Impact Intern

WHO WE AREThruline Networks is an advisory services firm that drives creative thinking, manages projects, guides investments and builds solutions to problems related to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) and 9 Planetary Boundaries. The firm delivers value through thought leadership, content development, event production, financial advisory, impact advisory, business growth and capital access strategy services. With a primary focus on with late Seed to Series B companies in the areas of waste-to-value, circularity, the company also explores enabling DeepTech, EdgeTech and Web 3 innovations designed to support such solutions. The company aims to provide resilient infrastructure, climate change mitigation, food security, ecosystem / biodiversity restoration that lead to improved health and welfare globally. Thruline Networks aspires to create 100+ impact unicorns in the next decade, and will do this by working organizations across all sectors - public, private (startups, growing companies, and corporations), and non-profit - to build companies that can elevate humanity and its relationship to the natural systems of the planet at scale…while also being highly profitable.WHAT WE DOWe focus on special projects across resilient infrastructure, health, food, water, air, and beyond to enable a sustainable and regenerative future powered by 21st Century Capitalism.Our team leads, funds, and advocates for work that delivers measurable results on sticky global problems. We assemble project and program teams that deliver impact and financial returns in order to build the 4th Sector.

Wildfire Protection and Communication Solution

The main goal for the project is to co-design a solution to protect homes in high wildfire risk areas and to communicate with other nearby properties to optimize their response. Additionally, the project aims to provide recommendations to homeowners about things they can do to decrease their wildfire risk. This will involve several different steps for the students, including:- Leveraging existing networks and active resources to co-design a solution for home protection- Developing a communication system for nearby properties to optimize their response- Providing recommendations to homeowners to decrease wildfire risk