Box Announces $150,000 Box Impact Fund Grant Recipients
Box, Inc. has announced the recipients of its Box Impact Fund, awarding six nonprofits a total of
- Total of $150,000 granted to six nonprofits, enhancing their digital capabilities.
- Support for initiatives in child welfare, crisis response, and environmental preservation.
- Strengthening Box's public image as a socially responsible organization.
- None.
Six nonprofits doing critical work for child welfare, crisis response and the environment receive grants for
“At Box, we power how the world works together, and leading positive change has always been paramount to that mission,” said
The Box Impact Fund Recipients
ChildFund Mexico connects children, adolescents, and youth in
"We will use this grant to improve the communication experience between our sponsors and their sponsored children. It will evolve our current postal letter system into the digital world. By developing a multi-device application, we will provide them with a virtual space to exchange messages, drawings, photographs, and postcards. This will strengthen their bond. Children will share their magical moments in a more impactful way. For us, it will represent a tremendous time saving, which we will reinvest in innovating the management and cultivation of our sponsors and designing the scaling of our operation,” said
IT WILL BE combats poverty globally through social innovation and technology. Their project for the protection of street children includes breakthrough technology called Child PPa. It uses palm vein recognition for identification and has proven more accurate in children than other approaches.
“The Box Impact Fund grant will allow us to improve and scale our use of Child PPa technology. In addition, we will train the social workers involved in the project in digital skills to guarantee success in the implementation. This grant assures us that we can continue working with the aim of finding an effective solution to give digital identity to minors at risk and allows us to be a solid use case to share with other NGOs that may replicate the project in the future,” said
“As a digital health organization, growth of our technical capacity directly influences our potential to reach more refugees and ensure they have access to healthcare. This digital transformation grant helps us achieve just that by increasing our in-house tech talent,” said
Mobile Pathways is the bridge connecting immigrants to advocates and services via trusted mobile technology. We partner with immigration-based nonprofits and attorneys to reach the vast and diverse population of marginalized immigrants.
“Everyone has the right to choose their own path and future. Being a global leader, the
Replate is a technology-driven nonprofit that aims to reduce food waste and counter climate change in
“This grant will allow us to further our work in the community by enhancing our food waste reduction tools, which aim to create behavioral change in how businesses address food surplus. During 2022, we revolutionized our approach to food recovery by building a source reduction tool that measures and tracks trends in businesses’ food surplus. These insights can be used to inform practices that reduce food waste over time. Our goal is to expand upon this product in order to further measure, track, and evaluate its success, and increase our impact on the environment,” said
Wastezon provides a digital solution that powers manufacturers and consumers with real-time mineralogical traceability data to inform effective material reuse, repurposing and recycling. So far Wastezon has facilitated the traceability and transaction of over 600 tons of electronic materials in
“The Box Impact Fund will catalyze our user base growth while also simultaneously allowing us to scale our climate impact. This is a great boost to our vision of championing a circular and climate-resilient economy in Africa,” said
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