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HACKATHON - HACK FOR HUMANITY
Hackathon Details
About
This hackathon was organized by GiT ( Girls in Technology) group and was aimed at improving exiting processes or providing new functional and feasible software/hardware solutions for various charities.
Team
Duration
Methods
5 members
2 Days
Business analysis, user flow, journey map, service design blueprint, sketching, and wireframing, prototyping.
Tools
Pen and paper, Figma, Trello , Zoom , Google docs
The client
ARISE FOUNDATION
Arise Foundation focuses on the empowerment and financial freedom of survivors of financial abuse through no-interest loans, employment training and job placement, wrap-around support services, and advocacy.
Business Problem
Your business problem defined: How can we streamline our services and processes to free up staff resources as well as give clients autonomy over their learning and recovery?
Vision
Where does our solution fit in the overall vision of the company?
Our solution, Arise Digital Academy, would fit underneath Arise Academy which is the education, training and support arm of Arise Foundation.
Whom are we designing for?
As we are finding the solution for "arise academy" which is an online training platform.
we will be targeting both the Arise mentor and Arise trainee.
Mentor's challenge
4 key bottlenecks:
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Client services are dependent on manual set up and monitoring
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No CRM system to keep track of client profiles and comms
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Unable to build long term data on class attendance, employability patterns
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Unable to scale processes for increasing demand.
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Other priorities:
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Expanding Employer Host network
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Increase mentor database
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Cultivate a community of both current and past program graduates
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Seminar invitation functionalities
Trainee's challenge
Goals:
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Move to Thrive stage (6 months of steady full-time employment)
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Have financial freedom and autonomy
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Pain-Points:
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Struggle with cognitive retention
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Lack of consistency and discipline in completing modules
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Language barriers.
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Our Focus
Receive employment kit
Pre - emplpoyment ready program
8 week employment ready program
Paired with mentors
Work on resume/interview practice
Job search
Get Paid employment
Thrive
Our Solution
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What is it?
Arise Digital Academy (ADA) is an intuitive learning management platform that allows mentors to create, manage, and deliver e-learning content.
Our Prototype
LMS Platform recommendations
Commercial viability
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Total Addressable Market: 2.5 million Australian women who have experienced family and domestic (physical and/or sexual) violence in their lifetime
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In the current model, it costs Arise ~$5000-8000 to support a client from Employment Ready Program to securing paid employment.
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By migrating to ADA, we’ll reduce overhead time by 90% anda large amount in cost. This will allow us to redirect money to afford the monthly $50-149 USD subscription cost of managing the LMS.
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Next Steps
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Horizon 1: Crawl
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Start recording current classes and uploading on gated portal in Wordpress
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Choose a Learning Management System and demo it against business requirements
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Create a Data Migration Plan
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Soft launch with base use cases to find problems
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Identify success metrics
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Horizon 2: Walk
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Prepare High-Quality Learning Content
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Build Automated Workflows
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Integrate the Learning Platform with Your Tools
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Plan LMS Launch Communications
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Horizon 3: Run
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Expanding Employer Host network
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Increase mentor database
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Cultivate an community of both current and past program graduate
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Seminar invitation functionalities