Social Hackathon

Are you a volunteer? Wish to do something good for the society? 📣

Here’s a chance to put your ideas into action and receive $250 initial funding! Apply for The Social Hackathon: https://www.socialsolutionsindia.in/the-social-hackathon

The Social Hackathon is a platform for youth to ideate, design, execute and lead social initiatives that address injustice in their community through compassion, courage and collaborative leadership. Through this 24 hour hackathon, youth will be guided through a 5-stage journey and provided with resources and community support; including training, 3 month mentorship and initial startup funding of $250 to launch a social change project in their community; along with stories that celebrate their social change journey and impact.

🗓️ May 15-16, 2021

🖥️ Virtual Edition 0.1

✒️ Apply here: https://tinyurl.com/the-social-hackathon-apply

🏅 Perks:

– Access to a grant of $250 to put your ideas into action.

– Three month mentorship to develop the social initiative.

– A guided, self-paced learning journey that supports young people to create and launch a social change project, built on 20+ years of successful school-based work and developed in partnership with the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

– Tools and resources developed over Peace First’s 30 years of supporting young people, to build a just and peaceful world, to deepen your learning and support your project planning

– Personalized feedback and mentorship to help your project succeed, including multiple rounds of written feedback and a coaching video call

– Opportunities to gain exposure for your work, including being featured publicly through a public project page, participation in storytelling  campaigns  and  networking opportunities with partners and grant communities at Peace First.

– A community of other youth leaders to connect with. Become part of changemakers in your region and around the world.

– Mentorship, skills training, community-building, and leadership development opportunities.

– Access to further funding opportunities and network with our partner organisations.

An initiative of Social Solutions India by CAPTAINS Social Solution in collaboration with Peace First, Global Incubator of Youth-led Social Change with the support of The Gulmohar Foundation and Institute of Social Volunteering.