donationly

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  Click on the donationly icon while reading an article about the fires on the West Coast.

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  The Donate! button will direct you towards a relevant organization / site that you can donate.

Inspiration

Our team wanted to address the "Supporting Philanthropic Goals" challenge by Bloomberg, as well as the "Best Use of Google Cloud - Use any Google Cloud product" challenge by Google.

What it does

Our project addresses the challenge by making it easy to find where to donate. The extension recommends a donation link based on what articles you're browsing. So when our users are reading about the next 2020 disaster that strikes, they will be more ready to give a virtual hand.

How we built it

Our team used HTML and CSS to design the popup app. We deployed a Google Cloud Function in Node.js that uses the Google Cloud Natural Language API to determine the most important entities, then searching on our Google Topical Engine for related places for donation.

Challenges we ran into

This was my [Alex's] first hackathon, so I didn't know where to start when creating a project. We pivoted pretty late on the project as well.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Having something to show to the judges!

What we learned

We learned how to use the Google Cloud Console, and more specifically the Natural Language API and Cloud Functions (we also played around with the Vision API for an earlier idea). We also learned how to create a chrome extension.

What's next for donationly

Finding a dataset for charity organizations and other places to donate, then fine-tuning our use of Google Cloud NL to query that dataset.

Built With

• css
• gcloud
• html