Our Projects
Service Learning – A core CrowdDoing Principle
Service learning combines learning objectives with community service in order to provide a pragmatic, progressive learning experience while meeting societal needs. Service learning and skilled volunteering helps to bridge skill & social innovation gaps to achieve sustainable development goals. By practicing service learning and skilled volunteering we can collectively cope with a volatile, uncertain, ambiguous, and complex (VUCA) business landscape by leveraging under-utilized capacities which can drive new participation by individuals and institutions.
CrowdDoing aims to scale participation through skilled volunteering and service learning opportunities to help enterprises and institutions to foster social innovations. This approach is an efficient way for individuals to gain new skills that further their success as project managers, human resources professionals, marketing professionals, and engineers. Service learning focuses on social innovation can be efficient at both achieving a social impact, and at teaching skills needed in the future.
MEDICINAL FOODS & HERBAL MEDICINE – CITIZEN SCIENCE FOR STRESS, SLEEP, AND ANXIETY
Partner
CrowdDoing via Impact Venture Lab
DESCRIPTION
The Medicinal Foods Project looks to explore the age-old idea of food as medicine. This project looks to help build medicinal foods literacy, citizen science of foods and herbs for stress, sleep, and anxiety. There are many approaches to stress through medicinal foods, from anti-stress gummies with lemon balm and other botanicals. Watch Video
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Our team has identified thousands of foods with active ingredients with clinical evidence and scientific evidence of effectiveness for stress, sleep & anxiety. Our team is in the process of reviewing public data on consumer feedback on the effectiveness of medicinal foods and to develop tools for increasing access to a functional medicine approach to foods and herbs of relevance to stress, sleep & anxiety goals.
Crypto Impact Potential
DESCRIPTION
CrowdDoing crypto team has researched crypto tokens that have broader social impact potential in sustainability and anti-poverty areas. Our goal is to educate the world on the risks and opportunities that crypto tokens present and help mitigate risks associated with crypto tokens. Through extensive research, we have identified and analyzed several projects that are leveraging blockchain and crypto solutions to address social challenges, to help the unbanked, to supply renewable energy, to support medical research and to develop a sustainable supply chain, etc. CrowdDoing team has put together a draft index of these crypto portfolios to track their overall performance and impact investment potential. We are working to publish the index globally and aim to track their financial performance while attempting to understand and measure those projects’ impact potential. Our community draws from various backgrounds with all levels of expertise, including writers, technologists, finance, operations, cryptographic enthusiasts, engineers, students and others. Through this initiative, participants de-risk the impact potential of crypto to achieve social good while learning together.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Our team has identified dozens of crypto projects with impact potential. Our team has developed a portfolio of sustainability crypto impact projects and a portfolio of anti-poverty crypto impact projects. Our team has evaluated tokens that are liquid associated with these projects and removed bad actors from the baskets through a market manipulation analysis. Our team has partially evaluated the risk and feasibility of each crypto strategy for achieving sustainability and anti-poverty goals.
VOLUNTEERS INVOLVED
- Roger Yu, Project Manager
- Mintra Srimanchanda, Sustainability & Anti-Poverty Index Creation
- Muhammad Azam, Publications
Forest Fire Prevention
Partner
CrowdDoing Impact Potential Venture Lab & Project Heather
DESCRIPTION
CrowdDoing and Project Heather propose launching a prevention derivative with two new stakeholders:
(a) contingent payers who pay in proportion to the reduction in risk, and
(b) impact investors who finance social innovations in which their return is similarly proportional to the reduction in risk.
It will build on existing precedents for contingent contracts involving social- innovation-based risk prevention. A spectrum of forest fire risk prevention approaches are available: from creative new social innovations to well-established interventions. The forest fire risk prevention derivative would first survey existing forest fire prevention interventions in Greater Sacramento with an eye towards which ones might be suitable to support and expand. It would then review global social innovations that might be relevant to Northern California to determine which to replicate. Entities involved in risk management and risk securitisation, from insurers to reinsurers to retrocessionaires, ought to welcome the chance to share liability proportionally through a commons of prevention innovations. The prevention derivative can expand as more institutions and individuals join as contingent payers and impact investors in order prevent a larger portion of collective risk. Payments by private and public institutions to support prevention derivatives can be in-kind, through services, and/or financial. The prevention derivative will identify comparison regions in order to assess relative risk prevention controlling for factors such as temperature, humidity, wind intensity, tree types etc.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Our team has researched the risk transfer markets to determine if risk prevention securitization is feasible. Initial analysis suggests that liquid risk prevention markets are possible through social innovation. Initial research has focused on flood prevention via coral reefs and fire prevention.
Biophelia in Hospitals / Living Walls & Vertical Gardens
DESCRIPTION
Plant proximity has been shown to be beneficial in multiple ways including from air pollution reduction & stress reduction. These leverage points have been demonstrated to have positive medical consequences in terms of reduced opioid addiction, reduced medical mistakes, prevention of diseases & conditions such as hypertension & related complications, asthma, heart attacks, strokes, cancer, diabetes, alzheimers & dementia, schizophrenia, rheumatoid arthritisacute pancreatits, chronic kidney disease. We have also evaluated the consequences of proximity to plants on hospital staff presenteeism, absenteeism & turnover rates. We have concluded that under any scenario we have tested, a network of plant walls & vertical gardens and other uses of plants could pay for themselves in as little as two years and provide beneficial outcomes for more than 20 years.
Plant proximity is understood by the scientific community through the lens of “biophelia”. Biophelia is the visual & sensory experience of plants and proximity to plants. You have expertise relevant to reviewing for validity and applicability our simulation of biophelia in hospitals. Our draft aims to forecast the social outcomes that could be caused by varying scenarios of biophelia in hospitals. We have identified more than 100 outcomes that in principle can be attributed to biophelia. We present here in draft for review a partial simulation of this impact potential. We have aimed to consider prospective benefits to all stakeholders. We have structured this to be a flexible model that can be adapted to any hospital circumstance. We’ve aimed to identify both health outcomes, environmental outcomes financial outcomes.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Our team has a draft financial model of how vertical gardens pay for themselves in libraries and hospitals. Our team has a thesis of how biophelia can save hundreds of lives per hospital per twenty years. Our team has identified more than one hundred diseases that are preventable thorugh biophelia density in hospitals being increased.