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Opportunity Port gets funding

Opportunity Port—one out of four other teams from Arizona, Utah and Wyoming — has been selected for investment in the Alliance for the American Dream competition. The team will receive $500,000 from Schmidt Futures, which founded the Alliance for the American Dream in New York City.

Opportunity Port is a platform that leverages technology, legal expertise and private-public partnerships to demystify the record sealing application and empower those with criminal records to begin the record sealing process. The team is led by Hannah Miller, City of Columbus and the Legal Aid Society of Columbus.

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Our 2019 Alliance for the American Dream finalists

  • Hannah Miller, Opportunity Port, presents at the Alliance for the American Dream Pitch to the Communityon January 14, 2020 at the Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center.

    Opportunity Port

    People with criminal records are trapped in vicious cycles of economic and social instability. Opportunity Port will allow them to easily get help to seal those records and access a better future.


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  • Desiree Polk-Bland, Columbus State Community College, presents Readyskill at the Alliance for the American Dream Pitch to the Community on January 14, 2020 at the Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center.

    Readyskill

    A mobile-designed app, Readyskill will take an innovative approach to match individuals with an educational sponsor and future employer. This match will overcome the uncertainty gap that exists for many in need of higher paying jobs.

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  • Jen Schlegel of Beenabled, LLC, presents 119 Power to the Patient at the Alliance for the American Dream Pitch to the Community on January 14, 2020 at the Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center.

    119 Power to the Patient

    Unnecessary 911 calls financially harm those with chronic illnesses and weigh down our emergency medical system. The 119 app will reduce unnecessary emergency room visits while educating society on what medical emergencies entail.

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2019 top ideas

119 Power to the Patient
A subscription-based service for use on a smartwatch or smartphone to help the chronically ill reduce the number of unnecessary emergency room visits, directly combating social and monetary costs of disability.
Jen Schlegel, Beenabled, LLC

Opportunity Port
A platform that leverages technology, legal expertise and private-public partnerships to demystify the record sealing application and empower those with criminal records to begin the record sealing process.
Hannah Miller, City of Columbus and the Legal Aid Society of Columbus

Upskill
A mobile-designed platform that will bring together service providers to support an individual proactively during their upskilling or re-skilling sprint.
Shane Kirby, Columbus State Community College

Hooked on Savings: harnessing behavioral economics to form savings habits.
The project will use tools based on behavioral economics (e.g., prize-linked-savings, gamification) as well as financial education to form savings habits. The objective is to create rainy-day funds for a large set of households.­
Itzhak Ben-David, Fisher College of Business and Huntington National Bank

Helping Others Prosper through Economic Empowerment (HOPE)
Leveraging financial education and business skills training to help financially fragile middle-class families establish emergency savings and boost their incomes.
Susan Colbert, OSU Franklin County Extension

Fit to Navigate
Fit to Navigate provides wellness education to cultivate well-being for women in and out of the prison system while creating a path to entrepreneurship, sustainable wages and reduced recidivism.
Asegedech Kumnegere

Manufacturing Central, powered by MAGNET
A holistic, focused campaign to attract Ohioans to, prepare them for, and support them in advanced manufacturing careers that are lucrative, engaging, and cutting-edge.
Matthew Fieldman, MAGNET

The Milk Mission
An online platform to improve infant health and reduce expenses through breastfeeding resources, including a goal of creating Certified Lactation instructors in low income areas.
Gina VanCant

Digital Resource to Expand Affordable Markets (DREAM)
Centralizing housing support resources, data, policies and strategies in a digital platform that delivers curated content aligned to the needs of specific audiences – from housing-insecure families to developers to policymakers.
Liz Whalen, MORPC

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