How is your business helping to solve the health, social, or economic challenges created by COVID19?
Through a phased micro economy strategy, we will use local knowledge and spatial analysis to apply resilient and people-centered strategies in Tucson, AZ and Western Cape, South Africa. We intelligently prioritize specific geographic areas and population specific interventions to areas yielding the highest impact as we guide the reopening of communities and to restart local economies. The ideal anchor champion partners are religious institutions, healthcare, education, and energy groups. Our strategy includes widespread COVID testing with results within 24 hours, health awareness and prevention, school readiness programs, poverty reduction strategies, trauma intervention, energy efficiency improvements, and improved healthcare provision. Collaboratively, local interventionists (nonprofits, corporations, policy champions, etc.) whose mission align with desired outcomes and corporate entities with a business problem benefiting from a social impact intervention develop a comprehensive intervention. Funding is deployed quickly and in short intervals through our unique funding model. As services are performed, we pool multi-stakeholder data that includes what has been done and where, which we then feed back into our model allowing us to continuously evaluate performance and quickly respond to changes in need or outcomes. Our methods demonstrate a paradigmatic shift in current charitable giving, nonprofit management models, opportunity zone development, and impact investing.
Does your business contribute most to recovery, response, or resilience?
Resilience - we're improving the broader infrastructure for responding to pandemic outbreaks.,Recovery - we're positioned to support in the recovery of those directly affected.,Response - we're responding directly to issues caused or exacerbated by the COVID-19 outbreak.
What is the stage of your product development?
I have a market-ready product/service. I could sell it to customers
What strengths does your team bring? Include skills and personal experience with the problem.
Individually our team averages 17 years of experience in areas covering land use modeling and spatial analysis, community outreach and development, growth management, collaborative governance, marketing, and software globalization. Two of our team members have a combined 3 patents (1 pending). Our organization is co-founded and led by Iris Patten and Edwin Louw. Iris has piloted aspects of this strategy since 2017 with communities, nonprofits, and local governments and in 2015 she co-authored a book describing the modeling strategy and its application in various contexts including a tribal community. Edwin has worked in community development and outreach in South Africa since 2000 and has vast experience with fundraising and people-centered implementation. The greatest strength of our combined team is that we understand how to achieve high impact with minimal resources in underserved and exploited communities. for the past three years.
What countries do you operate in?
We can apply our services around the world but currently we are focusing our work in the United States, South Africa, Botswana, and Ghana. (I would love to apply provide our work to the entire African continent).
Is your company headquartered in a US "Opportunity Zone"?
No
