sharity

Charity giving reimagined.

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Inspiration

sharity is inspired by market need...

"Millennials are most likely to... donate via mobile and watch online videos before making a gift... Only 11% of total US giving comes from Millennials, even though they make up 25.9% of the US population!" (src: nonprofitssource.com)

As older donors age, it is increasingly important for NPOs to encourage support in the way which younger donors understand. NPOs and NGOs have difficulty fighting noise to reach a young donor audience. As a result, communication between orgs and their young donors feels in-authentic or forced.

What it does

sharity is...

  • a giving platform inspiring donors with short-form video.
  • a curated list of vetted orgs and their best short-form video promotion.
  • a personal portfolio of a user's favorite charities.
  • a native application on iOS and Android.

How we built it

sharity is built with love, redbull and...

  • React Native: for the native UI on iOS and Android
  • GraphQL: for querying and mutating user and organization data.
  • Google Cloud: for hosting user and organization data.

Challenges we ran into

  1. It was our first time building a full-stack react-native project, which proved a difficult obstacle.
  2. Communication between our database and application layers took a great deal of time and effort.
  3. React Native is a highly powerful tool, but the wide variety of packages and components caused a fair amount of conflict and delay in the progress of our development.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • We're incredibly proud of having built something that will provide real value to the world and organizations that we show this hack to!
  • sharity is a proof of concept that will be used to gain valuable feedback and continue development!

What we learned

  • We learned fullstack React Native app development on this project.
  • We used Google Cloud databases for the first time on this project.
  • Responsive views, database management, querying, login authentication, video streaming, and react-native carousel drawer-menu management were all challenging steps in our development.

What's next for sharity

sharity will...

  • be showcased, developed, and hopefully funded in the 2019 UCI New Venture competition.
  • be demoed to many donors and orgs to gain valuable feedback on how to help their causes.
  • be made into something donors enjoy and organizations need.
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