From  Oakland  to  Newark:  Empowering  Local  Communi9es  

through  Civic  Engagement  Susan  Mernit  Engage  Local  

June  15,  2015  

#hackthehood   @hackthehood  

What is Hack the Hood?

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Hack  the  Hood  opens  up  the  opportunity  pipeline  to  give  low-­‐income  young  people  access  to  good  jobs  in  tech  

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Youth build web sites for local small businesses- learn coding skills & confidence

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Progressive learning model moves young people to engagement, action

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Changing the trajectory for jobs, education

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They are no longer passive consumers of what's going on on the internet, they become actively involved. I think that’s really empowering and will reshape the internet. -Eric Soares, Mentor

In 2014, Google invested $500K in our idea so we could scale beyond Oakland into other cities

Matrixed, collective impact model engages local government, businesses, tech companies 10  

Will serve 100 young people this summer; 300+ by Q4 2015 11  

Turning Oakland Local over to others to focus on this 12  

Best & most impactful project EVER—would it help Newark? 13  

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Get in touch! Susan Mernit susan@hackthehood.org @susanmernit

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