We get employees into their communities in ways that matter to them and offer a triple bottom line to companies who care about people, profit and purpose. We reward sweat, equity and hard work-we’ve coined it ‘heartwork’. Afoh-Manin: There is genuinely nothing like Shared Harvest on the marketplace right now. I’d like to share our cost savings for companies with a future Deloitte prediction model.Īziz: How do you see yourselves as different from other student debt relief platforms out there?ĭr. Since launching in 2018, Shared Harvest has helped relieve a little over $100K in debt and saved over $225,000 for Non-Profits. They suffer the greatest risk for depression and financial insecurity and this is a costly and insidious problem for the job market and employers. Still, the largest percentage of our volunteers are graduate professionals, believe it or not! They are an average of 5 to 7 years out of school and still paying their student debt. Our program serves as a nice buffer to test the waters, focus on passion work, and still get a little relief.
Many are in a self-discovery-period in their lives-while still paying student loans-but not very happy at their current jobs, and can’t imagine paying for graduate school. A large number of participants in the initiative are working professionals who appreciate the flexibility of the volunteer opportunities we provide and benefit from the volunteer experiences themselves. Afoh-Manin: We’ve had an overwhelmingly positive response from the participants in our program. Shared Harvest is doing something about that by building a network that promotes wellness, service and student debt relief.Īziz: I love the description of you guys as ‘Where TINDR meets the Peace Corps’! What has been the reaction from the participants in the program?ĭr. The student debt crisis and growing financial insecurities have had consequential effects on the rates of depression, anxiety, and suicide among young adults. Shared Harvest curates meaningful matches between awesome humans who want to volunteer their time and an array of organizations who have projects aimed at the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) and are incentivized by student loan relief. We are a tech-enabled marketplace for nonprofits to source human capital while helping to reduce the burden of ballooning student loan debt. Our mission is to transform the liability of student debt into an asset class for social change by leveraging technology to break the shackles of student loan debt for skills-based volunteers. Afoh-Manin: Shared Harvest was founded with the understanding that financial health directly impacts mental health and wellbeing. Please tell us a bit about Shared Harvest and the model you’ve created with your partners?ĭr.
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