Doing Good with Less: Open-source Altruism |
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| Event | Interactive 2011 |
| Format | Panel |
| Organizer | Joshua To – BRUTE LABS |
| Description | BRUTE LABS has helped over 1,000 homeless find their way, 4,500 kids get healthier and provided water to 1,500 people in Ghana. All this while holding full-time jobs at top companies including Google and Facebook. How did they do it? No budget, part-time, and big impact. Is that really possible? Throw in some clever design and use of technology, irreverence for rules, and crazy ideas, and you will realize that this is not your usual non-profit. Joshua To, founder of BRUTE LABS, will be giving attendees a crash course in the BRUTE method of envisioning, launching and scaling creative projects that take on the pressing social issues around us. What happens when projects succeed? They open-source them, showing others how they can easily replicate the impact in their communities. To prove that this is not all just theory, Joshua will be take attendees on a tour of select BRUTE LABS projects. He will be joined by a few other exciting social good pioneers to show how it's possible to do good, better, with less. After the presentation, there will be a 30 minute brainstorm to generate projects for global challenges such as water, energy and health for projects that attendees can actually go and do in their spare time. |
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| Level | Beginner |
| Category | Non-Profits |
| Tags | design thinking, Non-profit, open-source altruism |