Saturday ended with a crowd-sourced selection of projects to “pitch” to coaches on Sunday.
The twelve projects pitched are below, with notes of the awards they received.
The top three vote getters received $500 each and access to coaching from Chris Rabb using the Invisible Capital toolkit.
The Wake Up Tour and
Tani Ikeda, Jasiri X, Sandy Ordonez, Paradise Gray, Matt Renner, Lauren Harbury, Jeff Hermes
These two projects combined to do their pitch. See the opening.
Homewood Nation – The Homewood 100 Initiative – Elwin Green
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Documenting Durham – Travis Mitchell
Received award from the Council for Entrepreneurial Development, Durham, NC
She Who Holds the Pen Publishing Institute – Tamara Jeffries (Bennett College)
Received award from the Nussbaum Center for Entrepreneurship
Global Citizen Journalism (GCJ): Diversity of Convergence – Seung-Hyun Lee
Received award from Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University
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Empowering Tomorrow – Barbara Lewis
Digital DNA – Digital Identity Management and Community Mapping System – Michelle Ferrier, Byung Lee, Mani St. Victor, Rick Rodgers, Kaycie Coy, Norm Roulet
The Obama Effect – Paradise Gray
immediate Justice hotline – Tani Ikeda
Media Reinvestment – Jordan Green
Hill District Historians Oral History Project – C. Denise Johnson
