Archive: banking

• Project | Helping People Find Places That Accept foodstamps

  May 16th, 2011 | by Ysiad Ferreiras | 0 Comments

  Our idea: SnapFresh.org is a free sms-based app that helps food stamp recipients find healthy places that accept SNAP (food stamps). Most recipients have money in their accounts, but many are embarrassed to go to farmers markets and nice stores and ask if they accept SNAP. With unemployment at all time highs, many people on ... more

• Project | Expanding the financial options of immigrant money senders

  May 16th, 2011 | by Remas | 0 Comments

  Our idea: Remás enables immigrants to save on money transfer fees, access the financial mainstream, and increase opportunities for themselves and their communities here and abroad. Remás addresses two problems: 1. International money transfer is a multi-billion dollar industry comprised of millions of small transactions, the costs of which are often not transparent. One in ... more

• Project | MobileSaver

  May 8th, 2011 | by Loki | 0 Comments

  Our idea: MobileSaver is a mobile web portal for the management of an Individual Development Account. An Individual Development Account (IDA) is a matched savings account that enables families with limited financial resources to save and build assets. IDAs encourage savings by matching participant deposits, which then are invested into specific assets. IDAs are about ... more