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SAVE LIVES w/ AUTOMATED 3D PRINTED FACE SHIELDS

We are a team of UPenn engineers, alums, and social entrepreneurs who have halted our business operations in order to mass produce personal protective equipment (PPE) for nurses and doctors serving on the front lines of the COVID-19 Crisis. Currently, we're assembling 3,500 face shields / day, with a combination of 3D-printing farm and injection molding mass production of face shields, 24 / 7. HERE'S HOW WE DO IT. Projectshields.org

With the recent surge in COVID-19 cases, our hospitals and medical professionals are in desperate need of additional PPE; especially protective face shields. Your financial assistance will allow us to produce the necessary equipment to meet the surge in COVID-19 cases that are expected in the coming weeks and months.

OUR GOAL & USE OF FUNDS

With your financial assistance, we can produce and distribute at least 60,000 face shields anywhere in the United States. Over the next month, we hope to scale and maintain our operations, while applying to city, state, and federal funding sources to help scale this effort, nationally.

All donations are tax deductible and corporate matchable (see below).

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FAQ

What makes this COVID-19 charity effort different? How are you manufacturing the face shields?

We are grateful to have the support of InstaHub's 24/7 automated 3D printing farm and CocoaPress's generous in-kind donations of filament. Both companies have deep expertise in innovative 3D printing. We are 3D printing in sterile conditions with a controlled environment. All processes of production to distribution are handled with gloves and masks to prevent any possible exposure to COVID-19.

Who's on your team?

MICHAEL WONG (Wharton '19) Michael Wong is a Gates Millennium Scholar from Oakland, CA. Since graduating from the University of Pennsylvania at the Wharton School, he launched a clean tech business, InstaHub, to scalably eliminate energy waste with snap-on automation without replacing existing building infrastructure. He is leveraging his automated 3D print farm and is volunteering 7 days a week to help make this possible.
Press: Penn Today | penntoday.upenn.edu/news/after-presidents-innovation-prize-instahub-has-even-more-spark

EVAN WEINSTEIN (Engineering '19) Evan Weinstein is the Founder and CEO of Cocoa Press, a company creating a 3D chocolate printer that allows anyone to create custom artisanal chocolates on demand. Evan is a maker and 3D printing enthusiast. He is supporting this initiative through sourcing materials and with his experience in design for manufacturing.
Press: Penn Today | penntoday.upenn.edu/news/evan-and-chocolate-factory

TIFFANY YAU (College '18 Social Practice & Policy '19) Tiffany Yau is a social entrepreneur who founded Fulphil, which has taught 1,500+ students across the US to create 500+ social impact startup ideas for their local communities from gender non-conforming clothing lines to biodegradable cafeteria trays with seeds in them by the time she graduated from Penn. Thanks to Fulphil, all donations to this campaign will be tax deductible in support of the organization's singular mission to empower youth to impact their local communities.
Press: Forbes | https://www.forbes.com/sites/khaitran/2020/01/16/bringing-entrepreneurship-education-to-students-in-underserved-communities-interview-with-tiffany-yau/#12c236904a69

JOHN GAMBA (College '92) John is serial entrepreneur with a track record for converting innovative ideas into industry transforming ventures. Over the last 20 years, John has served in founding roles of edtech start-ups that were successfully funded, scaled and exited with strong ROI for stakeholders. Currently, John serves as Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) and Director of Innovative Programs at Catalyst @ Penn GSE where he works with entrepreneurs, researchers and practitioners to incubate new EdTech ventures and advance innovation in world-wide education.
Press: Main Line Today | mainlinetoday.com/life-style/this-west-chester-entrepreneur-aims-to-redefine-technologys-role-in-the-classroom/

What can I do to offer additional support?

There are 3 ways you can provide more support!

(1) SHARE. Share our GoFundMe Campaign to help us get the word out on social media!

(2) COMPANY MATCH DONATIONS. Check with your employer to see if they can match your donation (if you donate $20, they will donate $20).

(3) DONATE IN-KIND. If you are able to support with any of the following, please visit our in-kind donation form. https://bit.ly/covid19philly
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Help us protect our front-line workers - all of whom are selflessly risking their lives to protect our families, and our country!

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Fulphil Social Entrepreneurship Education

I founded Fulphil with the hope of empowering youth to identify pressing issues in their local communities and create innovative business solutions that solve them. This is the concept of social entrepreneurship.

Over the past few months I've led a variety of workshops teaching social entrepreneurship and design thinking across 5+ different high school campuses across Philadelphia. In these workshops, students are asked to identify an issue near and dear to them in their communities and challenged to create innovative and impactful business solutions that can generate revenue. From these workshops, I surveyed 150+ students and have found that 78% of students are motivated to start a purpose-driven project, but over 62% report lacking the necessary resources and guidance from their schools.

Social entrepreneurship can be one of the most powerful skillsets learned to empower others to see the world not as how it is, but as how it could be. By its very nature, social entrepreneurship empowers and activates problem-solvers to address pressing societal challenges and effect meaningful change.

Teaching social entrepreneurship to youth can be an incredibly powerful tool to inspire them to challenge the status quo, question conventional norms, and harness their creativity and resources to devise solutions that have the potential to reshape the future, while also igniting a spark of possibility in others. In my experience working with students so far, I've found that the disparity in accessing needed resources seemed to be greater for students/schools from lower socioeconomic status communities—and in theory, they are the ones who might benefit most from learning social entrepreneurship.

I'm currently pursuing my M.S. at the University of Pennsylvania studying Nonprofit Leadership for the purpose of acquiring the necessary skillsets and knowledge to help me scale the impact of Fulphil—to accessibly and inclusively empower every student to make a positive difference in their communities, and seek out purpose in their future careers.

My goal for this fundraiser is to raise initial philanthropic capital to help me build the foundations of creating a more self-sustaining nonprofit model.

Thank you so much for your considered support. If you would like to learn more about Fulphil, please feel free to visit our website at www.fulphil.org or email me at [email redacted].

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