November 14, 2014: Carter Vickery, Senior GIS Analyst at Wake County GIS, presents Stone Soup: Neighbor Feeding Neighbor Stone Soup: A platform to help those who need food, or those with food to donate, find food pantries in their area. Individuals in need can also register to get alerts when food is available. Food pantries can register to keep their information up to date. Come hear the story and how this collaboration seeks to feed a need in the Community. Stone Soup is the winning team from the 2014 NC Datapalooza open data competition.

1. Stone Soup:
Neighbors Feeding Neighbors
Open Data & The Stone Soup Project
ODI Lunchtime Lecture Series
November 14, 2014

2. Our Team
Aaron Terry, BCBSNC
Karthik Puttichanda, BCBSNC
Bill Scanlon, Wake County
Carter Vickery, Wake County
Chris Mathews, Wake County
Alesia Hardy, Independent Consultant
Bruce Williams, Independent Consultant
David Meisner, Independent Consultant

3. Our Story

4. Mission: The stone soup team has
formed to fill a need in the
community. Our mission is to provide
seamless, quality, easy to access
information about food resources

5. Stone Soup
Goal: Our team will create a
scalable product that is easy
to maintain and update
http://stonesoupnc.com/

6. Food Insecurity - the percentage of the population
who did not have access to a reliable source of food
during the past year (Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation)
Highly correlated with negative health outcomes
An addressable issue
Food Insecurity – Important & Addressable

7. Food Insecurity Impacts Health
Source: Robert Wood Foundation, 2014

8. Food Insecurity is an Issue in North Carolina

9. A Fragmented Market

10. The app will
allow
customers
and service
providers to
search for
Food
Resources
based on
location and
day of
availability

11. Donors will be
able to contribute
monetarily or find
gaps in resources

12. Business Model
 Platform to connect donors, food providers, & those in need
–Hyper-local
–Those in need / advocates find help in their
area
–Local businesses find donation opportunities
–Others can donate / find where to volunteer

13. Next Steps
Executive Sponsors: Enlist support from local
businesses & community leaders
Experience Design: Interviews / Engage Community
& Gather Feedback
Push Technology Integration
Engage Team to Brainstorm Ways to Keep the Data
Updated

14. Interviews
Dorcas Ministries
North Carolina Association of Feeding America Food
Banks
InterFaith Food Shuttle
Community of Hope
Jamie Kirk Hahn Foundation
Carying Place
Wake County Human Services

15. Getting the Word Out

17. Continue to Add Ingredients to the Project
Build User Profiles – Feedback Loop
Push Technologies
Brainstorm Ways to Engage Providers to Keep the
Data Up to Date
Continue to Use Open Data to identify areas for Pop
Up / Mobile Markets

18. Open Data:
Catalyst for
Community Participation