Category: Blogs
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Our Gainesville Data Walk
Florida Community Innovation (FCI) is a nonprofit based in Florida that empowers young innovators to build social services technologies for their communities and engage in public service projects. FCI’s projects include the Florida Community Resource Map – which will match Floridians in need to food banks, job resources, and more – as well as a…
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Bridging the resource gap in Central Florida
Driving through the Orlando metropolitan area, you can see a plethora of storefronts belonging to social services organizations. Across the nation, resources like these exist to help anyone that might need their care. These pillars of our communities are evidence that in an often unforgiving world, compassionate support exists. The tireless work of these organizations…
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Studying Abroad Without Breaking the Bank: Advice from Erika and Aimee Clesi
On November 9, 2022, students from Florida Community Innovation interviewed Aimee and Erika Clesi, recent Gator grads and identical twins, about how they were able to study abroad multiple times while enrolled at the University of Florida (without breaking the bank!). Erika is now a journalist working in Florida and Aimee is a Rhodes Scholar…
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Harmonizing Hope: MADWOMAN and Max Bleiweis Lead the Way in Uplifting Gainesville’s Music Community
If I could describe the Gainesville music scene in one word, it would be “uplifting.” After experiencing how local music lovers in Gainesville uplift local artists through my involvement in Swamp Records, I decided to explore how these artists uplift each other. Musicians like the soul-funk band members of MADWOMAN and bassist Max Bleiweis stand…
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Ethical Considerations of Augmenting Healthcare with Artificial Intelligence
This post was crafted in partnership with the UF-VA Bioethics Unit. On October 28, 2022, the UF-VA Bioethics Unit hosted a Grand Rounds talk with Besa Bauta, Chief Data and Analytics Officer at the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, about the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare. A recording of the talk is…
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Art-of-the-Possible Webinar: The Power of Data Science for Social Impact
Data science should be used for sustainable social impact – that was the main point made by all the panelists at a webinar hosted by the Central Florida Foundation (CFF) earlier this year. CFF is a valued partner of Florida Community Innovation (FCI), as both organizations support a mission of empowering young people to use…
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Meryem Yuksel: Empowerment and Hope through Software Development
“Software development – my passion and the focal point of my academics at UF – has been a place of not only solace, but also empowerment, for me. At the end of my sophomore year in Spring 2020, I had finally ended a years-long abusive relationship and escaped a cycle of stalking, isolation, manipulation, and…
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Service Spotlight: New Hope for Kids
For Florida Community Innovation (FCI)’s first service spotlight of a resource featured on the Florida Community Resource Map, we are more than pleased to highlight the incredible work being done by New Hope for Kids. New Hope for Kids is featured on the FCI’s Florida Community Resource Map, thanks to our partnership with the Central…
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“Medicine and Morality: Lessons from the Holocaust” with Dr. Stacy Gallin
This post was crafted in partnership with the UF-VA Bioethics Unit. On Friday, October 22, 2021, the UF-VA Bioethics Unit participated in an online event featuring Dr. Stacy Gallin, Director of the Maimonides Institute for Medicine, Ethics & the Holocaust. During the event, Dr. Gallin discussed long-term bioethical implications of how German physicians and medical…