Initiatives
Our Past and Current Projects
Climate Preparedness Training
The Austin Hub focused on providing climate-at-risk communities in Travis County with crucial awareness, training, and materials to bolster individual and community resilience against severe weather, including unexpected freezes. Through partnering with Community First Village the Hub educated 14 community leaders on climate preparedness and provided emergency kits for future use.
Affordable Austin
Affordable Housing Audit and Housing Incubator
SDG Goals:
#10 Reduce Inequalities
#11 Sustainable Cities & Communities
#17 PartnershipsWe set out to examine the idea of a welcoming city and quickly realized that affordability was one of the biggest identified challenges for Austin residents. The work grew to include an affordable housing resident research survey and the group was also accepted into Impact Hub's Housing Accelerator. Today, two Shapers sit on the board.
Facebook Chat Bot
Engaging Young Voters
SDG Goals:
#10 Reduce Inequalities
#17 PartnershipsFor the mid-terms we encouraged youth to complete their voter registration and turn out. Leading up to the election, we piloted a Facebook Chat Bot that answered questions around the voting process.
Smartphone Literacy Training
SDG Goals:
#4 Quality Education
#8 Decent Work & Economic Growth
#9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
#10 Reduce InequalitiesThe Austin Shapers worked in coordination with El Buen Samaritano to host a series of smartphone training programs to better introduce communities not yet adapted to web based technology to connect them with useful resources on the web through greater smartphone accessibility.
GroupThinkATX
SDG Goals:
#3 Good Health & Well-being
#17 PartnershipsGroupThinkATX is a series of events Shapers host monthly at Native Hostel, about honest conversations with a diverse group of thinkers. Visit the Facebook page for more information about this special community dialogue here.
Shaper Impact Capital
SDG Goals:
#8 Decent Work & Economic Growth
#Industry Innovation & Infrastructure
#17 PartnershipsCurrent and former members of the Austin Hub contribute to the goals of SIC: connecting impact entrepreneurs to capital. Visit the website here.
Membership
Meet the Austin Shaper Hub Members
Curator:
Ben Pfeffer
Investor
Elsewhere Partners
Vice Curator:
Kelsey Daugherty
Administrative Law Attorney
Public Utility Commission of Texas
Impact Officer:
Alberto Sanchez
Kevin Chandra
Power Systems Engineer
Austin Energy
Alexis Taylor
ESG Strategy
Indeed
Eiman Siddiqui
Founder
EIS Strategies LLC
Victoria Zuber
Ad Policy Analyst
Apple
Madeline Krebs
Sr. Account Supervisor
Edelman
Banjamin Speigner
Intelligence Analyst
Google
Kevin Gao
Analyst
Deloitte
Sanika Bhave
Strategy
Blue Whale Materials
Chukwudi N. Kanu
Plug and Play Tech Center
Humblebrag
Induja Gautam
Consultant
Oliver Wyman
Sheel
Patel
AE
Google
Shristi
Saraff
Product Development
AMD
Mariano
Silva
Consultant
Bain
Emily
Nejad
Student
UT-Austin
Aryan
Reddy
Student
UT-Austin
Shapers in Action
CONNECT
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