Relocation Initiative - Where should we move?

Students will conduct a competitive analysis of different schools across Ontario to determine where eHacks' value proposition would generate the highest ROI.Today, eHacks is based out of Western University. Western has a brilliant pool of students and an unparalleled focus on business-focused technical education, due to the unique partnerships between the Western Faculty of Engineering and the Ivey School of Business. We've benefitted greatly from this collaboration, since entrepreneurial minded students flock to Western and engage with eHacks' events (for the most part, our annual hackathons). However, there are now 4 annual events at Western that accomplish similar goals to eHacks.If we were a typical business, we would compete and try to re-capture our lost market share. However, we're a non-profit. We are determined to relocate our operations to another school that needs it most, to help them build a strong entrepreneurial eco-system. The question is: which school?

Bookkeeping

eHacks is going through our first income tax filing, and our team needs assistance compiling our books and analyzing our financial performance. The goal of this project is to create a balance sheet, income statement, statement of cash flows, and commentary on our financial performance over the last fiscal year.

Workshop Materials

eHacks, regardless of where we go in the future, will always focus on education. Every year, we brainstorm through dozens of workshops to offer students on a wide breadth of topics from UI design, to programming, to making a business plan. In this project, you will work with a team to create workshop materials, complete with an instructor's guide, to be added to our workshop collection. Our goal is to create a library of workshop resources which can be delivered by eHacks across many different venues.

External Partnership Creation

In this project, students will work to achieve eHacks mission through partnerships with other non-profit institutions or other social enterprises.