Standard Chartered’s partnership with the Zahn Innovation Center at The City College of New York is short-listed for the Mayoral Service Recognition Program Impact Awards. The collaboration is a contender in the Partnership Impact category. Winners will be announced at the Mayoral Service Recognition Ceremony on April 25.
The Mayoral Service Recognition Program is an annual citywide celebration of volunteers and service members, recognizing efforts to build a culture of service, use service as a solution to community challenges, and answer the call to serve to ensure the success of New Yorkers. The annual recognition program is a month-long celebration during Global Volunteer Month in April and celebrates the diverse volunteer efforts of the previous calendar year.
Impact Awards honor organizations, businesses, volunteers, and AmeriCorps alumni who have dedicated themselves to service, and strengthened communities with people power in the 2023 calendar year.
The Standard Chartered Women in Tech Incubator program at the Zahn Center was cited by the Mayoral Service Recognition Program for supporting gender diversity in entrepreneurship and the technology sector. The program has been selected as a finalist due to its positive impact on the community, and the committed service of over 375 employee volunteers, who have dedicated over 3,000 volunteer hours to support the students and entrepreneurs in New York City.
Headed by managing director Kesia Hudson, the Zahn Innovation Center’s Standard Chartered Women in Tech Program is a startup incubator program offering networking opportunities, co-working space and an array of resources. These include:
- A startup bootcamp in the spring with a mini-bootcamp in the fall;
- An entrepreneurial program for girls and nonbinary students;
- Mentorship and pro-bono servicesSkill development workshops and seminars;
- Hackathons and ideation sessions;
- A collaboration with CCNY Makerspace for rapid prototyping facilities and hands-on training opportunities; and
- Annual competitions, where students combine their knowledge from training with creativity to present their business ideas
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the partnership. Launched as an initiative to support greater diversity in gender representation within the technology sector, the WiT Incubator program reached gender parity in its third year. To date, over 1,200 students have benefitted from the program’s outreach.
Also in consideration for the 2024 Partnership Impact award are: UPS and New York Cares who collaborated to distribute over 70,000 coats to those experiencing homelessness or living in poverty; and the partnership between Macquarie Group and Team Kids that supports a five-week youth leadership program. It’s staffed by Team Kids officials and mentors trained by the NYPD and FDNY to empower youth to volunteer.
Zahn Innovation Center
The mission of the Zahn Innovation Center at The City College of New York is to empower students and the CCNY community to embrace the entrepreneurial and innovation mindset by providing tools and resources to transform disruptive ideas into sustainable ventures. The Zahn Innovation Center is an integral part of the Innovation Ecosystem at CCNY which serves students, faculty and staff at intersections of new enterprises, new technologies and new approaches to impacting social needs in our local, state, national and global communities.
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About The City College of New York
Since 1847, The City College of New York has provided a high-quality and affordable education to generations of New Yorkers in a wide variety of disciplines. CCNY embraces its position at the forefront of social change. It is ranked #1 by the Harvard-based Opportunity Insights out of 369 selective public colleges in the United States on the overall mobility index. This measure reflects both access and outcomes, representing the likelihood that a student at CCNY can move up two or more income quintiles. Education research organization Degree Choices ranks CCNY #1 nationally among universities for economic return on investment. In addition, the Center for World University Rankings places CCNY in the top 1.8% of universities worldwide in terms of academic excellence. Labor analytics firm Emsi (now Lightcast) puts at $1.9 billion CCNY’s annual economic impact on the regional economy (5 boroughs and 5 adjacent counties) and quantifies the “for dollar” return on investment to students, taxpayers and society. At City College, more than 15,000 students pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees in eight schools and divisions, driven by significant funded research, creativity and scholarship. This year, CCNY launched its most expansive fundraising campaign, ever. The campaign, titled “Doing Remarkable Things Together” seeks to bring the College’s Foundation to more than $1 billion in total assets in support of the College mission. CCNY is as diverse, dynamic and visionary as New York City itself. View CCNY Media Kit.
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