How is your business helping to solve the health, social, or economic challenges created by COVID19?
COVID-19 has challenged citizen/end-user serving nonprofits (particularly those surviving youth) to successfully and efficiently adapt to remote communication, programming and engagement. In a time when they’re facing extraordinary revenue, staff and volunteer loss - in addition to a loss in in-person interventions - underrepresented communities need these organizations the most.In close to 20 discovery calls with nonprofits over the last 3 weeks we validated the need for a solution that simplifies and centralizes actions, automate tasks (using simple tech like SMS), and creates efficiencies so they do they work better and focus on providing the services people need now and in the future. Our team has reprioritized features and our product roadmap to address these challenges as we know the importance of software in driving efficiencies. And thankfully, we're well positioned for adoptions as COVID-19 has forced the sector “go digital”, improving their technical capacity, digital familiarity and openness to technology at rates that otherwise would have taken decades.
Does your business contribute most to recovery, response, or resilience?
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 prototype or a simple version I can show my customers
What strengths does your team bring? Include skills and personal experience with the problem.
jiiWA is perfectly positioned for the successful execution of this work due to the wide-ranging skills of our co-founders and fulltime management team. We embody the passion, inclusive mind-set and experience required to operate in this complicated industry, in addition to having: Founder Market Fit: our team is led by Kristina Flynn - who has run and developed social impact initiatives for one of the world’s wealthiest families and hundreds of NBA players, coaches and management - and supported by Senior Engineers - both of whom helped build one of the world’s largest sports apps w/ 4+M active users.Proven Track Record: our team knows how to build successful products, but particularly, successful products within the social impact sector. Other companies have attempted to enter this market and have failed - because they try to insert traditional business solutions into an extremely complicated nonprofit workflow. We built our first products hand-in-hand with nonprofits to address this deficiency - we’ve built solutions for them, with them. Obsession: our vision is massive, measurable, systemic social impact sector improvements using simple technology and prioritizing the needs, desires, and voices of end-users/citizens. COVID is awful in so many ways, but we believe it presents an incredible opportunity to take steps towards making this vision a reality.
What countries do you operate in?
US & Canada
Is your company headquartered in a US "Opportunity Zone"?
No
