Team Collab: Next Steps
After meeting with Professor Crossan, she pointed us in the direction with Professor Sunka Simon, who is spearheading the college's effort to carry out a review of childcare resources and provisions. We've reached out to Professor Simon, and we are excited at the prospect of collaborating on gender equality initiatives on Swarthmore's campus in the future.
In order to broaden the audience that Collab caters to, we hope to launch an online "Collab Forum." The goal of the Collab Forum is to create a community of mentorship, which is key to professional success, between Collab members and general community members -- all equally committed to social mobility in their communities.
The Collab Forum is basically where Facebook meets LinkedIn. Collab members can post about part-time work, freelance projects etc. that they need help with, and general community members can respond to job postings. If the work is remote, they can be finished accordingly, and if the work needs to be done in person, general community members can determine how accessible the location is through location technology integrated into the Forum which indicates whether the office is within a 5, 10, 15 etc., mile radius. Membership to the Forum is not exclusive and available after a short application that will be found on the Collab website.
We hope to get in contact with new parents in the Greater Philadelphia Area. We think that doing so is a tangible next step that is built off of Design Thinking theory, and it will help us to be even more attuned to our target audience.
