The Global COVID-19 Relief Coalition
Philanthropy - Los Angeles, California, United States
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The Global COVID-19 Relief Coalition Details
On March 19, just a week after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a global pandemic, the Global COVID-19 Relief Coalition was founded as a 501 c 3 project of The Giving Back Fund. Weeks later, over 20 teams of innovators across the world assembled virtually at the Global COVID-19 Relief Coalition Hackathon (goGCRC) to begin architecting medical, social, and technological solutions for COVID-19. In addition, GCRC provided 100,000 masks to hospitals in Zanzibar, protecting frontline healthcare workers.Hosted by the Global COVID-19 Relief Coalition, along with scientists from Stanford University in partnership with Entrepreneurship at Cornell University, Weill Cornell, NEXUS, Summit, Amazon Web Services, Vocareum, and The National Institutes of Health, the goGCRC hackathon brought together doctors, data scientists, lawyers, activists, and other innovators for sixteen weeks. Unlike a traditional hackathon, which might bring to mind images of caffeine-fueled programmers burning the midnight LEDs in a repurposed high school gym, the goGCRC Hackathon was designed to address problem spaces across the entire COVID-19 experience, filling cavities in infrastructures around mutual aid, personal protective equipment (PPE), healthcare availability, and grief—among many others. Another difference, of course, was that it took place entirely online.Utilizing Slack, Zoom, $180k of credits provided by Amazon Web Services, and a hosting platform, the Collective by RoundGlass, the GCRC hackathon hosted over 20 cross-disciplinary projects from computer vision-automated mask fitting to virus data visualizations to an effort to better support families virtually grieving the loss of a loved one.
