Holiday Coding Collabathon - Hunger Food Systems

5648 Friendship Avenue,Pittsburgh PA 15206

03 December, 2021

Description

Coding collaboration to support ChangeMakers addressing hunger and build food infrastructure. involveMINT.io is partnering with Tech Serving Society and Code & Supply to host the first Code Collabathon to address hugner and food insecurity: Friday December 3 at 5:30pmSaturday December 4 at 10am-5pmSunday December 5 at 10am-5pmFood and refreshments will be provided. RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/events/214438741047 The Problem: Programs addressing food insecurity in many low income neighborhoods have no sustainable market solution and instead rely on giving, which cannot fully address the amount of need. When food insecure individuals do receive financial support, they cannot spend locally because their communities lack the infrastructure to sustain food access. The Solution: The involveMINT model provides a means for individuals to earn and spend a local currency within their own communities when funding is not available. These individuals work to build and maintain new food infrastructure to meet the demand not met by traditional funding. This model ultimately becomes a driver of local supply chains for communities to create and retain their own food systems. The Work: Software Implementations are required to unlock this economic potential by identifying and connecting needs, offers, and skills of businesses and individuals. The team will work on capture the needs of users (businesses, individuals, and organizations) during the onboarding process. These needs are then matched with the skills and offers of users.