Electric Potential

One of the big reasons our users found it challenging to take action was because 'they didn't know where to start'. The stories went like "I wanted to donate for a cause, but couldn't find the right charity that meets my criteria" "I wanted to join other communities in my region supporting my cause, but didn't know where to find them and how to vet them".

We're connecting doers with doers, orgs with orgs, doers with orgs, through our 6 extensive databases on doers, nonprofit orgs, grassroots movements, digital communities, consumer brands, and non-consumer social ventures, all led by Gen Z to act towards social change.

The database has a 'Recommended for you' page based on your quiz results, as well as filters to help users navigate through the heavy data.

We have the same 6 categories from the database for our spotlights: doers, nonprofit orgs, grassroots movements, digital communities, brands, social ventures.

It is a spotlight interview on each—but our goal isn't to praise the successes of those who are already making big moves and have their fame; it's to praise the unsung heroes among us—your best friend, your classmate, your neighbor, who might not be "successful" but are making changes in their own ways and are just a few steps ahead of the impact journey from where you are. This is so that we can break down the barrier to entry to social change, to show that anyone can be in the fight.

The quiz, directly embedded into the EP website, is built for those students who feel overwhelmed and lost on where to get started with their social impact journey. We also believe it's unfair to assume that all those who care about a social cause wants to take action—some may be feeling too lost, some may be fired up and ready for action, some have been taking actions and are feeling exhausted and burned out, some too emotionally affected by the issue and need to heal first.

The quiz results will assess what type of Impact Maker they are (beginner vs. aware vs. advanced) based on their emotions and the type of actions they have been taking, and depending on what issue they support, whether they're ready for action, how much time they can spend, where they are located, will create a personalized action plan for each user to slowly get into social impact with our guidance.

Where EP's community members get together, meet each other, share resources, and amplify each other's impact efforts. For Beta, this will be primarily used as a feedback platform as well as for any bug reports or feature / content requests. For Beta, we'll select 10-30 Beta testers as the community Founding Members, who will help make decisions for the future of the community by working with our team. In the future, the roles of the Founding Members will be replaced by Gen Z advisory board who will give feedback and insights on not only the community aspect but all of EP's product and organization decisions.

Still in the works, this program breaks down the dense information around how our governments work and how policy is created to Gen Z students. Our belief is that in order to implement an effective, wide-scale social change, we have to bridge the gap between new solutions and the government so that new policy can be created; and in order to do so, the doers in our generation—whether they are activists, nonprofit founders, or advocacy leaders—need to understand how policy works. We hope that between our impact programs (including Issues Around the World, Impact Database, Gen Z Spotlights, and Action Plan Quiz) and our policy programs (including Civic Ed 101 and Policy School), we'll be able to produce a generation of policymakers, policy funders, and advocacy leaders who can work together in an ecosystem.