Future
Rapid modernization and industrialization in developing nations has significantly improved global standards of living at the expense of human health and the global environment. Air pollutants are now regarded as the most widespread carcinogen and lead to 7 million deaths worldwide annually. Project ViaeX aims to restrict human exposure to both indoor and outdoor … Continue reading “ViaeX: Biowaste to Nanofilters for a Sustainable and Clean Future”
- Team Members: Vivian Qu, Rahul Jain, Rui Wang, Miao-Chun Chen
- Climate, Energy & Sustainability
- UC Berkeley
- 2016
Husk-to-Home
In 2013, a 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck Bohol, Philippines, destroying thousands of structures and displacing nearly 350,000 Boholanos. In response, the International Deaf Education Association (IDEA) employed several teams to build temporary homes using coconut wood boards. However, the homes only lasted two years before they were deemed uninhabitable due to extensive termite damage. IDEA identified … Continue reading “Husk-to-Home”
- Team Members: Jose Corbala-Delgado, Dennis Jones, Kevin Li, Jacqueline Ortega, Brian Rojas-Lerena, Brandon Leu, Colin Eckerle
- Climate, Energy & Sustainability
- UC Riverside
- 2016
The Alternative Iron by Ferrous
The Ferrous team is driven to make sure that for the 2.6 billion people living in energy poverty, modern energy satisfies all their basic human needs including dignity. The Ferrous team’s mission is to design and distribute sustainable, community-supportive, and capacity-building technologies. Ferrous is focused on addressing the current market’s failure to identify and respond … Continue reading “The Alternative Iron by Ferrous”
- Team Members: Cameron Smith, Chris Collins
- Climate, Energy & Sustainability
- UC Berkeley
- 2016
Root Tongue: Sharing Stories of Language Identity and Revival
Root Tongue is an online platform for audience engagement motivated by the stories and issuesraised in Tongues of Heaven, a feature documentary about four young, indigenous women who use personal video cameras to document the challenges of learning their ancestral languages before they go extinct. Their experiences prompt a larger conversation about linguicide and … Continue reading “Root Tongue: Sharing Stories of Language Identity and Revival”
- Team Members: Anita Chang
- Art & Social Change
- UC Santa Cruz
- 2016