Dave Eggers' wish: Once Upon a School
I wish that you -- you personally and every creative individual and organization you know -- will find a way to directly engage with a public school in your area, and that you'll then tell the story of how you got involved, so that within a year we have 1,000 examples of innovative public-private partnerships.
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How TED can help:
- HOT Studio has built the first phase of a website -- www.onceuponaschool.org -- to power Dave's wish by: Providing guidelines for partnering with schools and receiving pledges and stories of involvement.
- Scale up the site so that it includes social networking functionality (teacher/wish-granter connections), a robust tracking system for projects/ideas/stories, and the ability for metatagging and search functionality (by geography, topic, age groups, etc.).
- Build awareness around the wish to recruit public school champions across America and maybe even beyond.
- Build a small team at 826 National who will manage all the offers and stories coming in and manage the website itself.
- Inspire companies and individuals to connect with their schools and ensure we will have 1,000 stories told.
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What we are looking for:
- 1,000 people to directly engage with their local public schools
- Domain hosting
- A technology solution to help locate schools you can contribute to
- A technical partner to include social networking functionality in the site
- A technical partner to extend the robustness of the tracking system
- Employee to manage the website, with a technical web background, and an employee to manage the pledges and stories, with a teaching background.
- Funding
- Marketing strategy
- Media partners
- PR
