Tag: Nonprofit
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Athens Farmers Market
The Athens Farmers Market wants to make healthy food a plausible reality for every citizen in Athens. This is possible through their weekly markets at Creature Comforts on Wednesday, as well as at Bishop Park on Saturdays. In the wake of COVID-19, the market has moved completely online, with vendors now selling their produce in…
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Home Depot Happenings
We’re always looking for opportunities to collaborate with and learn from industry innovators, and a group of NMI Capstone students recently took a trip to Atlanta to do just that. The team traveled alongside NMI faculty members John Weatherford and Kyla Sterling to The Home Depot headquarters, where they met with top innovators and learned exclusive industry…
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Athens Access to Justice Initiative
One of our Fall 2019 Capstone teams recently earned a well-deserved moment in the spotlight. Many of our projects are dedicated to tackling real-world problems for clients, but it’s always a particularly sweet success story when a team can make a local impact. Last semester, a team of five students collaborated with the nonprofit, Athens…
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Wheels of Hope
The goal of this project is to give Wheels of Hope a new database system, one that will make coordinating rides both inexpensive and more efficient. Wheels of Hope is a non-profit in Athens, GA that provides transportation to Athens citizens that are visually impaired or no longer able to drive due to age or…
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Chosen to Grow
At any moment—there are at least 13,000 children in foster care in Georgia and nearly 13 hundred of these children are in our community around Athens, Georgia. The area around Athens and the 12 surrounding counties is known as Region 5 of Georgia’s Division of Family and Children’s Services. Region 5 has more children in care than Wyoming, Vermont,…
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New Medi[AR]
The New Media Institute is pioneering the way for emerging media education. They offer a certificate to undergraduate students and a graduate program unparalleled by any others. They prepare students with knowledge about new technologies and tangible professional skills. The NMI is full of forward facing, self motivated students who are interested in understanding and…
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UGArden
The UGArden Capstone team worked with UGArden, a student-run farm sponsored by the University of Georgia’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, to help resolve record keeping issues with the goal of organic certification for the medicinal herb business that sells tea. UGArden’s medicinal herb program is currently funded through a grant, but the goal…
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Botanical Gardens
Gardens are meant to be enjoyed without technology, until you realize you don’t know what anything is or where you are going. The State Botanical Garden of Georgia challenged us to break the barrier between nature and technology and remove any possible frustration while their visitors enjoy their gardens. We created an interactive iOS app…
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Peabody Awards
The Peabody Awards recognize the pinnacle of broadcast media and are hosted right here at the University of Georgia at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Our app will allow users to learn more and favorite programs that have won, view behind-the-scenes Peabody content, and take you to the streaming app needed to…
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College Factory
Our NMI Capstone team partnered with College Factory, an Athens-based nonprofit that works to build a college-going culture in the community, to both update their online presence and bring their curriculum into the 21st century. We did this by recreating CollegeFactory.org using a WordPress framework, which allows for clean design and simple content updates, and…