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Poverty & Economic Opportunity Challenges:

I challenge you to empower your peers to understand the financial system that governs their lives and implement a method for utilizing it for their benefit.

Daniel Rodgers

I challenge you to find ways to make your generation the last ALICE generation (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed) by designing a solution that encourages families to utilize community resources that help achieve economic stability.

Joe Zubizarreta

I challenge you to connect families to resources to help them achieve economic stability and break the cycle of poverty.

Helah Robinson

I challenge you to reimagine urban spaces so that kids living in low-income communities have equal opportunities to receive the play-filled childhood they deserve.

Aisha Alexander

I challenge you to create and test a business idea that will help address a problem of poverty within your community.

Jo-Ann Tan

Poverty & Economic Opportunity Solutions:

I challenge you to empower your peers to understand the financial system that governs their lives and implement a method for utilizing it for their benefit.

Daniel Rodgers

MoneyLYFE (Leading Youth in Financial Education)

MoneyLYFE acts as a bridge from the youth to the banking world by conducting bank fairs,infomercials, and promotional activities to improve our community’s financial knowledge and decision-making process.

Joe Zubizarreta

S.U.N.R.I.S.E (Serving Under-resourced Neighborhoods Reaching Ideal Stress-free Environments)

We envision a society that embraces economic empowerment and combats financial disparities with social outreach and resources.

OutLOUD

Using advertising to connect people to affordable childcare services will allow ALICE families to spend less of their income on childcare, which allows them to have more freedom when allocating their earnings.

ALICE Busters

The lives of a generation will be forever changed by increasing financial stability and literacy. People will want to join these efforts because it will secure generational wealth.

I challenge you to connect families to resources to help them achieve economic stability and break the cycle of poverty.

Helah Robinson

POP (Progressors Over Poverty)

P.O.P.'s solutions are to empower our community through love, connect those in need with resources, and to increase the financial literacy of students and the community. Methods included financial literacy education and signing students up for bank accounts with TD Bank.

CLIPS

Our program empowers students from disenfranchised backgrounds to reduce generational cycles of poverty by providing a network of accomplished professionals from various backgrounds to create socio-economic change, job opportunities, and career-building programs for students from inner-city high schools.

FAID

By creating and launching an organization, we will work to improve financial literacy and alleviate poverty for individuals in need. Through the development of a survey, a website, an after-school program, and food/clothing drives, we hope to receive positive feedback about our resources through a post-survey by April 2021.

I challenge you to reimagine urban spaces so that kids living in low-income communities have equal opportunities to receive the play-filled childhood they deserve.

Aisha Alexander

Safe City

Reimagine urban spaces so that kids living in low-income communities have equal opportunities to receive the play-filled childhood they deserve.

LocalFunDealers

Reimagine urban spaces so that kids living in low-income communities have equal opportunities to receive the play-filled childhood they deserve.

TNT (Tech iNnovation Team)

Reimagine urban spaces so that kids living in low-income communities have equal opportunities to receive the play-filled childhood they deserve.

Pop-Up Play

Reimagine urban spaces so that kids living in low-income communities have equal opportunities to receive the play-filled childhood they deserve.

I challenge you to create and test a business idea that will help address a problem of poverty within your community.

Jo-Ann Tan

TMA Gourmet

TMA Gourmet is eradicating the issue of limited food access that plagues communities of poverty by providing parents, students, and members of our community healthier eating options from our school garden.

Mountain Lions

Our goal is to disrupt teen poverty in our community by focusing on high school attendance through financial incentives.

BINC

Our mission at BINC (Banneker, Inc.) is to develop an innovative and sustainable business solution to an issue of poverty in our city wide community through a website. This website, oriented to the needs of our community and made possible by financial support from local businesses, will offer coupons and solutions through a forum-like interface to address the primary needs of our community and will be accessible to any and all that wish to make use of and to contribute to the database.

Challenges and Solutions

Poverty & Economic Opportunity Challenges:

Poverty & Economic Opportunity Solutions:

MoneyLYFE (Leading Youth in Financial Education)

S.U.N.R.I.S.E (Serving Under-resourced Neighborhoods Reaching Ideal Stress-free Environments)

OutLOUD

ALICE Busters

POP (Progressors Over Poverty)

CLIPS

FAID

Safe City

LocalFunDealers

TNT (Tech iNnovation Team)

Pop-Up Play

TMA Gourmet

Mountain Lions

BINC

Aspen Challenge

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