If you have a donation/stipend of $500/ a month for 6 months what good can you do in your local community with your skills?
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With $3000, I can almost buy my local community one Apple Vision Pro. Give me one more month of $500 and I'll make it happen... might 2 more months to account for taxes. 😝
Haha, kidding.
So, in all seriousness. If I had $3000 to spend on my local community, I would like to do something with nature in my area. For instance, we have a lot of nature trails and I think it would be cool to create some sort of a fun program to get people out there to visit them. I'm not so sure what it would be just yet, but I feel like something similar to geocaching could be cool... maybe AR could be involved. I don't know I might be getting outside of the $3000 range, haha.
Maybe just a website to log all of the local trails, place them on a map, show their lengths, how strenuous they are, etc.
I also think it could be cool to go out to each trail and film the walk with a drone and/or Insta360. This way folks could preview what a walk there is like.
EDIT: Just to note, I totally didn't realize this was a we_coded post at first and so didn't formulate my answer with gender equality in mind. Now that I realize, I think using the money to fund a scholarship for women in tech would be cool. I'd need to partner with someone or some org who knows how to best do this, but it seems like a good simple, straightforward thing that could make a positive difference.
Alternatively, it could be cool to set up some sort of an after-school program for girls to learn about programming with raspberry pis — get them started with a fun project. Maybe it could even end with a challenge aspect that includes a prize, that way it would encourage more girls to get involved and reward those who excel.
Hi @bogomil! :) Thank you for posting. I'm struggling to see your topic’s connection to the #wecoded since it is used for women and gender minorities to talk about their experiences in the tech industry. Can you put some content in your post about this?
I agree with Christine here in that I feel like this could just be made a bit more clear in the post itself!
The topic is on using money for good, which is cool and allows the potential for someone to mention using $3k to fund a program or idea that has to do with gender equity, but the post itself doesn't really mention anything about gender equity.
To be honest, I didn't even see the #wecoded tag when I left my answer. I seriously didn't realize this post was connected to we_coded at the time. Had I realized, I think I would've answered differently!
Would you be up for making that connection more clear within your post @bogomil? It's a cool idea, I just think it could use a bit of tweaking to more clearly connect it to we_coded.
What good can you do with $3000 dollars to fix a problem in the area?
Create more paid internship opportunities with low-barrier entry
Three years ago a friend called me on a Saturday. He had a few kids bikes that he wanted to give to a refugee family he knew, but they needed more work than he knew how to do, and more mechanic skill than he had. In addition to being a software engineer and manager, I've fixed bicycles since I was a teen 4 decades ago.
Several weekends wrenching turned into us forming a non-profit we run on a shoestring. A local lawyer provides us helmets at cost, which is where most of our cash donations go. We get a lot of bikes donated that are beyond repair we strip for parts.
So, what would we do with $3,000? Buy tires and put smiles on faces. You see, the one thing almost all of our bikes have in common is the tires and tubes are shot. I currently have 18 bikes in my garage that need tires. Every time we deliver bikes, the kids swarm us to fix flats. True, we might use a little to spin up a website, but that kind of money lets me and other volunteers fix around 100 bicycles and delight kids (and sometimes adults if we get larger bikes donated).
I will comment just to see some traction! Is it open for anyone?
Yes, if the amount is enough to make you do something. I realize in some parts of the world this could be "coffee money".