SNAPBasketprepared by:Bessie ChuJeanette OhmanCatherine PeiperGabriel Shapiro
CALIFORNIA EBT CARD
“Food Stamp Debit Card”
National Participation Rate:
46,670,373 Americans on Food
Stamps
* Almost entire population of South Korea or over half the population of Germany
14% of all Americans
Participation Rate by State: 1. Mississippi | 20.8% 2. Tennessee | 19.9% 3. Oregon | 19.9% 4. New Mexico | 19.8% 5. Michigan | 19.5%
43. California | 9.7% 1,015,481 individuals enrolled in Los Angeles
50. Wyoming | 6.3%
EBT USER STATISTICSNationwide State
EBT Users Need Pricing InformationLos Angeles SNAP Benefits are $151 per month ($34 per week)
If an item costs twice as much in a different
location, that’s another one of that item. That
could mean a difference
of several days of food.
SNAPBasket
PITCH:
Social Good1
2 Shared Interests
SNAPBasket is an easily accessed platform for low-income individuals in LA to get the most out of their grocery money with an emphasis on EBT Users
SNAPBasket
App searches for food across stores in a designated area to find the lowest
price item, basket of items, and grocery store to buy selected items
Core Value PropositionAddress need of low-income
individuals to find lowest priced grocery items.
What does the app do?
Key Functionalities
1. Look up grocery items and create shopping lists for lowest items
2. Area based feature: How far are you willing to go?
3. Find cheapest store, cheapest basket, cheapest item
4. Create shopping list to print, e-mail
5. Shows map to grocer location
- Create new items- Report and update
incorrect prices to update database
- Show map to store location
- Support in high need languages in Los Angeles:
- Chinese- Korean- Spanish
Additional Features
Click to open Google maps to store location
Lowest price Of that item
Check items you’ve already bought
Implementation StrategyPartnership
with EBT
Crowdsourcing and Integrating Interest Groups
Initial Roll-out in LA/USC Community
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Add SNAPBasket logo and info to back of EBT Cards and other EBT documentation
Integrated Marketing Strategy with EBT
Partnership Between Communities through Crowdsourcing
EBT Users
Data Providers
Caveats & Legal Framework
Similar Proofs of Concept
Summary
Thank You
Questions?
SNAPBasket