Project title: Partnerships in Education - North America (EiR)
One-liner: Development and expansion of educational partnerships in North America via higher education institutions, private institutions (boot camps, etc), entrepreneurs/influencers, investors.
Project in alignment with: NEAR University & funding by NEAR Foundation
Project Summary: Our aim is to make NEAR the go-to protocol for Web3 in the Americas by providing the most expansive, highest quality, and most accessible education platforms to people of all backgrounds who are interested in learning both its technical and non-technical aspects to build, teach, or incorporate into their existing businesses. Developing relationships with investors, professors, businesses and entrepreneurs is of key importance.
Series: North American Partnership Expansion
Project members
Erin Lamb - @erinkristina
working in tandem and in cooperation with
Fauve Altman
advised by
Shashi Shekhar
Period: Month of March 2022
The following list are the results obtained for the current phase:
New Relationships/Leads
- Angel investors - invited investor to attend NCE external pitch. Currently in talks with him to expand the relationship and have him support the NCE program (accelerator) as an advisor and investor in cooperation with NEAR Foundation.
- Latin American-North American partnership development continued, proposals submitted and under review
- Begin talks for partnership with University of Florida innovation lab.
- Collaborate with colleagues in Venezuela to align project grant processes.
- Attend local incubator meetup in Inland Empire; discuss collaboration with NEAR to support local community through incubator program, workshops, and local business guilds
Partnership Development:
- Support UT partnership through calls, planning, grant proposal analysis (state-level grant writing in process).
- University of Florida
- EVOZ angel investor firm
Additional:
- Lead weekly AMA calls for NCE course and address student concerns and questions
- Outline strategy for NEAR N America partnerships with Fauve
- Begin Airtable database to track leads and projects with Fauve
- Collaborate with NEAR Hispano for support for North America strategy
- Collaborate with NEAR European pipeline fellows to develop alignment in multi-continental strategies
- Collaborate with NEAR Canada guild to align efforts in N America