Passport Atlanta
Community Impact | Tech Startup | App Design | Grant FilmProviding Exposure that Ignites Hope.
Passport Atlanta is a nonprofit organization, providing exposure to students via a mobile app that empowers, enables, and incentivizes them to explore Atlanta through curated journeys across the city.
From a Dream to a new Reality.
Today, we’ve designed the app and launched twice through organized Beta tests with students groups around the city. We are current working on launching version three of the app, soon available in the App Store.
What started many years ago as a conversation between three friends – Courtney English, Jay Bailey and (now Mayor) Andre Dickens on a rooftop in Washington, D.C. has turned into a tool that hands Atlanta youth the keys to the city.
It’s called Passport Atlanta, and it’s a free app that grants access, exposure and opportunity to all students.
Our app is designed to send students out on journeys to any number of places throughout the city. Once there, they are given tasks to complete. After completion, they are given a stamp (just as you would get with your real passport) and points. Those points can be redeemed for anything as small as a lunch all the way up to scholarships for college, an actual passport and a trip outside the country—the sky is the limit. Our goal is to destroy any barrier that prevents a student from experiencing something that may change their life forever. We want to give them hope to dream beyond what they already know. We believe that they will be what they see, so we want them to see everything good that this city has to offer.
