{"id":3386,"date":"2018-02-05T18:48:43","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T18:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/206.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/?p=3386"},"modified":"2018-05-22T14:28:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T20:28:11","slug":"hacktivism-intent-cullens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/206.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/hacktivism-intent-cullens\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacktivism Intent – CullenS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Assisting Low Income High School Students<\/strong><\/p>\n

This Hacktivism Intent deals with provided meals and donations to low income families in local school systems, through the use of social media and spreading awareness.<\/p>\n

I would like to work to assist low income high school students that don’t qualify for completely free meals, but also don’t come from wealthy enough families to have consistent meals.<\/p>\n

Growing up in my neighborhood, I knew a lot of fellow high school students who struggled with being able to consistently get meals for lunch. They lived in an almost unfair purgatory of financial situations. Their family wasn’t making enough to be able to regularly provide meals, but they also made too much to be considered poor enough to qualify for free meals. The low-income families and children would benefit, as it would relieve them of a lot of stress, money, and hunger. This is extremely important because no children should be left unfed. Especially in high school, when nutrition is very important for ensuring correct bodily growth and development.<\/p>\n

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My Solution:<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are many potential solutions for this specific problem. I thought it would be most relevant to look at this from a new media perspective. I’ve decided to focus on pre-existing media and mediums to further improve this dismal state of affairs. The following are two different solutions that could be acted out at the same time.<\/p>\n

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  1. Crowdsource The Job –\u00a0<\/strong>Reaching out to the community would be a fantastic way to tackle this problem. Sending out flyers via email, texts, and general social media posts would be a fantastic way to reach a large amount of people. After reaching out to the people, you could ask them to do two simple things. The community could donate to a local fund in the high school, only accessible for students in need, that would allow them to get “free” money to use to purchase food from the lunch room. The donations could be collected via the internet or just sending in a check. Alternatively, the concerned community could even make bagged lunches and send them to the school. That way, if a student comes in without a lunch or money, they can be provided with a free pre-made meal.<\/li>\n
  2. Tap Into Local Networks –\u00a0<\/strong>Although it would be much less of a hands-on approach, tapping into local networks could be a very good way to raise funding for low-income families with students in high school. Using a similar technique to my previous solution, it would require spreading awareness about the issue. You could do this by simply making a flyer, or video describing the issue in focus, and spreading it via social media. This would be a slightly less direct approach, and would rely on reaching the right people who have the means to make a major difference. For example, reaching out to specific Maine celebrities, such as Stephen King, and hoping for his monetary support would be an option.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I believe that people would donate to the cause for a few different reasons. The most general answer is just good karma. People like to feel like they are doing good for the less fortunate and would feel good helping this important cause. Secondly, targeting a local market, would give more fortunate people a chance to improve their community with little effort. Simply donating to a website and seeing the overall improvement of the community is a great reward.<\/p>\n

    The social media campaign would work based off of those same concepts. Not only does it help others, but it betters your community if you are local. And if you aren’t local it gives you the satisfaction of knowing you’re helping those in need. The social media campaign would focus on word of mouth. It would have student’s discuss their experiences, anonymously or not, with how the donation effected them. That way, people could see how their donations were being used. The campaign would encourage others promote the donations and get other people they know to help.<\/p>\n

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    BUDGETING:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Budgeting for these solutions would be fairly simple. Creating a flyer via Photoshop would only take time, and really not cost any money unless you had no access to an editing software such as Photoshop. It would be a similar case with recording a video for outreach, all you would need is the proper software and equipment to make the video. The only monetary cost would come from purchasing or renting any equipment that you didn’t already have. Time would be the biggest cost with both of these projects. Because in order for this activism to work, you would have to give people a well made and well produced material so that they could easily get information off of it, and be swayed to donate or help because of the media.<\/p>\n

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