Low-income and at-risk families spend as many as 20 hours per week researching, finding, and traveling to multiple agencies to get the services they need. Families often use more than 12 different agencies a year in their quest to meet basic needs. Nonprofit agencies, government programs, and the good people who staff them are swimming upstream with an impossible caseload and outdated technology. How can we make the task of getting vital life-saving services as easy as buying a book on Amazon? Rey Faustino's organization, One Degree, is building technology in partnership with communities to bring the social safety net into the 21st century. Audio visual by Repertoire Productions repertoireproductions.com/ Rey launched One Degree to ensure that all families have access to services they need to overcome poverty. Rey began his career as a teacher and later was the site director at BUILD, a college access nonprofit organization that propels low-income youth to attain a college education. Rey received his B.S. in Business Entrepreneurship from the University of Southern California and earned his Master in Public Policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He is an alumnus of Y Combinator, an Echoing Green Fellow, and an Education Pioneers Fellow. Rey, MPP 2012 received Harvard’s 2017 Emerging Global Leader Award. In his spare time, Rey practices yoga, plays with gadgets, and builds furniture from scratch. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
29 июл 2024
