We are proud to be working with these amazing Nonprofit Organizations (2 Spirits in Motion Society, Agir Montréal, AlterHéros, BELI-Black Executive Leadership Initiative, Egale Canada, Fête Arc-en-Ciel Québec, Interligne, Ontario Digital Literacy and Access Network, Rainbow Faith and Freedom, TransEstrie) on their technology projects for PrideHacks 2021 Virtual! Serving 2SLGBTQ+ communities across Canada, this will be our widest reaching PrideHacks ever.
We need your help!
To build technology for a stronger community takes a village and we need your help with these great projects this year. Take a look below to learn more about each organization, the projects they need help with and the skills that would be helpful for each. Don't worry if your skill set doesn't quite match, every project needs assistance in copy writing, presentation creation, and general communication skills and more.
PrideHacks is an inclusive environment, whether you are Ally/Straight or LGBTQ2S+ - all genders and sexual identities are welcome, and we will be sure to make everyone feel at home.
2 Spirits in Motion Society
Project Description
We are presently a remote organization and are using multiple apps to keep our team on target. We also need help with development of our organizational website and our new #2Spirit Youth Digital Storytelling project, where we need a fully functional live website that shares news, stories and events.
Skills Needed
Website design and creation; Marketing; front-end developpers; Wordpress specialist
Agir Montréal
Project Description
Design an internal hub with different access depending on the occupation. Connect the hub with the website for appointments. The integrated system will contain the following tabs: (1) Communication, (2) Activities, (3) Tasks, (4) Resources, (5) Client Files, (6) Follow-ups, (7) Appointments, (8) Admin and (9) Reports.
Skills Needed
Tech Consulting, Hubspot Specialist, Data Management
AlterHéros
Project Description
Common platform for all LGBTQ+ volunteers of the AlterHéros’ program Ask your question! This program allows youth to ask questions related to sexual orientation, gender identity and sexual health on our website and get an answer from our outreach team. Currently we post the questions in a Facebook group or send them via email to volunteers, but we’d like an easier way to reach everyone at once. We have a peer support approach, so we’d like volunteers to be able to choose subjects they have lived experience about (eg: a trans volunteer could choose to only receive questions about gender and an asexual volunteer could choose to only receive questions about the grey-asexual spectrum).
Skills Needed
Front-end programming; CRM/CMS
BELI-Black Executive Leadership Initiative
Project Description
We are a start-up non-profit and all founding members (5) are working full time and do not have the knowledge to produce a website. We would also like the website to be able to be accessed by people looking for mentorship.
Skills Needed
UI/UX specialist; Wordpress Specialist; front-end programming
Egale Canada
Project Description
We want to bring our organization to WCAG 2.1 accessibility compliance standards. 1.Inventory of everything that we publish, 2. Assessment of materials and gaps 3. Implement a plan and remediating website content, programming and all published materials.
Skills Needed
Tech Consulting; front-end programming; Accessibilty specialist
Fête Arc-en-Ciel Québec
Project Description
Our website. It is boring and doesn't reflect what we do. It needs to become a marketing and informative tool to help our pride grow and answer our communities needs.
Skills Needed
Marketing; UI/UX specialist, WordPress specialist; Front-end Programming
Interligne
Project Description
En tant qu'OBNL, une page de notre site web est dédiée à la commande de notre matériel (de sensibilisation, promotionnel, etc.), et nous aimerions mettre en place une manière plus efficace de procéder que ce qui est présentement en place.
Skills Needed
WordPress specialist; front-end programming
Ontario Digital Literacy and Access Network
Project Description
We want to get devices into the hands of people who are deviceless. Digital access is a key barrier that older adults experience when accessing online platforms. We need to start hardware donation centers and get a team of tech savvy volunteers to refurbish the devices so they can be redistributed to 2S-LGBTQ+ community members who need them.
Skills Needed
Front-end programming; Database Management
Rainbow Faith and Freedom
Project Description
Since we work to end religious-based homo- and trans-phobia, we want to help people find safe, welcoming, inclusive congregations wherever they live in Canada, and whatever their faith. Right now, it's difficult for people to find this kind of information for places outside Canada's bigger cities. So we want to create a web resource that lists places all across Canada, particularly outside the bigger cities, that helps people find a place to worship and a faith community that will accept them AND their sexual and gender orientation and identity.
Skills Needed
Squarespace specialist; web developer; front-end programming; mySQL
TransEstrie
Project Description
We are trying to find a way to efficiently handle the inventory of our gender affirming items (binders, packers, gaffs, etc), our book collection and personalized user commands. We buy or receive donations of gender affirming items and give them back under a “pay what you can” system. We have an inventory management program, but despite great efforts, it is still misunderstood by most of the team, and so the gender affirming items stock isn’t kept up to date. We always need a lot of energy to count everything back directly, and retrace transactions lost in the system. Our gender affirming items resource is used to provide trans, non-binary and questioning people with access to items to decrease their dysphoria at no cost. We function under a “pay what you can'' system and finance it with personal donations and rare grants from government or charity organizations. We have been seeking to automate the management of its inventory for a while, at no avail. We mainly seek to improve how we handle this resource. A lot of people ask for gender affirming items, and the inventory changes quickly, so we want to be able to handle these demands in the simplest way possible for us AND them.
Skills Needed
Website design and creation; Marketing; front-end developpers; Wordpress specialist