{"id":3038,"date":"2021-07-31T05:41:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T12:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/?p=3038"},"modified":"2021-07-31T05:41:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T12:41:28","slug":"a3-venture-pitch-impact-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/2021\/07\/31\/a3-venture-pitch-impact-now\/","title":{"rendered":"A3 Venture Pitch: Impact Now."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/files\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-2021-07-31-at-2.43.29-PM-1024x592.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3039\" width=\"194\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/files\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-2021-07-31-at-2.43.29-PM-1024x592.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/files\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-2021-07-31-at-2.43.29-PM-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/files\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-2021-07-31-at-2.43.29-PM-768x444.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/files\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-2021-07-31-at-2.43.29-PM.png 1362w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Young people have ideas, passions and talents that change our world. What if we could scale-up this impact by connecting students looking to make a difference, philanthropists wanting to fund projects, and underprivileged communities looking for help? Impact Now is a not-for-profit organization serving as the catalyst to do just this. Whether it be connecting an aspiring artist with a marginalized community to raise awareness through an ad campaign, or, connecting a university engineering student group with a village looking for an irrigation solution, our projects create real positive change. Our online platform brings people together with a challenge, talents and funding, it\u2019s as simple as that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/SlpRGY_t3-w\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/SlpRGY_t3-w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Elevator Pitch<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/impact-now\/home\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/impact-now\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Venture Pitch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young people have ideas, passions and talents that change our world. What if we could scale-up this impact by connecting students looking to make a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/2021\/07\/31\/a3-venture-pitch-impact-now\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A3 Venture Pitch: Impact Now.<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":85560,"featured_media":3039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a3-venture-pitch","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85560"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3038"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3041,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions\/3041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}