Powered By Action

Everybody deserves access to the help they need. Powered by Action's mission is to amplify the efforts of those trying to change the world by connecting people anywhere as if they were in the same room.

To fulfill this mission, our collaboration solution extends the reach of nonprofits and scales their impact by bringing people together in connected online communities; live and on-demand interactive virtual events that leverage innovative and modern webinars; and integrated text, audio, and video chat that works seamlessly together to increase the number and frequency of ongoing high-quality interactions that inform and empower people served.

Our ultimate vision is to provide universal access to an unprecedented ecosystem of nonprofit services.

The founder of Powered by Action has funded the design and development of a collaboration software platform that demolishes barriers of access and effective communications and collaboration.

Donors and grantors fund the PbA staff that performs the program planning, change management, and on-going operational support associated with customers implementations.

Donors and grantors likewise fund collaborative program initiatives that build curriculums that inform a specific demographic to achieve a desired outcome. For example, our “Knowledge to Succeed for Parents" program teams with schools to better equip parents through interactive sharing of best practices and tips; access to experts and resources; and sharing of peer experiences to more effectively influence their student's academic performance and civic engagement.

Today, our collaboration platform and solutions amplify the efforts of those doing good by helping them do good, better by employing the following strategies and tactics:

● Building Connected Movements and Collaborations by linking networks of online communities that leverage the best of everyone to multiply results.

● Communicating via integrated text/audio/video chat and newsfeeds to increase the number and frequency of ongoing high-quality interactions with people served to achieve desired outcomes.

● Live Interactive Events coupled with a credible face and voice and knowledge of proven practices and resources extend reach and scale impact.

● Monetization of intellectual “know-how", membership, and strategic partners and sponsors.

● Easy-to-use analytics to optimize interactions and engagement.

Powered by Action is working to create a world where all nonprofits can easily capitalize on emerging and impactful technologies and the rise in civic engagement to solve society's toughest problems.

Visionary & Resolve:

Our founder, a retired global managing partner from Accenture, has committed millions of dollars to fund all past/future software development on a pro bono basis.

Critical Thinking & Problem Solving:

Our team of technologists located in Chicago, Illinois; Qingdao, China; and Slovakia has hundreds of years of experience in software design and development and have worked for and at some of the most successful tech companies including Accenture.

Program & Change Management:

Our program, change management, and marketing leads have a collaboration disposition that prioritizes leveraging others' expertise and proven solutions versus creating anew.

Earlier projects empowered villagers to build their own school in Asabiem, Ghana; incentivized high school students to improve their grades in Chicago Heights, Illinois; and established a commodity exchange that connected farmers to new markets in Ethiopia. Through these projects, two things became clear:

1. The ability of people and organizations to collaborate directly affects their ability to create impact, and

2. Nonprofits largely do not have access to the digital tools they need to collaborate and scale the distribution of their services.

In June of 2016, we launched v1.0 of our collaboration platform. Today, nine organizations, including The College Board and YWCA Metropolitan Chicago, use our platform to connect people with knowledge to those needing help. For example, unemployed individuals who cannot be physically present for career and educational workshops can now access YWCA services 24/7 from anywhere using our platform. Likewise, the College Board connects over 2500 high school counselors across the United States with plans to scale to 20,000 counselors.

Similarly, we are building communities of parents hosted by nonprofits and schools to disseminate parent curricula applicable to their student's grade-level. Because of the “point-and-click" simplicity of our platform and the live interactive audio/video feature set, we anticipate schools will also use it to virtualize tutoring, mentoring, office hours, and to more effectively communicate and share amongst teachers. The ability to democratize access to any service through our network is now being made possible.

We firmly believe that constant and instant collaboration powers social innovation. Thus, we are powering the work of activists, experts, and people with know-how by demolishing the barriers between them and the people they want to help by connecting them virtually 1-to-1, 1-to-many, and 1-to-1000+. Our virtual workspaces include digital whiteboards, audience polling, a “raise-hand" feature for large audiences and the ability to play recorded video content. This makes communications between anyone anywhere feel as natural as any face-to-face conversation. We believe connections, conversations, and communities of people build movements that change the world and improve lives.

In 4 months, we will release v2.0, expanding support for Android and iOS users, allowing nonprofits to reach the largest number of constituents possible.