The Impact Lab is a portion of Thrive dedicated to pitching project ideas and receiving feedback from fellow members. Constructive criticism and positive feedback are vital parts of the Impact Lab that foster furthered innovation and forward progression.
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*Link to sign up for project pitch at Thrive meeting at top right of page
*Impact Lab not only reserved for Thrive members
SEPT 23
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Idea/Project: Clothing Company : TiLT (Tranquility is Life’s Treasure)
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Finding tranquility through clothing
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Anyone that wears the clothes has a concrete reminder that everything will be ok
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”always grinding”
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website almost complete
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take photos with clothes at a place you feel tranquil
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”your own tranquility”...personalization of clothes to compliment tranquility
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Idea/Project: Create school of sustainability
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Inspired by a sustainable orphanage in Nicaragua
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Passion for teaching and farms/sustainability
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Idea/Project: The Ocean Notion
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Legitimate organization federally
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Let people know they have a carbon footprint
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Starting an org on URI’s campus
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Goal: build organizations here and around the country and pool the funds into a big project for the main Ocean Notion to do
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Multiple assets
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FED conference
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Idea/Project: Fruitful Thoughts; Help students afford textbooks
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$1000-$1500 per year on books
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netflix model for books. Subscribers for textbooks
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monthly rates correlate to different savings brackets
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social issue cartoon shirts
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profits from shirt sales go to helping people buy books
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Idea/Project: Health Hacks
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Hack-a-thon at URI for nutrition and medical technology: weekend of 10/14
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Participants can learn about problems facing health industry today
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Sign up by this Sunday
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Help from us: spread the word, social media leads, print media leads (reaching out to local media)
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Sept 28
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Idea/Project: Thrive Website
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Thrive is an entrepreneurial vehicle for change
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Home page: pictures and descriptions
About Page: Promo video
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-Mission: to help students make impactful projects / empower students / Foster diversity
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Members Page: Photos on the page with president and vice president. new members get added after 1 year
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ChangeFest Page: Sign Up link, pictures of last year's event with descriptions
Idea/Project: Helping Hands
passion for helping others
get youth more involved in volunteering
build empathy
serve rhode island: volunteering website
volunteer of the month
gift cards / rewards
Fair or event where kids can see what students at uri are involved in
main goal is growth and more tangibility
OCT 5
Idea/Project: UNITY
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52 poles with a center pole
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People can put identifiers on strings that meet at a central pole
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From far away the piece looks like a unified work, but up close everyone can see individual strings that represent people's lives
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Visual representation that we are all one
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Passion: Mom always taught everyone to treat each other equally
